How can we create spaces of solidarity and care in a world increasingly shaped by technology, polarisation and nationalism? Rory Pilgrim’s work Software Garden is currently on display in the exhibition Dynamic Spaces. It consists of a music album and accompanying videos embedded in an extended installation. It consists of a music album and accompanying videos embedded in an extended installation. Software Garden was created in close collaboration with the poet and disability activist Carol Rosemary Kallend, the choreographer Cassie-Augusta Jørgensen, the singers Robyn Haddon and Daisy Rodrigues and others. They explore how people connect – both in virtual spaces and in everyday life – and how political realities are inscribed in the body. In a conversation with Julia Eckert, co-curator of the exhibition, Pilgirm will speak about his practice and the creation of Software Garden.
Rory Pilgrim (Bristol, 1988) works in a wide range of media including songwriting, composing music, film, music video, text, drawing and live performances. Strongly influenced by the origins of activist, feminist and socially engaged art, Pilgrim works with others through a different methods of dialogue, collaboration and workshops. Centred on emancipatory concerns, Pilgrim aims to challenge the nature of how we come together, speak, listen and strive for social change through sharing and voicing personal experience.