In Paris, we organized diverse forms of artistical workshops in order to let the participants to choose the suitable form for them.
The artist explained to the participants the role of the screen printing in the underground activism.
then he showed some examples of screen printing, then he explained basic techniques of the screen printing.
then he asked to the participants to create simple patterns in the tissue paper and to add their name on it.
finally all the participants tried to print their patterns and name with the help of the artist on a tote bag.
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First, we selected terms that came out during debriefing with participants (such as “community”, “anonymous”, “pride”, “work”, etc.). Then, the aim was to take pictures in Les Grands Voisins in order to make a small documentary based on one of the terms that inspired us the most. The photos have been developed and shown in the amphitheatre in the Exposition of Grands Voisins on 30 June. Simultaneously, there was also a self-portraits workshop, with a stand-up camera and a remote control allowing us to take photos ourselves.
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We wanted to transmit to the participants the skill of creating political tracts and
posters to pass their own political opinions. The second aim is to encourage the Residents to
express themselves about their lives in the Grands Voisins.
We pinned the photos that taken during the photography workshop (19th of June) by the participants one the wall of the Maison des Médecins. We added the words of the abece-darium of the Grands Voisins then, the participants have been asked to associate a word to a picture
then, they have been asked to write a text about a word of the abecedarium: it could be
a short text or a slogan, They could also mix photography, abecedarium’s word and text.
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We suggested the participants to create postal cards by asking questions to whom it may concern about the Grands voisins or about what they want to ask. For example the participants asked :
« What is the meaning of the word « Work »for you ? », « Whom would you like to hide from ? ».
They also wrote more specifically questions about the Grands voisins :
«Summer 2017 : what will be the program for the Grands Voisins ? ». After, we asked to the participants to find images in the magazines that we offered them, or in the photos taken by them during the workshop of photography (19th of June) to illustrate their questions. Killian proposed to the participants to use letters stamps to write the questions to give the postal cards a good look!
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The artist began the session by asking the participants to chose the collage mission, there was a jar that contains folded pieces of paper with different numbers and another jar with folded pieces of paper inside it, with different human’s body parties written in. then the participants picked two pieces of paper “or more”, one from each jar, for example: 3 eyes and 2 mouths,,, etc ,then each participants did the cut and paste to create those shapes!
Then we had the mission of mixing five photos together; each participant chose five photos and made one photo out of the five.
Then we had the mission of mixing different photos together: each participant chose a photo of landscape, photo of person and photo of an object and made one photo out of the three photos.
Finally we pinned all the products of participants on the wall and everyone explained his/her work to the others.
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 |
The sculpture artist “Diop” started by describing what are we going to do, the target is creating an artisitcal sculpture piece on a board of word of cartoon that has African flavor.
The African theme has been chosen because the majority of the participants are originally African so it will be easy for them to create something related to their culture.
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 |
 |
We began the session inside the « Maison des Médecins » by standing up, in a circle, with a brief exercice of breath. Then the first part of the session was dedicated to exercices of initiation to « theatral walk » and « un-mechanization ».
Then the focus was made on exercices involving the body and the consciousness of it. We proposed different theatral activities having as common the creation of « human statues ».
The last part of the session was dedicated to the cration of small scenes, in 2 groups (5 in each), around the words of the alphabet primer.
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The initiation workshops in Madrid were developed in collaboration with the collective Intransit. More than a hundred students from the Universidad Complutense and external participants went through the four workshops carried out the 25, 26 y 27 de October (10:00 – 19:00h).
Starting with the “Rare and Variopintas Editions Workshop ¡Edítalo Tú Mismo!” by Pepe Murciego, editor of La Más Bella, one of the most important experimental magazines in the country. Murciego led an activity in which one of these publications was created.
On Thursday took place the the collaborative film creation workshop “El Cine como encuentro social”. In it, Chiara Digrandi of the Cinema Without Author collective, gave a theoretical explanation about community cinema, produced among ordinary people, anywhere and in any circumstance, outside the professional sector, audiovisual production and television. Subsequently, a dynamic of collective creation was introduced.
