organization
- The training is composed of nine sessions. Attendees don't have to follow the whole program, but they can actually register independently for each session.
- Approach: Cross-disciplinary, at the intersection of dance, visual arts, ecology and psychology
- Participant's profile: The training is open for professional dancers, choreographers, performance artists, makers, visual artists, designers, activists, cultural workers, writers… with or without any degree, or still student
- Number of participants: 5 people / session
- Fee: Free of charge
- Venue: Dance Studio, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Unlearning facilitators: Anna Ádám, Cie Gray Box
- Application process: Apply here
topic
Structured with movement exercises and performance tasks, participants during this training will explore the psychosocial consequences of climate change on a personal level and point out how humans are acutely dependent on the environment, deeply entwined with it on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. With the use of different techniques and tools (solo and group performances, drawing, writing, video, gifs and photography), participants will relate major socio-political and ecological contexts to psychological and mental symptoms (anxiety, denial, aggressiveness, critical rejection, ignorance...) discuss their parallels, open new questions and perspectives. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, participants will move back and forth between performance tasks, creative writing and automatic drawing. They will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of their own original artworks.
schedule
The workshop explores the psychosocial consequences of climate change.
Attendees don't have to follow the whole program, but they can actually register independently for each session.
Attendees don't have to follow the whole program, but they can actually register independently for each session.
- SESSION 1: June 7, 10-13h: Topics: fear, frustration, anxiety, stress
- SESSION 2: June 8, 10-13h: Topics: domination, oppression, exploitation, control
- SESSION 3: June 9, 10-13h: Topics: the feeling of being trapped, difficulty to act, to go beyond our material and mental barriers
- SESSION 4: June 10, 10-13h: Topics: the feeling of being without perspective, without horizon, without issue, without future
- SESSION 5: June 11, 10-13h: Topics: powerlessness, being lost, overwhelmed
- SESSION 6: June 12, 10-13h: Topics: violence, aggressiveness
- SESSION 7: June 12, 14-17h: Topics: apathy, depression
- SESSION 8: June 13, 10-13h: Topic: skepticism, doubt, critical rejection
- SESSION 9: June 13, 14-17h: Topic: ignorance, denial
methodology
"Art-based unlearning", and more broadly, art education conceived as a critical practice, is a cross-disciplinary approach using artistic skills, processes and experiences as tools to take an active part in the social and political discourse on women's empowerment and rights, and to enhance their emancipation by the means of education and art.
The goal of “art-based unlearning” is to create immersive learning experiences via readings, discussions, creative exercises in various artistic forms (visual arts, performing arts, creative writing...), so as to make women gain new insights and perspectives, develop critical thinking and confidence. During the classes, participants have the opportunity to experiment in a safe, judgement-free zone where they can express themselves most honestly while receiving the support, knowledge and tools to grow confidence and strengthen their personal performance persona.
The goal of “art-based unlearning” is to create immersive learning experiences via readings, discussions, creative exercises in various artistic forms (visual arts, performing arts, creative writing...), so as to make women gain new insights and perspectives, develop critical thinking and confidence. During the classes, participants have the opportunity to experiment in a safe, judgement-free zone where they can express themselves most honestly while receiving the support, knowledge and tools to grow confidence and strengthen their personal performance persona.
class description
At the beginning of each class, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, students will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises and tasks, students will be guided to explore various approaches and elaborate thematic performances, texts, images and objects. With embracing multiple media, students will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
during the classes, activities will involve
Performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation and movement; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; movement research ; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...) making exercises and creative tasks in different medium (drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art...), searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
final public showing
Following the last class, participants will present their works in the frame of a series of outdoor totally free of charge public space showings (performances, exhibitions, ceremonies, rituals...).