Join us for What We Keep Between Us, an evening of writing, sharing, and collective tenderness led by poet and multidisciplinary artist Tayla Myree.

This workshop explores three key methodologies from Samo’s artistic research, orbiting around critical archival studies and practices. We will take the artistic research project “Veliko nas je bilo / We Were Many”, focusing on early language recordings of Carinthian Slovenes, as a starting point. Searching the archives for words and stories that were thought to be lost, where language becomes a political issue and a vocalised struggle for justice and recognition.

After a critical exploration of these historical recordings, we will hold a listening session to sit with the voices and ghosts captured within the archive. Finally, we will explore the interaction between language and materiality, culminating in a material-discursive practice where language/words and material become artistic artefacts.  

What does it mean to map a feeling? To chart the landscapes of the people and places we hold close?

This workshop, part of the Closer Still exhibition, is a shared exploration of how we find our way through personal geographies. We'll consider how memory can become a place we live in, and how we can document it with care.

Bita Bell leads a movement workshop based on explorations from her upcoming group choreography project, Dialectics of Isolation. The session places somatic experience at the center of curiosity and treats the body as a site where feelings and relationships converge, inviting participants to sense how presence shapes the quality of movement, timing, and tone. Participants will be guided through breathing practices, movement improvisations, touch and contact, as well as embodied writing and vocalization.

Bita Bell leads a movement workshop based on explorations from her upcoming group choreography project, Dialectics of Isolation. The session places somatic experience at the center of curiosity and treats the body as a site where feelings and relationships converge, inviting participants to sense how presence shapes the quality of movement, timing, and tone. Participants will be guided through breathing practices, movement improvisations, touch and contact, as well as embodied writing and vocalization.