Hibridna radionica pod nazivom Lica prirode (eng. Face Nature) pod vodstvom američke redateljice, autorice i predavačice Madeline Schwartzman aka See Yourself Sensing i Radioninog kolektiva održat će se u subotu (19-22h) i nedjelju (16-20h), 17. i 18. listopada 2020. u tri dijela – u prirodi, Radioninom labu na Knežiji i preko Zoom platforme.
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Face Nature je sezonska i eksperimentalna praksa u formatu radionice američke umjetnice Madeline Schwartzman kojom istražuje lokalnu ekologiju, hibridnost, ekološku krizu i budućnost ljudi. Dovodi ljude u neposrednu blizinu biljaka, u kontakt s lokalnom hranom s ciljem stvaranja interaktivnih i mehaničkih instalacija na ljudskom tijelu koje tvore neobične hibride i predstavljaju sredstvo za međusobnu subjektivnost. Cilj je stvoriti pukotinu u ljudskoj svijesti koja može poslužiti kao protuotrov za pasivnost i neaktivnost koja okružuje budućnost prirode te pomaknuti opaženu hijerarhiju između ljudi i drugih oblika prirode.
Radionica se sastoji od terenskog rada – priprema prije početka radionice, zatim zajedničkog rada u labosu ili preko Zoom platforme na skicama i idejama tijekom prvog dana te slaganje konstrukcije i povezivanje s elektronikom – arduino mikrokotroleri, servo motori, senzori i sl., tijekom drugog dana.
Radiona team: Goran Mahovlić, Damir Prizmić, Paula Bučar, Deborah Hustić (lista će još biti updateana)
1.1: Priprema za radionicu:
Da bi se pripremili za ovu dvodnevnu radionicu, prošećite prirodom (parkom ili gradom). Pronađite neke velike organske tvari: korijenje, osušene biljke, sjemenke, neobične prirodne oblike, otpale kore od stabla, objekte zanimljive morfologije – bilo koje biljne oblike koji vas nadahnjuju. Pronađite različite primjerke da vam pruže niz nadahnuća. Započnite radionicu s ovim materijalima u subotu. Ponesite svoj omiljeni alat za crtanje – olovka i papir, tuš, bilo što.
Zbog situacije s SARS-CoV-2 virusom, voditeljica se nalazi u New Yorku, a Radionin tim pokriva praktični rad u labu u Zagrebu.
Radionica Face Nature do sada se održavala diljem svijeta, a neka mjesta gdje se održala bila su Mediamatic (Amsterdam); California College of Art; The Cranbrook Academy of Art; Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven; The American School of Madrid i Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Barcelona.
O voditeljici:
Madeline Schwartzman je arhitektica, predavačica i filmska režiserka iz New Yorka. Diplomirala je na Yale School of Architecture te njena multidisciplinarna praksa kombinira arhitekturu, film/video i pisanje. Režirala je dugometražni film Afrodizijak te preko petnaest kratkih filmova koji su prikazivani na festivalima u Sjedinjenim Državama i inozemstvu te je nedavno dovršila roman. Schwartzman djeluje kao profesorica i mentorica na Barnard koledžu, na Sveučilištu Kolumbija (arhitektonski dizajn) dok je najpoznatiji njen kontinuiran rad na Parsonsu – Novoj školi za dizajn gdje djeluje kao profesorica za interdisciplinarni dizajn i crtanje. Napisala knjigu See Yourself Sensing (2011.) u kojoj obrađuje djela umjetnika, dizajnera interakcija, arhitekata i znanstvenika koji predviđaju budućnost ljudskih senzora kroz nosivu opremu, uređaje na glavi i instalacije. Dok nastavak See Yourself X: Proširena ljudska budućnost (Black Dog Press, London, 2018.) gleda na budućnost ljudske glave, koristeći modu, dizajn i tehnologiju kako bi istražila na koji način bismo se mogli proširiti u svemir, uključiti glavu ili postati nevidljivi objekti koji nestaju. Do sada surađivala s mnogim umjetnicima poput Daito Manabea, Hyungkoo Lee, Lawrence Malstafa, koletivom Gelitin te cijenjenim umjetnicima u interdisciplinarnim formatima kao što su Ann Hamilton, Ernesto Neto, Carsten Höller, Olafur Eliasson i Rebecca Horn. Njeni filmovi i video radovi prikazani su na mnogim festivalima i gradovima u SAD-u, Aziji i Europi.
Web: www.madelineschwartzman.com
Fotografije s desno na lijevo: Face Nature kreacija Michael Candy i Zahra A., studenti MIP-a na Umjetničkoj akademiji Cranbrook; skica, sudionica radionice Face Nature u Laboratoriju Baltan, Eindhoven; crtež strukture prirode; koštano sjeme mahune pronađeno u Eindhovenu; elektronički projekt nastao u sklopu radionice u laboratoriju Baltan; sušena artičoka studentica Marcha na IAAC-u u Barceloni; sudionik u Eindhovena proučavanje pokreta koji nosi Face Nature; a sudionik u Cranbrooku analizira divovsku šišarku. M. Schwartzman (c)
Prijaviti se možete preko Google forme ovdje: https://forms.gle/Ukkc2ud74PRwPwRZA do četvrtka, 15. listopada točno u ponoć.
