MA-Cap Connected Practices tutorial prep, and a zine workshop.

 

Collating information to start my Connected Practices writing - I've got all the content in my blog and had prepped some notes, been considering, but this is my first attempt to pull it together into something coherent !

Facilitated a Higher Horizons Zine workshop today and rather than introduce the activity from the perspective that I'm an artist, and talk about mediums and mark making, I opened up with a question about contemporary art, having a language to open up a conversation about the world that we live in, where we fit into it and how we use visuals. It was really good. I got some good feedback and the zines that were produced were interesting ! 

I do really enjoy the interaction and engagement of a zine workshop, and have been thinking a lot about Becky Nunes comments about how integral teaching is to her practice. Am seriously considering going in this direction.

  

  

Thew stickers were both great (conversations about different visuals, consumed and relatable, can help us to identify what we like and where we fit, so help inform our sense of identity and how they sit next to other visuals like newspaper clippings and magazines - the styles and the graphics. But also, they were raided - in hindsight, I'd give these out after other materials.. they felt quite integral to the content. 

But for yr 10s .. there was a recognition of politicians and current affairs that I'm not sure I'd have had at 14/15.