The three days devoted to artivism ended on Friday with two workshops. The first by the hand of Ana Cebrián, an activist with the black-African community for almost ten years, co-founder of the group Pedagogías Invisibles y del Espacio AfroConciencia. In his workshop she tried to create a space for learning and self-empowerment to combat the inequalities that occur in the academic and general environment.
Architecture, as an artistic expression that can also be used for the purpose of social transformation, was the protagonist of the last of the actions, with a workshop by the architect and art educator, Marta Kayser, who focused on artistic intervention and activist in the public space.
La Más Bella
Newspapers intervened with collage, painting, visual poetry, stencil, labels, stickers, etc. Commonly they are known by ASSEMBLED, EXPERIMENTAL or OBJECTUAL journals
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1.2. Cinema Without Author- The creative process is horizontal which means that every decision is taken based on assembly-wise discussions. Preproduction, script, shooting, editing, postproduction and distribution of finished works are the various phases that are progressively collectivized.
1.3. Espacio AfroConcienciaWorkshop focused on raising awareness of the stereotypes, discriminatory language, and frames of prejudices and preconceptions regarding Afro-descendants of Spain and the whole world.1.4. Marta Kayser: architecture and public spacesThe objective was to transfer to the students their capacity to intervene and activate the space where they study: the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid and its surroundings. This intervention proposal included five main objectives: 1) Feeling part and promoting identity; 2) Appropriating and fostering belonging or feeling of belonging; 3) Promote a quality public space; 4) Organize and get involved, as well as provide tools for this; 5) Act and test, also facilitating instruments for the implementation and study of its impact.
After the realization of the IO 1, the marathon of ideas, the urban walks, together with the participants we detected a series of problems that decided to approach together with the invited artists in the IO 3, Initiation to Artivism. The topics have to do with the organization of the public space, communication, awareness of diversity.
Methodology used for all workshops:
We looked at the needs and assets of our audience (BME, young people, deprivation), local demographics and social-economics
All workshops were led by young artists who in their practice are engaged in activism/politics
Young people as cultural producers, rather than just receptors/ workshops participants
One of the aims of the workshops was for young people to learn new skills, be exposed to new forms of art and think of how art and creativity can be used as forms of activism.
Accessible for all young people
Workshops had to spark change and generate ideas and reflections in young people and get them engaged with their community, environment
This event was our first event in Nottingham, participants came together at Nottingham Trent University to discuss local issues such as racism, homelessness etc. We then walked around the city and took notes on what we saw, and how we felt about our place in the city. The final part of the event involved talking about our issues and others included cultural issues that were relevant to their culture or religion.
This event included local academics from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham giving talks about subjects such as Race, Gender and Sexuality. Once the talks were finished, the participants had the opportunity to make posters that reflected their own character traits through forms such as collage, drawing, painting and spray painting. The posters were shared and explained with the groups at the end of the session.
This event took place at the Dizzy Ink workshop in Nottingham. We learned about screen printing; such as ‘the push, and the pull’, and printing our own manifestos using vinyl and a heat press. We printed onto our own Tote Bags and considered a statement that we wanted to use to reflect our personal characteristics and hobbies. We also had fun using a badge-maker!
This event took place at the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery and was hosted by Dizzy Ink. Our first task was to rearrange a set phrase, to create a new sentence that depicted our views on society.
We then looked at the process of zine printing, and made our own. These included our political views, news of the world and anything else we wanted to print. We made them either by hand or on our computers, using graphic design, collage, drawing and any method we could to create our art.
We shared and discussed all of our pieces at the end of the workshop.
The first two sessions in Budapest aimed to build a group and discuss together the diverse issues, problems and experiences that brought the participants together. After inviting a sociologist and helding a skype conference with a Spanish Artivist, we dove into the sea of the active ingredients of artistic practices.
The first artistic workshop was creative writing, where – after discussing notions as creative, inspiration, flow, creation – we created texts in smaller groups to work on them. The aim was to give an idea about the construction of the text as a process and see also the structure through an example that the participants created on the spot, using quotes they chose and sent before the workshop from their favorite books/texts.
