the lazy susans x SEED_2065 • Collage Workshop

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool”

”My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool” takes Ursula Le Guin’s sci-fi approach towards tackling the climate crisis as a starting point. She continues, “it gives me all the world and exiles me from it”. Our planet offers us so much generosity, but instead of embracing that gift, we face the looming threat of exile through the climate crisis. While some may take this looming threat as certain doom, the potential exile actually provides us with a seed of hope towards imagining alternative futures. Let us make use of the imagination that shapes our humanity, and embrace the risk of foolishness to envision new worlds where the threat of loss offers opportunities for renewal.

As part of the SEED_2065 public programme, workshop participants will be encouraged to work within the gallery setting, amongst and responding to the artworks which form the exhibition SEED_2065. This project focuses on research and collaboration, whilst reacting to the question: What happens when humans step aside and other species thrive? Opening on December 4th at the Handbag Factory in Vauxhall, this unique exhibition features new works that imagine a peaceful post-anthropocentric world in the year 2065 — or reflect the urgent dystopia of now from this future.

The workshop will be led by the lazy susans, a curatorial collective, and serial collagers. In this session, participants will be responding to the themes and artworks in the exhibition, sourcing material from magazines. Using the research as a jumping off point, we encourage participants to respond to the artworks via the medium of collage - unpacking, extrapolating and riffing off the artist's explorations.

SEED_2065 will run until 15 December, so there will be an option to display the collages made at the workshop for the remainder of the exhibition, and collect them at the end of the show. No previous art experience is necessary, and all materials will be provided. Can't wait to see you there xoxo

SEED_2065 is a futuristic visual art project set in 2065, where humans heal ancestral damage for ecological flourishing. 21 artists are creating new works from this future perspective. In the present, they gather to world-build, explore post-anthropocentrism, and plan shows and events – the first in December at the Handbag Factory Gallery, Vauxhall, London. SEED_2065 is an ongoing project that aims to travel to different locations as well as have a virtual presence. If you would like to support us, collaborate or find out more please email: seed.2065art@gmail.com

the lazy susans are a curatorial collective that share culture in a rotating style; friends, creatives and side-hustle connaisseurs. Co-founded by Kaia Goodenough, Holly Pines and Mala Yamey in 2021, the lazy susans present exhibitions, workshops and live events that give back to local communities in a cyclical style.
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