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Join us for another installation of YAK! in response to the current show at HPAC, Julia McKinlay’s Slip Across These Planes. We will explore two texts, Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, and The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, through a collective workshop, working together to investigate the relationships between space, shape and constructed realities.
YAK! is a reimagined reading group, exploring radical histories through conversation and experimentation. Journeying through new worlds, we take inspiration from poetry, prose, letters, journals, speeches, and plays to better understand those that came before us and the world we live in today.
This iteration of YAK! has been curated in collaboration with Wes Foster, and is hosted by Hyde Park Art Club.
Wes is a practitioner based in Leeds, UK. His image making is focused on the relationship between text and image, communities and social space and culture. His commercial practice focuses on photography and video of workshops, the arts, space and happenings. He is a digital communications specialist as well as writer, and his writing has been published in numerous places both in print and online, and focuses on collaborative relationships and culture.
YAK! is an ongoing alternative education project led by Alexander Stubbs. Alexander is a creative practitioner based in Hull, UK. Working primarily in text-based and collaborative practice, he explores the ways in which text and archives can be reanimated in new contexts. He has a particular interest in community-building practices, and often works with other artists to deliver workshops, reading groups, and community events. He enjoys working with young people and artists at all stages of their careers, especially in settings outside of mainstream education, and provides mentoring to a wide range of groups including early-career artists and young people.
YAK! seeks to offer clarity, introspection, and dialogue for understanding the processes of our art making. It is a nomadic reading group, facilitating conversations in towns and cities across the UK, hosted in non-institutional spaces.