Tag: workshop

What is a Creative Project Consultant?

A long term residency in a management consultancy. 

“By experiencing your complex and profound works we have ended up with a shared language to deal with the unsayable.”

What is a creative project consultant? was a long term residency and artistic intervention experiment at a “specialist provider of business services” whose expertise lies in human motivation.

As stated in the public biography, Rhiannon was at SHM to:

  • think about things differently
  • bring fresh perspectives to the business’s work
  • adapt her creative methodologies to their work

Some of the things that happened as part of this include:

  • metaphoric takes on client work, deployed in diagrammatic form
  • weekly team sessions defined by a lack of productivity, where the main activity was the use of consensus decision-making techniques to choose how to use the time

Outcomes of this period include:

  • a methodology for a 6-month schedule of artistic interventions in the workplace, ART | WORK, that enhances wellbeing in the workplace and shares innovative creative practice

The rest of Rhiannon’s work at SHM is subject to non-disclosure agreements that are commonplace at the cutting edge of global capitalism.

Dates: April 2013-2014, Holborn, London.

“Since you’ve been here people have been ‘bringing themselves to work’ a lot more, and that is invaluable for creativity and innovation.”

“Oh my god she just brings life, she brings a sense of possibility because even when she says something that’s kind of left of field and we all tell her she’s wrong, she just picks herself up and says something else that’s amazing.”

related projects (created whilst in residence)

All About Sam

Shred

How to write Poems from Words Found in the Bin

Hutong Watch

Shred

Shred was a series of craft circle and oral history sessions designed for an office environment.

At these sessions participants:

  • used shredded paper discarded by the business to design and create a collective artwork of woven squares
  • asked questions of the company “elders” about their time at the company as well as changes gone through and lessons learnt

The resulting materials were consolidated into an interactive display for the boardroom where visitors can access recorded excerpts of these oral histories using their smartphones.

Shred was devised and delivered as part of a pilot of artistic interventions in the workplace funded by The SHM Foundation.

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

an attempt to make something beautiful and true from shreds of discarded paper

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin is an ongoing writing practice and a creative writing workshop. 

This project began as a creative writing workshop using shredded business documents as source material. It was first held in 2014 as part of a year-long residency as Creative Project Consultant at SHM Productions.

Workers used portions of shredded documents from the business’s own recycling bin as the stimulus for a love poem. The poems were recited as an anonymous collection at the end of the working day.

In summer 2018 Rhiannon incorporated this writing process into her work on The Slow GIF Movement.

In 2019 Rhiannon will be turning this work into an ongoing writing process linked to healing from trauma, and to an exploration of projection, song, touch and rhythm in intimate performance. 

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

The Slow GIF Movement

The Slow GIF Movement takes the ubiquitous, flashing, momentary image of a GIF and reimagines it as slow, durational artworks and a public health intervention for the online world.

This wide-ranging project explores our agency and responsibility over public space, both in real life and online. Rhiannon brings hers and others’ lived experience of neurodiversity to an understanding of how GIF culture is currently increasing the hostility of online space, and seeks to rectify that with the creation of calming, gently looping GIFs of her own and others’ creation.

The Slow GIF Movement is offered as a public health intervention in the online world: the act of making and sharing them becomes an intervention in the environment, an act of solidarity, and a way to disseminate a collection of art works.

 

 

 

Research and development for The Slow GIF Movement was supported by The Space Arts and Unlimited, and through Rhiannon’s position as the Brighton Digital Festival/Blast Theory Artist in Residence (2018).

The Slow GIF Movement is in development, with a number of planned or existing public sharings:

  • public intervention in a conference environment for Light Up the North and Nesta (October 2018)
  • a day-long workshop and evening virtual tresspass event (planned for Brighton Digital Festival 2019)
  • a research project with St George’s Hospital exploring clinical uses of the Kaleidoscope Landscapes for Better Breathing series for patients with heart failure (2019).

Hearts-R-Us (mirror neuron)

Hearts-R-Us (mirror neuron)

Hearts-R-Us (mirror neuron)

Kaleidoscope Landscapes for Better Breathing (Portslade)

Kaleidoscope Landscapes for Better Breathing (Newham)

Kaleidoscope Landscapes for Better Breathing (Hackney)

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin

Reflections (nature)

Reflections (nature)

Reflections (nature)

Virtual Tresspass at Travis Perkins, Brighton Digital Festival

Virtual Tresspass at Travis Perkins, Brighton Digital Festival

Virtual Tresspass at Travis Perkins, Brighton Digital Festival