Discussion: Telling Stories

This is an edited transcription of a much longer discussion about how hugely vital it is to share and listen to stories. My personal musings on the event can be found here. Completely fascinating.

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This is an edited transcription of a roundtable discussion about stories and how they are told, particularly by individuals who do not use verbal language to communicate.

Present are Gayle Calderwood (visual arts tutor), Alison Sommerville (arts team manager), Adrian Howells (artist in residence), Ellie Barrett (arts development intern), Jenny Ward (creative development intern), Lucy Gaizely (representing the Arches), Ewan Sinclair (artist in residence) and Jon Reid (drama tutor).

AS: I’ve been thinking as an artist how I can work with the people we work with from my own strength and then I started me thinking about if I was going to adapt my practice the way you guys adapt your practice to work with someone. When I worked with creative writing groups, quite often seeing their words written down or hearing someone else say them was incredibly powerful, being able to edit them and change the ending for some…

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In Conversation With Ewan Sinclair

I’ve not written a post in longer that I would like. Things here are changing; it is a fairly slow process but a remarkably exciting one that is currently taking up much of my capacity to write and think and generate ideas which is why I haven’t had the luxury of recounting some of the experiences associated with it on here.

As a taster of what has been using up my time and of things to come, here is a conversation between myself and Ewan Sinclair, one of the two current resident artists at Sense Scotland. Have a gander.

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Ellie Barrett in conversation with artist Ewan Sinclair, 29.04.13

 ES: I applied for this job this kind of time last year – or I got the job this time last year – and I hadn’t really had any experience in this area at all before I worked with Art Link in Edinburgh; they do a lot of work with disabled people around the arts. I worked for them as a technician and also did a few blocks of workshops and six week projects with people in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. The work I was making – or the kind of stuff I wanted to get into making – fit what they were imagining new media might be; a kind of ‘catch all’ term. I don’t really like being a ‘new media artist’; I think I’m just an artist.

EB: Yeah; it’s like asking when do things stop being ‘new…

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