Intervals is a collaboration exploring sensorial processes of making with clay highlighting touch and sound in performance, scupture, and recordings.
In 2021 three artists met in a gallery space in Vauxhall London they designated as an Interval. In this space they created a process art performance which was continued as an exhibition in the same space it was created.
“The entire experiment was about finding ways to make together”
Intervals project is an exploration in what it is to collaborate on an artwork while asking questions about duration, systems of making, and what ‘work’ is in artwork, while working intuitively rather toward a pre-conceived goal.
“The project wasn’t means based, we wanted a sensorial experience through the process, we didn’t have a plan, but rather explored loose sets of choreography or systems each time we met in the gallery space. We started with a blank canvas on the floor of the gallery, a few bags of clay, and a program which guided our silent making process. We recorded this through a variety of sound and video devices and discussed the nuance between them as archival tools and interventions in making.”
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Natasha Fontenelle
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
“Feeling a natural mutual trust we work intuitively in collaboration, respect the process and embrace freedom for change.”
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Daniel Tomlinson
Sound-Artist and Performer
“The interval is a gap, it is inbetween, it is that which is being composed, and the work itself carries this composition”
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Katalina Caliendo
Artist and Sculptor
“Intervals became a poignant exploration in pauses and silences in collaborative manifestations.”
This is a collaboration in making and thinking made visible through gesture, movement and sound. During lockdown we formed a creative bubble in a gallery where we documented performances which considered silence, breaks, noise and how polarities could become intervals. Sensorially exploring sound, clay, and pigment on a 2X2 meter canvas culminating in an immersive installation. Inhaling and exhaling, the tactile intimacy and vulnerability of co- creating were heightened by the insular tones outside the galleries doors. Stepping inside a blank canvas in uniformed boiler suits to build a collective landscape our work was both the manifestation and the archive of our movements.
The film componant of our installation documents our process-performances. Pouring and spreading pigment onto our foundation we observed the relationships unfolding, between our individuality, our sense of artistic ownership, and our shared experience. We took breaks, or intervals in stillness and silence together to witness the collective whole. The Intervals Project manifested a 2X2 meter clay painting foregrounded by a 1 meter ceramic and sound composition, and a film documenting our process-performances.
