WORKSHOP: Objects to hold, ways to know
14:30-16:00
Auditorium
Free entry
How do objects help us to grasp or engage with where we are? I’m interested in what each of us ‘hold onto’ in order to navigate a setting, a situation, a locality. How we research, relate to or act in a specific area is often formed or supported by objects. Alongside this, I’ve been thinking about Jeanne van Heeswijk’s idea of art as potential ‘learning objects’ and how we might make objects that we’re not only holding onto (to make sense of the world) but that also invite others to hold, grasp and engage with that version of the world through the object at hand.
This workshop will involve a short audio work I made, discussions between us about our own ways and methods of relating to place, and us making some initial objects (in written, drawn, audio or other forms) for ourselves or others to hold onto. It’s an invitation to reflect on what we use to engage with specific localities – which might include language as an object – as well as an invitation to make draft objects for each other.
The workshop will take 1.5 hours and will be in English. You’re welcome to bring objects that you often hold onto, and materials you like to make with.
Please bring a phone and headphones if you can, in order to listen to the audio.
Please bring a phone and headphones if you can, in order to listen to the audio.
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Sophie Mak-Schram cares about how a diverse “we” (come to) know and what forms knowledge can take. She works with others, both as method and as form. Her work spans experiential education, inclusion work, collective practices, and artistic research. She convenes, writes, reads, makes objects to learn with or listen to, and performs.
Sophie Mak-Schram cares about how a diverse “we” (come to) know and what forms knowledge can take. She works with others, both as method and as form. Her work spans experiential education, inclusion work, collective practices, and artistic research. She convenes, writes, reads, makes objects to learn with or listen to, and performs.
South Iceland Biennale is a live-art venue for sharpening our focus on humanity’s relationship to environments at a precarious time. The goal of the South Iceland Biennale is to support progressive, critical discussion across the fields of art, design, and architecture. They focus on rural areas with special emphasis on South Iceland and its inland and highland areas.
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Accessibility for wheelchairs in Elissa hall is good and there are accessible toilets on the floor. All toilets are gender neutral.
Free entry and all welcome.
Free entry and all welcome.
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Objects to hold, ways to know is a contribution to South Iceland Biennale’s Þjórsá project, which took place across summer 2024. This contribution has been supported by Arts Council Wales.
(C)Prototype of tool by ZAKOLE, as part of collaboration with Sophie Mak-Schram for Vest of Tools (Warsaw), 2022
