PRACTICE OF RECONAISSANCE
Workshop by Jorge Yeregui, one of the artists featured in the exhibition The Undecided Landscapes
Friday 5th October, 5.30 pm until 6.30 pm
Saturday 6th October, 10.00 am until 2 pm and 5 pm until 8 pm
At ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies
With the support of OSIC (Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural)
Coinciding with the exhibition Els paisatges indecisos (The Undecided landscapes), open to the public in ACVIC until January 12th 2019, the workshop will take the form of a collaborative practice in order to develop various strategies by which to approach and reconnoitring a specific location.
Starting with the intense disturbance which the real estate boom has generated throughout the locality, the workshop analyses the notion of landscape as an intermediate space between what we see and what we know, between what the experience of a place offers us and what we know about it, of the conditioning factors that comprise it.
The workshop focuses on those ground-sites where large urban projects have been started, and which have been abandoned in recent decades. These spaces present a large formal and administrative vacuum, but, in turn, have gained an intense representational value, as a testimony of a moment of convergence of certain social, economic and political dynamics which have resulted in these places.
In the workshop, participants will visit this kind of space, in order to exercise unique approaches which will allow each participant to develop their own tactics and creative processes, as well as to generate their own strategies of interpretation and meaning of the landscape.
CONTENTS
Friday, October 5th:
From 5.30 pm until 6.30 pm: Welcome, presentations, introduction.
Saturday, October 6th:
From 10:00 am until 2 pm | Field-trip to a ground-site, and field work.
From 5 pm until 8 pm | Discussing the practical session: expectations, strategies, impacts, discoveries. Commenting on resulting materials. Conclusions.
PRICE AND REGISTRATION
Free workshop
Booking for the workshop will end on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018. There is a limited number of places available, and will be reserved on a first come, first served basis. A booking will be considered as finalised on completion and receipt of the registration form. Please note that failure to achieve the minimum number of bookings will result in cancellation of the workshop.
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WHO IS IT FOR?
The workshop is aimed especially at artists, photographers, architects, urban planners, and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the concept of place, in all its complexity and breadth. The workshop has a strong practical element, and each participant may work in their preferred media (photography, video, drawing, installation, writing, etc.), though they should exhibit a good knowledge of the media used.
Workshop related to the exhibition Els paisatges indecisos (The Undecided Landscapes), open to the public in ACVIC until January 12th 2019.
