Day 5: Workshop with Kim David Bots

September 6, 2013

In the workshop I gave I tried to explore the way people associate and react to given material. It consisted of 9 packets, each filled with different types of image material and a book. Some books were big with little pages and others small with many. The assignment was for each person to take one of the packets and work in the corresponding book for 15 minutes, using the given material every which way possible. After 15 minutes the books switch and whole exercise is repeated. The packets change hands nine times, so that every person has the possibility to contribute to every book.

The goal of this exercise was to force people to work quickly, associatively and to see how they would react to others in(ter)ventions. The different sizes of the books and the diverse image material were there to give a certain direction; working in a small book is different in rhythm and form than working in a bigger book.

Lecture in the late evening…