26 October
University of Brighton, Edward Street
Tickets are free, please book below
Peer Matters is an artist-led development programme, supported by Photoworks. As part of the 2024 Weekender, the fifteen participating artists are staging a collaboratively-shaped exhibition (un)common outcomes, and a programme of six free events on Saturday 26 October.
Throughout the day, and against the backdrop of nothing is fixed, a growing installation of images that will hold the workshop outcomes in the form of imagery, text and notes. We invite you to take part in any of the workshops below as a meeting point to share process and practice:
Morning – making things freely and intuitively on a saturday morning
10am – 12pm
Photowalk – An urban drift with Sergey
A two-hour walk in Brighton with Sergey and his large format film camera. During the walk, each of the 10 participants will have the opportunity to slow down and take a picture on large format sheet film, be it a portrait, landscape or still life, as well as a digital copy for nothing is fixed installation. After the film has been developed and scanned, the resulting images from this urban drift will be compiled into a collective zine, which the participants of the walk will receive via email the following week.
10.30am – 12pm
Zine Workshop – Loosen things up with Seb
This workshop will explore basic zine-making techniques such as folds, sequencing, and binding to aid loosening up and being playful with imagery. We will engage with different materials and encourage collaborative making and discussion around text, image, and the zine as an object. The workshop process and outcomes will be added to nothing is fixed.
10.30am – 12pm
Poetry, Image and Text Reflections with Emile, Anna and Georgina
Designed as a series of ‘writing to images’ exercises, this workshop will draw focus to the idea of memory as photographs, and vice versa. By exploring creative methods of literary expression via (im)personal images, we will collaboratively weave a visual narrative that culminates in a group showing within nothing is fixed.
Afternoon – Messy conversations
2pm – 3pm
Persistent Stickiness with Alexandra Davenport
How do we continue to make work, collaborate and research whilst also ‘doing’ life?
2pm- 3pm
The Value of Peer to Peer Learning with Margot Minnot Thomas
What’s the role of peer-to-peer learning in artistic practice and growth, and how can our cultural organisations support them?
3pm – 3.30pm
nothing is fixed – a grown installation
No booking needed
Come together around nothing is fixed to discuss themes that have surfaced within the roundtables on process, slowness and mistakes. This is a final chance to add to and reshape the installation, as well as an invitation to take away ‘scaffolding’ to form new ways of learning and making work for themselves, rooted in the value of collective, peer-to-peer dialogue and relationships.
