Loren McK is an artist and researcher based in South East London. They are invested in community, queerness, and conversation as resources for creative practice and co-creation. Loren’s creative practice explores different art forms, moving between words, material and movement. Loren has been a performer in the work of Emilyn Claid, Jay Barnard, Marina Abramović, and in different contexts for Duckie! Their own solo work has dealt with representation, joy, and taking action. As a researcher, Loren is specifically interested in archives from the perspectives of queer and disabled artists – considering how we write our own histories, remember each other, and leave traces.
About Loren’s residency
For their residency, Loren is working with acts of memorialising and asking how do we remember?
The landscapes of Scotland are dotted with Cairns, heaps of stones intentionally placed together to form mounds. These sites can mark the end of a journey or accomplishment, and through this become a place to arrive to, rest, and reflect. At times these rocks become places of remembering – whether an event or person – they are a marker of what has passed. People familiar with the terrain use these piles of rocks as navigation markers which can also functionally protect the way.
Through practice which involves movement, text, and being with these rocks Loren is exploring the tactility and labour of remembering. Their research treads a path through grief in search of a site for collective remembering that is changeable by design.
This residency is part of the In Other Words project.
Photo credit: Holly Revell
