Com-panionem

Com = With
Panis = Bread

Sharing bread together
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Breadfellows

Companions are vessels made to be used to share conversation and food

These clay vessels are companions

2 compartment Whiskey Cup with Tracy Hannah

This page maps a methodology for developing gallery based educational projects as part of my Master in Education in the Arts.

Acknowledging that exhibition-making is often just a moment of intervention at a point in a practice,I propose that an education project could be open-ended. My project devises ways to facilitate co-constructive* dialogue and production between an artist and the public at the point of exhibition which could redirect the trajectory of a work.

*knowledge is co-constructed between learners in interaction with and within a social environment.

Companions

I met with many artists for Breadfellows’ Chats, this page documents these conversations. During these conversations the artists and I produced companions together. They are vessels, made to be used to share a meal. They are doubled: for example, a cup that two people could drink from, or a bowl with two straws and two spaces for two spoons. When they are glazed and fired the companions are functional.

I wanted to produce an object that could befriend through conversation - bring a physicality to the exchange, draw attention to the body, to the mouth and to the proximity and compromise required to eat together. It would therefore mimic the compromise required to understand one another and share thoughts in dialogue. Clay also holds within it traces of touch, of skin, hair and saliva - bodily intimacy.

During these meetings we talked through their practice and considered how we might devise co-constructive workshops with the public that could be resonant with their practice and extend it at the point of exhibition into a moment of co-constructive production.

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The Breadfellows' Chats