If movement was an object. If a movement¹ was [is] an object² what would [does] [will] it look like? ¹ incident, activity, rhythm, idea, ethereal. ²artefact, archive, record, document, solid, ever-present. Claire’s practice often playfully challenges systems and hierarchy, bringing forward basic functions of ‘being human’ that we can all relate to. During her residency at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life, Claire worked closely with members of staff, recording repetitive actions that have been learnt from someone else, that are repeated every day, and in some way connect them physically and mentally to St Fagans. Her research and meticulously, almost ridiculously, archived movements have spanned in such a way from her time spent with archivists and curators. The fragments of movements that have been collected, just like the historic buildings, have be transplanted to a new space, as she collaborates with Expressions Dance Company, ready to be reconstructed. But can movement be archived, how present are we, can movement become objectified?

Bethan Frieze is one of the acoustic group ‘The Amigos’ and teaches in a multidisciplinary team with children from challenging backgrounds. Bethan's ability to respond intuitively to situations using the violin has enabled her to uncover the life beneath or within objects, extending their potential narrative and communication, from considering its materiality, function and perceived sounds of production, as well as forging connections to memories of her encounters with similar values. This Framework has been applied to a C13th jug and a jug by Clive Bowen from the C21st

'Getting to know you' As humans we name and gender our possessions, have meaningful relationships with objects that often lasts decades and when some objects break we feel it as a violence and mourn their loss. There is something playful but also somehow profound and even democratic about trying to communicate with the ‘things’ that are generally seen as designed to ‘serve’ us. Objects outnumber us humans - why not try and communicate with them?

AJ Stockwell borrows languages and processes from various fields. Taking multiple forms, using objects, video, print and text to examine our contemporary relationship with artefacts, Aj considers how we define ourselves and archive our existence through objects and materials. How we communicate across timelines through a shared 'material' culture.