Audio from an artists' talk for World Collage Day:
Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman invited the public to join them on Zoom for an informal talk about their recent collaborative collage project for World Collage Day - Saturday 10th May 2025. Their mail art exchange has been completed as of early 2025 and they are working towards an artists' publication from the project with written contributions by Declan Wiffen and Dr Rachel Smith.
Inspired by a statement by the American writer and activist James Baldwin 'This place will not exist until I make it', we responded to it as: a place 'of' us to occupy in our minds together; a place 'for' us to make art together and a space to think about the environment together through our art making. We also took prompts from Paul Thek's teaching notes to instruct responsive collage making.
We showed some images from our postal exchange of which there are 22 x A5 collages and 22 collaged postcards of instructions and questions. We also held a collage-along for the online participants as it was World Collage Day.
The publication of 'everything is so very much connected' will launch at the Small Publishers Fair in London, in October 2025. The collages and book will also visit some libraries and places in an exhibition tour from October. For more information about World Collage Day events, visit the Kolaj Institute website: https://kolajinstitute.org
Digital Artefact Type
Audio
Acceptance Date
May 10, 2025
Online Publication Date
May 11, 2025
Publication Date
May 11, 2025
Deposit Date
May 11, 2025
Keywords
environmental collapse, nature, care, collage, artists' books, queering nature
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