WORKSHOPS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SAN PEDRO NEIGHBOURHOOD
As part of the San Pedro neighbourhood’s annual festivities, the CGAC is once again presenting an engaging programme of activities. To mark the occasion, the museum is organising two collaborative creative workshops designed to accommodate a continuous flow of participants over a two-hour period. Visitors may complete one workshop and then take part in the other.
YOU CUT, I GLUE. A COLLABORATIVE COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Led by: Diego Estebo
Time: 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
Venue: Education Classroom, CGAC
Free admission until full capacity is reached
This workshop, led by illustrator Diego Estebo, is based on a simple idea: introducing chance and collaboration as creative driving forces. When a project reaches an impasse, changing the rules of the game can often open up new possibilities. Here, that change comes through sharing the creative process with others.
A table will be covered with coloured card cut-outs, many of them made from offcuts and leftover materials from the illustrator’s previous projects. Using these shapes and a little glue, participants will create their own collages. They will not choose what is cut out, and he will not control the final outcome. This exchange creates a shared creative space in which the boundary between artist and audience becomes blurred.
To ensure that the activity remains dynamic and accessible to as many people as possible, each participation will be limited to between five and fifteen minutes.
I PAINT BECAUSE IT’S MY TURN. AN EXQUISITE CORPSE WORKSHOP
Led by: Lucía Amoedo and Sofía Mediero
Time: 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
Venue: CGAC Project SpaceArt
Free admission until full capacity is reached
The exquisite corpse was a Surrealist technique of collective creation in which each member of a group contributed to a work without fully knowing what the others had done.
In this workshop for all ages, we will create a large-scale exquisite corpse.
A roll of paper will be unrolled across the floor and through different areas of the CGAC. As participants contribute, the work will gradually move through the building, climbing and descending stairs, crossing benches and railings, and travelling through Álvaro Siza’s architecture as a collective creation.
How does it work? One person makes a contribution to the paper and it is then rolled up so that the next participant can see only the final traces of the previous intervention. In addition, each participant will leave an instruction for the next person: paint in green, write a beautiful word, draw with fabric, and so on. Participants may write, draw, paint or compose using different materials, guided by a short and simple prompt.
Each intervention will be successively concealed, so that the more people take part, the larger and more diverse the exquisite corpse will become.
WHO CAN TAKE PART?
The workshops are open to all audiences.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The activities are free of charge and no prior registration is required. Participants simply need to come to the designated venue at the scheduled time.