We are delighted to announce END-OF-LIFE-SERVICE Student Workshop across the afternoon of 29th January 2026 to mark the final month of Stills’ current exhibition Felicity Hammond – V4: Repository.

Stills and Photoworks, in collaboration with BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides), and Inspace, is hosting an experimental event in the form of a funeral procession. This event will mark both the declared end-of-life of Artificial Intelligence and the end of Stills’ current exhibition Felicity Hammond – V4: Repository – the final iteration of the artist’s Variations series, commissioned through the Ampersand/Photoworks fellowship. 

Beginning at Stills and concluding at Inspace, participants are invited to convene at Stills for a practical workshop facilitated by Felicity Hammond to collaboratively assess, sort, and reconfigure materials in order to design and produce costumes and props for the procession. Responding conceptually and materially to V4: Repository and using its processes of archiving, categorising, and recontextualising as a framework for collective making. 

Participants will work with an assortment of found, discarded and functional materials that form an improvised archive (participants encouraged to bring materials). Through acts of sorting, grouping and labelling materials will be evaluated for their symbolic, aesthetic, and performative potential before being transformed into wearable garments and processional objects.

Aims 

  • To foster a critically and creatively engaged response to v4: repository, drawing on its exploration of archives, repositories, digital residue, and material tracing.
  • To explore themes of loss & decay and how these can be communicated through material form.
  • To combine photographic practice with performance, design and sculpture. 
  • To consolidate assessing, sorting, and archiving materials together as a creative act that parallels photographic/archival processes.

Event Details

Audience: Please note this workshop is for students from Edinburgh College of Art, who are interested in photography, sculpture, performance, costume, and interdisciplinary practices. No prior experience with costume-making or performance is required. Members of Stills volunteer team will be on hand to support participants and assist facilitation.

Workshop & Procession

Facilitator: Felicity Hammond and Ot Pascoe
Date: Thurs 29 Jan 2026
Time: 13:30-17:00 | Free/Ticketed
Location: Stills, 23 Cockburn St, Edinburgh EH1 1BP
Capacity: 10
Duration: Approx. 3.5hrs
Event organiser/contact: Stills – daisy.mason@stills.org

Register here

Venue Access features: All areas of the building are fully accessible by wheelchair including lifts and toilets. Guide dogs are welcome.  

If you have any enquiries about Inspace programming and the venue, please contact us at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk.

Running order

13:30 – 14:00 Meet at Stills for a walkthrough of the exhibition and to explore the archives within, followed by a discussion considering the movement of physical archives into the digital space and the parallels of the artist archive and data repositories. 
14:00 – 14:45 Work collectively to sort, classify, and assess a shared pool of materials, treating this process as a creative and critical exercise. Identify materials for their symbolic, functional, and performative potential.
14:45 – 15:00 Comfort break and check-in (Tea & Coffee/snacks provided)
15:00 – 16:00 Design and create garments and handheld props using selected materials. Discussion prompt when making/focus working: Experimenting with movement/chants and collective ‘togetherness’ to form a collective procession.
16:00 – 16:20 Clean up/adorning garments and props.
16:30 – 17:00 Leave Stills adorned in the created garments and props, and perform a procession through Edinburgh’s Old Town, ending at Inspace. 

Please note the workshop and procession will be recorded and photographed – Video and Photographs will be used for future marketing, promotional, reporting and archival purposes. If you would prefer not to be filmed or photographed, please let us know at the workshop.

More about Facilitators

Felicity Hammond is an artist and educator based in South London. She is a senior lecturer on the MA Photography programme at Kingston University. Recent solo exhibitions include V3: Model Collapse at The Photographers’ Gallery, London and V4: Repository at Stills, Edinburgh. Hammond has exhibited her work in group exhibitions at museums and galleries internationally including Fotomuseum Winterthur, VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine Montreal, Higher Pictures New York and Saatchi Gallery London, amongst others. She has worked on a number of high profile public art works, including a site-specific work for Photo 2021 Melbourne, Australia and a large scale installation for Colchester and Ipswich Museum, UK. Her work has received and been nominated for a number of awards, including being the recipient of the Ampersand Photoworks Fellowship, 2023.

Ot Pascoe is a visual artist based in Edinburgh. With a broad interdisciplinary practice exploring storytelling and worldbuilding, their work weaves together illustration, broadcasting, wearable sculpture, event production and community work. Previously a Director of artist-run gallery Sett Studios, and currently a breakfast radio broadcaster at community radio station EHFM, Ot has exhibited in Edinburgh and London, collaborated with renowned galleries and festivals, and has been nominated for a World Illustration Award.

Data Protection Statement

How we use and store your data – In providing this information, you are giving explicit consent for us to use your data in our programme and event monitoring, reporting and evaluation processes. The data is managed confidentially. Your data will be collected and held by the Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh (who operate Inspace) and held by the Institute and the BRAID programme (University of Edinburgh), it will also be shared with partner organisations for this event and the associated exhibition: Stills and Photoworks. Your data will only be reported or published in anonymous aggregated forms and will always be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and therefore also in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data retention period: We will hold this information for a maximum period of 5 years from the date of the event, after which it will be disposed of.

Please read the University’s privacy and Data Protection notice (https://data-protection.ed.ac.uk/notice) for further information. You can also view the Stills privacy policy (https://stills.co.uk/privacy-policy/), the BRAID privacy notice (https://braiduk.org/privacy) and the Photoworks privacy policy (https://photoworks.org.uk/privacy-policy/).

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