Margin-to-margin workshops are getting closer. A series of women artists workshops starts in Australia at the beginning of October. The lengthy preparation process is ending. As artists and researchers, we have had numerous discussions about the workshop, organisation, and expectations, as well as a plan for the data collection. We’ll be processing and sharing our ideas online. I’m preparing and planning my installations and artist process with a series of drafts from Sapporo, Japan; Santiago, Chile; and Upington, South Africa. My drafts are vanishing in time. They are not ready but just visualising short moments in margins and juxtaposing moments in these various locations. For me, it is far more typical to co-design and collaborate while working with an artistic process than to work alone. Drafting this series is challenging me to come out more as an artist than a facilitator.

By Satu Miettinen