Bridging the work with texts and introducing the images we organized a fanzine workshop. The group was divided in half to facilitate the process, who were not in the creation, watched insiring movies about activism. The fanzine artists asked the participants beforehand to bring images and texts, so we had some basic material to start with, they explained the role of the background and the illustrative small images, and after that the participants created double pages in the zine in couples. The technique of the minifanzine was introduced as well, as the different styles and types (risography, comic type, etc.).
We organized a workshop of two occasions for this topic, where the participants could learn about the basic techniques of taking a picture, also about the use of the image in social movements, the role of action documentation and how an image can be a media to reach greater public and win them for a case. At the second workshop the group went through a sort of collaborative curation process when they discussed the series they brought to the workshop, one by one.
webpage of the artist: http://freedoc-gabriellacsoszo.blogspot.hu/
To tailor the process to the needs of the participants who expressed their wish to work with the social questions again, we held a newspaper theater workshop (what is one branch from the tree of the Theatre of the Oppressed), where – after some demechanisation and image theatre activities – everyone could chose an article from the recent past (printed) and in smaller group create a performance about that.
Before leaving for the Christmas holydays Werner Moron, who’s methodology about the active ingredients of art serves as base for our project methodology, visited our group and spoke about the development of the method, the role of art is activism through his experiences and perspective.
webpage of the artist: http://www.wernermoron.be/
The slam workshops aimed to work with the presence and with texts too, so during the two sessions the trainer offered different games to try out different dimensions of this. The members of the group created metaphors, short texts, learnt basics about the slam text’s structure, had verbal creative competitions and improvisation tasks in the workshop frame.
work of the workshop leader artist about racism
In the frame of two consecutive workshops two theatre expert shared their practices of planning and realizing interventions in specific sites, involving the audience, using audiovisual tools. After some examples the group had the opportunity to try out the process in a minimalistic way: in one case to transform the space and create imaginary itineraries, and finally see the potential of the idea; in the second workshop they went through a collaborative process from brainstorming, through choosing a relevant issue to tackle until analyzing the personal connections and framing the possible actions.
works from the artists:
In Paris, we organized diverse forms of artistical workshops in order to let the participants to choose the suitable form for them.
The artist explained to the participants the role of the screen printing in the underground activism.
then he showed some examples of screen printing, then he explained basic techniques of the screen printing.
then he asked to the participants to create simple patterns in the tissue paper and to add their name on it.
finally all the participants tried to print their patterns and name with the help of the artist on a tote bag.
|
|
|
First, we selected terms that came out during debriefing with participants (such as “community”, “anonymous”, “pride”, “work”, etc.). Then, the aim was to take pictures in Les Grands Voisins in order to make a small documentary based on one of the terms that inspired us the most. The photos have been developed and shown in the amphitheatre in the Exposition of Grands Voisins on 30 June. Simultaneously, there was also a self-portraits workshop, with a stand-up camera and a remote control allowing us to take photos ourselves.
|
|
|
We wanted to transmit to the participants the skill of creating political tracts and
posters to pass their own political opinions. The second aim is to encourage the Residents to
express themselves about their lives in the Grands Voisins.
We pinned the photos that taken during the photography workshop (19th of June) by the participants one the wall of the Maison des Médecins. We added the words of the abece-darium of the Grands Voisins then, the participants have been asked to associate a word to a picture
then, they have been asked to write a text about a word of the abecedarium: it could be
a short text or a slogan, They could also mix photography, abecedarium’s word and text.
|
|
|
We suggested the participants to create postal cards by asking questions to whom it may concern about the Grands voisins or about what they want to ask. For example the participants asked :
« What is the meaning of the word « Work »for you ? », « Whom would you like to hide from ? ».
They also wrote more specifically questions about the Grands voisins :
«Summer 2017 : what will be the program for the Grands Voisins ? ». After, we asked to the participants to find images in the magazines that we offered them, or in the photos taken by them during the workshop of photography (19th of June) to illustrate their questions. Killian proposed to the participants to use letters stamps to write the questions to give the postal cards a good look!
|
|
|
The artist began the session by asking the participants to chose the collage mission, there was a jar that contains folded pieces of paper with different numbers and another jar with folded pieces of paper inside it, with different human’s body parties written in. then the participants picked two pieces of paper “or more”, one from each jar, for example: 3 eyes and 2 mouths,,, etc ,then each participants did the cut and paste to create those shapes!
