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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2025

Activity: EventsWorkshop

Description

Ran a workshop (Salty) at the RGS conference for a group of 10 attendees.

In 2024, members of the Salt Art Research Network held a workshop in Venice which invited participants to take place in activities with an about salt, including a performance walk around the city collecting water to evaporate; a workshop exploring changing material states using postcards of the city; an activity ‘salting’ objects brought by participants; and a facilitated discussion about the meaning and symbolism of salt in relation to its histories, landscapes and to climate change.
For the RGS, we held a workshop which took forward elements of these creative methodologies through practice-based activities, and a discussion in response to a series of prompts designed by curator Sophie J Williamson, inviting conference members to take part. The workshop tested artistic practice-based approaches to thinking through salt about a range of contemporary concerns, and ask questions about how art can offer other forms of knowing.
Period26 Aug 202529 Aug 2025
Event typeConference
LocationBirmingham, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational