Soft Bodies – Cultivating Connection to Body and Land
Soft Bodies – Cultivating Connection to Body and Land explores how a material-based design practice can support connections to body, land and community. The project has developed in close dialogue with LjurhallaFabriken – a space for art, craft and design located outside Vårgårda founded by artist Rachel Barron and child culture designer Nathan Clydesdale.
The outcome consists of a spatial installation and a series of workshops that invite participants into presence, collective making and encounters with the surrounding landscape.
The workshop components are: Silent Walk – Sensory Meditation – Clay Making – Tea Ceremony.
Through relational and situated methods, the project has evolved in collaboration with the site’s human and more-than-human actors.
The installation is characterized by craft and tactile materials such as textiles, ceramics, and brass. The work engages with questions of embodied knowledge, community, and rest as resistance. While rooted in LjurhallaFabriken as a place, the methods and formats developed are able to travel and take shape in other locations and landscapes.