Indras Drawing - Social Drawing Acetate, Ink, Variable sizes 2022 Thomas Duffy & Participants
Interdepend...on each other...on the conditions of life...on the living world
Universal and microbiotic
The exchanges of energy…the sharing of it
connections between one another and place
The sound of colour and shape..many forms of expression
The breath of practice and breadth of practice
the truth of expression…the reasons for it
The Earth Charter…Social Practice…Ethics and Morals
Our place within the systems
Our voice within them
The value of our voice
The call of the wild
from without
from within
Interbeing/connect/depend
BLAST Residency/ Social Practice 2022
with Learners from St. Mary’s Academy, Carlow.
Social Art Serving the Network of Life. Interdependence & Interconnection
The thrust of the residency is that shared art experiences have the potential to serve society and its members as well as the larger Community of life (as many of the wisdom traditions encourage).
Guided by the tenets of 'The People's Earth Charter' we to look at the existential and ethical challenges we face as a community working together to reinforce and regenerate the conditions for all life on this planet. The greatest obligation for creatives is to help everyone imagine better ways of living. Ways of connecting with each other and our living world.
This exploration of modular flowing between a range of expressions...small movements, sounds, marks. Over the exploration learners discover correlations between wide art forms and how expressions get combined and recombined. The point is always interdependence.
The learners engaged in a number of exercises investigating themes such as interconnection, intedependance and systems thinking, Modelsofpracticeand the value of their shared lived experiences, aspirations and concerns
The process was one of working socially with open questionning and recording the processes engaged and changes of perspective.
