Testing Ground

Our last Testing Ground residency of 2020 took place at The Garage, right before the third national lockdown. Over a week, Andrew Wilson worked with Pendle residents around the subject of Do It Ourselves (DIO) journalism. Andrew’s practice seeks to empower people to tell their own stories and to listen to one another, to come together and make record of stories that matter.

Andrew looks to strengthen networks of solidarity by facilitating peer-to-peer investigation methods that will inform a radical, bottom-up approach to journalism. Across two free, public workshops on Zoom, which explored the news around us, a group of participants collectively reflected upon their experiences of story-telling within news media. To identify narratives that may be missing and develop alternative approaches to journalism, activities ranged from honest discussion to drafting up fictional headlines.