Workshop Strand 2 : OFFSITE – South Wing of the Kibble Palace
Friday June 9th, 2023 : 14:00 – 16:00
Overview
The proposal for the conference is to facilitate a walking workshop in which the artists will practically demonstrate their methodologies of collaboration and teaching. Siting the walk as an artwork, the route will be shaped to include moments for responsive actions and ongoing discussion with participants. The workshop will offer attendees the opportunity to contemplate process as both action and artwork, exchange their own teaching methodologies and discuss how art (specifically socially engaged art practices) can offer generous and generative moments for interaction. The approach of the artists is to create non-hierarchical spaces where everyone’s input and experience is valued equally.
Speakers
Niki Colclough
Niki Colclough is an Artist Researcher based in Manchester, UK. Niki works at the intersection of art, ecology and wellbeing, working to empower communities through innovative art processes. Niki works nationally and internationally and has been commissioned by The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Matadero Madrid and Camden Arts Centre, London. In 2021 she trained as a Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing) leader and has since been incorporating ideas and techniques from this into her art practice. Niki also leads the module, Approaches To Engagement on the MA Socially Engaged Art Practice course at the University of Salford.
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Perla Ramos
Perla Ramos is a multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico City. Perla uses strategies of: collection, remaking and retelling - not of objects, but also literature and history. In her ""site specific"" processes, she questions the idea of heritage. Perla has participated in various exhibitions in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. She is the Founder and organizer of the REAL ESTATE collective (parasitic intervention in abandoned spaces) and was part of the 2018-2020 generation of the SOMA Educational Program. Perla is currently studying the Arts and Design Doctorate Program, 2021- (UNAM).