All the Feelings is a video artwork made by artist India Harvey in collaboration with students and teachers at Ickburgh School designed to encourage a playful, exploratory and immersive encounter with artmaking.
"Wow, the video is so beautiful, I love it! This is going to be such an inspirational piece for many teachers. This is a fabulous resource for educators."
Maria Escribano, Teacher
"This is all about permission to see art-making as a journey with no defined beginning or end. It's about play, joy and curiosity!"
India Harvey
This resource is designed to build and inspire confidence with material exploration and experimentation. It is adaptable and can be used in many ways.
Inspiration
Watch to inspire your planning and delivery and to build your own and colleagues confidence and enjoyment in working with everyday materials
Experience/Relaxation
Dim the lights, or project the film, and enjoy the immersive sounds and visuals as a collective experience
© Hydar Dewachi
© Hydar Dewachi
Make-along
Gather your own materials to play and experiment as you watch
Repeat
Designed for repeat engagement, the videos gentle, rhythmic soundtrack, and evolving visuals build familiarity and confidence each time
Bring All the Feelings up on the whiteboard for all the class to watch, project it for a more immersive experience, watch in small groups on a laptop or invite students to watch individually on a tablet.
"Anything at all could become the materials you need to do this kind of communal, sensory, experiential art making"
India Harvey
India has created a 'recipe' to help you select and choose your everyday materials to work with, and some ideas to get you started.
CRUNCHY
WET AND DRY
SCRATCHY
HEAVY
SQUISHY
ROUGH AND SMOOTH
CONTRASTING TEXTURES
FAMILIAR AND NEW
STICKY AND CRUMBLY
FLOATY
TOUCHING
SENSING
PLAYING AND MIXING
SLOW AND FAST
SCENTS AND SMELLS
DEEP LISTENING
Photo © Tate (Joe Humphreys)
India Harvey is an artist and researcher whose work explores the possibilities of having multiple, distinct & complex relationships with the textures of our lived environments; how these relationships express themselves and how we may be able to relate to others’ through shared exposure to unusual materiality. This investigation into the experiential margins promoting new kinds of value systems of expertise and intelligence, attempting to consider 'difference' as a positive universal.
All the Feelings is part of our IMMERSION series of resources developed using an SEND-first approach. This approach is about making innovative digital resources that work for all students but that have inclusion and inclusive practice at their core. All resources in this series are developed in conversation with SEND teachers and in collaboration with young sensory learners with PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities).
