Workshop: Archiving as Creative Practice

Name: Workshop: Archiving as Creative Practice
Start: 2025-09-20T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Clod Ensemble

By Clod Ensemble

How can we approach archiving as a creative and curatorial act?

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Clod Ensemble

3 Soames Walk #C2 London SE10 0BQ United Kingdom

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2 hours
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Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Led by Suzy Willson, Artistic Director of Clod Ensemble, Lotte Allan, Clod Ensemble Archivist, and Valerie Ebuwa, Independent Artist & Clod Ensemble Associate.

In this workshop Clod Ensemble will present their recent experience of creating an archive which gathers and shares their distinctive interdisciplinary approach to devising performance. The session approaches archiving as a creative and curatorial act, exploring sustainable systems for organising and re-presenting physical and digital materials.

Attendees will be encouraged to take a creative approach to archiving their own artistic practice, as well as using other archives and collections to inspire new work.

This workshop is an ideal learning opportunity for independent artists, performing arts specialists and small-/medium-sized arts organisations, across all artforms. It will include both discussion and some movement work.

Image: Clod Ensemble: Zero (2025 Reconstruction)- Performers Elisabeth Mulenga, Ramona Nagabczynska, Matthew Sandiford. Image by Genevieve Reeves.

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Clod Ensemble

Since founding Clod Ensemble in 1995, director Suzy Willson and composer Paul Clark have developed a highly original performance language, creating provocative, finely-crafted work which is ambitious in scale and concept.

Clod Ensemble works at the intersections where different artistic forms meet, transform and challenge each other, collaborating with dancers, actors, musicians, medics, architects and orchestras to create work which is presented in London, across the UK and internationally.

Some of the theatres, dance houses, galleries and public spaces Clod Ensemble’s work has been presented in include Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, The Lowry Salford, Wales Millennium Centre, Serralves Museum Porto and Public Theater New York.