Welcome to a participative piñata building research seminar workshop with Carolina Arktis Nylund.
To pre-register for the seminar please email Ernesto Garcia at Ernesto.Garcia@konstfack.se.
Art class as the place for self-expression is a problematic narrative. Carolina has been working for many years with art lessons and art workshops as an exciting and unpredictable material to make art. Socialization, experiment, knowledge, misunderstanding, negotiation and intimacy are components generated by the participants. An art lesson/ workshop is more than merely a place where a certain technique is the final enquiry to achieve. The art lesson/ workshop has the enormous potential to create emotional bonds amongst the participants and make social impact in society. In this workshop seminar lecture we will become aware of our knowingness about the building of a papier mâché sculpture, and we wander around the potential of art as experience.
This research seminar is divided in three parts – one hands on workshop, one lecture/Q&A and one happening. Please wear clothes you don’t mind stains on.
Bio
Carolina Arktis (b.1978, Mexico City) is a multiform conceptual artist working In performance, pedagogy, situation, conversation, video installation and photography.
Her interest relies in the method of creative processes where the piece takes shape according to the interpretation, experimentation and discussion of a concept within a group (collaboration). She combines her artistic practice with pedagogy. She believes that art is always social, and her classroom is socially engaged because she is teaching people to be social. She positions participants both as individuals and as members of a group and her lessons/ workshops highlights meaningful components as discussion, collaboration, participation, negotiation, commitment, intimacy, self-reflexivity, trust and humor.
She is currently assigned as visual arts teacher at S:t Erik´s gymnasium in Stockholm and guest lecturer at IBIS Konstfack.
Carolina works across disciplines, forms and conceptual frameworks. This practice has included performances, karaoke lectures, melodic speeches, guided art tours, pedagogical collaborations and sculptural objects, most of her work is less easily defined by art history terminology.
Her work has been exhibited at Acud Macht Neu, Spektrum [DE], Charlottenborg [DK], Marabouparken Konsthall, Malmö Konsthall, Skånes Konstförening, NAU Gallery, Tensta Konsthall, Kulturhuset [SE]. She has been awarded with the Konstfack´s Academy Stipendium and nominated for the Moderna Museet´s Fredrik Roos Award. Her work has been published at Avant Art, Filter Magazine, Stockholms Art Fair Magazine and Spanarna Radio podcast.
Organised by Konstfack doctoral students Bitte Andersson and Ernesto Garcia.