In Each Other’s Company (IEOC)
FOUNDATION and RIPPLES
Two workshops, twelve participants
2020/21
We would like to invite you into our puddle by starting with a round, by sharing your name, pronounce and to answer the question:
How can we create intimacy without proximity?
The contributions taking part in this exhibition has happen through In Each Other’s Company’s, so far, two workshops; FOUNDATION and RIPPLES.
The first workshop, FOUNDATION, took place in person at Varvsarbetarhuset, Sätraskogens
naturreservat, south of Stockholm in the summer of 2020. In the open call for FOUNDATION one could read: We would like us all to prepare a 30 minutes task/exercise/instruction which you would like to try out together with the group with the aim of coming together. Some of the eleven scores which we shared, you are welcome to engage through.
Due to the pandemic and subsequent restrictions we had to imagine how to be In Each Other’s Company – while apart, therefor our second workshop, RIPPLES, unfolded as a publication and is still unfolding in this very now. The publication assembles texts, notes, drawings and images which have emerged from joint processes between the summers of 2020 and 2021.
New ripples start here, with you.
What are your needs and desires?
Participants: Jon Ely Xiuming Aagaard Gao, Malin Arnell, Hedda Bauer, Ana Bernardino, Mar Fjell, Eva Karduck, Indra Linderoth, Res, Aja Svensson, Del LaGrace Volcano, Mike Wei, and Charlotta Öberg.
In Each Other’s Company (IEOC) was initiated by, artist Malin Arnell, PhD and Mar Fjell, in 2018 from a strong need for a company — as an unlearning and re-learning puddle — where they, together with others, as queer, female and/or trans identified intersectional feminist critters, could intra-actively merge and become-with. IEOC is happening with support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (SE), The Saari Residency, Kone Foundation (FI) and The Watch (DE).