Object Lessons Workshop: ArtYard

13 Front Street,Frenchtown NJ 08825

06 November, 2021

Description

Going to the Meadow curators will host a one-day workshop to make unique, small-scale artworks that explore collaboration and improvisation. Please join us for a one-day workshop in which Robin Hill and Ulla Warchol will guide participants in making unique, small-scale artworks that explore collaboration and improvisational methods. Found objects and materials, provided by the workshop leaders, will serve as starting points for two-and three-dimensional tactile and visual art explorations. This workshop aims to provide a jumpstart for one’s creative process. Anyone interested in developing sensibilities around material manipulation, visual perception, and experimentation will find this workshop of interest. What to expect Fast-paced and nimble, there will be no set outcome in this workshop, as we are prioritizing improvisation and the creative process. This is a workshop about collaboration — you will be making things in dialogue with a person or persons possibly unknown to you. The objects you take home will be intrinsically connected to objects going home with others. Come prepared to play! Materials: All materials and tools will be provided by the workshop leaders and ArtYard Background Robin Hill and Ulla Warchol are the co-curators of Going to the Meadow, a living exhibition currently on view at ArtYard. Individual examples of Object Lessons are installed in the three Very Small Gallery sites, located throughout the ArtYard galleries. The inspiration for this workshop comes from Hill and Warchol’s project, Object Lessons, a year-long art collaboration which premiered at the San Francisco Center for the Book, on the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday. Upon its completion, Hill and Warchol soon grew to realize the potential of Object Lessons to cultivate deeper conversations with one another through objects and material exploration as well as its serendipitous alignment with the theory of joint attention. They have taught versions of this workshop throughout the United States and Europe over the course of the past nine years. Participants: Ages 16 and older. Participants should bring: A journal for notes Bag lunchDuration: 6 hours with a 30-minute break for lunch (participants must bring their own lunch) Learn more Object Lessons: http://rhillstudio.com/collaborations-object-lessons Going to the Meadow: https://artyard.org/exhibitions/going-to-the-meadow/ “Does an exchange mediated through objects help people think together? Do the challenging complexities of art OBJECTS, in particular, increase the odds of joint viewers skidding together into insights they would never, otherwise, have experienced? It’s my bias to think so, which doesn’t mean that I’m not equally interested in art ACTIONS, just that I think that objects offer distinct opportunities that may be related to subjects like joint attention and social cognition. “We felt seen,” Hill and Warchol told me This is a rare and precious feeling. As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio writes, “The fact that no one sees the minds of others, conscious or not, is especially mysterious.” Object Lessons walks us right up to this mystery of what we cannot know about each other’s thoughts, and the pleasures of signaling to each other, anyway.” --From 2012 essay What We Talk About When We Talk About Art by Meredith Tromble We are a contemporary art gallery and theater located in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our programs include art, film, music, poetry, and more. Address: 13 Front Street, Frenchtown NJ Email: [email protected] Phone: (908) 996-5018