SPIRALS Open Archive (2021-ongoing) by PartSuspended artist collective is a flexible and open archive that supports a multivocal poetic environment that establishes a creative dialogue beyond geographical borders. SPIRALS Open Archive (SOA) presents a variety of voices and reveals unexpected connections; it brings together participants from different cultural and artistic backgrounds to establish an international community of ‘spirallists’. The idea of a flexible and open archive is in line with PartSuspended’s artistic view, as we consider the process of making work more crucial than a ‘finished’ outcome that is frozen in time. SOA invites artists and non-artists to participate and provides them with a ‘toolbox’ that encourages creative responses and opens lines of communication. SOA was initiated during Covid-19 and derived from SPIRALS project (2013-ongoing) by PartSuspended artist collective.
SOA comprises three headings for prompts that explore: memory and the personal space-time; the cityscape and its connection with landscape; and dreams and desires:
‘SPIRALS – TIME, MEMORY, HOME’
‘SPIRALS – SPACE, CITY, ECOLOGY’
‘SPIRALS – SELF, DESIRE, DREAMS’
SOA remains open to all. Submissions to SOA can be sent to perform@partsuspended.com
Invitation to contribute to Spirals Open Archive
Select from the following open-ended categories and prompts to create your own contribution to our Spirals Open Archive. In each case we invite you to respond by any of the following methods: writing, performing, drawing, painting, taking a photograph, filming, recording your voice or sounds. Please respond in any language you wish.
SPIRALS – TIME, MEMORY, HOME
– Walk in spirals, repeat a phrase that comes to mind
– Find an object from your childhood or your holidays
– Find a space to hide
SPIRALS – SPACE, CITY, ECOLOGY
– Stand under a tree
– Look at the sky through water
– Find a piece of ground, take your shoes off, step on the soil
SPIRALS – SELF, DESIRE, DREAMS
– Look in a mirror, window or piece of glass and observe your reflection
– Stand still, close your eyes and listen
– Find a space to feel relaxed
* For further information about the project, artists involved, publications, performances, workshops, installations and exhibitions please visit the Spirals page.
For a reflection on Spirals Open Archive please visit: Creating Pathways: SPIRALS Open Archive by PartSuspended – Reflection#1, performingborders, December 2022
Artists’ Responses to Spirals Open Archive
Simon Persighetti, Future Dig
Niya B, An End and a Beginning (London, UK & Kumasi, Ghana)
Suparna Banerjee, SPIRALS: My Last Death
(Pune, India)
Sally Pomme Clayton, Now Then
Colin Cruise, Five Spirals in Gold and Purple (Staffordshire, UK)
John London (London, UK)
Lynn Lu (London, UK)
Kostis Ntemos, Aleph (Athens, Greece)
Nikos Kabasele, Take a Look Inside (Alexandroupoli, Greece)
Ruth Asidi, Spirals
(Lancashire, UK)
Dimitra Adamopoulou (Athens, Greece)
Krishna Goswami (Kolkata, India)
