TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE

Jan - July 2025

Tuesdays, 6-8pm GMT

EARLY BIRD CLOSES:

10th Dec 2024



SPECIAL OFFER:

Full 6 Month Course

plus

6 x 1hr online

monthly private mentoring

(usually £100 per hr - reduced to half price)


TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE is a process-driven, six month online course designed for intra-disciplinary artists, writers and thinkers who want to explore the ecological dimensions of their creative-critical practice.

Growing out of existing BECOMING podcasts, courses and showcases, this course explores ways of categorising line that move away from anthropocentrism towards ecocentrism. Using Tim Ingold’s taxonomy of line as a backbone, this course examines specific characteristics of line - threads (3D line), traces (2D line), dots (the broken line) & invisible or imagined lines - before examining how these different linear modes intra-act to form an ecology of line:

1) UNTANGLING THE LINE - overview & introduction.

2) THE THREADED SELF - the 3D line, roots, hairs, veins, nerves, filaments, webs, text, tissue, fabric, circuits, systems; the line that makes a surface.

3) RE-CONFIGURING THE LINE: CONGLOMERATION, DISPERSAL & REDISTRIBUTION - dots, blobs, seeds, spores, swarms, flocks, crowds, letters.

4) TRACING THE MANY - the 2D line, traces, paths, cuts, cracks, creases, folds, palimpsest; the line as it occurs in or on surface.

5) INVISIBLE & IMAGINARY LINES - waves, currents, ley lines, electromagnetism, abstract & imagined lines; moving beyond the visual; decentring dominant modes of human perception.

6) TRANSCRIBING AN ECOSYSTEM: TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE - exploring multimodal, linear intra-action (bringing it all together).

FORMAT:

Each theme unfolds over the course of a month with one 2hr zoom session every fortnight. The zoom sessions support the solo work that unfolds over the fortnight between each session. Zoom sessions will run fortnightly.

Start of Week 1: Seminar & Assignment - 2hr live online zoom session (intro, presentation & discussion).

Week 1 & 2: Solo Creative Development

Start of Week 3: Sharing & Feedback - 2hr live online zoom session (sharing & discussion)

Week 3 & 4: Remaking, Editing & Development (sharing work via google drive).

End of week 4: Final Feedback (via google docs).


2025

Live Zoom SCHEDULE

- Tuesdays, 6-8pm GMT -


JAN / FEB: UNTANGLING THE LINE

Seminar & Assignment - Tues 21st January

Sharing & Feedback - Tues 4th Feb


FEB / MARCH: THE THREADED SELF

Seminar & Assignment - Tues 18th Feb

Sharing & Feedback - Tues 4th March

MARCH / APRIL: RE-CONFIGURING THE SELF: CONGLOMERATION, DISPERSAL & REDISTRIBUTION

Seminar & Assignment - Tues 18th March

Sharing & Feedback - Tues 1st April


APRIL : TRACING THE MANY

Seminar & Assignment - Tues 15th April

Sharing & Feedback - Tues 29th April



MAY: INVISIBLE & IMAGINARY LINES

Seminar & Assignment - Tues 13th May

Sharing & Feedback - Tues 27th May


JUNE: TRANSCRIBING AN ECOSYSTEM: TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE

Seminar & Assignment - Tues 10th June

Sharing & Feedback - Tues 24th June


30 hrs Contact Time

24 hours online teaching & discussion

6 hours feedback & review

- £12.50 per hr -


PRAISE FOR

“TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE” (2024)


“Camilla's course was a wonderfully rich and stimulating experience that generated new creative inquiry and deepened my approach. She gave me permission to play and time to create new work in the company of some wonderful fellow humans. The course was open-hearted but intellectually stimulating. She is a natural and charismatic teacher, creating a safe atmosphere for creative exploration. Thank you!”

