June 17
Day 3
Day 3
Day at a Glance
Location: Pedroso Center, Building B, Room 159
Facilitator, Studio Member Kate Schick
Duration: 1 1/2 hours [Drop in]
Location: Spaces for Possibility Studio, 3412 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Members of the Spaces for Possibility Studio Collective host informal studio hours. Participants are invited to do or not do: talk, drink tea, just exist, create, rest, read, learn, meditate, make work.
Saturday, June 17
Featuring Catherine Reinhart
Duration: Ongoing [Drop in]
Location: Pedroso Center, Building B, Room 159
Quilts and mending materials are available during Friday and Saturday of the symposium with some impromptu facilitated exercises from Catherine Reinhart. These exercises may include poetry readings, readings from the project’s resource library, slow looking, stitching exercises, and short written responses to prompts left by the artist.
The Collective Mending Sessions is a series of socially engaged workshops centered on collectively mending abandoned quilts. This project cultivates care for cloth and community through the meditative process of slow stitching. The driving metaphorical question behind the collective mending sessions is, “how do we mend our communities?”
Saturday, June 17
Featuring Georgina Valverde and Kate Thomas
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Spaces for Possibility Studio, 3412 W Bryn Mawr Ave
NOTE: this workshop will move about the local area and campus
This workshop will explore the potential for communication without using language through “silent play.” After a brief introduction to the experiments of Kate Thomas and Georgina Valverde around “silent play,” “theater of objects,” and “decreolization,” participants will explore these ideas working with a partner and a range of objects and materials provided by the workshop organizers. We will make space for discussion after the “silent play” portion of the workshop.
Pertinent texts/concepts: “making kin” (Haraway); un-sayability, potential (Agamben); limits of language and reason (Agamben, Borges, P. W. Zapffe)
Note: This workshop will encourage movement and interaction with matter in the form of props, tools, and art materials. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes and shoes and embrace some degree of messiness.
Saturday, June 17
Featuring Resident Artist, Cynthia Gehrie
Duration: 3 hours
Location: NEIU Fine Arts Building
Join the artist in considering, What is it like to be a plant in a forest preserve?
We will walk about in the nearby forest preserve, take photos and make notes. The workshop opens with a meditation on Not Knowing, Curiosity and space in-Between (Side by Side.)
A process of being that I use as an artist includes:
Stepping into the unknown
Asking permission
Opening to wholeness that connects human and non-human beings.
Discovering, guided by awe.
Exploring artifacts of being
Experiencing and expressing internally, vocally, and materially
Building interiority and community through emergent dialogue
Sharing and acting upon discoveries and experiences
Astonishing
I begin with plants because they are most vulnerable, yet they support the full weight of the animal kingdom. They exist above and below ground – a metaphor for discovery. Their being is interwoven in ways we are only beginning to discover. From the microscopic to the bioregional they are an opening where we might fully engage our human being.
Saturday, June 17
Location: Pedroso Center, Building B, Room 159
Featuring Megan Pahmier
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Spaces for Possibility Studio, 3412 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Practicing Sands is a project that invites, encourages and co-constructs a space for practicing play and stillness. A series of soft, wearable sculptures to be used in individual and collaborative weight bearing activities will be designed by participants in relationship to their own body and constructed of fabric filled with sand. The “actions” choreographed by participants may include typical weight bearing exercises as well as prolonged periods of stillness or perceived inactivity, that include involuntary actions like blinking and breathing.
Saturday, June 17
Featuring Resident Artist, Aram Han Sifuentes
Duration: 3 hours
Location: NEIU Fine Arts Building FA 203
The artist brings NongGi made in ongoing workshops at HANA Center, and opens up the studio to the public, bringing in the materials and templates to make NongGi together during the course of the symposium. Learn about the history of NonGis and how to make them, from basic principle design to variations to sewing and quilting. Participants share their stories and engage in a creative process to incorporate their stories into the NongGis. The NongGi will be used toward the creation of a public art installation for the HANA Center’s building façade.
Saturday, June 17
Location: Spaces for Possibility Studio, 3412 W Bryn Mawr Ave