This photograph and text based work was exhibited at the Techne DTP1 Celebration Event at the Institute for Contemporary Art, 14 September 2023.
Abandoned Chairs
Lizzie Fort
Photography and Text
Abandoned Chairs is a playful provocation about decision making in practice research, questioning what constitutes the practice of a PhD, and what constitutes a documentation of the practice. The photos may or may not play a significant role in Lizzie’s final thesis Caring and Sharing: Rethinking Community Dance as a Curatorial Practice. Lizzie’s research responds to recent calls for a new ethics and politics of care in our everyday lives. More specifically, James Thompson’s argument that care has an aesthetic dimension. The public project, Woolwich Wandering puts ‘care aesthetics’ to work. Placing care at the heart of practice, Lizzie asked, Am I wanted here? exploring the possibilities, tensions and knowledges that arise through emplacement in my neighbourhood, Woolwich, SE London. Woolwich Wandering has driven the research through three practices of place: wandering-walking, pausing, and writing. Residents created journals, maps and walk routes, followed by walking-resting workshops, generating a ‘Manifesto for Public Space’, exhibited in the local library. Lizzie is currently writing up her thesis.
http://www.woolwichwandering.com
Text
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