There were workshops in the fours locations of the project: Budapest, Madrid, Nottingham and Paris offering a chance to take part in the different phases of the project:
Ideas bank: collecting ideas that matter: what do you want to change in society?
Initiation to artivism: who are the artivists? What social political problems did they deal with and how? Make your own artivist campaign! Use art to point to an issue that bothers you, something you want to change.
What we did in Paris?
We did many/diverse activities, here is a brief description about the activities that we did according to the timeline:
1
The pre-festival of Grand-Voisins period's
We worked for couples of weeks for pimping up the shopping carts with the artivistic flavor
and it was not easy to transform the intellectual ideas from the pure immaterial thought to a physical existence, it took to much hard working to bring it alive.
The Festival of Grands-Voisins
The event took a place on the 4th of march
We were ready, and we had several shopping carts, each one has unique identity, we had the feminine shopping cart by Vera, The reading shopping cart by Lily and Laura, The vegan shopping cart by Anais, the masculine shopping cart by Mena and other shopping carts.
to see some more,,, please follow us on Instagram
2
The artistic decorations workshop
After the festival we worked with the residents* of Les Grands Voisins*
we started this continuous activity for more than one month and half between 10 march ~ 2 may.
the theme of this collective decoration workshops was the plants.
we organized often 2~3 workshops each week.
3
The Serious talk sessions
We organized several workshops with the residents* of Les Grands Voisins*, we used different types of methods in order to avoid repeating ourselves and to have another shapes of results.
The going out with a camera
on the 30th of march we went out for a walk the participants in the neighborhood that we work/live in.
and we took photos during the walk then we discussed about those photos together and shared our ideas.
The open debates
in April and May we also organized several open-discussion sessions with the participants to give them the opportunity to express themselves freely.
The ideas-extracting workshops
We organized 3 sessions with solid program:
1.The ABCD session: it took a place pm the 30 of April, it was about expressing the most important issues according the participants using the random letters of the Alphabet.
2.The stereotypes and prejudice session: it was a walk-through educational workshop for better understanding about how it “stereotypes and prejudice” works
3.The ABCD session version²: we found that the first version was fine, that’s why we applied the same concept but in different form/method and enhanced activites.
Conference: Interculturel look to the women and men.
On 07 June 2017 19h00 – at Amphitheater, Lelong building inside the site of Les grands voisins
4
The Initiation workshops
We had different artistical types of workshop during the initiation period, we wanted to let the participants taste different types of art’s forms for being sure about the artistical frame that they would use to express themselves during the campaign.
Photography's workshop
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 will be developed and shown in the amphitheatre 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.
Sculpture's workshop
The sculpture artist explained to the participants the characteristics required in any artistical product about the African culture; the colors and the shapes, the colors should be very vibrant, with strong tune and the shapes are simple, and came from African natural.
then we used all the material around us and integrated it in the product, for example, some used some pieces of wood, others used some leafs of tree and some used some pieces of cartoon papers!
We also had “normal material” and tools.
with the professional guide of the Artist the participants did nice artworks.
then we used all the material around us and integrated it in the product, for example, some used some pieces of wood, others used some leafs of tree and some used some pieces of cartoon papers!
We also had “normal material” and tools.
with the professional guide of the Artist the participants did nice artworks.
Theatre's workshop
We began the session by exercising some activities like « theatrical walk » and « un-mechanization ».
For example, one of the exercise was to walk on the room and adopt, individually, a recognizable way of walking When everyone had found there walk, the moderator says a name, and everyone had to follow the person who was called, and adopt his/her way of walking, then came back to there own walk,
Later during this afternoon, the focus was made on exercises involving the body and the consciousness of it. We proposed different theatrical activities having as common the creation of « human statues ».
Step by step, the exercices focused more and more towards the « abecedaire » themes, and to our final goal : how to connect theatre with artivism. Some final statues where, for exemple, the « illustration » of gathering, loneliness, anonymity… Then we discussed about the different productions of this second phase of the workshop.
Finally, the last part of the session was dedicated to the cration of small scenes around the words of the alphabet primer. We let the first group choose their theme between « work » or « anonymity » ; and the second between « gathering » or « community ».
The instruction was to create a small scene started with this idea of « gathering » or « anonymity ». The only request was to not Finnish the scene, because the other group will have to find an end and reproduce the entire scene, from A (reproducing the same beginning) to Z.