Then we had the mission of mixing five photos together; each participant chose five photos and made one photo out of the five.
Then we had the mission of mixing different photos together: each participant chose a photo of landscape, photo of person and photo of an object and made one photo out of the three photos.
Finally we pinned all the products of participants on the wall and everyone explained his/her work to the others.
|
|
|
The sculpture artist “Diop” started by describing what are we going to do, the target is creating an artisitcal sculpture piece on a board of word of cartoon that has African flavor.
The African theme has been chosen because the majority of the participants are originally African so it will be easy for them to create something related to their culture.
|
|
|
We began the session inside the « Maison des Médecins » by standing up, in a circle, with a brief exercice of breath. Then the first part of the session was dedicated to exercices of initiation to « theatral walk » and « un-mechanization ».
Then the focus was made on exercices involving the body and the consciousness of it. We proposed different theatral activities having as common the creation of « human statues ».
The last part of the session was dedicated to the cration of small scenes, in 2 groups (5 in each), around the words of the alphabet primer.
|
|
|
The initiation workshops in Madrid were developed in collaboration with the collective Intransit. More than a hundred students from the Universidad Complutense and external participants went through the four workshops carried out the 25, 26 y 27 de October (10:00 – 19:00h).
Starting with the “Rare and Variopintas Editions Workshop ¡Edítalo Tú Mismo!” by Pepe Murciego, editor of La Más Bella, one of the most important experimental magazines in the country. Murciego led an activity in which one of these publications was created.
On Thursday took place the the collaborative film creation workshop “El Cine como encuentro social”. In it, Chiara Digrandi of the Cinema Without Author collective, gave a theoretical explanation about community cinema, produced among ordinary people, anywhere and in any circumstance, outside the professional sector, audiovisual production and television. Subsequently, a dynamic of collective creation was introduced.
The three days devoted to artivism ended on Friday with two workshops. The first by the hand of Ana Cebrián, an activist with the black-African community for almost ten years, co-founder of the group Pedagogías Invisibles y del Espacio AfroConciencia. In his workshop she tried to create a space for learning and self-empowerment to combat the inequalities that occur in the academic and general environment.
Architecture, as an artistic expression that can also be used for the purpose of social transformation, was the protagonist of the last of the actions, with a workshop by the architect and art educator, Marta Kayser, who focused on artistic intervention and activist in the public space.
La Más Bella
Newspapers intervened with collage, painting, visual poetry, stencil, labels, stickers, etc. Commonly they are known by ASSEMBLED, EXPERIMENTAL or OBJECTUAL journals
|
|
|
|
|
1.2. Cinema Without Author- The creative process is horizontal which means that every decision is taken based on assembly-wise discussions. Preproduction, script, shooting, editing, postproduction and distribution of finished works are the various phases that are progressively collectivized.
1.3. Espacio AfroConcienciaWorkshop focused on raising awareness of the stereotypes, discriminatory language, and frames of prejudices and preconceptions regarding Afro-descendants of Spain and the whole world.1.4. Marta Kayser: architecture and public spacesThe objective was to transfer to the students their capacity to intervene and activate the space where they study: the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid and its surroundings. This intervention proposal included five main objectives: 1) Feeling part and promoting identity; 2) Appropriating and fostering belonging or feeling of belonging; 3) Promote a quality public space; 4) Organize and get involved, as well as provide tools for this; 5) Act and test, also facilitating instruments for the implementation and study of its impact.
After the realization of the IO 1, the marathon of ideas, the urban walks, together with the participants we detected a series of problems that decided to approach together with the invited artists in the IO 3, Initiation to Artivism. The topics have to do with the organization of the public space, communication, awareness of diversity.
Methodology used for all workshops:
We looked at the needs and assets of our audience (BME, young people, deprivation), local demographics and social-economics
All workshops were led by young artists who in their practice are engaged in activism/politics
Young people as cultural producers, rather than just receptors/ workshops participants
One of the aims of the workshops was for young people to learn new skills, be exposed to new forms of art and think of how art and creativity can be used as forms of activism.
