Moving In was a collaboration between Trinity Winchester and Winchester School of Art. Working collaboratively through a series of creative workshops, as part of the beta testing for the Tate programme, members of the Trinity Art Group and postgraduate researchers at Winchester School of Art devised a range of participatory activities for all to engage in at Tate Exchange as part of the wider Itinerant Objects programme.
A key theme that emerged during the workshops was making the invisible visible, as well consideration towards a cultural network between all members of community, both local and global, to form as it were a Cultural Silk Road. As presented at Tate Exchange, Moving In comprised of collaborative drawing exercises, wearable cardboard costumes, typography and flights of fancy/performance, through which we were able to explore our relationship to objects and their movement. Furthermore, in drawing on the mission of Trinity Winchester, it highlighted the value of arts and creativity in the promotion of mental health wellbeing, social inclusion and the environment.
Moving In was coordinated by Alastair Eales at Trinity Winchester and Daniel Cid at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. It was the work of members of the Trinity Art Group in collaboration with postgraduate researchers at Winchester School of Art, Ana Čavić (with Renée O’Drobinak, aka Ladies of the Press*), Panagiotis Ferentinos, Eria Nsubuga, Noriko Suzuki-Bosco, and Lucy Woollett.
Alastair Eales is an artist and educator. His art practice revolves around ideas of ‘art and community’, specifically the exploration of the artist’s role within the charity sector and the wider community. Since 2005, he has worked as a free-lance ‘Gallery Lecturer’ through Southampton City Art Gallery - providing guided tours, lectures, seminars and workshops for universities, schools and other educational organisations. He also works through Hampshire Cultural Trust providing a rolling programme of public art history lectures through various art centres in Hampshire. He also works for Trinity Winchester, a charity that addresses the effects of homelessness and vulnerability, where he established the Trinity Art Group, which provides regular art classes and projects.
Daniel Cid is Associate Professor of Design Studies at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is conducting a multidisciplinary research project designed to attend the problem of homelessness, made in collaboration with the Arrels Foundation (Barcelona, Spain) and Trinity Winchester charity (Winchester UK). His recent books include Houses of Life (Ariel, 2012) and Barcelona Masala: Narratives and Interactions in Cultural Space (Actar, 2014).