Another appreciation of Laura Pasetti’s initiatives to inspire vibrant community connections during the covid seasons – this initiative we point to turned lockdown restrictions inside out. Laura invented audience engagement by having us move from one Performance Art Installation to another. Laura invited a multitude of artists to install themselves in cosy community nooks for a series of 3 minute performances. 

We donated “hunt” fees, received a map of TPE Findhorn – and keeping our prescribed physical distance from one another and the artists we had an afternoon of joie de vivre – including a teen poet at the Moray Art Centre; a violinist in an open porch; storytellers at an outdoor hearth;  a children’s playground nursery rhyme; a Shakespearean sonnet; and a recital of Mary Oliver’s poem of Wild Geese (while real wild geese honked on Findhorn Bay).

 

The popularity of multiple Artist Hunts during lockdown has guaranteed encore performances right into the present – and certainly for celebrating the 60th Anniversary. Despite the reopening of our traditional artist venues, it turns out hunting for art engages the audiences not only with the creators and creative impulse – but hunting conditions ensure the audience has as much fun interacting with themselves as they do the artists. 

Laura creates the conditions where art, artists and audience meld together in new interdisciplinary mixtures, new venues/locations, new sequences/performance times and new connections/synergies. We need YOUR energies as artists and/or audiences to celebrate our BIG 60 – find out more here. 

by Marilyn Hamilton, Integral City Meshworks