The Invisible Compass
We are all connected by an invisible web. Different degrees. Different perspectives. Different viewpoints we look out from. Our stories interweave together.
The Invisible Compass is a collaboration between Luca Rutherford and the people of Laindon. Luca will collect stories for everyone who is willing to share. Out of these Luca will create five new original stories.
These will be recorded, made into audio tales and turned into a walking trail. Luca, and her collaborator Sally, will create public visual artwork which will be exhibited in Laindon’s green spaces. Each artwork will contain a QR code that will take you to each audio story when scanned with your phone. Each story will have five original pieces of visual artwork that will guide you from the beginning of the story trail to the end.
There will also be a book made that will include all original sorties, as well as transactions of conversations and images of the artwork.
The story trail, artwork and final book are all free. The final project celebration is about finding the magic in the everyday. Turning walking around the park into a story-time. Creating high end art with the people of Laindon FOR the people of Laindon, rooted in the environment of Laindon. We will have a launch event on 2nd & 3rd September, check our socials for the latest updates, and our Facebook for event info. Join us on the days for tea and cakes and a collective walk around the artwork, guided by each audio story.
Luca Rutherford is a Newcastle based artist, making new socially engaged work that sparks conversations inside and outside of theatre spaces. She is an associate artist of ARC Stockton, Cambridge Junction and a movement practitioner with Frantic Assembly.
She is a writer, performer and dramaturg that asks big questions with playfulness. She creates work that is softly fierce and fiercely soft. In process and final design, her practice revolves around the creation of community, holding space for conversation, humour and play. I make work that is accessibly experimental in form. Her work is rooted in intersectional feminism. It is for the adventurous, and also the shy. It is for those who are curious, believe in exploration, and anyone looking for a safe space to explore big, confusing and sometimes difficult topics.
She also makes public art, dance theatre, short film and sound art. Her processes are rooted in spaces of listening where collaborators, participants and audiences are willing to be changed by what they hear.