Accessible for all young people
Workshops had to spark change and generate ideas and reflections in young people and get them engaged with their community, environment
This event was our first event in Nottingham, participants came together at Nottingham Trent University to discuss local issues such as racism, homelessness etc. We then walked around the city and took notes on what we saw, and how we felt about our place in the city. The final part of the event involved talking about our issues and others included cultural issues that were relevant to their culture or religion.
This event included local academics from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham giving talks about subjects such as Race, Gender and Sexuality. Once the talks were finished, the participants had the opportunity to make posters that reflected their own character traits through forms such as collage, drawing, painting and spray painting. The posters were shared and explained with the groups at the end of the session.
This event took place at the Dizzy Ink workshop in Nottingham. We learned about screen printing; such as ‘the push, and the pull’, and printing our own manifestos using vinyl and a heat press. We printed onto our own Tote Bags and considered a statement that we wanted to use to reflect our personal characteristics and hobbies. We also had fun using a badge-maker!
This event took place at the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery and was hosted by Dizzy Ink. Our first task was to rearrange a set phrase, to create a new sentence that depicted our views on society.
We then looked at the process of zine printing, and made our own. These included our political views, news of the world and anything else we wanted to print. We made them either by hand or on our computers, using graphic design, collage, drawing and any method we could to create our art.
We shared and discussed all of our pieces at the end of the workshop.
The first two sessions in Budapest aimed to build a group and discuss together the diverse issues, problems and experiences that brought the participants together. After inviting a sociologist and helding a skype conference with a Spanish Artivist, we dove into the sea of the active ingredients of artistic practices.
The first artistic workshop was creative writing, where – after discussing notions as creative, inspiration, flow, creation – we created texts in smaller groups to work on them. The aim was to give an idea about the construction of the text as a process and see also the structure through an example that the participants created on the spot, using quotes they chose and sent before the workshop from their favorite books/texts.
Bridging the work with texts and introducing the images we organized a fanzine workshop. The group was divided in half to facilitate the process, who were not in the creation, watched insiring movies about activism. The fanzine artists asked the participants beforehand to bring images and texts, so we had some basic material to start with, they explained the role of the background and the illustrative small images, and after that the participants created double pages in the zine in couples. The technique of the minifanzine was introduced as well, as the different styles and types (risography, comic type, etc.).
We organized a workshop of two occasions for this topic, where the participants could learn about the basic techniques of taking a picture, also about the use of the image in social movements, the role of action documentation and how an image can be a media to reach greater public and win them for a case. At the second workshop the group went through a sort of collaborative curation process when they discussed the series they brought to the workshop, one by one.
webpage of the artist: http://freedoc-gabriellacsoszo.blogspot.hu/
To tailor the process to the needs of the participants who expressed their wish to work with the social questions again, we held a newspaper theater workshop (what is one branch from the tree of the Theatre of the Oppressed), where – after some demechanisation and image theatre activities – everyone could chose an article from the recent past (printed) and in smaller group create a performance about that.
Before leaving for the Christmas holydays Werner Moron, who’s methodology about the active ingredients of art serves as base for our project methodology, visited our group and spoke about the development of the method, the role of art is activism through his experiences and perspective.
webpage of the artist: http://www.wernermoron.be/
The slam workshops aimed to work with the presence and with texts too, so during the two sessions the trainer offered different games to try out different dimensions of this. The members of the group created metaphors, short texts, learnt basics about the slam text’s structure, had verbal creative competitions and improvisation tasks in the workshop frame.
work of the workshop leader artist about racism
In the frame of two consecutive workshops two theatre expert shared their practices of planning and realizing interventions in specific sites, involving the audience, using audiovisual tools. After some examples the group had the opportunity to try out the process in a minimalistic way: in one case to transform the space and create imaginary itineraries, and finally see the potential of the idea; in the second workshop they went through a collaborative process from brainstorming, through choosing a relevant issue to tackle until analyzing the personal connections and framing the possible actions.
works from the artists:
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