Imagining Edges with Helping Hands Workshop

Join us for this two-hour workshop exploring dreaming and deep listening through visual score-making, writing, and layered ink paintings. Find inspiration in the gesture and slippages of memory in Dimick's work, imagining the more-than-ness of objects in Simpson's work, and folk myth in Palfreyman's work. In this workshop, participants will be prompted to engage in writing and visual mapping evocative of capturing dreams within the works and the gallery space.

This workshop revolves around the idea that the works are edges with the potential to live outside of what we can see. Participants will be guided by writing and visual prompts inspired by the work of Ione and Pauline Oliveros, who created deep listening practices to open our perception of our environments and creative capacities to dream about the edges of something to come to experience places in rich, sensorial ways.

Helping Hands Workshop (@helpinghands.workshop) is a creative workshop sharing iterations of collaborative in-person and online happenings that seek to encourage a widening of creative expression. Often inspired by different ways to research and archive ourselves and explore art-making in new ways. Helping Hands workshop started during the 2020 Covid lockdowns and is grounded in seeking a sharing of collaborative space and joint creative dialogues that can lead to self-exploration and the development of art practices.

Host or Publisher Gus Fisher Gallery