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Forward by Peter Kapos
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Today the former courthouse, Sessions House, is more inhabited than occupied by Sessions Arts Club. A quasi-institutional rigour of self-documentation is practiced. Plates, uniforms, equipment, fixtures, doodles, journeys, stairwells. ‘Quasi’ because the order is enigmatic: all jurisdiction and no law.
Even so, weighed out and assembled, the parts are put to work. At each sitting, they are fashioned into a provisional, precarious whole. You can help, too. There’s risk, though. The atmosphere is slightly conspiratorial.
Less of a mystery, the fashioning is the work of individual humans. Chefs, porters, waiters, reception, bar. Love is palpable: ‘Studio’.
Our present is defined by failing institutions, law, and objective measure. What is the relevance of Romanticism amidst a Post-Enlightenment melt-down? Not as the critique of self-evidently shabby authority. But, perhaps, as an invitation to join in making something beautiful: A project with ‘no claim to completeness or finality’.
