s e j n c o n c e p t u a l m e d i a s c h o o l
concise program / report
S u b r o s a L j u b l j a n i c a
17 - 21 November 2003
Workshop for visual art students exploring the relation among body, art and space by Miloš Šejn, visiting professor at Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia
„By offering monumentality and beauty
of the Ljubljana basin between the Karst and alpine regions
attempts to nurture the feeling of selfconfidence of its inahabitans
and especially of its waters.“
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9 p.m. arrive to Ljubljana / Miloš + Věra, 10 p.m. meeting with Jože Barši and Cvetka Požar, accommodation in dormitory (Študentski dom, Nr. 587, Gosarjeva ulica)
SR: 7:16 SS: 16:17 MR: 22:20 MS: 13:31 SUNRISE SUNSET MOONRISE MOONSET
morning – 10 a.m. meeting with Mirjana Jedrinović - Slovenian tax number and a bank account and with dean – about the specifications of the Academy in Ljubljana, (departments, evaluate systems, relation the academy the university, development possibilities, connection to the bologna system)
academy – 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. - meeting with Joze Barši and students, introductions and wishes, 11.30 start workshop, rotation of standing body to the right, eyes open, expression of one word – 20 min. / discussion / small action by every body, also perceivers are the part of this timed situation – 1 hour (Věra made word recording), last words – everybody will bring to next day some own chosen object, interesting for something
at 3 p.m. moving to J.Barši home at Kurešček in the mountains and fog, drink and eat, speaking about the art, vegetables, zen, Japan language and teaching (how to teach art - just perceiving – not thinking) - 6.30 p.m. fogy way back, through the marsh Barje
TUESDAY 18/11 studio in the academy
10 a.m. start workshop, speak about the last day experience / 10 minutes choosing own place in the studio, choose some comfortable and also sculpture positions, eyes closed and try to be empty and to be connect with the space like the stone, 10 minutes /after that immediately mirroring work, standing couples, exchanging leaders, no leaders, new possibilities fro movement – 30 min. / 15 min. a break / small actions in the studio, everybody are connect, writing words on the wall (actors), and on the paper (observers) / this texts will be read next day
Lecture hall of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana - 14.30 introduction of the conceptual media school of M. Šejn from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and work of MŠ
5 p.m. small coffee with J. Barše, speaking about the school systems in Slovenia
from 7 – 10 p.m. walking around the night river Ljubljanica, Triple Bridge and Market by Plečnik
SR: 7:19 SS: 16:15 MR: none MS: 14:12
WEDNESDAY 19/11 studio in the academy
10 a.m. start workshop, collective reading the words and sentences from yesterday last exercise,
(first one most important word from everybody, after those reading words from everybody at the same times)
introduction of work with drawing, at first the connection of drawing with time, speed and the place – slow walking standing figure through the studio, one finger making slow vertical line as verticals axe of the body (from top of the head to genitals) – opposites movement this drawing, one hand is controlled by thinking, one hand is moving uncontrolled and randomly
- drawing on paper sheet 4 - draw vertical line in normal speed – 1 min – 10 min – draw circle with eyes closed left and right turn – compare results
- with finger draw the detail in the studio on back of partner who draws on paper, combining with more persons together, drawing on the objects, recording it on the video
from 1 p.m. lunch with prof. Bogoslav Kalaš, dean of Academy and with Prof. Bojan Gorenec, Associate Dean of Student Affairs in old town – systems of studies of fine arts in Slovenia and Czech Republic, students as a artists after process of stadiums, bachelor, magisterial and postgraduate and doctoring levels, problems of money for the school and for artists
- J. Plečnik’s knife house, small trip at Ljubljanski Castle, view to the landscape with the Alps Mountains
SR: 7:21 SS: 16:14 MR: 5:09 MS: 0:56 NM: 14:28
THURSDAY 20/11 Tivoli gardens
10 a.m. start workshop, - introduction to landscape work, walking through Tivoli gardens, 20 min. silently, no speaking
walking backwards, hiking path to the Šišenski hrib - barefoot
connections to the trees
- around your favourite tree with paper on chest and keep charcoal on 1 point – change angle and pressure following observation of landscape
- among the trees with paper on chest and move with charcoal – change distances a pressure following observation of clouds moving above the tress
- full body contact with the treee, touching, resting on, embracing, hanging
- delicate contact with the tree, basig string work (finger or mouth, violet string, small branche)
ending exercise for this day – everybody go along back to the studio and collect some for them interesting things (colour, structure, texture), putting these things on the big paper sheet on the floor of the studio, where it are waiting for the next work morning (collecting materials and pigments and putting its on the floor the studio).
M+V looking roman wall and Plečnik’s own house in Trnovo (Trnovo Bridge, Trnovo Pier, confluence of Gradaščica with Ljubljanica), National and University Library interiors, Plečnik’s whell on Old Market, 6.45 p.m. meeting with Bojana Piškur from Moderna galerija Ljubljanja.
SR: 7:23 SS: 16:13 MR: 2:16 MS: 14:44
FRIDAY 21/11 studio in the academy
10 a.m. start workshop - interpretation and writings of found materials in the studio, individual students impulses to the exercises, students owns gives, putting ideas together, developing the exercises, collective reading the texts from the floor and the notes from days before, one hour live presentation workshop at the end of the workshop (2 p.m.) M+V – evening J. Plečnik’s Žale, night Ljubljanica
SR: 3:40 SS: 16:12 MR: 3:40 MS: 15:01
miloš + věra explore landscape trip – Barje, Škocjan Cave, Piranski zaliv, Saline
Škocjan underground waters and sounds, Ankaran ocean bed, bodies and night waters of Piran sea, deep night blue-white of Saline marshland
SR: 6:09 SS: 19:49 MR: 9:17 MS: 21:13
SR: 7:26 SS: 16:11 MR: 5:07 MS: 15:20
schedule of the worshop
preparatory hours (before 17 November and during the workshop days): 30
hours of the workshop: 20
total hours: 50
CD ROM with photography and video documentation of the workshop is included
participants:
Tiina Pitkajarvi , Finland, tpitkaja@leonardo.syh.fi
Matej Babnik, Slovenija, matejbabnik@yahoo.com
Alexandra Kajbič, Slovenija, aleksandrakaj@hotmail.com
Slavica Peševska, Slovenija, slavica.pesevska@kiss.si
Mateja Ocepek, Slovenija, metea@email.si
Martina Bastarda , Slovenija, tina.bastarda@email.si
Karolina Kucia, Poland, kkucia@poczta-onet.pl
Urša Florijančič, Slovenija, ursa_florijancic@hotmail.com
In Ljubljana, 21st November 2003
Prof. PhD. Miloš Šejn / Conceptual Media School / Intermediate Art Department
Associate rector for science and research of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Czech Republic