Can you stay for a while, or are you just passing through?
Through our Confluence residencies, we have been exploring Bristol as a changing, transient place. As part of this, we’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between ephemerality and permanence – how these differences are felt and where the tensions sit.
As producers primarily of live performance (although over the years this has shifted and brought in other forms), we’ve always been drawn to experiences that live on in the audience’s memory but not as something tangible; that captures a particular moment in time. We are fascinated by the togetherness of liveness and the social and political possibilities of these active, temporary spaces.
So when the opportunity arose to create a permanent work as part of this project, we were struck by how unusual that felt for us. What does it mean to make something that remains, that will still be there in the same way the next day. We hope we’ve made something that asks you to consider your place in time and to engage with your own sense of movement, intention, and (im)permanence.
Working with designers Studio Mothership, we’ve created a playful artwork that shifts with your direction of travel.
You can find it on the Glassworks building as you walk between St Thomas Street and Redcliffe Street.
This permanent artwork is part of the first phase of Confluence – a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks with the support of Fresh.