This is coming soon! We hope you can make it.

 

 

In case you wondered about the title, it comes from a poem… which in turn was inspired by some words from author and activist Dougald Hine, whose book At work in the ruins has been influential to both Chris and James.

Faced with times in which so many problems of global proportions seem to be stacking up, just when our political/economic institutions seem powerless, how can we respond? When we are faced with widening inequality and injustice, when rights and freedoms we once took for granted seem at very least vulnerable, how do we seek to live towards goodness and hope?

In the face of this reality – which can induce in us a kind of moral injury – we need our artists more than ever to help us see things from a different direction.

It was this simple idea that led to this exhibition. 9 artists. A simple space. One week. What can we bring together? How does such a space contain these different ideas? What relationships might form? What ideas might be seeded?

Back to the title. It is taken from the poem in this video.

https://studio.youtube.com/video/j8Ebwt7NPkY/edit

 

Here is the poem in full

 

Given what we know

 

Given what we know and what

We fear about the trouble we’re in

We will bounce babies on our knees

We will run our fingers through loose earth, and

We will love one another

 

Given what we know and what

We fear about the state of our world

We will feed strangers

We will dance to the skirl of fiddles, and

We will pray

 

Given what we know and what

We fear about just how much is broken

We will embrace

We will light a candle in the empty church, and

We will plant trees

 

Given what we know and what

We fear about the misuse of power and money

We will play

We will wave willow and kick leather

We will laugh

 

Given what we know and what we fear

About the end of things we hold dear

We will look to the birds

We will walk the woods that remain, and

We will sing