5 is just too far. 2009: assemblage

evidence of the experience on the Fourth Plinth for Antony Gormley's One & Other.(photo Sally Lemsford)

Conversations. 2008-09

with Tan Draig, David Gilbert, Sara Giddens, Kate Pahl, Steve Pool, Sandra Greatorex, Bill Drummond, Tim Neal, Sarah Burgess, Julian Burgess, Stephen Walker, Terry O'Connor, Ruth Ben-Tovim, Julia Dobson...

A space in which to engage in stimulating discourse with other artists/ curators/ ethnographers/ architects... It begins by looking inward locally and develops into an intellectual journey travelling outwards regionally, nationally and internationally.

How can we develop an artists' network in which the participants are 'agents of critique or subversion' (Dave Beech, 2008) rather than passive acceptance of usual network parameters?

What are the rules of participation?

If the contemporary practice of art is not object-based, but is relational (both in terms of subject and form), what is the purpose and function of the curator?

When does an artwork become sacred?

Bling: gold and its value, objects and their value?

If 'the very urge to make recorded music is a redundant and creative dead-end' (Bill Drummond, 2006), what is the motivation to produce hard copy artworks?

Notions of the authentic self in relational anthropological epistemologies

Why do we give objects more status than spaces between them?

The sublime.

Journeys, tours, guides and getting lost.

Accepting before moving on.

Maze. 2008, Derbyshire: video

People disappear, reappear.. captured by the film-maker who is herself present within the soundtrack.(photo Sally Lemsford)