Introducing Our Autumn Pod Project: A Creative Provocation
From Fuse To Seed
It waits — a dark seed or machine-part,
a small chamber holding both silence and spark.
No map of what it carries. No promise.
Just weight, form, potential.
The season is turning — the air edits itself.
This thing could grow roots or instructions.
Could hum or humiliate.
Could stay what it is and still become otherwise.
Every hand that touches it writes a new sentence.
Each surface remembers a question:
what happens when making is also unmaking,
when destruction rhymes with germination?
Hold it lightly.
Let not-knowing be the tool.
This season, we’re inviting our Members to step into a space of ambiguity, curiosity, and slow unfolding with our newest experimental brief: The Autumn Pod.
Sitting quietly in the centre of this project is a small black object — ribbed, sealed, and impossible to categorise at first glance. Is it botanical or engineered? A seed or a remnant? A beginning or an ending? The pod refuses definition, and that’s exactly why it’s the perfect spark for creative investigation.
A Space for Transformation
The brief, From Fuse to Seed, asks artists to treat this object not as something to decode, but as something to spend time with. A provocation rather than a puzzle. This is an invitation to let process lead the way — to allow making, unmaking, experimentation, and uncertainty to become the artwork itself.
The project encourages artists to:
Observe deeply - sit with the pod, document it, trace its contours, notice what emerges in stillness.
Let associations wander - explore the tension between potential and risk, growth and danger, creation and collapse.
Transform and translate - reimagine the pod through new materials, processes, or senses. Cast it, melt it, draw it, record its sound, or let weather and chance intervene.
Play without expectation - trust accidents, embrace improvisation, and see what happens when you step outside your usual methods.
Reflect on the internal shifts - because what changes in you is just as important as what changes in the object.
The Core Question
At the heart of the brief sits one deceptively simple inquiry:
How do we recognise potential — and when does it tip into danger?
This project invites each artist to navigate that threshold in their own way, using ambiguity as fertile ground.
Materials, Methods, and Possibilities
Artists can work in any medium—sculpture, sound, performance, film, installation—using found, recycled, or local materials wherever possible. The pod may become a vessel for light, breath, vibration, sound or storytelling. Or it might remain unchanged while everything around it transforms.
Timeline
We’re hoping to showcase the results of this project brief in early spring 2026. Plenty of time to let this project unfold, unwind, evolve and resolve. We can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
Materials, Methods, and Possibilities
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