PEOPLE's Workshop
School Group Sessions responding to
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
How does climate change provoke migration?
Here climate change needs to be understood in its broader sense (environmental, social, economical and political climates).
Here Migration can be understood as a physical movement, sense of displacement, but also a shift from one language to another, one form of representation to another.
The workshop aimed to address the current environmental change occurring in the gentrification of London cityscape simulating a sense of migration within the exhibition and gallery space.
The group was invited to perform a silent walk throughout four spaces (The Clore studio, the small garden, the gallery space and the Orozco Garden). They were asked to observe each spaces by looking, listening, touching and use their senses to differentiate the different spaces.
Back in the Clore Studio, they were asked to draw a map of their journey throughout the gallery without looking at their paper in order to focus on their memory and senses.
We then created a lexicon for each spaces to identify how it felt and sounded like.
We transformed the words graphically selecting two words from each categories and combined them with our maps to create a visual score of the various spaces.
Students performing their collective map
Each group had to invente a movement and a sound for their chosen words in order to perform the map.
We used to a rope to recreate the map and locate ourselves into the different spaces.
We ended the session with performances and asked the children how the different activities and the constant change and movement made them feel and how it helped them thinking of migration.
The Sunday Spot at The South London Gallery
We have been invited by the South London Gallery to run a series of workshops in response to their October exhibition's programme. To tie together both the exhibition by Thea Djordazeshe and the project of Ivan and Heather Morrison, we proposed a series of workshops visually approaching the idea of permaculture. Permaculture is the term defining a man made sustainable eco-system.
In Djordazeshe’s work, landscape is presented as an uncertain eco-system of shapes and materials standing in a fragile equilibrium. The work can be seen as an acting permaculture eco-system, in which the relation between the sculpture and supporting materials and their existing environment is a difficult but sustainable negotiation. This idea is equally addressed in the work of Ivan and Heather
Morrison with a more direct and concrete approach but equally symbolic way. Through this idea of permaculture, we created a direct dialogue between the eco-systems respectively created by the artists to imagine and conceive new landscapes with the children!
Session N1
PERMACULTURE
The first activity consisted in making terrariums which are micro 'eco-systems'/ gardens confined in a jar. Childrens had to prepare the jar that will host their plant and learned how to care for it.
The second activity consisted in the fabrication of tiles that will later compose a flower pot.
The childrens were invited to draw, carve, create marks that somehow evoque the area they live in, the people they meet and constitute their daily eco-system.
EQUILIBRIUM
Session N2
During the second session we invited the group to experiment with notions of equilibrium and disequilibrium. How to balance objects, forces or even people! Through this activity, the idea was to introduce the notion that an eco-system is based on a series of forces/ events existing in balance allowing a system to function.
LIFE DRAWING
Session N3
In this last session, after the chaoting greatness of the balanced sculptures and chain reactions, we invited childrens to regroup and simply use each other to create art work. We covered the walls of the gallery with paper and started drawing eachother in different scales and pace.