by Sarah Walker-Holt | May 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
“For no thought can be thought before it is thought, and thinking a thought has a certain element of materiality to it, found within speech and writing. Contrary to Aristotle’s Peri hermenaias, where speech is a sign of thought and writing is a sign of speech, such...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Apr 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
I am searching for a truth to my materials. How do the materials make me do what I do to them; how does process dictate form? Currently, I have been making notes as I work with the intention of understanding what makes me do to a material, what I do. Dissection is an...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Apr 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
My understanding of the term ‘Actants’ comes mostly from Bruno Latour’s, Technology is Society Made Durable, where his initial engagement with the reader describes a scenario of European hotels displaying notices to remind patrons to return their room keys on...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Feb 28, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
How can things indicate to a human what they what them to do or initiate specific actions? I’m interested in the ideology of objects being used as ‘Actants’; how they can be put in a certain place or paired with other things to make a person act in a particular way....
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Feb 27, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
The artists I have been paired with, Lucy Sarneel, Reka Fekete, and Attai Chen, all resonate with the idea of Thinking through Making. Similarly, I allow my own work to manifest itself as it develops. I see the theme Rough and Raw as a metaphor for Thinking through...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Brendon Monson, Caroline Thomas, Handshake5, Kelly McDonald, Nadene Carr, Neke Moa, Nik Hanton, Sandra Schmid, Sarah Read, Sarah Walker-Holt, Vanessa Arthur, Vivien Atkinson
The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the making...
