Welcome

I hesitate to use words like cutting edge, edgy, or even innovative, as they have become - in North America, in any case - part of that "Dare to be different" vocabulary that is really urging you to be just the same. At the same time, most 'edgy' art in any form is usually a rehash of the old with just enough hooks, as they say in advertising, to let you know you are a member of an exclusive group.

And while The Word Hoard is both cutting edge and innovative, it is not exclusive. It is both of its time and of its place, conscious of social interaction and social exclusion, and that word we all try so hard to avoid - class. In both the work of its members and the workshops offered by them what distinguishes the Word Hoard from other groups called cutting edge is their dedication both to spontaneity and to discipline, to the crafting of the moment so that what comes from it is so formally strong that it must have influence in the form tomorrow will take.

To work with The Word Hoard is to experience this. It is not to learn a formula for what was judged innovative last year, last month, or even last week, but to hone the tools of one's mind and one's craft until the process of innovation, of making new as well as making strange, is one with the process of insight.

(written by Sarah Murphy)

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