Collage's workshop
Before starting this workshop, we brought big amount of magazines from all kinds, to give the participants the opportunity to have dozens of the options!
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, 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,,, ect ,then each participants did the cut and paste to create those shapes!
Then the collage artist asked the participants to try to transmit an idea with rules-free of using any photos in all the magazine.
Finally we pinned all the products of the participants on the wall and everyone explained his/her work to the others.
Serigraphy's workshop
The Artist the session by explaining how it works as a form of art, and during the workshop we exchanged among us how this form of art is used for underground activism!
Affiche engagée's workshop
We pinned the photos that taken during the photography workshop 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
then, they have been asked to write a text about a word of the abecedarium
Postal cards' workshop
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.
5
Artivist campaigns
After the end of the initiation period with the participants we moved to investing what we tasted of artistical forms in the local environment, we passed through the valley of activism with our artistcal weapons the we got during the last months of work!
Exhibition
From the 1st to the 16th July the Artivist team participated in the exhibition “En herbe et en Béton” at the Galerie des Arts Voisins, where we exposed results of the “initiation to artivism” workshops.
The Campaign
We had four stations and during moving from station to other there was an activity in between!
- Gathering point and getting to know each-other
- Short-film’s station: we screened the short-film that developed by text that written by the residents and also starred by them
- The “maison des medecins” Station: The theme African dominated this place, we exposed some testimonies of some of the residents then we performed a traditional African tale on the secret of happiness, which ended with African drum session and dance!
- Ending party with invited DJ
The magazine: Face cachée
We decided to dedicate a dedicated evening for the event of launching the magazine, in order to give the magazine the enough time that it deserves.
So we invited the world to come on the 27th of October to participate in the journey of discovering the thoughts of some residents of GrandVoisins!
The magazine has been co-produced by the residents of GV and team artivism
So we invited the world to come on the 27th of October to participate in the journey of discovering the thoughts of some residents of GrandVoisins!
The magazine has been co-produced by the residents of GV and team artivism
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The events for the youth workers
We organized an event for the actors who are working with the youngster so we can approach them with our methodology that we developed
We searched for an event that could gather the maximum actors who are working with the youngster, We found the event “Culture au quais” is quite compatible with what we are looking for because it’s an annual event that takes place on the side of the seine river after the end of the period of holidays, offering the opportunity to discover the cultural season in friendly atmosphere!
We had two main paths to go through for this event:
The theories sharing path
We had our stand during the 3 days, a window for the interaction with the world to show the summary result of the many months of work
The practices applying path
“Eyes need to see, hands need to touch and mouth needs to taste to feel the experience”
We had 3 workshops where we applied some art forms as dynamic tools for the political expression (Workshop of Linocut Workshop, workshop of creation brochures politique and a session movement and interaction)
What we did in Madrid?
Discussion on gender
One of the main problems highlighted as a result of urban overruns was the question of how women feel in public spaces and what problems they often face. To debate all these issues, we invited in April, 2017, Ignacio Moreno Segarra. One of the aspects discussed was, women in politics
The Artivism Project visits the Forum of Urban Violence in Madrid (19-20 April, 2017)
Our young people were invited by the Madrid City Council to take part in the workshops and talks of the forum on urban violence. In the event they were able to hear and see experiences of intervention in the public space of countries like Colombia, Uruguay, India, Guatemala, etc.
Athens conference of the ESE, 29.08-01.09.2017: ( (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities
The UCM team presented a paper on the mayor sociological event, the Conference of the European Sociological Association. We talked about artivism through theatre. It was a good possibility to attract the attention of our partners from Russia, Greece and other countries to our project.
soon
What did we do?
We realized several activities within the frame of the project.
We started the process with collecting opinions, asking young people in Budapest what they think are the 3 most severe problems in the country.
A City Game conducted in the public spaces of Budapest was used as a frame for this process, with 5 stations each tackling different social questions, such as migration, homelessness and poverty, education, freedom of speech and corruption.
City Game promo video
In September 2017 we launched a call to recruit young people who are willing to act using artistic activism. We asked them to tell us about their motivation and also what they consider to be the main social political problems in Hungary. Some of them created images to communicate these questions.
At the first two meetings we got to know each other and our different opinions about social issues. In smaller groups the participants created problem maps. They each chose the first 10 most important questions and discussed the connections between different phenomena, such as problems in the education, homelessness, apathy, etc. and visualizing them as well.
