CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP WITH ART THERAPIST HANNA LEIPOLD
SATURDAY 24 JULY FROM 10AM TO 12PM
SUNDAY 25 JULY FROM 10AM TO 12PM
Engaging with the arts and creativity generally has proven throughout history to aid communication, build relationships, form social connections and to help make sense of complex emotions and feelings.
In this 90-minute workshop, the participants will be guided through a creative experience facilitated by a qualified Art Therapist to explore and reflect together on the impact of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic on their emotional and psychological wellbeing.
We will use art materials and the exhibited photographs to reflect together in a supportive group environment on the challenges and pressures for young people to navigate the ‘new normal’.
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
KOREBAJU PROJECT BY CÉSAR CUSPOCA
INTERVIEW - SEPT 2020
Artist César Cuspoca talking about the Korebaju Project, a long term collaborative project with the Korebaju, an indigenous community of Colombia.
César Cuspoca is a Colombian artist (b.1987) based in Paris.
His work challenges human perceptions and beliefs established by convention or tradition within society. The idea of experience takes a central role in Cuspoca’s approach and allows him to structure his creative process. Through experiences, Cuspoca produces still images, videos, and sound recordings. He combines these gathered materials with elements of the local environment to build installations in situ.In 2018, accompanied by a production team and a phonetician, Jenifer Vega, Cuspoca spent a month among the Korebaju (Children of the Earth), an Indigenous community located in the Caqueta region of Colombia. The Korebaju population is estimated at two thousand individuals. Like other groups in the region, they were affected by the exploitation of rubber, minerals and wood which consequently lead to human-forced displacements and environmental damages. It’s a community in danger of disappearance according to UNESCO. While Cuspoca spent time with the Korebaju, he was struck by their capacity to adapt and survive despite the continuous violence around them. The Korebaju allowed the artist to record sound, video and photographic materials. Cuspoca used these materials subsequently and combined them with items of the local environment from the exhibition space.
The final installations provoke a sensitive reflection on the Korebaju reality and explore the interconnected stories between Indigenous people and Western civilisations.
www.cesarcuspoca.com
PERFORMING RESISTANCE
PERFORMANCE BY ANAMARIJA AMI PODREBARAC
19th October 2019 - From 6:00pm to 9pm At Offshoot Gallery.
As part of our current exhibition Except The Clouds, we are inviting you to a performance by artist Anamarija Ami Podrebarac on Saturday, 19 October at Offshoot Gallery.
Artist is performing durational work in which it will repeatedly write one word over and over again until all the pieces of paper are used. Work explores repetition and exhaustion as an act to give voice to the repressed space of a working office. Resisting the disorder and sexual violence that takes place in today's world. The performance takes a form of permission that body acts out in a written word. It is a durational performance and time is measured until all the sheets of paper are used.
Anamarija Ami Podrebarac was born in 1990 in Karlovac, Croatia. She completed her BA in Applied Arts in 2016 and in 2017 started a postgraduate degree at Central St. Martins in photography.
She works in the area of artificial intelligence and the central focus of her work is to question our position in the interpretation of art and expand our understanding and own perceptions of the world by rejecting traditional ideas of the human form.
Anamarija positions technology as a centre of knowing, rather than putting technology in the positions of “other". She uses rhizomatic performance which enables her to let her work grow independently from her body.
www.apodrebarac.com
ANAMARIJA AMI PODREBARAC
