The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it

Bodman, Sarah; Bakker, Roelof

Abstract

Artists' talk for PROOF! Symposium
Sarah Bodman and Roelof Bakker are undertaking a mail art collaboration to produce a body of work for exhibition / artist's book. Along the way we will document and reflect upon our practice to produce written text for an article that will examine our inspirations, interaction and outcomes. We don't know yet where our collaboration will take us.

We are using collage and mail art as a means to explore instructions from Paul Thek's teaching notes directed by a statement by James Baldwin: The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.

We will be asking questions and making work responding to that statement by low-fi means: cutting, glueing, posting, etc inventing, our ‘place’, one that as yet does not exist (our utopia?).

Can we make a space unique for us, a place of (visual) debate and knowledge-sharing?

APPROACH Re (use) Re(order) Re(purpose) Re(print) Re(interpret) Re(form) Re(frame) Re (make) Re(build) Re(cycle) Re(transform) Re(create) Re(steal) Re(write) Re(appropriate) Re(narrate) etc.

You can watch the video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZmmpLfxfE

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: PROOF! 23 Symposium
• Start Date: Jun 22, 2023
• End Date: Jun 23, 2023
• Publication Date: Jun 22, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jun 26, 2023
• Keywords: collage, artists' books, mail art, environment
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10888437
• Publisher URL: https://vcrg.co.uk/
• Additional Information: You can watch the video at: ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZmmpLfxfE