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Fine Small Movements
Despite the stone sculpture class at the Quarry, all the studios will be working with small movements in the last two weeks. Rather than big gestures, focusing on the initial idea is more crucial. As artist Nicolas Wild put, it is reminiscent of a monastery…
Wild's class The Craft of Comics has done an exercise on the first day: collective comic drawing. A student chooses a word from a book such as short, up or distance. The first person starts the drawing and gives it to the one near by. The following drawing has to be created by using the same character and a new word. Excellent exercise to practice storywriting.
Tex Rubinowitz class Homage
Bernhard Cella The Book as Printed Space −Concept and Printed Work
Aaaron Angell Radical Handbuilding
DISTRUKTUR Film as a Sensitive Body
Maha Mamoon’s class has been watching films and discussing phenomenons such as the CCTV cameras and their possibilities for artistic use. “A camera is always on and an incident might happen at any time – in a way like fishing.” Tex Rubinowitz and the students work on making an homage – still discussing whom to choose. While the class The Craft of Comics by Wild is creating their main character for the story, DISTRUKTUR’s class is learning each and every step of using a 16 mm camera from the scratch. They take out the film, roll and wash it with specific developers and make jokes in between. The students of Bernharnd Cella focus on handwriting, combining typography and architecture, creating a historical fashion moodboard and contemplating on ethnography and colonialism in relation to tattoos.
Actually there is an exception considering the small movements: ceramic makers are digging the soil to make Romano British Kilns with an old technique, which is also the first trial of the artist-teacher Aaron Angell.
(Do you remember the scene in the film Amelié that the protagonist was helping a blind man to cross the street and instantly explaining what’s around in this short period of time? The paragraph above reminds me that.)
18/08/16 16:51 Summer Academy 2016
