These blog posts eventually formed the basis for much of the Soft Drive book published in December 2020..
Soft Drive is the 2019-20 Artspace project.
4 artists will explore the
roots and mediators of communal memory and identity in Ulverston and South Cumbria.
From our base at the Sir John Barrow cottage in Ulverston, our artists will curate
introductory micro-exhibitions drawing on the domestic and civic artefacts and ephemera stored there. These will act as the locus for public engagement with appearance and function, provenance, materiality and curatorship. In response, our artists will produce sculpture and assemblage, audio, text and visual work for exhibition and publication.
Through walks, conversation, workshops, schools projects and associative analysis of archive material we will explore the shifting significance of key sites and routes in the life of the community.
Our artists Alex Blackmore, Ellie Chaney and John Hall will be joined by Dr Jamie McPhie. Jamie lectures in Cultural Landscapes and Aesthetics in the Outdoors at the University of Cumbria where his work involves the dissemination of research through performance. He will share his interest in ontology and the vital materiality of land and artefacts, lead research events and walks, and collaborate on work for broadcast and performance.
Later, Soft Drive will involve young people in collaborative work with Oral Tradition Storyteller Dominic Kelly and Textile Artist Lex Blakeway.
Our thanks to our supporters,to our friends at Green Lane Archaeology to Jan Hancock from Ulverston Civic Society, and to the people we will meet on the way..
Here goes..
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