Clay Consciousness bridges philosophy and art, merging embodied thinking with creative methods.
Clay Consciousness is the title we give to our artistic research. It involves a method of Focusing as developed by process philosopher Eugene Gendlin. We bring our two artistic practices to the research - visual and stage art, and dance improvisation. This is our field of knowledge, but the method of listening and focusing - of holding open space for one another - is guided by the structure of Focusing. What this looks like practically is that we meet on Zoom, with clay in our hands.
Helga Arnalds is in Iceland,
Nicola Visser is in Denmark.
We each take a turn to focus. The clay takes a form. Ultimately it is like listening to the voice of the clay. There are two elements to the practice we hold dear, that:
1) it occurs together, in a spacious listening ‘conversation’ and
2) the research structure (Focusing) holds the diaphanous space of becoming. It is the vulnerable moment in which creation is seeding itself.
We proceed with this research to learn more about how our hands come to know what they know and thus, how we may help each other to listen to other intricate knowledge inherent in the whole of a situation.
Námskeið
LEIRMÓTUN
& LEIRVITUND
Helga hefur boðið uppá stutt námskeið á Íslandi í framhaldi af rannsóknum hennar og Nicky. Á þessu námskeiði lærum við ekki aðeins að móta og glerja fallega muni – heldur opnum við dyr að dýpri tengingu við okkur sjálf í gegnum leirinn.
Leirinn kennir okkur þolinmæði, núvitund og snertingu við það sem býr innra með okkur.
Í námskeiðinu felst:
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Mótun á einstaklingsbundnum leirmunum
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Glerjun og undirbúningur fyrir brennslu
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Leiðsögn í leirvitund – að skapa með nærveru og tengjast sjálfum sér í gegnum leirinn
Praktísk atriði:
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Námskeiðið stendur yfir í 3 skipti, hvert skipti 3 tímar
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Hámark 6 þátttakendur – sem tryggir persónulega leiðsögn og rými til að njóta ferlisins
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Innifalið er allur efniskostnaður: leir, glerungur, brennsla og leiðsögn
Hafðu samband til að vita meira um næstu námskeið.
