Open Call | Virtual Workspaces by Rabih Mroué
Virtual Workspaces with Rabih Mroué
A series of workshops under the general title Virtual Workspaces, become a symbolic, virtual workspace for artists to communicate.
True to its mission to forge links with important institutions beyond Greece’s geographical borders, to support the professionalization of younger artists and to offer opportunities of connections within the international artistic community, Onassis Stegi is co-organizing the project Virtual Workspaces.
Artists from diverse artistic backgrounds, maintaining a transdisciplinary approach to their practice, offer the opportunity of a creative working space, involving a group of professionals from various backgrounds.
Embracing the digital shift that we are experiencing, this series of online workspaces is to be seen as an area that aims to bolster cultural fermentation, to encourage creativity and to build constructive exchanges in relation to specific goals and problematics. It will strive to maintain interactive processes within this safe-space of a temporary, but so valuable virtual framework of a selected group of peers.
Each Virtual Workspaces workshop is designed to foster the circulation of ideas between professionals, very often also involving non-professionals, with the hope to provoke sustained engagement within each group, and nurture the potentiality of new collaborations beyond the frame of the digital environment.
We hope that Virtual Workspaces will prove especially useful in times of upheaval and uncertainty, and offer comfort when things feel out of control.
The workshop focuses on the human body during the current period of confinement – the characteristics of it being on the one hand isolated in order to protect it from others and to keep it as healthy as possible, and on the other hand still being present as a ‘live’ image on social media to meet with others and keep our human relations active.
What kind of body do we need today in order to meet with the world? What preparations do we need to make? What kind of care should we take?
The fact that the My body-Image workshop will take place in the virtual world of the worldwide internet, where each participant will be in her/his private space, will in itself be good material to work on together, to reflect upon this phenomenon and to work through it, trying to bring up some alternative thoughts and ideas for today’s artistic practices.
Location: ZOOM Platform
Dates: 15, 17, 19 June 2020
6.00pm Central European Time (GMT +2) / 7.00pm Eastern European Time (GMT +3)
Participants:
- artists with different activity profiles (playwrights, theatre directors, visual artists, actors, dramaturges etc.)
- A group of participants will be selected to take part in the workshops, as well as a separate group which will be able to observe the whole process. Please select the desired group in your application.
- from all parts of the world
Applying:
Deadline for applications 31 May 2020 via workshop@teatrstudio.pl
Persons chosen to take part will be notified by 5 June 2020.
There is no charge for taking part in the workshops.
The workshops will be held in English.
About STUDIO teatrgaleria
Initiator and head of the project: Anna Lewanowicz - STUDIO teatrgaleria
Co-ordinator for Onassis Stegi: Christina Liata
