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Presents A Master Class with Love Difference
Presents A Master Class with Love Difference
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION HeART OF COMMUNITY: A Master Class with Love Difference
How can one harmonise their creative process in relationship with a community? This interactive workshop takes participants through a methodology, facilitated by Love Difference, an artist collective from Italy, who have focused on community-based public art since 2002. The workshop explores the responsibilities of the gesture, the narrative dimension of the creation, and the sustainability of the production process to enhance the creative process. The workshop will cover the following topics: • What is the narrative of my creation? • How can my creation impact a community? • How can tools of art and design envision Singapore’s future? The workshop proceeds in three sessions in which Love Difference: holds a public talk on their method working in and with community; a two-day workshop and thereafter, a Love Difference Pop-Up event held in a café venue. In this Pop-up Event participants will experience the Love Difference’s unique ice cream that was created to stimulate and promote dialogue and exchanges between groups. Difference’s unique ice cream, which was created to stimulate and promote dialogue and exchanges between groups.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
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Professionals and students in the areas of Art, Design, and/or Technology, who may be new to community work in their practice/ research. This could include other professionals working with community, such as art therapists, social workers, architects etc.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES This workshop draws on Love Difference’s established experience in mapping and building community approaches. Love Difference will present the co-creation methodology they employ by Artway of Thinking, a contemporary art research group. Highly experiential, the workshop will provide participants with a process that will enhance their own practical and research work.
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By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Employ a co-creation methodology framework in their own research/practice, hence; 2. Reveal the narrative dimension of their creation; 3. Use basic elements to evaluate the sustainability of production process; 4. Employ these considerations to gain better understanding of a community, and; 5. Produce a shared vision for a tangible outcome to impact the community
MATERIALS PROVIDED (1) detailed handouts to be used during discussion portions of the workshop; (2) scenarios and questions used during small group critique portions; (3) evaluation; (4) Participants will also indulge in Love Difference’s ice cream at the Pop-Event.
DURATION/PROGRAMME Workshop involves: discussion, role-play, small-group work, demonstration, and pop-up event (total 18 hours). Participants are encouraged to also attend the Public Talk that precedes the Workshop. Public Talk (Open to public) 27 Jan 2015 (Tues), 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Venue: Moving Image Gallery Workshop 30 Jan 2015 (Fri), 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2015 (Sat – Sun), 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2.30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Venue: Singapore Art Museum Gallery 3.7 (Level 3) Pop-up at Café (Same day post-Workshop) 1 Feb 2015 (Sun), 6.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Venue: Food for Thought at SAM at 8Q
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
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Enrolment is limited to 15 – 20 participants only, to enhance the interactivity of the course.
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION
20 January 2015 Email: heybrack@gmail.com
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ABOUT LOVE DIFFERENCE Love Difference is a cultural association with a difference. Their works revolve around the will to meet and understand each other. Established in June 2002 by the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the pre-eminent contemporary artists today, together with international institutions, cultural centres, researchers, curators and artists, Love Difference was intended as an extension of the activities and vision of the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, an art and creativity laboratory founded in 1998. Since 2004, Emanuela Baldi and Filippo Fabbrica have coordinated Love Difference works on: workshops on shared collective processes; “making together” actions in collaboration with artists; networking and expertise on group dynamics for public and private sectors; artistic projects for dialogue among cultures; food events; conventions, meetings, seminars, concerts, performances, exhibitions. The Love Difference initiatives have a creative, interdisciplinary approach. They are innovative, transparent, sustainable and participatory. The association constantly works in several Italian cities; it has experience in European and Mediterranean projects. And then beyond Europe and Mediterranean area it operated in Colombia, Russia, South Korea, and United States of America.
THE LOVE DIFFERENCE PASTRY SHOPS Since 2008, fifty-four events have been held by Love Difference pastry shops in twenty cities across the world. The Love Difference Pastry Shop at the Island Café of the Centre international d’art et du paysage becomes the physical place for differences to come together. Here is a space for experimenting variety and mixture, a space for re-meeting and dialoguing, a place for tasting cakes and ice-creams from the Love Difference collection: a selection of products chosen to emphasize relating and sharing as key elements for founding a plural society.
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Love Difference won an Evens Prize for Intercultural Education 2005-06.
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ABOUT BRACK Brack is a platform for socially engaged artists and their work, gathering projects, people, and ideas that feed a progressive philosophy of life. Brack is doing something different in the discourse of arts, culture, and society. We don’t just write about art; we are interested in how it can address an issue of importance and create a significant space for individual and collective agency. At the same time, a postanalogue ethos is challenging old notions of hierarchical mediation— Brack enables artists and the community to shape this new space.
WHAT WE DO Brack projects focus on a participatory framework in uncovering socially engaged art and artists, with an emphasis on community engagement. Brack activities will include a range of pursuits: curatorial initiatives, educational programmes, artist commissions, talks, tours, performances, books, an itinerant library, and an online archive of avant-garde media.
BRACK MASTER CLASSES Brack Master Classes are a series of curated art workshops developed in collaboration with a socially engaged artist/arts group. These invited artists and arts groups are experts in the art of co-creation and have developed research and experience in working with communities. The artist will conduct a public talk, followed by customised creative workshops for invited participants, who then develop works or projects with a community.
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