Bouquets [events]
Somatic Landscapes
A workshop by The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, led by Anju Marie Kasturiraj
The Art Research Garden, 43 Lewisham Way New Cross London SE14 6QD
Saturday 27 April, 2-4pm
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Somatic Landscapes was an invitation to gather in the Art Research Garden at Goldsmiths and to assemble a clay sculpture together, through ritual and psychosomatic drawing. This workshop explored the relationship between landscapes and our bodies, memory held by the body, and performance as a making-process.
This workshop oriented around specific responses, psychosomatic drawing, transmission of memory, memory
of place, connection between landscape and body, memory held by the body, surrealism and
automatism, performance as a making-process, making objects through ritual.
Access information: Please note that access to the garden is through the building via some steps both at the front and back of the building. There is currently no accessible toilet in the building but accessible toilets are available across the street in Goldsmiths main campus building. If you have any questions about the shape or content of the workshop, or about any access needs, please contact us at hildegardsgardeningcompanions@gmail.com We look forward to hearing from you!
Anju Marie Kasturiraj is a performance artist and researcher. Their ritual performances serve temporal interventions, to dissect the relationships between endurance, devotion, pain, bodily memory, colonial hauntology, and the environment. They also bake bread and brew kombucha, as methods of exploring the post-edible in feminist abject art and as ways to gather community around food. Anju is currently doing a PhD at the Royal College of Art School of Arts & Humanities, which focuses on rituals, biopower, and abjection. They love reading, Pasolini films, 0% beer, and dancing with their friends.
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