2nd November- Research- Physicality of research

2nd November- Research- Physicality of research 
(Action after Tutorial)
In relevance to the planned 'making' workshops with the solidarity collective, how this collective process is a form of research and conversation harbouring. 

…….activity and change are a matter of fact

Alfred North Whitehead, 1968

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/tate-research-centre-learning/physicality-research

What is the value of research when we push it towards a physical form?
How do we remain open to what research is and can become? 

The Physicality of Research is a co-investigation into the multiple ways in which research manifests itself. Comprised of a series of collaborative interventions, actions and experiments facilitated by Emily Pringle as part of her AHRC fellowship and Kimberley Foster, artist and PhD candidate at Goldsmiths University of London. The Physicality of Research invites curators, artists, educators and academics alike to position themselves in the midst of not knowing, of forming possibilities, asking questions and intentionally playing with risk. The aim is to create a space to co-consider the materiality of research and question research spatially and visually.

The Physicality of Research materialised at Tate Modern on Thursday 7 June 2018 with a gathering of researchers and research objects in Tate Exchange, the objects all weighing exactly 500g acted as conduits for action and dialogue throughout day. The film about this event was commissioned by Tate Research Centre: Learning and filmed by Gordon Beswick.

Reflections- 

This short footage of a workshop at the tate allowed me to consider the ways in which me filming the process of things is just as much the research process and my reading and primary work. My planned 'make' workshops were a practicality initially however there was an overwhelming desire for them to be carried out as part of a group. This collaboration therefore will manifest conversation and sensory investigation of the themes of re-use and fabric manipulation.