SOMETIMES THERE IS AN OPENING IN WHAT YOU CALL TIME.
THAT’S WHEN YOU HEAR VOICES FROM LONG BEFORE… Linda Hogan
Residency and Installation
themes of grief, synchronicity, destruction, desiccation and regeneration via transmutation, are explored within these installation and residency outcomes.
each drawing its primary sources through physical, philosophical and material elements. with individual projects interactions developing through a multi-layered approach.
central research methods included participatory acts such as; intentional walking, engagement in the creative conversation and development of archival and contemporary art researches.
photography & film harnessing documentary characteristics were pursued, along with the desire for experimental outcome.
Viewers & participants alike were encouraged to consider their own stories and beliefs in relation to each of these works core motivations.
“Having recently become single, Valentine’s is not a great day, is it?… I wander around the cemetery and if a grave or headstone catches my eye I stop…
The first one I stopped at that day, having walked for I don’t know, about 12/13 minutes before looking down was.
(Pause)
I read his name, He had died on the 14th February, on Valentines Day… I felt that in that moment it was just, quite how to put it, a union, a collective unconscious moment. A Connection of the past.”
Kate, Garden of Synchronicity, creative conversation participant