Displacement activity, noun: a human activity that seems inappropriate, considered to arise unconsciously when a conflict between antagonistic urges cannot be resolved.
Lou Baker is an artist and a compulsive knitter. She had expected to spend any spare time knitting during Synecdoche's month-long art residency, [dis]place, at The Vestibules, Bristol. However, probably as a direct result of this obsession, she has tendonitis in her left wrist so has had to stop, for a while at least.
Instead, she spent her time at The Vestibules on what she's calling her displacement activities:
- responding to the spaces by experimenting with a series of temporary installations and interventions
- writing down comments and conversations that she had with visitors and her reflections on that feedback
- documenting the residency by photographing the ways that the spaces change with time
This presentation is part of the documentation of her work.
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