Seeing, Saying, Sensing
Workshop for artists with Jo Bannon (UK)A workshop for artists, performance makers and arts workers who are interested in the creative potential of seeing differently. Informed by the strategies, techniques and knowledge developed in Jo’s recent performance ‘The Dirty Work’ and inspired by the knowledge of many Blind, Visually Impaired and disabled artists, this workshop aims to explore how we see, say, and sense the world around us.
We will work with Audio Description as both an access tool and as a creative medium, stretching what it can do, and what performative potential it has. We’ll explore different modes of understanding and communicating including touch, language, movement, writing, and performance. By exploring these different sensory languages we will investigate different ways to perceive our own bodies, movement and the environment around us, and how this can then inform our artistic processes and creations.
The workshop will include performance and movement exercises in partners and in small groups, conversation, reflection and note-taking time. We invite you to bring clothes to move in, snacks, and your favourite way to record things – pen and paper, voice recording etc.
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The workshop is for:
- artists,
- performance creators,
- cultural workers.
In the workshop, one can learn how to make cultural events
for people with different perceptions.
The workshop will also include:
- knowledge from blind and visually impaired people;
- experiences of artists with disabilities.
This helps one better understand
how different people see and describe the world.
An audio description tells
what happens in a film and on a stage.
This helps people with visual impairments.
The audio description can be used in very creative ways.
The workshop teaches
different audio description techniques.
Participants can also experiment
with audio description.
The participants will study
different ways to show:
- touch,
- conversation,
- movement,
- writing,
- performance.
They will learn to perceive
movement and the environment.
They can use this experience in their work.
The workshop was created as part of the EU Creative Europe programme project Festival SPA. With financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia. The workshop is part of the project “Development of Community Cultural Centres for Social Cohesion”, No. 4.3.2.0/1/25/A/044. The New Theatre Institute of Latvia is responsible for the content of the workshop.
