A no-cost skills exchange session to share how socially engaged art practitioners and educators have used, adapted and reshaped Zoom (and other video comms platforms) for workshops and other group activities.
Over the last few months Zoom has become a public sphere of choice with work, workshops, social gatherings and public events all taking place here.
As a tutor using Zoom to teach and as a socially engaged artist, I am interested in how group work is being navigated on this platform and in turn the unique ways that socially engaged artists and educators are adapting and reshaping it.
Some things I have been thinking about are how to make this online space more inclusive, material sensitive, intimate, safe, challenge the zoom aesthetic, convivial, challenging of power dynamics, tactile, and fun…
The workshop on Friday 12th June 2020 at 4pm - 5.30pm will start with a short presentation and demonstration of a technique, followed by the opportunity for participants to demonstrate techniques or present an idea or something they have tried.
Email Alex Parry parry.alexandra@gmail.com if you would like to come, and whether you would like to host an activity or talk about what you've been doing.