Katheryn Owens and Chris Green are two artists / researchers based in Manchester, UK.
In 2023 we completed a fully collaborative PhD at the University of Plymouth, that used an expanded definition of performance writing to understand autoethnographic experiences of millennial precarity, using friendship as a method to do this. Following on from this, we are exploring human-water relationships: the body and writing, swimming, our bodies made of water, access to water and leisure, and how we work with water. Whilst in its early stages, it is intended that this work takes an interdisciplinary practice-research approach, using performance, sound text and sculpture as artistic outputs.
We maintain an interest in understanding through doing; on friendship as forming shared understandings, and of ways of thinking and doing collaboration. Our focus now shifts from millennial precarity to our embodied experience of water, using an expanded definition of swimming as a way of thinking with, being with, and being in water, with an interest in its socio-economic and ecological conditions.
At this early stage we are developing and refining the methodology, which is documented as Mermaids Pool on the Art section of the website.
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