At Home

Russell Martin has uploaded two recent recorded conversations onto the At Home page.The first is between furniture designer and maker David Gates and choreographer Aletta Collins. The dialogue includes:

• Practice of choreography
• Rehearsals and place in dance
• Choreographer’s lack of control in performance
• Crafts making and process of research
• Morton Feldman’s views on composition as activity
• Dance notation and notebooks
• Filming dance and problems faced in this
• Craftspeople as practicing a kind of dance in the studio

The second between Russell Martin and oral history researcher and lecturer in the history and theory of the applied arts Linda Sandino .  The dialogue touches on:

• Johannes Fabien and the notion of ‘ethnographic present’
• Makers ‘monograph’ works and audience
• Visual arts and self expression
• Hierarchy of visual arts and crafts
• Collect 2009 at the Saatchi Gallery
• Practice and the art market
• Differences between the visual arts and crafts in relation to ‘dream time’

Thank You

Thank you to all who attended the Slow Down London event, a recording of the event will be uploaded very soon and more news about the project and events will follow shortly.