PROCESSIONAL STATE

- Ideas of care, slowness, knowing, not and un-knowing, empathy, relation and receptivity

Dr Louise Bell, Dr Laura Rosser and Dr Laura Hopes are three early career researchers and artists who were contemporaries on the same PhD programme between Plymouth and Falmouth Universities. As artists, they playfully engage with the archaeological strategies of identification, excavation and interpretation and its speculative potential.

This week residency and show is called ‘Processional State’ and presents ongoing slow research made at, and of, Maker Heights in Cornwall and ideas of care, slowness, knowing, not and un-knowing, empathy, relation and receptivity.

About the residency, the artists say:

“Since March 2024, we have recognised and foregrounded the commonalities of our intersecting creative practices and research interests. This has been situated within an ongoing collaborative project concerned with ideas of care, slowness, knowing, not and un-knowing, empathy, relation and receptivity. Our shared methodology emphasises sensitivity, participation, and responsiveness, allowing for a porous exchange of ideas and a rejection of rigid academic expectations. Our practice mirrors archaeological behaviours, focusing on artefacts and documentation as we engage in this evolving experiment”.

OPEN DAY AND EXHIBITION

Join them on Saturday 9 November, 11am-3pm for a Free Entry, Open to All exhibition to meet the artists, hear their journey and see work to date presented.