Taking a line for a walk...
Following from the success of our 2022 StAnza workshop, "Taking Books for a Walk", we ask, how might we take a book we’re reading, the film or the art that we see, for a walk… letting the book or the art work talk to, even change, how we think about ourselves and the world? Might we be able to stage these encounters creatively and imaginatively?
The essays below are such adventures.
Chimera
Carl Phillips has written of art that it is motivated by a ‘restlessness of the imagination’, not as ‘adversary but as opportunity, not as an object of fear but, for better or worse, an object of an all-but-impossible-to resist fascination.’ In this essay, Gail Low reflects on her own encounter with Chimera , an exhibition of new and existing work by Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer at the Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee.