Workshops

Workshop 1. Writing Text and Making an Image

Aim:
Exploring the Birth Rites Collection via the online tour and digital gallery space Navigating Mortality. Participants are asked to produce two creative responses to the collection’s artworks:

1. Write up to 250 words about an artwork in the collection — either one you are drawn to or one you dislike. Consider the following questions:

  • Why did you choose this work?

  • What emotional landscape does it evoke?

  • How does the materiality of the work inform your response?

  • What are the political or social implications of the piece?

2. Building on your written response, choose one of the following visual tasks:

  • a) Capture a photograph using your mobile phone of something from your everyday life that resonates with a work from the collection.

  • b) Draw the artwork and create an intervention in the drawing — add or remove something.

  • c) Construct a still life using objects from your surroundings that resonates with the artwork. Take a photograph of it.

Consider the medium, content, composition, materiality, and visual language of the original work in your response.

Suggested Resources:

Found materials and objects, the architecture of your home or domestic space, mobile phone camera or digital camera, personal computer, mobile phone tripod, holder and clamp, close-up and macro lenses for mobile devices.

Timeframe:
Upload your images and text to Discord by Wednesday 18th June 10:00am (BST).

Workshop 2. Performing the Collection — Short Film Project

Aim:
Building on the text and image from Week 1, participants are asked to create a 2-minute short film that incorporates performance — either in the form of self-portraiture or by directing a performance with someone else.

Suggested Resources:

Technical support with Andrea Khora is available via the Resources page on the website and through an online tech tutorial on Discord and on Zoom. Recommended tools: mobile phone, tripod, lenses, or steady cam (optional).

Software:

  • Download CapCut

  • Download Blackmagic Camera

Tech Support Provided:

  • 15-minute optional one-on-one slots available on Sunday 22nd June and Monday 23rd June on Zoom.

  • Sign up via the Tech Channel on Discord

  • Ask Andrea questions anytime on the Discord Tech Channel outside scheduled support times.

Timeframe:
First edit: Upload and share on Discord by Wednesday 25th June, 10:00am (BST), ready for the group tutorials.
Second 3 minute edit: Upload final films to the Discord channel by Tuesday 1st July, 10:00am (BST), ready for group screening on 2nd July.