KEYNOTE: PLAY-DOH FUN FACTORY STARTER SET, TALK BY ROY CLAIRE POTTER

Roy Claire Potter performing at Counterflows with Park Jiha, 2022. Image: Duncan Marquiss

MONDAY 20 JULY 2026 10:00 BST

If you leave Play-Doh laying round uncovered, it dries out. You can't use it. You might be bereft about this, depending on experience. A shrivelled up crusty thing can be used for something else, sure. But you won't be able to push it through the Fun Factory, at least not to make the shapes you desire (or the Factory desires).

What happens to research, or to the ways we appreciate the impact of research, when embodied artistic methods add more water?

Following a symposium keynote at Writing Art Writing Art Writing: When Language Becomes Material, and a guest presentation at Pacing and Spacing: Crip Process, Form and Reception in Art and Writing, Roy reflects on the conditions and implications of their Artist Researcher role at EVA International, Ireland's biennial of contemporary art (an adjunct position with Institute of Art and Technology at Liverpool John Moores University). The talk aims to open up questions of integrity and legibility at the core of artist research.