Workshop

2012


REVERIES ON VISIBLE THINKING by Julia Bardsley (28th - 30th July Folkestone)


︎︎︎ PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK


E.M. Parry + Adrian Coto + Ernst Fischer + Julia Bardsley

(original copy)
“Process as Performance – Thought as Action – Reverie as Method
x1 provocateur + 3 artists over x3 days
= coexisting in a real-time process room of mulling + mapping
A proposition for three days of process, generating visual vocabularies and spatial grammars of materials, actions, mark-making, objects, body, maps, diagrams, sound, space and time. Each participant will bring their own discrete practice and aesthetics into dialogue with a common set of provocations - working individually but within a coexistent frame. We will be accruing our coexistent thinking in the space and over time, through processes of - generating + disturbing | layering + disrupting | erasing + collision”

Images: REVERIES on VISIBLE THINKING workshop outcome, Julia Bardsley, Adrian Coto, E.M. Parry and Ernst Fischer, 2021. Photos by Manuel Vason.


Julia Bardsley is an artist working with the interplay of performance, pinhole photography, video projection, sculptural objects, psychological garments and hybrid personae. Works include: The Divine Trilogy: Trans-Acts, Almost The Same (feral rehearsals for violent acts of culture) and Aftermaths: a tear in the meat of vision (London, Glasgow, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Belgium, Italy); meta-FAMILY (Brazil, UK, Belgium, Slovenia) and Medea: dark matter events (Brazil & London). A book of her pinhole photographs, u See The Image Of Her i, was published in 2016.

In a new phase of work, under the creative umbrella The House of Wonder & Panic, she has developed a series of durational process events entitled Reading Rooms. The Reading Rooms have repurposed a political, a philosophical and an entomological text. The third of the series, An Apian Paradox, conjures an apicultural world that offers a feminine ecology of creativity, pleasure and female bee-ing and has been presented in London, Lisbon and at Fierce! Birmingham.
Her work tests coexistences and antagonisms across the nature/culture & animal/human spectrums. She is currently exploring ways of appropriating and folding rewilding principles of disturbance and succession into her creative process.