ODW #11: Meeting Grounds: Essay as Event
16 – 20 October 2023
The essay for the American essayist and climate activist Rebecca Solnit is a meeting ground. It is a process of ‘gathering up the shards and mapping them where they are, to find the patterns out there or make one … about the disconnections and the mysteries’.* Drawing from Solnit’s framing of the essay, Meeting Grounds invites investigation, and experimentation, with the visual essay as a verb (essaying), an event (a gathering), and as a social form for collective reasoning. The workshop is devised by Paul Bailey in collaboration with Sophie Demay, with contributions from Centre for Other World members Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Francisco Laranjo and Provisional School for Nothing (Sara Vaz & Marco Balesteros). Meeting Grounds is developed through Paul Bailey’s practice-based PhD research; hosted and supported by KASK School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
* Rebecca Solnit, The Best American Essays, 2019
Curated by
Paul Bailey
Sophie Demay
Guests
Francisco Laranjo
Luiza Prado
Sara Vaz & Marco Balesteros
Escola Provisória para Nada
Graphic Design
Paul Bailey
Rodrigo Almeida (delli student)