pool V: June 10–14, 2025,
a week-long workshop with artists Sonja Thomsen & Thom Bridge in Milwaukee WI, USA
Connecting during our global pandemic, Sonja Thomsen (American) & Thom Bridge (Swedish/British) used personal rock collections from Lake Michigan, the Stockholm archipelago and the Jurassic Coast as source material to produce collage, installation and video work under the title pool. Exhibiting iterations in Chicago, İzmir and London, the artists established ‘pool’ as a creative mechanism for opening up dialogues about care, climate, and collaboration. The artists pool not only rock but people, resources, and knowledge—connecting the freshwater coast and across oceans.
In 2025 Sonja Thomsen & Thom Bridge will present pool V, a week-long workshop in Milwaukee WI USA. Building on the pair’s history of organising, platforming and mentoring other artists, pool V will be their first iteration of a series of short international regional workshops connecting artists, researchers, citizens and our geographies transnationally.
pool V in 2025 is a project supported by The Open Fund through the Poor Farm, with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Ruth Foundation for the Arts.