The first artistic workshop was creative writing, where – after discussing notions such as creative, inspiration, flow, and creation – we created texts in smaller groups to work on them.
The second technique the group had the chance to experiment with was the creation of the fanzine. Half of the group edited a common zine and also learnt the technique of mini fanzine.
- + Paris
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What we did in Paris?
We did many/diverse activities, here is a brief description about the activities that we did according to the timeline:
1The pre-festival of Grand-Voisins period's
We worked for couples of weeks for pimping up the shopping carts with the artivistic flavorand it was not easy to transform the intellectual ideas from the pure immaterial thought to a physical existence, it took to much hard working to bring it alive.
The Festival of Grands-Voisins
The event took a place on the 4th of marchWe were ready, and we had several shopping carts, each one has unique identity, we had the feminine shopping cart by Vera, The reading shopping cart by Lily and Laura, The vegan shopping cart by Anais, the masculine shopping cart by Mena and other shopping carts.
to see some more,,, please follow us on Instagram
2The artistic decorations workshop
After the festival we worked with the residents* of Les Grands Voisins*we started this continuous activity for more than one month and half between 10 march ~ 2 may.
the theme of this collective decoration workshops was the plants.
we organized often 2~3 workshops each week.
3The Serious talk sessions
We organized several workshops with the residents* of Les Grands Voisins*, we used different types of methods in order to avoid repeating ourselves and to have another shapes of results.The going out with a camera
on the 30th of march we went out for a walk the participants in the neighborhood that we work/live in.and we took photos during the walk then we discussed about those photos together and shared our ideas.
The open debates
in April and May we also organized several open-discussion sessions with the participants to give them the opportunity to express themselves freely.
The ideas-extracting workshops
We organized 3 sessions with solid program:1.The ABCD session: it took a place pm the 30 of April, it was about expressing the most important issues according the participants using the random letters of the Alphabet.
2.The stereotypes and prejudice session: it was a walk-through educational workshop for better understanding about how it “stereotypes and prejudice” works
3.The ABCD session version²: we found that the first version was fine, that’s why we applied the same concept but in different form/method and enhanced activites.
Conference: Interculturel look to the women and men.On 07 June 2017 19h00 – at Amphitheater, Lelong building inside the site of Les grands voisins
4The Initiation workshops
We had different artistical types of workshop during the initiation period, we wanted to let the participants taste different types of art’s forms for being sure about the artistical frame that they would use to express themselves during the campaign.Photography's workshop
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 will be developed and shown in the amphitheatre 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.
Sculpture's workshop
The sculpture artist explained to the participants the characteristics required in any artistical product about the African culture; the colors and the shapes, the colors should be very vibrant, with strong tune and the shapes are simple, and came from African natural.
then we used all the material around us and integrated it in the product, for example, some used some pieces of wood, others used some leafs of tree and some used some pieces of cartoon papers!
We also had “normal material” and tools.
with the professional guide of the Artist the participants did nice artworks.
Theatre's workshop
We began the session by exercising some activities like « theatrical walk » and « un-mechanization ».For example, one of the exercise was to walk on the room and adopt, individually, a recognizable way of walking When everyone had found there walk, the moderator says a name, and everyone had to follow the person who was called, and adopt his/her way of walking, then came back to there own walk,
Later during this afternoon, the focus was made on exercises involving the body and the consciousness of it. We proposed different theatrical activities having as common the creation of « human statues ».
Step by step, the exercices focused more and more towards the « abecedaire » themes, and to our final goal : how to connect theatre with artivism. Some final statues where, for exemple, the « illustration » of gathering, loneliness, anonymity… Then we discussed about the different productions of this second phase of the workshop.
Finally, the last part of the session was dedicated to the cration of small scenes around the words of the alphabet primer. We let the first group choose their theme between « work » or « anonymity » ; and the second between « gathering » or « community ».
The instruction was to create a small scene started with this idea of « gathering » or « anonymity ». The only request was to not Finnish the scene, because the other group will have to find an end and reproduce the entire scene, from A (reproducing the same beginning) to Z.
Collage's workshop
Before starting this workshop, we brought big amount of magazines from all kinds, to give the participants the opportunity to have dozens of the options!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, 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,,, ect ,then each participants did the cut and paste to create those shapes!
