This exhibition/film has emerged from a collaboration between a researcher and two artists. Heidi Armbruster, an anthropologist based at the University of Southampton, and artists Bo Chapman and Zoe Flynn, also known as Salmagundi Films, joined up to work with a group of diverse young people and families to explore place and belonging in provincial Hampshire.
Starting from the idea of 'personal landscapes' participants used digital arts tools to explore audio-visually their environment and sense of place. We make landscape personal through what we see, hear, smell, touch and notice around us, how we embody spaces in the presence of other human and non-human bodies and structures.
The exhibition will feature some of the visual work that was produced by young people in the market town of Andover: a playful film called 'Common Ground' and a series of digital self-portraits.