Sarah Westcott (poet & researcher)


“This is one of the best workshops I've ever taken!” Karen Neuberg (poet & editor)


“A thoroughly engaged, and curious course, led with much insight and creativity by Camilla.” Sam Francis (artist)


“Ecology of Line provided a supportive and stimulating online format and encouraging diverse group environment that inspired me to create unique works of art.” Beth Shepherd (artist)


“Your course provided such a great platform for us to work individually but also in a very stimulating exchange/feedback with others.” (Ecology of Line participant, 2024)


“A really stimulating course which encouraged the development of ideas and materials. I loved the process-based focus and being part of the group for six months. The course felt a safe place to be experimental, and I was struck by the depth of engagement from every participant.”

Carol Dalton (poet & therapist)


"Towards an Experimental Ecology of Line was an extraordinary experience to think deeply and differently about ecology and the nature of the line. Camilla created an inspiring environment in the online sessions where emphasis was placed on works in progress and the deep thought involved in creating art that responds to new ways of observing the natural and built environment. During this course and thanks to Camilla and the cohort, I was able to make visual poems, paintings, collages, and artist books that would never have existed without this experience. I'm left with an entirely new way of observing the line in the world and tools with which to respond creatively to these observations and experiences.”

Natalie Vestin (writer, artist, rosemaler, and researcher)


“This course held me creatively over the course of a turbulent six months. Plugging into the course material alongside others from across the globe was stimulating, challenging and enlivening. Camilla's delivery was engaging and rich in content. Making work in response and sharing it with others, having generous and meaningful feedback from Camilla and other members of the group was priceless. Thank you so much Camilla.”

Tessa Waite (artist & performer)


“Excellent & inspiring course.” (Ecology of Line participant, 2024)


“The concepts and Camilla's research and examples were inspiring and satisfyingly complex. I produced work that I love and that I wouldn't have made without the sparks generated by this course.”

(Ecology of Line participant, 2024)


“Camilla Nelson's Becoming: Towards an Experimental Ecology of Line offered ample space for the convergence of disciplines and polyvocal engagement in written and visual forms; from the haptic to the sonic, from canvas to word; the quality of thought and unusual pathways applied were uniquely engaging. Having six months to explore the ideas and layered threads 'Becoming" offered, allowed for one of the most inspiring course experiences I've had the pleasure of participating in. The other writers, artists and scientists in the course were deeply connected to the work they brought forth and through shared discussion and written feedback, it felt we were (whether intentionally or not) moving inside collaborative tides. Working independently, but yet within these overlapping, fluid fluxes with such artistic, intelligent artists made this course, under Camilla's attuned, highly perceptive steerage, an energised, enriching space. I recommend it highly for those who wish explore fresh routeways towards revealing new projects or engaging more deeply with work at hand.”

Jennifer Spector (poet / writer)


“The 'becoming'  courses offer unique multidisciplinary inspiration for writing and making.”

(Ecology of Line participant, 2024)


“I found the workshop to be an inspiring and transformative experience, lining up fellow artists and materials in unexpected dialogue. I discovered how an ecology of lines emerges when we truly let materials speak for themselves.”

(Ecology of Line participant, 2024)


SPECIAL OFFER:

Full 6 Month Course

plus

6 x 1hr online private mentoring

(usually £100 per hr - reduced to half price)


Early Bird (Course + Mentoring)

£650

CLOSED

Full Cost (Course & Mentoring)

£750


Full Cost (Course only)

£450

Early Bird (Course only)

£350

CLOSED


BOOKING & ENQUIRIES

Payments may be made in one or two installments

email: info@singingapplepress.com


A Note on Costing: I try to keep the cost as low as I can to enable as many people as possible to attend, but the real time of development, delivery, associated admin and support of holding a group for six months equates to approx. 300 hours of work over an 8 month period (preparation, marketing & follow up) which, if the course sells out at early bird prices (12 places), means I get paid around £15 per hr, which for someone with three degrees and 15 years of expertise in this area is low (UK minimum wage is £12.21). I am making this costing as transparent as possible to highlight the value of £/per hr of my time you receive as a participant. These courses develop out of my own creative work. I can’t make a course without making the work first. Buying a course from me is like buying a work of art, it acknowledges the value of the making and thinking & supports me to keep making the work and developing ideas while I do it. Buying this particular work of art (a 6 month course) will support you to develop your own works of art in turn.. & so the creative ripples extend!

The overwhelming feedback from 2024 course participants confirms this course is very good value for money.