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Workshops / Workshops / Atölyeler
“City Commons”
PAPERSCENES Workshop
Duration: 3 hours x 2days
Age group: 12-16
Number of participants: 12
Pre-conditions: none
Needs: Big table surface suitable to paint and cut cartoons on, a PC or a mac, stereo
active sound system, a wall suitable to tape works over
Date: 15-16 September 2012
In the first part of this workshop, the participants work on the concept of the commons.
Participants freely discuss about the idea and try to name the commons in
the city. Then, they are asked to visualize those ideas and link them in a simple
story. Later they will create an interactive scene from cutout and painted drawing
cartoons which gives audio responses when touched.
Participants will use paints and drawing cartoons to visualize their ideas, will cut
them out and bring together on a wall to visually create the city scene. They will
also add circuitry hidden in the cartoons, record and edit the sound and finalize
the work.
“Commons Tense”
Public Art Workshop
Duration: 4 hours x 3 days
Age group: adults
Number of participants: 6-8
Needs: A projector, tables to sit and work around, wi-fi Internet connection
Pre-conditions: Artist and art students are expected to take part
Dates: 17-19 September 2012
In order to create a public work together, we want to work with an abstract idea
related to the title of the exhibition, which is “Commons Tense”. The grammatical
structures of the tenses convey the meaning based on the time related references.
When we talk about past, present, future, etc. we use corresponding tenses… If it
were not the time the tenses refer but the social concepts, how would a sentence
told in the common tense have been formed? Or a practical question: how would
we form our artistic sentence to talk in the commons tense? What would be the
medium to transform such a sentence? How we can create a legible expression constituted
on commons?
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