Cut, pile, shift, disrupt! Deep Time Thinking Through Collage

AboutHOXTON 253 is a London based non-profit artist run gallery and project space, providing an experimental platform to emerging and mid-career artists.Our aim is to nurture creative talents and to build a community of artists and local residents with the objective to provoke critical dialogue within contemporary culture and society.As a green and sustainability-conscious initiative, our passion lies in creating environments that question our communal and individual responsibilities in regards to our societal and political position in the world, while also dedicating particular attention to highlighting artistic voices that challenge the current untenable system and promote a healthier and sustainable future.Acting as a cultural bridge in the heart of Hoxton, we invite local, national and international creatives to participate in our diverse ongoing program, including exhibitions, experimental and educational projects, residencies, workshops, events and screenings. The space, founded in 2019, has already proven to be a valuable platform to artists including those with non-commercial focus, producing over 50 exhibitions, events, and projects.​Our doors are open to all art lovers, artists, the local community, as well as patrons and collectors.

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Cut, pile, shift, disrupt! Deep Time Thinking Through Collage / Workshop with the artist Lydia Brockless

Through this workshop we would like to invite participants to engage with the themes of the exhibition titled WE ARE MADE OF STAR STUFF through observing and making.​We will look around the exhibition together, then spend some time discussing the works on display. Using found images and text, we will engage in a few simple activities to determine how these materials behave, and how we can use them to explore our understanding of Deep Time. Considering geological time requires an ability to visualise layering in the Earth, of time passing, and of materials being moved and rearranged. Through collage we will experiment and explore the &#x27;geology&#x27; of images and text, and produce a personal response to the themes of the exhibition.The workshop aims to encourage material experimentation, and challenge participants to think conceptually about their work.Who is this workshop for:This workshop is for all ages. Priority access is given to Hackney-based residents.​​
When: Saturday 19th March 2022 / ​10am-12pm​The exhibition and associated programme are supported by and part of Hello Again, Hackney, the borough&#x27;s cultural reopening initiative.

The event is part of: WE ARE MADE OF STAR STUFF exhibition / 4-27 March 2022​Exhibiting artists: Lydia Brockless, Ilana Halperin, Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, Matthew Needham, Josephine Pryde, Georgia Somerville Watts, and Maël Traïca.​Curated by Berta Zubrickaitė, in collaboration with HOXTON 253.Further information and full exhibition programme: <a href="https://www.hoxton253.com/we-are-made-of-star-stuff.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.hoxton253.com/we-are-made-of-star-stuff</a>The exhibition invites us to unearth the layered entanglements that exist between humans and their natural environment in the context of geological time. Held by rocks, minerals, ice and the crust of the ground we walk on – our busy surface world percolates the evidence of slow ‘deep time’ processes that have the power to pull us in and reconnect us with the vanished worlds that came before our own, and with those yet to come. Measured in millions of years, this timescale reveals Earth as a monument of destruction and disruption where boundaries between the concepts of the past, present and future blur. Geology is a long-term commitment. It is a way of seeing the world across multiple timescales whilst holding it simultaneously in the mind’s eye. By proposing we re-think our relation to temporality, the exhibition positions deep time as a vantage point which is no longer bound to the dominating constructs of capitalist time, the brief time we live, or even to the extended time of our species. A geological worldview restores attention to the way in which human and non-human agencies are all wrapped together, and points towards a more plurally determined existence.

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