““In November 2023 we started a monthly residency with Cos Chapman mixing live electronic improvisation and an open drawing session presided by visual artist/performer Jo Roberts in her role as The Librarian.

At the beginning the idea was to draw figures in movement using charcoal on large pieces of paper laid on the floor. But as soon as we started, everybody forgot about it and the general approach was to draw free lines and improvised sketches that went through the session evolving into interconnected compositions. The first group of collective work was astonishing, where large masses of darkness surrounded small groups of human figures, dying birds, poetic forms and hands in despair.

During this and the following sessions, we have been intertwining our hands and charcoal sticks with those who have joined us, every time different people, some more regular than others, sometimes just passers by who drew a symbol or a stroke and left. We have been walking, scratching, watering, tearing and moving on and around the papers, interfering with whatever lines the others were conducting, playing with any spontaneous expression, and over all, we have been feeling guided by Chapman’s hypnotic sound and the presence of a communal deity.””