A long long time ago, in a universe far far away, I was a student. I struggled a lot with my teachers but they were fabulous enough to allow this. They put up with my constant questioning, my constant challenging, my constant misbehaviour. One day, one of the other students came up to me and said, “I was having a tutorial with Tony and he said I should talk to you about safety nets.” I said, “What?” Continue reading
So, we are preparing ourselves to work together and to work in/with this place called Gozdowo. We are in the middle of a 2 week visit and we are tired. (But rather excited I think.) We are painfully aware that we can do everything wrong, that maybe we are not doing everything right or in the right order or in the right room.
Yesterday evening I ran a workshop introducing Photoshop as a tool for cultural animation. I work with this tool myself. A lot. But not exclusively. I work also with paint, with performance, with chocolate, with statistics, with plastic bags. Continue reading
Grupa II – Scheduled activities and some photos.
Some photos from the first week. Continue reading
After our meeting in Warsaw in December 06, I felt a little bit ashamed that I could not accurately describe ‘cultural animation’. I think I can describe ‘community arts’ but I try to stay away from this label now. It is really a hard label to get unstuck from. All labels are useful; all labels are problematic. Continue reading
One month of student placements culminated in an event at 22 Green Street, in Birmingham. This involved contributions from the 1st group, from the PhD candidates who stayed for the whole month, from Laundry members and from the 2nd group, (who organised and actualised this event in less than 1 week!)
Throughout February, Laundry hosts placements of twelve young Polish artists, students from Instytut Kultury Polskiej – 2 groups of 5 individuals specialising in cultural animation, each for one week, plus 2 PhD students for one month. Continue reading