Common Unity - An Artist Residency "What can the Pod become?"

This week, we welcome Kandice Holmes as our new Artist in residence. During her month-long time in Grow's Eco-Pod (designed by local sustainable architects, Studio Bark), she will be developing Common Unity, a new self-educating art + sustainability platform, exploring how art can shape alternative living, the commons + sustainable systems for communities to thrive. The longterm aim is to help sustainable solutions to Societies issues become more mainstream  - “taking off the Capitalist straight-jacket to co-create a 'tangible utopia'!” @CUspace

During the month, Kandice intends to test the limits of the space asking “What Can The Pod Become?”  Its primary use will be as a classroom for research on subjects from Permaculture, Socially engaged Art, gift Economy to Sociocracy Governance, while developing her own art practices in photography, music, writing and live art, culminating in curating COMMUNE, a new festival concept that adapts to serve a community’s specific needs, through knowledge sharing + art, which aims to create spaces for us to truly see each other and be a tool for living closer in harmony with man, animal + land. 

Her residency starts with an OPEN CALL, inviting local collaborators to experiment with a variety of uses for the space, as in her own words “give a human being 4 walls and the potential to grow is limitless”…

WHAT CAN THE POD BECOME?

• Classroom

• Performance Venue

• Art Gallery

• Home

• Indoor Garden

• Church

• Music studio

• Dark room

• Community Library

• + more.