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EXPERIMENTAL SPACE COLLECTIVE
PROJECTS
INTIMACY: BEYOND ANNIHILATION
Aya Hastwell, Caroline Wheeler, Ean Nicole Konopnicki, Pragya Bhargava. Sally Stenton, Sandy Layton, Sarah Praill, Svetlana Atlavina
This project was inspired by The Annihilation of Space and Time open call by zerofeedback. The call sparked an unexpected relay of diverse creative gestures. There was the sense of a potency arising through the emptiness, and an insight into how annihilation allows a new kind of intimacy without edges.
Aya Hastwell, Ean Nicole, Ceyda Oskay, Judy Nakazato, Pragya Bhargava,
Sally Stenton , Sandy Layton, Sarah Praill, Svetlana Atlavina
We began making doors in a workshop run by Ceyda Oskay. It became a collective group endeavour, a symbolic and tangible drive to overcome isolation…. to escape. We sent the Doors to each other and we exhibited them in our own spaces. Then we were given the opportunity for a physical exhibition at Watford Museum.
PORTAL WALKS
Aya Hastwell, Sally Stenton, Pragya Bhargava and Lalitha Bandaru
We walk in different places at the same time and stop to take photos in the same moment. The photos form Portals from one place to the other. The PORTAL walks have connected Kazakhstan, India, England, Bulgaria, Scotland, Turkey and the USA.
A GLASS ENVELOPE
Sally Stenton and Svetlana Atlavina
The international online artist residency was facilitated by Svetlana Atlavina and Sally Stenton in November 2021 and brought together artists from Turkey, the UK, Kazakhstan, USA and India for 3 weeks of collective, creative activity. Against the odds we managed to connect in a powerful way via the screen and generate a bond between us that has endured.