Collective Inscriptions: Emerging from the Other Side

'Taking place' is a shifting group of women artists, architects and academics who question the construction and uses of space, informed by feminist scholarship and practice. It explores political and subjective approaches towards constructed space and the discourses that create and maintain them. The structures that have 'organised' 'taking place' are instrumental to its creative process, giving rise to works based on exchanges and collaborations, reflections on the processes themselves and representations of them. The paper will position 'taking place' within a continuum of spatial feminist practice, relating the emergence of fluid collective models to the (earlier) approach taken by the feminist design cooperative Matrix. Recently 'taking place' has developed 'The Other Side of Waiting', a series of interlinked artworks in a London hospital. The strategies adopted in making TOSW will be discussed in relation to a series of ongoing 'inscriptions', which move reflection into a spatialised and subjective realm.