do step on each other's toes in Where We Touch the Archive at VOLT, Devonshire Collective
As part of Queer Grounds' Eastbourne workshop explorations led by myself and Kairo Urovi do step on each other’s toes brings together a series of workshop imagery structured around simple collective actions. Working with bodies, everyday objects and the camera, participants negotiate acts of balancing, holding, following and falling that can only unfold in relation to others. Photography operates here less as a means of documentation than as a site where interactions are playful, where gestures and materials co- make the image.
Emerging through these shared exercises are conversations around collage, assemblage and queerness, drawing on practices of queer community building as both a way of gathering and a material approach. Here, assemblage becomes a way of thinking through these relationships, opening the possibility of bodies and objects to become images.
The works sit in wooden frames, created by queer carpentry group In Our Hands, here, ledges hold objects necessary for the actions, and ‘prompt cards’ invite reflections on the encounters made together.
Above
Since when did 3 rocks become a bridge to another hand? Five pigment prints, rocks, and text in ply walnut stained frame, July 2026, 55 x 45cm (left)
upside-down works too, Five pigment prints and text in ply walnut-stained frame, July 2026, 55 x 45cm (right)
share your orbit, One pigment print, text and chalk in Ply walnut-stained frame, July 2026, 55 x 45 cm