Hey Annie, Glad to hear that you are fine.
Marc, Charlotte and I are all doing OK. The same (and no doubt different) kinds of ups and downs that I imagine everyone is experiencing behind the scenes. I think I shared this update before about how we have adapted our Love Machines programme <https://www.furtherfield.org/love-machines-programme-2020/>. The constantly shifting social distancing rules have made it very difficult to plan certain kinds of activity in the park (which is very frustrating) but there are some wonderful things coming up from September and these are designed to sit across the park and online - and to be covid resistent. Charlotte, Marc and I are tag-teaming Furtherfield operations until the end of October with a focus on the work that we can still do with various artists and communities. Marc and I are currently furloughed (hence the break in the podcast series) which, along with support from the Arts Council has helped keep the organisation viable - which is pretty amazing (and also a testament to Charlotte's careful and dedicated work). We are thinking and acting slowly in response to events around BLM and the pandemic. I expect that we will make major changes to the way we do things in the medium and long term. I think that our CultureStake <https://www.furtherfield.org/culturestake-2/> project will play a part in this. But we will say more about this in the Autumn. Translocality is a running theme in Furtherfield's work but personally I have become pretty obsessed with LARPs as a way to explore translocal collective imagination and agency (human and more-than-human). I've now made a series (mostly in collaboration others), that work with scenarios of conflict, antagonism and not-enough-information. I think that the format is not so different to the kinds of protocols you work with Annie - events involve scenarios/instructions and improvisation to simultaneously create, feel and study relations within them. There is likely to be an announcement about one of these at the end of this week. But some documentation will also be published in September. I'm very excited by LARP as a form. There are a couple of blockchain related projects cooking in the background - which should also surface soon. Marc and I have also been doing some analogue image and object making on furlough - it has been very good to be forced to slow down and have more time for play and a "private life" (including tending a small garden). Thanks for asking Annie, Is that what you were asking? ;) Would be nice to hear from others too. warmly Ruth On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 4:45 PM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > > Where is Furtherfield now ? > How are Marc and Ruth and Charlotte doing? > Are you ok ? > > (ps I am fine - Annie) > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab +44 (0) 77370 02879 *sending thanks <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> in advance *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies research hub for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. decal.is <http://www.decal.is> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9ET.
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