Considering the Funcanny: a space in which to collaborate

Since becoming a commuter and mother over the past few years, time, money and space to make work has become scarce. It's hard to work towards a performance/exhibition that doesn't exist, or if there is one, deadlines are hard to commit to when life is stretched and unpredictable.
The group of LaaLaas has been a huge support and catalyst for my work since I moved to Northamptonshire from London in 2011. We have met regularly to make semi-spontaneous site-specific pieces in which we react to each other's artistic responses to serendipitous discoveries, to create something time-based that lives on in memory, documentation and artifact.
The COVID-19 pandemic has both curtailed and expanded our group relationship: we cannot meet in person as we used to, but we meet 4 times as regularly as we used to since we are rooted to each individual's locale. Journey time is no longer a barrier. Zoom, Facebook Messenger, Royal Mail enable us to share, provoke and respond. We are a support group, a collaborative group, an entanglement via remote access.
We each have acquired (via post and Zoom) a collection of ideas, videos and objects which deserves a presence in a real-life space, harking back to our real-life rendezvous.
The Funcanny will allow us to house our work to be viewed by whichever audiences we choose to invite, being far more than just an online exhibition. It will not have the same pressures of deadlines that pre-pandemic spaces had. It will bring us together again, reducing our remoteness from many miles to 2 metres. It will provide opportunities of exhibition, knowledge-sharing, networking, blue-sky thinking for new methods to resolve/question our new challenges. It will be fluid and adaptable, and exploratory. It will therefore be perfect for me to engage with my fellow artists and audiences.