summer pools: DÒIRNEAG
Perthshire, Esocia | 2024
En colaboración con Eloise Maltby Maland.
summer pools es un programa anual autogestionado enfocado en prácticas artísticas y espaciales. A través de metodologías situadas y pedagogías multidireccionales, exploramos a lo largo de una semana, temas relacionados con ecologías, lenguaje y territorio.
El proyecto nació de conversaciones sobre la necesidad de replantear modelos de práctica colectiva. Cada año regresamos a Perthshire, donde tomamos prestada una palabra del entorno local que inspira y guía los talleres. Durante una semana, nos reunimos para reflexionar, crear y compartir conocimientos y habilidades, fomentando una experiencia de aprendizaje compartido.
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En esta edición prestamos la palabra gaélica dòirneag, que significa ‘una piedra redonda que cabe en la mano’, para reflexionar sobre las temporalidades del cuerpo y la roca. Desde nuestra posición sobre una línea de roca ígnea formada hace más de 300 millones de años, exploramos cuatro escalas de piedra presentes en el territorio, con enfoques conceptuales, contextuales, sensoriales y materiales:
Sobre el dique, donde leímos junt+s teoría, poesía, diccionarios científicos, entradas de blogs y correos electrónicos sobre rocas y el tiempo.
Entre los muros, donde reflexionamos sobre la reorganización
de fragmentos en estructuras de piedra construidas por humanos, y
el parcelamiento de la tierra como forma de protección y división. Figuramos mapas, documentos y notas del sitio, y descubrimos restos de piedra de un monasterio del siglo XII.
Entre las piedras de río, encontramos nuestras propias dòirneags, seguido de una meditación guiada y un ejercicio donde nombramos estas piedras desde lo observado/afectivo.
Con la arcilla, recolectamos y procesamos lutita local, arcilla acumulada a lo largo del río sobre el tiempo.
Estos talleres dieron lugar a un mapeo colectivo y a escritos individuales que actualmente estamos reuniendo y reformulando en un fanzine.
¡Muchas gracias Bansi, Francesca, Leonie, Montse, Nicolette, Shivani!
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Seguí el proyecto con más profundidas a través de nuestra cuenta de instagram @summer__pools
Perthshire, Scotland | 2024
In collaboration with Eloise Maltby Maland.
summer pools is a yearly week-long, self-organised arts and spatial practice programme. We explore ecologies, languages and our implicated bodies, through situated methodologies and a multidirectional approach to learning.
The project was born out of conversations about a need and yearning to think through alternative models of collective practice. Each year we return to Perthshire where we borrow a word relating to its landscapes that frames the workshops of the programme. Together, over the week, we think, make and share knowledges and skills.
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In this edition we borrowed from the gaelic word dòirneag, meaning 'a round stone that fills the hand when held', thinking through temporalities of the body and the rock. Delving into our position on a line of igneous bedrock formed over 300 million years ago, we approached the site through four scales of stone across the landscape, with conceptual, contextual, sensorial, and material approaches in relation to the site:
On the dyke, where we read together theory, poetry, scientific dictionaries, blog entries and emails on rocks and time.
Between the walls, thinking through rearrangement of fragments, human-made stone structures, parceling of land as protection and division. We pieced together maps, documents and notes around the site and found stone remains of an XII century abbey.
With the pebbles, where we found our particular dòirneags, followed by a guided meditation and an exercise where we named the stones from affective/careful observation.
With the clay, collecting and processing local mudstone, accumulated clay settled along the river over time.
These workshops informed collective mind-mapping and individual writing that we are currently bringing together as zine.
Thank you Bansi, Francesca, Leonie, Montse, Nicolette, Shivani!
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Follow the project in more depth through our instagram account @summer__pools
summer pools is a yearly week-long, self-organised arts and spatial practice programme. We explore ecologies, languages and our implicated bodies, through situated methodologies and a multidirectional approach to learning.
The project was born out of conversations about a need and yearning to think through alternative models of collective practice. Each year we return to Perthshire where we borrow a word relating to its landscapes that frames the workshops of the programme. Together, over the week, we think, make and share knowledges and skills.
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In this edition we borrowed from the gaelic word dòirneag, meaning 'a round stone that fills the hand when held', thinking through temporalities of the body and the rock. Delving into our position on a line of igneous bedrock formed over 300 million years ago, we approached the site through four scales of stone across the landscape, with conceptual, contextual, sensorial, and material approaches in relation to the site:
On the dyke, where we read together theory, poetry, scientific dictionaries, blog entries and emails on rocks and time.
Between the walls, thinking through rearrangement of fragments, human-made stone structures, parceling of land as protection and division. We pieced together maps, documents and notes around the site and found stone remains of an XII century abbey.
With the pebbles, where we found our particular dòirneags, followed by a guided meditation and an exercise where we named the stones from affective/careful observation.
With the clay, collecting and processing local mudstone, accumulated clay settled along the river over time.
These workshops informed collective mind-mapping and individual writing that we are currently bringing together as zine.
Thank you Bansi, Francesca, Leonie, Montse, Nicolette, Shivani!
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Follow the project in more depth through our instagram account @summer__pools