Flock Circumstance
art publication / 16 Nicholson Street Publications 2021
This publication opens up the creative process behind one exhibition. I loved writing the collaborative text ”I Need Help Thinking” because it made it so visible how a work of art is an effort of many, influenced by numerous conversations with friends and ideas shaped by the collective imagination. As I sat down to write everyone's name down, I counted at least 109 humans and more-than-humans who were contributing to the making of this publication and the show.
The publication includes Nell Cardozo's introduction, Madde Edlund's Sonic ID Shower workshop plan and the script and Aga Mlynczak's essay Unlearning the Dictionary, collaborative text Undoing the Workshop - The Art of A-void-dance by Niamh Moloney and Tinja Ruusuvuori, original photographs by Aga Mlyncza and stills from videos by Liina Kuittinen, Lori Frazer, Miina Puolitaival and Tinja Ruusuvuori. Designed by Zineb Benassarou, bookbinding by Gillian Stewart / JUJU Books (edition 10), shadows designed by the nature.
Undoing the Workshop - the Art of A-void-dance
by Niamh Moloney and Tinja Ruusuvuori
Collaborative text and a plan for a workshop in the Flock Circumstance publication / 16 Nicholson Street. “The Art of A-void-dance - undoing the workshop” was prompted by conversations we had while walking and talking on the phone between Scotland and Finland throughout the lockdowns of 2020/21.
Through our conversations, we discovered that a third space was created when we spoke over the phone. This third space is a palpable sense of the dynamic between people that exists independently of them as if it were a separate entity. We recognized this space as being consistently present—a realm that facilitates the shared act of imagining. It is a connective space to create resistance in the face of rising hyper-individualism.
