18 October 2024
This workshop invite you to explore making, un/learning, repurposing process and training technicality of unknown possibilities of discarded objects and found object. The objective of the workshop is to gain an understanding of the fundamental techniques involved in assemblage, including the ability to create connections and disconnections between components, as well as to gain collective experience of how others approach this process. At the beginning of workshop, we will walk around the Kurzbauergasse atelier, dive in dumpster, and walk in the yard and find any type of materials. The workshop will include group exercises as well as an introduction to the basic tools for handling everyday objects as part of the sculpture.
Materials : Bring found objects and your one favourite any type of tool
Please bring with you to the workshop any objects that you are interested in making work in this context. Ideally, the items should be able to repurpose and have no personal value. We will resource the material from our walk around the studio yet if the objects are not likely found in Kurzbauergasse. For the later part of the workshop, I would like to ask you to bring any type of your favourite tool to share our knowledge to the class.
Contents:
– Dumpster diving : In the workshop, we will walk around the Kurzbauergasse atelier, dive to dumpsters, and walk in the yard and find any type of materials.
– Un/learning Objects : With the objects we collected and brought, we will do an exercise entitled “Un/learning Objects,” which will take the form of a game. It will engage with objects without visual perception, yet with tactical perception. With the collected material, one person will be blindfolded, and the others in the group will give this person an object. The student with the closed eyes will investigate how this object can be used as a sculptural material or as an imagined possibility based solely on experience of form, texture, and structure. The aim is to unlearn objects and relearn them and share the experience.
– Assemblage Reading : Photos reading in small groups
– Brainstorming on two things : repurposing and attaching, let’s write down
– A basic tool demonstration will be provided, outlining the various tools available for different purposes.
This will be followed by the second part of the workshop, during which the participants will apply the knowledge gained to create a collective assemblage. One group will be cutting or taking it apart, Once group will be glueing or assembling. Then the group exchanges their role. The participants will have the opportunity to rebuild the delivered object. The objects will be placed and mixed among the students. The readymade object can be reshaped through a variety of methods, including cutting, attaching, and reforming. This section will assist in the expansion of the potential applications of repurposed materials.