On the Way to Language is an exhibition and series of public events at Camberwell Space, curated by Maiko Tsutsumi, course leader of MA Designer Maker at Camberwell College of Arts. The show runs until the 9 June 2018.
Make sure you don’t miss the public event programme which runs alongside the show – these events are over the next few weeks and are free and open to all!
To book your space at each public event and to be part of this project which explores the relationship between making and language, click on each event below:
Image Credit: David Cross
David Cross workshop: Words Fail Me
17 May 2018, 2pm-4pm
How might we approach our material choices and actions in relation to reading and writing, speaking and listening?
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Dunhill & O’Brien Stone Appreciation workshop
Dunhill & O’Brien: Stone Appreciation performance
18 May 2018, 1pm-2.30pm
Using clay, participants will collaborate and attempt to model a form without speaking using the Stone Appreciation Booth.
Please note this event will be filmed.
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Shane Waltener collaborative making workshop: script / score / recipe / instruction
24 May 2018, 2pm-4pm
Improvisation with materials in response to a series of set tasks. The processes will be recorded through drawing and writing.
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Dunhill & O’Brien: Stone Appreciation performance
26 May 2018, 2pm-4pm
Using clay, participants will collaborate and attempt to model a form without speaking using the Stone Appreciation Booth.
Please note this event will be filmed.
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image credit: David Gates
David Gates: Making Stories: Situating Talk as an Aspect of Material Practice
31 May 2018, 6pm-7pm
In this talk David will discuss his research around the place of language in craft-making practices.
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Haptic/ Tactic Workshop
Haptic/Tacit workshop: Physical Traces of Making, Language and Interpretation, Action of Doing
7 June 2018, 2pm-4pm
A workshop using clay to explore ideas of haptic skill and kinaesthetic communication.
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Kimberley Chandler + Stephen Knott: Performance
9 June 2018, 11am-12pm
On the Way to Language writers in residence create a performance using the text they have collected during the exhibition.
All welcome, no booking required
BalinHouseProjects: Saturday Lunch
9 June 2018, 1pm-3pm
With Eduardo Padilha and Harold Offeh. Join us for conversations over soup with invited guests, exhibition contributors and members of the public.
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For a closer insight into the ideas behind the On the Way to Language Exhibition and in conversation with the curator Maiko Tsutsumi visit our On the way to language: A new vocabulary for design & making blog post.
Find out more about the MA Visual Arts: Designer Maker course at Camberwell.