Collaborative events

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Work made with many hands — communities, local artists, engineers and fabricators building the thing together and then living beside it.

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Any art work is an expression of the person who made it. Art can only truly be made in total freedom, and that freedom gives it a mysterious power that carries the true voice of whoever made it.

A large part of the collective's practice is finding new ways to work with local communities so that the work they make can be built into public sculpture. Often these projects land in places that have been neglected for a long time. Sometimes the motives behind that are genuine and sometimes they are cynical — either way there is a real reward in making a collaborative work that stands on its own aesthetically and also speaks for those who are usually neither seen nor heard.

Where we can, we work with local artists, architects, engineers and technicians in the immediate locale of a project, and through them local fabricators and construction workers. Locally generated wealth should stay with the people who generated it. The world has more than enough talent for this to cost an artwork nothing.

Usually the studio is a solitary place. Working with many hands and many minds is inspiring and powerful — together we are kind of invincible.

Collaborative projects

Public works modelled, cast and raised by many hands, with the communities that live beside them.

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Community art projects

We go into a community and stay long enough to be changed by it — walking, listening, asking, drawing, finding out what the place already knows about itself. Out of that comes an idea that belongs to the community rather than to us: an image, a figure, a story the place recognises the moment it sees it. Then we build it together. Members of the community model, mould, cut, weld, paint and raise the final sculpture with us, so that when it stands in the street the hands that made it are still living beside it.

Process, making, result

Work in progress with the community of the favela — process, making and raising.

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India: Water Saddhu
A figure for water and for those who keep it — made with the community.
Images to follow.
Green Man project
The old green face of the woods, remade by the people who live in them.
Images to follow.
The Deluge project
Rising water, and a community modelling what it means to be carried away and to hold on.
Images to follow.