Radionica je besplatna i traje dva dana, stoga molimo polaznike da se ne prijavljuju za rad u labu ako misle sudjelovati samo jedan dan jer time zauzimaju mjesto nekome tko želi sudjelovati od početka do kraja programa.
Maksimalan broj polaznika koji će sudjelovati i u Radioninom labu na praktičnoj realizaciji u ovisnosti o situaciji s korona virusom SARS-CoV-2 u Zagrebu je 8 sudionika .
Polaznike molimo da sa sobom obavezno ponesu zaštitne maske, dok su dezinfekcijska sredstva osigurana u Radioni.
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Madeline Schwartzman: Face Nature Workshop
Hybrid workshop Face Nature under the guidance of film director, artist, writter and design lecturer Madeline Schwartzman (USA) aka See Yourself Sensing and in collaboration with the Radiona – Zagreb Makerspace community is set to take place on Saturday (7-10pm CET) and Sunday 4-8pm CET), 17th and 18th October 2020 divided in three parts – in nature, through the Zoom platform and Radiona lab. International participants outside Croatia can partake via Zoom on both days.
Face Nature — a seasonal, experimental practice by artist Madeline Schwartzman — explores local ecology, hybridity, the environmental crisis, and the future of humans. It brings humans in close proximity to locally foraged plants, with installations on the human body that form uncanny hybrids and present a vehicle for mutual subjectivity. The aim is to create a crack in human awareness, to serve as an antidote to passivity and inaction surrounding the future of nature, and to shift the perceived hierarchy between humans and other forms of nature. Schwartzman presents Face Nature workshops around the world, including Mediamatic, Amsterdam, and recent engagements at the California College of Art; the Cranbrook Academy of Art; Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven; The American School of Madrid; and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Barcelona. Her films and videos have screened in festivals and venues in the US and abroad.
1.1: Forage
To prepare for this two day workshop, take a walk in nature (park or city). Find some great organic matter: roots, driedplants, seed pods, extraordinary forms, interesting morphology—any plant forms that inspire you. Find different specimens to give you a range of inspiration. We’ll start the workshop with these materials on Saturday. Bring your favoride drawing tool.
What can you find in and around Zagreb or your neighbourhood no matter where you are right now? There are marvelous specimens there that you’re not used to seeing. I’m looking forward to working with you from across the world.
Due to the situation with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the workshop leader is in New York and Radiona’s team covers practical work in the lab in Zagreb.
Radiona team: Goran Mahovlić, Damir Prizmić, Paula Bučar, Deborah Hustić (list to be updated)
You can sign up via the Google form here: https://forms.gle/Ukkc2ud74PRwPwRZA until Thursday, October 15 at exactly midnight.
About the workshop leader:
Madeline Schwartzman is a New York City writer, filmmaker and architect whose work explores human narratives and the human sensorium through social art, book writing, curating and experimental video making. Her book See Yourself Sensing (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2011) collects the work of artists, interaction designers, architects and scientists who speculate on the future of the human sensorium through wearables, devices, head gear and installations. See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (Black Dog Press, London, November 2018), looks at the future of the human head, using fashion, design, and technology to explore how we might extend into space, plug our head in, or make it disappear altogether.
Schwartzman curated See Yourself E(x)ist at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery (December 2018 – February 2019), an upcoming exhibition in which eighteen artists explored the future of humans and nature. She was the curator of Objects of Wonder at the Beall Center for Art +Technology and See Yourself Sensing at San Jose State University. All three exhibitions are the result of her books, and her offshore brains: her See Yourself Sensing blog on Facebook and @seeyourselfsensing on Instagram. She is a long term Adjunct Professor at Barnard College and a senior Part time Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons: the New School for Design, where she teaches architectural design, drawing, video production and time-based media. Schwartzman has received grants and awards for her work in film, sculpture and architecture, including a residency at the American Academy in Rome. Her films and videos have screened at festivals in the United States and abroad, including at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Walker Art Center, and former the Morbid Anatomy Museum in New York City.
Her social art project—365 Day Subway: Poems by New Yorkers—was featured on the cover of the Greater New York section of the Wall Street Journal, on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, and on PBS Weekend News Hour. Since May of 2013, every time she rides the subway, she asks a stranger to write a poem.
Images used in the first illustration are:
Face Nature creation by Michael Candy and Zahra A., MFA students at Cranbrook Academy of Art; a sketch by a participant in Face Nature workshop at Baltan Laboratory, Eindhoven; a drawing of the structure of nature; skeletal seed pods I foraged in Eindhoven; a participant at Baltan Labs with her electronic project; dried artichoke foraged by a MArch student at the IAAC in Barcelona; a participant in Eindhoven studying motion wearing Face Nature; a participant at Cranbrook analyzing a giant pine cone.