hosted by Barbara Adler / The Only Animal

a handmade post show discussion for opening portals into futures and trying to imagine them…

Meet the artists of Catching Up to the Future of Our Past  through The Only Animal’s Slow Social, a temporary slow zone for conversation, connection and handcraft. As the unmoderated artist talk unfolds, we’ll share materials and methods to create simple textile pieces – continuing the creative energy of the performance and opening portals to something new.

Set in a soft, natural-dyed textile installation, Slow Socials are improvised and co-created with the public using materials we grow and gather close to home. Each iteration leaves traces that are gradually patchworked into the installation, setting the stage for future events. 

No experience required and all materials provided.

Invitation

We imagine the conversation unfolding organically between everyone who attends. Here are a few things we’ve been thinking about:

– creating work from a slow, gentle place

– creating work from the materiality of life 

– creating work in midlife (in a form traditionally known to privilege youth and physical virtuosity)

– interdisciplinary collaboration 

– carrying past into a hopeful future; generational responsibility

– dancing future dances

– the body as an archive and portal for manifesting better, different futures