Image of sculpture of a hand on a table.

Sarah’s hand sculpture of artist-curator Dan Auluk

Image of artist Sarah Fortes Mayer photographing her hand sculpture in a disused gutter pipe outside in the garden of Grasslands.

Sarah taking a photo of her hand sculpture placed inside a disused drain pipe

Grasslands Proposal Title: Validation Response - Sonya Russell Saunders

‘…space as a curated site, examining how a body or bodies could move through the site… observing conversations, gestures and movements, both scripted moments and natural or naturalised situations … fiction and reality that merges into one.’ - Sonya

Sonya Russell Saunders demarcating and plotting the space out for experimental collaborative testing … focusing on focus on the telling of a joke

Performance artist Martin Prosser crouched down inside a glasshouse.

Performer Martin Prosser getting ready to test out some jokes.

Performance artist Martin Prosser standing outside the glasshouse.
Performance artist Vicky Roden inside the glasshouse.

Performer Vicky Roden ready to test out some jokes.

Performance artist Vicky Roden inside the glasshouse. Sonya Russell Saunders the curator in red in the background.
Performance artists Martin Prosser and Vicky Roden outside and inside the glasshouse.

Martin Prosser delivering a quick joke about camping.

After each joke the performer outside (Vicky) may choose to take a step closer to the performer telling the joke (Martin)

Two iron chairs on a wooden white painted platform

the Thinking Space

Vicky Roden delivering a rather funny joke about a jigsaw.

wide shot of a two iron chairs on a platform painted white in the foreground and the glasshouse in the background.