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Admitting the Possibilities of Error ~ Let us draw into A Circle
Wellington 2021
Kirsten Lavers
Admitting the Possibilities of Error are drawn meditations on error. Each drawing begins with a perfect circle and evolves from Kirsten’s repeated attempts to perfectly copy the preceding line. Her mistakes create the drawing’s fascinating shapes, reminiscent of fingerprints and tree rings. In 2015, Kirsten drew for 57 hours throughout Performance Arcade using donated and borrowed pens and pencils. As a response to challenge of global warming, Kirsten will be burning her lines into a wooden circle in her UK studio whilst connected via a Zoom tunnel with Performance Arcade 2021 visitors and occasional special guests from around the globe. In a deliberate play on the double meaning of the verb ‘to draw’, Kirsten invites visitors and zoom guests to make their own responses to her invitation: ‘Let us Draw into a Circle’ creating a dynamic virtual round table of interactions for the duration of Performance Arcade 2021.
Kirsten Lavers makes arts that infiltrates everyday life, provokes curiosity, inspires engagement and challenges preconceptions of what an ‘art experience’ might be or mean. A former nurse, graduating with first class honours from Dartington College of Art in 1991, she subsequently taught there on the Visual Performance and Performance Writing degree courses. Her work over the years has been diverse often involving collaboration with other artists or multiple participants; an event, a performance, a magazine, a drawing, an installation, a walk, or the formation of a community group. Alongside her arts practice and teaching she has worked extensively as a curator, public art project manager and with marginalised groups, including homeless people. Long term projects include The Zwillinge Project 1992 – 96 (with theatre-maker, Melanie Thompson), TNWK 1997 - 2007 (with poet, cris cheek) and Taxi Gallery 2001 – 2010.
