In my practice, I am used to working by myself and therefore I have to be very self motivated and self driven which is a dramatic change from working within Unit X and relying on others. This is something that I am struggling to work with as I would rather get the work done but obviously, people can not run on my very own timetable. We have organised meetings, and I have tried to be to every single one but unfortunately people have previous commitments and therefore the progress of the workshop has been slow. Despite this, we have created a very basic plan of the day, basing the workshop on the Holi Festival. During the holidays, I researched this and sent my research to the others. The Holi Festival is an ancient Hindu festival, which is a celebration of colour and involves throwing power paint, baring this in mind, we wish to create this colour fight at the end of the day.
When speaking to Clare, she spoke about students coming from the Hindu background and they may feel patronised by this due to understanding more about the day. Not considering this before, we have decided to change the focus of the day and as a result, we are now going to focus on colour. Clare also spoke to use about disaster management, if it was raining on the day, then we would be unable to create the powder paint fight outside and so considering this, we spoke about doing it inside with dusk sheets to cover the room. As they would be covered in powder paint and we do not want to ruin their clothes, we need to provide protective clothing as well dusk masks. Realising this, it is apparent that we need to create disaster management for every single activity in order to prepare for every single event.
As we have now changed the day onto colour, we need to focus down onto certain aspects of colour, one of these ideas is to look into the semiotics of colour, which would bring in the emotions of colour. One idea is to play a happy and sad music and ask them to create a piece of artwork dependant on the music played. One thing that we all noticed at the school is there is not much experimental work, and therefore their work is structured and similar. We want to introduce this idea of creative freedom and are considering experimental mark making using different tools. At the same time, they would be listening to the music stimulating emotions within them. Something we want to do, is introduce these different methods of working to create work in the future.
Jackson Pollark is an artist who does this and it is my job to do the research for this, as well to find other artists and I will be doing this for next week as I realise that the workshop is fast approaching. I will also be researching different types of music for the day.
Clare also spoke about getting feedback at the end of the day and we spoke about how it would be boring to do this via a questionnaire. We have decided to wear plain white t-shirts and get the children to write on our backs after ask them questions. This I feel is an exciting way to do this after the a day filled with activities as well as being informative for us. It is also important to note that doing this will hopefully let the children be honest in their feedback as it is easier to write it down rather than speak about it.
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