Even A Stopped Wheel took place in 2020, two weeks before the first UK COVID lockdown. Working closely with students and staff at the University of Gloucestershire and the public, the gallery space became of place of co-production. Raw clay casts of an old ‘dog cart’ wheel from central Europe allowed personal histories and global concerns of climate related exile to be explored. Drawing conversations examined shared viewpoints. The gallery became a shared space and structured student/staff/artist dialogues considered the hierarchies and permissions encountered. Anthropologist and artist Elizabeth Hodson supported these processes through a one-day talk and storytelling event.
Keywords: movement, exile, blocking, co-creating, permission, multiple narratives