PaC is

PaC: practicing acts of commons / placing artists in common / practicing artists commoning / utm*

Together we walk, explore and create a commons of exchange and support to strengthen one another’s practice. Monthly artists’ meet-ups take place in the New Forest area.

We enact commoning as a social practice and action, a process of forming new knowledge and collective ways of being. PaC understands the commons not as an object, but as a social act. PaC activities are inspired by the ancient agricultural commoning practices of the New Forest. PaC directly puts into action More Than Ponies’ intention to survey the New Forest as a real and metaphorical site for idea generation and contemporary art making via the inter-relationship of people and place.

PaC was intitated and is convened by artist Laura Eldret. It is made possible with the monthly commitment of core PaC artists James Aldridge, Gemma Gore, Alys Scott-Hawkins, Melanie Rose and others who have previously walked with us.

Read an article about PAC by Alys Scott-Hawkins for Visual Arts Southwest HERE

• We welcome human and even occasional animal guests, if you are interested in joining us say hello on mail@morethanponies.info.

• See past reflections on PAC on our PaC log

• Sessions run normally am: 9.30am - midday, pm: 6.30 - 9pm

• No one pays or is paid to attend PAC, though you will need to sign a consent form for taking part.

• Currently the perpetuation of PAC is as part of Laura Eldret’s PhD research being undertaken at UWE Bristol.

• *utm = yoU Tell Me. UTM acknowledges that PAC can and is different in experience and meaning to different partakers.