Joe Lockwood
Research
My work is inspired by where we find ourselves - on the edge of as great a change as our world has ever seen previously; we need new ways to respond to massive climate, political, technical and economic change simultaneously. It is clear to many of us that the old means of approaching these issues - will not suffice. That we are facing fundamental questions about the way we organise, produce, live and value - I am passionate about framing these questions to affect collective creative action.
What if these challenges and complexities are framed through the lens of everyday lives, situated in rural areas in which a microcosm of complexity is “graspable” - as it is messy- and to step into this complexity I work across creative practices to combine, reframe, recombine and renew into seamless ways of thinking through making - situated in place and forming networks of social relations … assemblages.
Work in progress :
The joy of forming small networked collectives and collective ways of working on new concepts and understandings of research and innovation as non-linear, sometimes contradicting and certainly interdependent processes requiring imagination, hybrid creations and creative experimentation.
I like to call it - Mixology - to inspire a variety of artistic research approaches, frameworks, methods, and practices within complex challenges.