A trip to Hope via Win Hill.


Below are the question Amanda has posed to us after our trip to Hope. A trip intended to encourage us to step outside of the practice so we can reflect on the Ruskin project, where we are at and perhaps affect think about future planning.

1) What changed over the course of the year?
2) What does all the activity of the year add up to; what does it tell us about what Kate and Steve do, care about, make, and value?
3) What does it mean to do something well?
4) What is value for money? What other measures of value are there?
5) If Kate and Steve have a holistic practice, then what kind of (w)hole is it? What does it taste, smell, sound, feel, and look like? What ways of thinking about the world does it provoke?
6) What are the characteristics of a world-wide artist?
7) Is bloody mindedness a way of creating what you believe in, bringing into being the things you want?
8) What might the value of writing from the outside a practice be?

AND

Who are Kate and Steve's artistic family - others whose work they admire, spark off, feel drawn to?
Where did their way of working come from? Why did it feel important to work this way - what are the wider political and social questions and events they are responding to?
If we looked at K and S's past ten years funding, works, non funded projects etc, what would we find out about how the have grown their practice? and the kinds of support they have had and not had? What do we know about how their work has been received?

A.Ravetz

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