Anobium Punctatum (woodworm): an intervention (2019)

This project and art intervention into the Yorkshire Sculpture International was proposed by Alana Jelinek, at the invitation of Rececca Wade, Assistant Curator for Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute.

The final exhibition was the product of workshops with various groups working with the ethnographic collection of World Cultures at the Discovery Centre.

The objects in the installation were made by participants shown alongside objects from the Leeds ethnography World Cultures collection chosen by participants.

Participants were John Hornsby, Adrian McCluskey, Sarah Glatherine, Leigh Newton, Esther K. Niangi, Elisabeth Ndonga, Samer Altamah, Zaynab Doli, Fatin Najem, Nokhsha Ahmed, Kinaa Baraka, Amina Sutaife, Nawzad Mahmood, David Blakeley, Fe Uhuru, Nelson Rodriguez, Igor Pedraza, Katy Pedraza, Peter McDonagh, Colin Barden, Maryam Shokrizadeh, Olive Sanderson, Teagan Riches, Michael Ferens and Rebecca Wade, facilitated by others, including translators (Fadwa Az-Jaleli, Shaimaa Khattab), collections, education and outreach experts and curators (Jasmine Evans, Clare Jolley Judith Shalkowski, Alison Smith, Megan Jones, Angie Thompson). They are makers of art, Art, folk-art, community art, craft, experiment or ethnography.

The idea was that we, our exhibition-intervention, was like woodworm, gnawing at and transforming the World Art collection.