Collective invention: a travelling artist's perspective.

Abstract

Abstract People travel because they are searching. They are not content to download experience through mediated internet platforms, or to find themselves curated into a vat of preserved content, steeped in academic salt. Travelling is free of the dreary imperatives of everyday life; we step into the world to enlarge our frame of reference, not to be poked into another grid of curated meaning. Tourist hotspots everywhere have been heating up as fast as the climate, and unique cultural sensibilities and practices are perishing in the glare of the demands of the modern tourist. The researcher uses The Water Systems and the Stencil project as case studies in relation to the elements of effective workshop creation.