Then the collage artist asked the participants to try to transmit an idea with rules-free of using any photos in all the magazine.
Finally we pinned all the products of the participants on the wall and everyone explained his/her work to the others.
Serigraphy's workshop
The Artist the session by explaining how it works as a form of art, and during the workshop we exchanged among us how this form of art is used for underground activism!
Affiche engagée's workshop
We pinned the photos that taken during the photography workshop 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 abecedariumPostal cards' workshop
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.
5Artivist campaigns
After the end of the initiation period with the participants we moved to investing what we tasted of artistical forms in the local environment, we passed through the valley of activism with our artistcal weapons the we got during the last months of work!Exhibition
From the 1st to the 16th July the Artivist team participated in the exhibition “En herbe et en Béton” at the Galerie des Arts Voisins, where we exposed results of the “initiation to artivism” workshops.
The Campaign
We had four stations and during moving from station to other there was an activity in between!
- Gathering point and getting to know each-other
- Short-film’s station: we screened the short-film that developed by text that written by the residents and also starred by them
- The “maison des medecins” Station: The theme African dominated this place, we exposed some testimonies of some of the residents then we performed a traditional African tale on the secret of happiness, which ended with African drum session and dance!
- Ending party with invited DJ
The magazine: Face cachée
We decided to dedicate a dedicated evening for the event of launching the magazine, in order to give the magazine the enough time that it deserves.
So we invited the world to come on the 27th of October to participate in the journey of discovering the thoughts of some residents of GrandVoisins!
The magazine has been co-produced by the residents of GV and team artivism
6The events for the youth workers
We organized an event for the actors who are working with the youngster so we can approach them with our methodology that we developedWe searched for an event that could gather the maximum actors who are working with the youngster, We found the event “Culture au quais” is quite compatible with what we are looking for because it’s an annual event that takes place on the side of the seine river after the end of the period of holidays, offering the opportunity to discover the cultural season in friendly atmosphere!
We had two main paths to go through for this event:
The theories sharing path
We had our stand during the 3 days, a window for the interaction with the world to show the summary result of the many months of work
The practices applying path
“Eyes need to see, hands need to touch and mouth needs to taste to feel the experience”
We had 3 workshops where we applied some art forms as dynamic tools for the political expression (Workshop of Linocut Workshop, workshop of creation brochures politique and a session movement and interaction)
- + Madrid
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What we did in Madrid?
Discussion on gender
One of the main problems highlighted as a result of urban overruns was the question of how women feel in public spaces and what problems they often face. To debate all these issues, we invited in April, 2017, Ignacio Moreno Segarra. One of the aspects discussed was, women in politics
The Artivism Project visits the Forum of Urban Violence in Madrid (19-20 April, 2017)
Our young people were invited by the Madrid City Council to take part in the workshops and talks of the forum on urban violence. In the event they were able to hear and see experiences of intervention in the public space of countries like Colombia, Uruguay, India, Guatemala, etc.
Athens conference of the ESE, 29.08-01.09.2017: ( (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities
The UCM team presented a paper on the mayor sociological event, the Conference of the European Sociological Association. We talked about artivism through theatre. It was a good possibility to attract the attention of our partners from Russia, Greece and other countries to our project.
- + Nottingham
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- + Budapest
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What did we do?
We realized several activities within the frame of the project.
We started the process with collecting opinions, asking young people in Budapest what they think are the 3 most severe problems in the country.A City Game conducted in the public spaces of Budapest was used as a frame for this process, with 5 stations each tackling different social questions, such as migration, homelessness and poverty, education, freedom of speech and corruption.
City Game promo video
In September 2017 we launched a call to recruit young people who are willing to act using artistic activism. We asked them to tell us about their motivation and also what they consider to be the main social political problems in Hungary. Some of them created images to communicate these questions.
At the first two meetings we got to know each other and our different opinions about social issues. In smaller groups the participants created problem maps. They each chose the first 10 most important questions and discussed the connections between different phenomena, such as problems in the education, homelessness, apathy, etc. and visualizing them as well.
The first artistic workshop was creative writing, where – after discussing notions such as creative, inspiration, flow, and creation – we created texts in smaller groups to work on them.
The second technique the group had the chance to experiment with was the creation of the fanzine. Half of the group edited a common zine and also learnt the technique of mini fanzine.
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