WAYS OF REPAIR

Ways of Repair is a collection of material that documents daily rituals for rest by Soft Radicle, an artist research collaboration between Niki Colclough (UK) and Perla Ramos (Mexico). 

For Torn Together, Soft Radicle are sharing a record of these rituals through the digital platform Miro. Typically used as a more corporate, collaborative workspace tool, this board brings notes, writing, photos, links, screenshots, prompts, and research together, in a sprawling record of small artistic acts. 

Created during a collaborative residency in Santiago, Chile, Ways of Repair took place throughout November 2024. In sharing documentation from this time, Soft Radicle gives a behind the scenes look into the nature of their collaboration, while reflecting on the ways we drift between being together, in-person and online. 

“Ways of Repair was a daily practice of exploring ‘rituals for rest’ amongst the alienation of settling in to a new city. Building on a practice of using ritual as a tool for healing, small artistic acts were performed daily as a way to connect with the new ecological habitat.

Moving at a slower pace, embracing not-knowing, seeking chance encounters. The work subverts the ‘productivity’ tool, Miro, as a new site for art making. And gives a new importance to ways of knowing that are intangible and tacit – What do our dreams tell us? How do we feel the city in our bodies? What is public and what is private? 

Committing to sharing these inner and outer worlds, experiments unfold daily, resulting in reading, play, walks, deep listening and interspecies allyship.” – Soft Radicle

 

 

Explore Ways of Repair on Miro by clicking ‘See the board’ below, or by following this link. To navigate, click and drag, and use the zoom in/out tools (or alternative shortcuts). 

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FURTHER RESEARCH

“Artistic endeavours have become trials and errors, a terrain of artistic processes where we translate this cultural clashes into questions of colonisation and capitalism, the same questions that help us question the art system, its impossibilities and its possibilities.

By not being physically present, that is, living in different countries and therefore different time zones, digital platforms such as email, video calls, online message boards, text messages, etc., open up our fields of action. We throw seeds into the digital space, and they may or may not germinate, but the act of throwing them will be the process that guides us in the field of art.” – Soft Radicle.

 

Elements from this exhibition, and the rest of our programme, will be shared across our digital platforms. Find out more about Torn Together and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to make sure you don’t miss out.

 

 

SOFT RADICLE

Soft Radicle, an artistic research collaboration between Niki Colclough (UK) and Perla Ramos (Mexico), exists thanks to the impossibility of spoken and written communication. The English-Spanish enable entanglements of tongues and languages ​​where translation plays an unpredictable role. It gives rise to inaccuracy in translation, miscommunication, and misunderstanding. Spaces where a drawing, an action, a game, a ritual, a dream are more important than logical reasoning.

Unstable, inconsistent, permeable within the stable, consistent, and impermeable. Our ideas are found through opposites and distances, both in contexts, countries, languages, daily lives, and economies, searching for ground or terrain that allows us to connect beyond imagined borders.