Co-organised with Professor Harriet Hawkins (Geography, RHUL) .An experimental conference with a focus on experiences of the cave and darkness. The day included drumming, a LARP workshop, a talk about subterranean engineering, archaeology and an audio essay. Contributions from Dr. William Rowlandson (University of Kent), Una Hamiton Helle (OSE associate), Shell Like (artist duo Amy Pettifer and Jennifer Boyd), Professor Clive Gamble (University of Southampton), Loretta Van Der Tann (Think Deep UK)
Basecamp; a place of anticipation, tension, team dynamics, boredom, excitement, waiting and possibility. The 3 day event invited speakers, other artists, student groups and members of the public into the Basecamp to work through a series of questions. The sessions had an informal structure and evolved according to the dynamic of the group in attendance, an opportunity to look at the literal, geographical basecamp and to draw parallels with imaginary landscapes. It will also looked at the group dynamics and behaviours of the real and imagined expedition.
A thematic event using the excavation of Gully Cave as a point of departure. The programme combined talks by geographers Prof. Harriet Hawkins, Prof. Danielle Schreve and Dr. Rachael Squire, with a film by Gordon Matta Clark, artwork by Daniel Clark, music by EDEN and film about Gully Cave expert, Pierre Schreve by Lily Grimes.
The event was designed and co-ordinated by Flora Parrott
An installation drawn in chalk based on the PETAR cave network in São Paulo State. Professor Paulo Boggiani from the Earth Science Department of USP gave a talk about the karst formations using the drawings and adding his own drawings as a way of demonstrating the subterranean landscape.
An installation drawn in chalk based on the PETAR cave network in São Paulo State. Professor Paulo Boggiani from the Earth Science Department of USP gave a talk about the karst formations using the drawings and adding his own drawings as a way of demonstrating the subterranean landscape.
A year-long residency at the RGS, as part of which I invited a group of 12 artists (see below) and geographers to spend a weekend caving and camping in the Mendips, visit the archives at the RGS and construct an artificial cave at David Roberts Art Foundation.
The project culminated in a publication made in collaboration with Camberwell Press
With thanks to: Beth Collar, Shenece Liburd, Harriet Hawkins, Natasha Rosling, Francesco Pedraglio, Fay Nicolson, Daniel Clark, James O’Connor, Milo Newman, Alan Gray, Allen Abramson, Tania Perez Cordova.
Taking Beckett's monologue ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’ as a starting point, Flora will attempt in the gallery to construct the form of an empty imagination described therein. This exercise will act as a spine from which to explore ideas about spaces for thinking, permission, land rights, materiality and proof through tangibility.