Open Space - February 2026: Coinciding Incidents - with Carol Laidler
Forthcoming event
Overview
'would you have been still would I have asked you' image credit Carol Laidler
5.30 - 7.00pm UTC / UK time
To attend, please email melissa@theinterpersonal.com for the zoom link. You don't need to be a member to attend Open Space sessions.
Coinciding Incidents
“Coincidence Origin: early 17th century - in the sense 'occupation of the same space’: from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere 'coincide, agree'”
Cultural production can be seen as a dynamic interaction in which the origin of something new cannot be traced to a single person and perhaps, cannot be located in any one time and place at all.
Inherent in the collaborative process are a series of questions about where ideas originate, what part the viewer plays in the eventual work, what happens in the process of making and about the ownership of work.
Collaboration holds within it an intention to relocate the origin of innovation somewhere outside a single discreet consciousness.
The history of thought is generally held to be isolated individuals coming up with great ideas, but if thinking is about connecting ideas and concepts, it is also about the rigour involved in communication with another and the energy that comes out of a collision of ideas, the inter connection of stimuli, experiences, conversations, discussion, reading and looking.
By working collaboratively, weaving together ideas and words, both from and with others, the work challenges notions of the single narrative and explores the idea that identities are not fixed; they are fluid and evolve over time.
Artist's Statement Carol Laidler is an interdisciplinary artist based at Spike Island, Bristol. Her practice explores the intersection of writing and material processes. She creates site-specific installations that offer a space for contemplation. She is excited by all things word with an interest in the where and how writing is encountered; how context impacts meaning. Her focus is on memory, perception and entanglement with the more-than-human, attempting to understand the world, or at least a tiny part of the world in all its complexities, through a shifting in perspective.