HANDSHAKE 6

The HANDSHAKE 6 Activities’ programme for 2020 – 2021:

MASTERclass 2021

ON-E by: Estela Saez Vilanova (CAT-ES)

A series of Zoom workshops during April – October about ONLINE EXHIBTIONS with the intention to prepare Handshake 6 artists for their online exhibition submission

Statement: Recently, curators and educators have progressively started exploring the numerous possibilities proposed by virtual exhibitions. Institutions have made 3-D tours of their galleries accessible online through a variety of platforms, allowing visitors from around the globe to virtually “wander” through many Museums around the world, Van Gogh Museum or Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico among other significant sites. But when the Covid-19 pandemic started, public curiosity in virtual art experiences, as for the need of the maker to present worldwide their works, increased like never before.

The online-exhibiting field is yet to be fully discovered, therefore our main purpose with this Masterclass -besides the fact that Handshake Program has since long counted with online exhibitions-, it is to offer intuitive virtual exhibition ideas and presentation of our works, that offers flexibility and are willing to reach to public and/or followers showing their final results, as for its working process as part of the result itself. Aiming at generating enthusiasm through sharing emotions, new values and creating expectations; “The goal is the meaning and the meaning is the goal” while testing abstract and visual/sound experiments, we will our work and process as for the idea of how to present virtually these works yet we as creators. Throughout provoking alternatives to in-person viewing, interactive and a variety of content formats that viewers can engage with, especially during the present times we live in.

Techniques: Video/sound/photo

See the results

JEWELcamp 2021  June – Aug

FUNDRAISING Workshop

by: Joany Grima 

Objectives: To empower HS6 artists to create a practical, implementable and achievable plan to achieve your collective Handshake fundraising goal.

JEWELcamp & MASTERclass 2020

The HS6 programme started off in pre-Covid January with a JEWELcamp that contained an intro and instruction to the programme, and a Push/Pull intro workshop with Renee Bevan, and a Masterclass workshop with Iris Eichenberg at NZ school of Art & Fashion, Epsom, Auckland.

What happened during MASTERclass:

HS6 artists had to place 5 unfinished works and a finished work they brought along from their workshops on the table. 

Iris asked to spend 45 mins with no talking, moving around the tables and adding, subtracting, or moving/grouping works as they pleased.

On an adjacent table, each had tipped out the shoebox of workshop materials they brought along. Invited to help themselves to anyone’s collection they ‘interfered’ with others’ work on the table.  After this, all had to write down what was noticeable when they interfered with other’s people’s objects, and what was noticeable what happened to their own work.

Each discussed that in the group.

Following that Iris asked to take some things off the table that was thought were not finished or did not belong there – then to replace it with something.

After that they were instructed to categorise the remaining works into groupings.

They started this in seperate groups, but all moved in and around so the groups weren’t fixed, which happened naturally. After categorising, the remaining works were labelled and went into collections.

This freeing and fun exercise illuminates and illustrates how artists operate in terms of editing and taste preferences.

Iris’ questioning and inspiring ways brought magic to HS6

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