Foliage / Foley: From image to sound, from sound to image

Join Jen Clarke and Marta Kucza for a relaxed, hands-on workshop exploring translation across image, sound and landscape through collaborative creative practice.

Beginning with selected images and materials from Volume 0, alongside examples from Marta Kucza’s forest-based sound work, participants will experiment with simple Foley-making and layered visual responses using collage and found materials. The workshop moves between listening, looking, making, and arranging, with equal emphasis on image-making and sound-making as creative ways of responding to landscape.

This is not a workshop about producing finished artworks. Instead, it offers an open and low-pressure space to explore ‘translation' across media through shared sensory and creative processes.

No previous experience is needed. The workshop is open to all and designed to be flexible, including for disabled participants and those attending with support workers or companions.

Participants are encouraged to bring a small object that makes an interesting sound, though this is entirely optional.

Access note:
This workshop is open to all and designed to be low-pressure and flexible. No prior skills are needed. There is no requirement to speak, perform, or draw. Seated participation will be supported throughout, and support workers are warmly welcome.

Volume 0 came out of the UKRI-funded Treescapes project (Agroforestry Futures), which brings together artistic research, ecological thinking, and collaborative public work. The workshop offers a way of entering this wider project through shared creative practice.

Participants are invited to stay after the workshop for an informal lunch and conversation. The workshop will include a short break at 11am and will run for about 2.5 hours.

Jen Clarke is an artist-anthropologist and Associate Professor at Gray’s School of Art, whose feminist and collaborative work explores image-making, forest ecologies, Japan and creative ways of sensing and responding to the world.

Marta Kucza is a filmmaker, workshop facilitator and PhD researcher at the University of Tartu, whose work explores sound, image and embodied ways of learning with plants, animals and more-than-human environments.

About the worm:

Access:
• the worm is a ground floor space, there is a ramp available.
• Accessible toilet with baby changing facility.

Travel:
• Public transport is regularly available via train or bus. More information can be found here.
• For drivers with a blue badge, you will find a list of car parks with blue badge spaces here.
• Please be aware we are located in the LEZ (Low Emissions Zone) and restrictions will apply. More information on parking can be found here.

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