Latest Events in Phocis(July Updated)

Studies in Soft Sloppy Sculpture. Delphi Campbell My self-proclaimed sloppiness is multifaceted. Firstly, it exists to honour and document my dynamic disabilities. In roughness there exists a quality that is inherently subversive. The interference with the “order” that we perceive as normal, or well-structured, or even masterful, isn’t present in a sloppy or crass object. By disrupting the expectation of an art object, my work and I take up more space, we exist too much, because we exist in the wrong way. Embracing sloppiness becomes akin to embracing my disabilities – I can’t help but tick, shake and drop things, so these actions become integrated with and integral to the finished work. A paint mark from an accidental brush stroke becomes autobiographical documentation of a twitch. There is something immediate and impulsive and unfettered in working this way. // Mae fy aflerwch hunan-gyhoeddedig yn amlweddog. Yn gyntaf, mae’n bodoli i gydnabod ac i ddogfennu fy anableddau dynamig. Mewn garwder mae rhinwedd yn bodoli sy’n hanfodol danseiliol. Nid yw’r ymyrraeth gyda’r “drefn” ‘dyn ni’n ystyried yn normal, neu wedi'i strwythuro'n dda, neu hyd yn oed yn feistrolgar, yn bresennol mewn gwrthrych blêr neu amrwd. Mae cofleidio aflerwch yn dod yn gyfatebol i gofleidio fy anableddau - ni allaf beidio ticio, ysgwyd a gollwng pethau, felly mae’r gweithredoedd yma yn rhan annatod o’r gwaith gorffenedig. Mae marc paent sy’n ganlyniad o strôc brwsh damweiniol yn dod yn ddogfen hunan bywgraffyddol plwc. Mae rhywbeth diaros a byrbwyll a dilyffethair mewn gweithio yn y modd hwn Studies in… For this series of workshops we will be looking into artists studio practices, generative processes, and/or ways of working. Each time one artist will share an element of their creative process, or an idea that represents the way they build work within their studio practice. We want to make time to engage with artist processes, and studio activity. You might learn a new skill, a different approach. We will also learn about the artists practice in an active way. It might open up ideas and new ways of thinking about other artists work, or new ways working in your own practice. Not all the artists have given lots of workshops before, so we will have a patient and generous approach as workshop participants. Sometimes we want to try something, but need to take some time to get into it, or maybe quickly realise it’s not for us. Workshop participants are always welcome to step away, take a break, return or not return, at any time in the workshop. Information Source: g39 | eventbrite