LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE (Undergraduate Showcase): Trading Post (Ava Berriman) (part of doing together 25)

LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE (Undergraduate Showcase): Trading Post8th April 2025Berriman’s practice centres around Commoning—the act of collectively creating, maintaining, and sharing resources outside of capitalist structures. Trading Post is both a performance and a system of exchange, where passers-by engage on their own terms—through curiosity, conversation, and trade. Using found and upcycled materials, the piece fosters collaboration, bridging connections within and between university and local communities. Through participation, audiences don’t just experience the work—they shape its story, reinforcing the power of shared interaction and collective exchange. doing together 25doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Art Research Centre (Bath School of Art, Film and Media) in collaboration with Bath School of Design and the Centre of Cultural and Creative Industries.doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.Workshops, delivered by staff and PGR students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.