sol archer
“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes.”
Dionne Brand
Cartography and Care: the multiple village
Collaboration with PEER and PHLOX
audio guide, workshops, hand
painted curtains, podcast,
photography.
Year: 2018
documentation: Marta Colpani and PHLOX.
Establishing the encounter as a site of transitive production and shared experience, these conversations focussed on young residents play, creative practices, and practices of care for the land, animals, and environment. Considering the multiplicity of spaces that each narrative lays over the physical infrastructure of the village we I developed a workshop to be run by PEER, wherein children of the village recorded an audio tour of the village, detailing their play spaces, and the invisible narratives that coordinate their experience of the village, and following this they mapped these narratives on hand- painted curtains which remain permanently installed in the PHLOX space in the village.