WORKSHOP SUN, WIND AND CITY OF ÚSTÍ / for fine art students FUD UJEP / 2024
The workshop was about intangible site-specific art that responds to natural phenomena. We moved in the field of site and time-specific art, landart, conceptual art and performance art.
WORKSHOP TUŠIT KRUHY / for fine art students FUD UJEP / 2023
The workshop at Lysá hora nad Hlinnou with students of the Fine Art studio from the Faculty of Art and Design of the UJEP was devoted to the perception of a specific place through various exercises. The activities were focused on experiencing the place with senses other than sight, on using the power of the wind to move with it or against it, on listening to its sound. We took a trip in our head that was inspired by Lumír Hladík's action Somewhere, Nowhere from 1979. We let ourselves be taken blindfolded to an unknown place, from where we brought an object, but we will never know what the place looked like and exactly where it was . We learned to perceive the place more by hearing, smelling and haptically. Based on this experience, students of the Fine Art studio prepared visual works in a short period of time during the plein air at the Löblhof & Artgrund and then an exhibition in the Mashtall Gallery. In addition, they also participated in an exercise led by Martin Krupa, which was focused on working with light sources and their use in the open countryside. Photo documentation and the Lightening of Meadow exhibition were also created from this exercise.
WORKSHOP ABOUT CLOUDS, SUN AND WIND IN PANSKÝ DIEL / for fine art students and teachers / 2023 / Academy of Arts, Banská Bystrica, SK / EDU PERFORM ART
The workshop was focused on the perception of a specific place - Panský diel mountain (1100 m above sea level) and natural phenomena that occurred at the given place at the given time. The journey and preparation for it were part of the event. Due to the implementation of the event at the end of October, we were able to focus mainly on the wind, but also on the clouds (the sun only appeared for a while after our arrival). During the workshop, the participants always had 10 minutes to perceive the phenomenon and 10 minutes to react. With the clouds, they perceived and reacted to their movement, weight, boundlessness, permanent transformation. With the wind, they perceived its sound, strength, manifestations on plants and on their bodies, including their breath, and subsequently tried to use its energy or go against it. This was followed by 30 minutes of re/action to a place or natural phenomena of their choice.
When I was little i wanted to fly with an airplane because i thought i could see god in the sky.
Turns out we have been living in a godless world.
A mechanical world.
Every cloud is an organ.
Every cloud is a machine.
Clouds are scary. I am afraid the clouds will eat me. They have no teeth. They will take me in their big, moist, white stomachs.
They will take me away.
The clouds are hungry.
The clouds are hungry.
The flowers are hungry.
The trees are hungry.
The stars are hungry.
Everything is hungry and this is why everything moves trying to reach the other, trying to consume the other.
I save my hunger for later.
Some people say when you die it's just black.
I think it's like the snowflakes on an old tv.
I think death is full of noise.
When I look at the clouds i see noise.
And in this noise veins are formed, channels streams nerves cables roots lightnings tunnels strings branching and collecting in a network, holding the skies together.
Music.
Aleksandar Gabrovski / student of The Angewandte Performance Laboratory, Vienna