Workshop Catalogue
The object of this workshop is to explore the idea of a work "in progress" within a collaborative creative process.

PART ONE:
DEADLINE: September 15
EMAIL: wintercatalogue@gmail.com

We will be experimenting with the idea of a catalogue and it's essential that everybody takes part in it (even for those who can't attend the second part of the workshop). It's also a preparatory stage before the actual "live" workshop which will be part of the residency at la Generale in Paris.

In this first stage we need you to send to the above email any images and texts/words that you think is relevant to your practice, your way of working, of starting a new work. Images and words in various formats: photo, fictional or real, news, poetry, drawing, diagram, book cover, quotes, words, names, thinkers, fictional character, a colour, a country, natural/artificial.... anyway whatever triggers your imagination, inspires you, resonates...there in the back of your mind ... We want to find out what lies behind the work, the practice, (in a constant state of flux/in progress) rather than the work itself. And try to pin down the "drives" behind it, and therefore what feeds the creative process going with it.

This should be done without trying too hard to come up with something coherent and structured. It's important to allow spontaneity and intuition, desire, drive...rather than think too much about it. It's more like the idea of a personal brainstorming (reaching out for something more akin to the unconscious). It's not about a portfolio structured and unified with a clear statement.

All these images and words that you will be providing can in turn be seen as various signs or fragments of a jigsaw or a patchwork, that will be assembled, ending up into a collective scrapbook, a mental map , a narrative. We will be connecting, intersecting, crossing, overlapping, and confronting all those elements as in a brainstorming. It's not going to end up as a list with different categories with each "artist" being represented with a corresponding section with the images/texts provided. Having in mind the image of a lab is also useful, with different ingredients being mixed together, and then see what happens, a bit like the creative process itself.

Katia