Thick Time Radio Station (Reflection Session) will be a discussion on relationship building, artistic friendship & co-mentoring between Scottish artists and the wider world, and an opportunity to gain a glimpse into the 2 week online international exchange led by Karen Christopher. Featuring 12 artists from across Scotland, Europe & Québec, the session will feature reflections from the participants, hosted by Kim Simpson.

Participating Artists:
Mele Broomes, Jian Yi, Elina Bry, Gordon Douglas, Leonie Rae Gasson, Melanie Frances,
Olympia Bukkakkis, Yousef Iskander, Nina Muehlemann, Burcu Emeç, Émile Pineault, Laura Nsengiyumva

Thick Time Radio Station is a workshop designed to explore approaches to co-mentoring relationships between artists, blurring the boundaries between mentorship and making, between making and finding, and between finding and illuminating.

Strategies around the collaborative composition of new performance material are used to respond to questions about development, as well as a way to reflect on and assess one's own and others' creative practice or desired trajectory. Making is a way to respond. Co-mentoring is reciprocal.

Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer and teacher. With her company, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, she is engaged in creating a series of performances generated through collaborative performance-making processes. Karen was a member of Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years until the group disbanded in 2009. She now lives in the UK, working to define a practice which continues in a collaborative mode. Her focus is on artistic negotiation in the making process and finding non-traditional structures for working and composing live performance works.

karenchristopher.co.uk

Thick Time Radio Station is made possible with funding & support from Creative Scotland, Goethe-Institut Glasgow & British Council Canada.

Special Thanks to our international friends who nominated artists to participate: Vooruit (Ghent), Sophiensæle (Berlin), La Serre - Arts Vivants (Montreal), Kampnagel (Hamburg) & Gessnerallee (Zurich).