Process +/- Practice: An Artist Residency Activated

There is a particular kind of magic in witnessing art before it has finished speaking for itself. The half-formed gesture, the question still hanging in the air, the material that has not yet surrendered fully to intention. At 421 Arts Campus, this liminal territory becomes the subject itself when the current artists in residence open their practices to the public through a series of activations titled ‘Process +/- Practice’.

On 13 November, from two until six in the afternoon, three distinct artistic investigations unfold simultaneously across the campus. Reem Hamed conducts a circular poetry reading that traces the intricate connections between place, movement and language, her words folding back upon themselves like a space returning to its own centre. Alina El-Assadi facilitates ‘The Unreliable Reconstruction’, an experimental workshop in air-dry clay that deliberately interrogates memory itself—exploring its gaps, its shifts, the inventions we layer upon recollection without always knowing we do so. Yoonsik Chico Park presents a 24-hour performance titled ‘I Am Not Really A Fan’, an endurance based enquiry into artistic labour, its cycles, and the interdependencies that hold creative work in place.

These are not performances designed to entertain at a comfortable distance, nor installations meant to be observed and left behind. Each activation invites participation, a genuine engagement with the thinking as it takes shape. To move through Process +/- Practice is to understand that the most honest encounter with art may be the one that catches it in the act of becoming, when questions remain more alive than answers.

Entry is free. Those wishing to attend should register via the campus website.