Name/TitleNot Brittle, Not Rigid, Not Fixed
Edition300
MakerParker, Janice
Maker RoleEditor
MakerRedmond, Maeve
Maker RoleDesigner
About this objectPaperback publication titled 'Not Brittle, Not Rigid, Not Fixed by Janice Parker. Designed by Maeve Redmond, with opening and closing Richard Sennett quotes, a foreword by Emma McLuskey and an afterword by Janice Parker. The cover image is 'Light and Shadow' (2022) by Matthew Arthur Williams.
Not Brittle, Not Rigid, Not Fixed was commissioned as part of Channels, a programme curated by Associate Artist Emma McLuskey for Edinburgh Art Festival 2022, in which artist and choreographer Janice Parker created a point-to-point journey from the Lochrin Basin to Westerhailes over 15 days in August 2022, using her body to respond to the architecture, people and nature of the Union Canal as it celebrated its 200th anniversary.
Janice invited artist Audrey Grant, artist and photographer Matthew Arthur Williams, and architect, academic and educator Suzanne Ewing to respond to her movements through sketching, photography and writing. Janice kept a log of each day of activity along the canal - documenting conversations and observations. Moments were also captured in photography by Sally Jubb and Duncan McGlynn. The contents are listed as follows:
- Foreword, Emmie McLuskey
- Studies and Images - part 1, Audrey Grant
- Light and Shadow - part 1, Matthew Arthur Williams
- Straying With, Suzanne Ewing
- Light and Shadow - part 2, Matthew Arthur Williams
- Studies and Images - part 2, Audrey Grant
- Afterword, Janice Parker
- Further resources
- Colophon
Partly digitised (28 pages incl. front pages, foreword, afterword & end pages)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 210 x W: 148 x D: 9 mm
Date Made2022
Period2020s
Place MadeScotland, Edinburgh
PublisherEdinburgh Art Festival
Publication Date2022
Publication PlaceScotland, Edinburgh
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://www.janiceparker.co.uk:
Janice Parker is an award-winning independent dance artist and choreographer. In the past 40 years she has created a vast body of work. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, working locally and internationally, her primary passions are threefold: to develop and strengthen each person’s natural movement potential; to create art that deepens the possibilities of our feeling, thinking and imagination; and to create personal, social and cultural change. All art has the potential to be an act of quiet, or noisy, activism.
https://www.edinburghartfestival.com/about/edinburgh-art-festival-archive/2022-2/channels/janice-parker:
Not Brittle, Not Rigid, Not Fixed saw Janice Parker create a new series of solo works that explore the interplay between past and future, land and self. Each day between Sunday 14 August and Sunday 28 August, Parker moved once a day at a time that responded to the different rhythms of her body. Parker’s choreography leaned into the sensory elements of the Union Canal – the smells, sounds, textures – to investigate the role movement plays in our relationship to the natural world. This work was accompanied by an online log which captured the encounters, conversations, and energies of each day, which was also published to our Twitter account.
Subject and Association KeywordsEdinburgh Art Festival
Subject and Association Keywordscontemporary art & design
Subject and Association Keywordsdance & movement
Subject and Association Keywordsphotography, photographers
Subject and Association KeywordsEnvironment - ecology
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
ISBN/ISSN78-0-9929909-4-7
Object numberGWL-2023-29-2
Spine LabelNot Brittle, Not Rigid, Not Fixed ~ Janice Parker
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved