The thinking hand, practice based work shop in Rome 19. – 20.5.2011
(group size: 8-10 person)

Leader: Satu Kiuru, visual artist and artistic researcher from Finland (University of Design and Arts of Helsinki)

As a visual artist I am interested in tacit knowledge, because in artistic working our "know how" is based primarily on using our all-embracing bodily understanding without the need of a linguistic decoder. In my own artistic activities I have discovered that the working process itself produces knowledge that might be otherwise unavailable. Knowledge is not moving in one direction only, from the thinking head to the drawing hand. Via concrete artistic working we can perceive and understand things the conscious mind is not yet able or willing to reveal.

As The Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa has said:
”The only way to get knowledge about creative processes is to try to understand the basis of creativity: those irrational, freely connected phenomena that the articulated consciousness on the surface cannot discover.”

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THURSDAY 19.5.

9.00 Welcome, coffee and introducing
9.30 First practice and the starting point: Do I really know how I feel?
ME > hearing inside; drawing the respiration
ME > feeling inside; my own outlines, and the animal inside me
ME > thinking inside; meditative text
ME > The bad person who is living inside me,
The good person inside me
12.00 Conversation about the results.

13.00-15 lunch berak

15.00 ME AS A PART OF THE WORLD
My relationship to/with the words and the world:
LOCATION > Where I am?
> Where I want to go?
The best place in the city, create or find the story for that place.

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FRIDAY 20.5

9.00 Being in city
The best place in the city, create or find the story (one page)
>draw the place

13.00 lunch break

15.00 >go inside the place and shoot photos around the place.
Printing the photos
Making the photo installations to the gallery

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SUNDAY 22.5. at 20.00. Work shop Exhibition opening

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Artistic thinking and creation do not follow each other in a given order, they overlap both in time and in activities during the whole artistic process. ”As a matter of fact we are not dealing with a directly proceeding creative process, the question is, instead, of different contemporaneous series of events, interconnected with each other during the whole creative process” says the architect Juhani Pallasmaa in his book Maailmassaolon taide (The Art of Being in the World).


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partecipazione a sottoscrizione libera

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PER INFORMAZIONI E ADESIONI SCRIVERE A bistrart@gmail.com

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BistrArt
via R. Bonghi, 32b
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orari d’apertura: dal martedì al venerdì 12-20, il sabato 16-20