Weronika Maria Kuśmider
Alex M.
January
25–29
Year
2021
Working time: 5 days, 6 hours a day on-line × 9 parallel groups of 10–20 participants per group.
Carte d'identité – Identity map
About the workshop
With the closeness theme as a starting point, we would like to invite the participants to look at the concept of identity in local space. Who am I where I live? How can my identity be recognised within the space of the city? What is my personal perception of the city I live in?
These days our identities evolve constantly. The subjective cartography can help others witness our current perception of ourselves and the space surrounding us. During the workshop, each participant will create a subjective map to visualise a personal journey through the city they live in and answer the question "How does the city's space reflect my identity?"
The maps created during our workshops will remain a personal record of the moment of the very beginning of 2021.
Results of this workshop
Each participant will create one individual map with a short description.
Colour or black and white
Size: A1 (59,4x84,1cm)
Resolution: 300 dpi
Format: JPG (high quality)
For interactive map: .mov or .mp4
Number of participants:
10 participants
1 map per participant
Materials and tools
Adobe software, drawing, video, sound, pencil, painting, ink, writing, photography… Any tool that seems right for each participant is to be used to create a map.
References
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Guys Debord, Asger Jorn Mémoires
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Constant New Babylon
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Hanz Peter Zimmer Le groupe Spur
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Alexander von Humboldt Planet earth’s green mantle
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On Kawara I Went
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George Perec Espèces d’Espaces
Workshop description
Schedule
Day 1. Me as an individual.
Starting with an object, a book, a writer, an action, or a picture of choice, the participants will be asked to create a map of their identities. Who am I in this world? What can show my identity?
Day 2. In the city.
The participants will be asked to make a visual analysis of the city they live in based on a city plan, a habit or a memory. What are the places you go to the most? Which places or objects in the city actually depict your identity? Who am I in the city?
Days 3 and 4. Final maps. My identity in the city.
Our goal for the final workshop days is to make an identity map of the city the participants live in. Visualising the trails every person leaves behind in the city space at a given time will allow for the creation of an archaeological research of the Present. Students can use various mediums to create the final map; however, it is important to find a defined visual format of the work, i.e., the map can be interactive but must stay within the frame of graphic representation.
Alex M.
Artist, set designer, and urban space designer, born in 1989 in Nantes, France. Trained in Visual and Graphic Design, he graduated from L’École De Design Nantes Atlantique with a degree in Set Design and Global Design in 2018. He holds an MA degree in Management of Design and Innovation. Alex M. trained as the urban space designer at Ruedi Baur's Integral design atelier in Paris from 2016 to 2018. After receiving his diploma, he continues to collaborate with Ruedi Baur's atelier. He approaches the urban space differently in every atelier project and gives a different sense to its representation. In 2019 he started a project, "Trace ton chemin". A work that investigates the perception of the passage through the city space. He keeps a graphic diary and describes his journeys each day. In February 2020, he decided to move to Warsaw and has continued working on the project.
Weronika Maria Kuśmider
Warsaw-based theatre director and artist coach, who studied Directing at The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Weronika also holds a degree in Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences from UW. Her recent directing credits include a series of audiobooks 'Klechdy polskie' by Bolesław Leśmian created in collaboration with KUNST.CAMERA Foundation. She worked as an assistant director to Aoife Spillane-Hinks, Jacques Lassalle, Agata Duda-Gracz, Anna Smolar. Since 2016 Weronika has been collaborating with the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at The University of Warsaw, where she teaches a practical course on public speaking and body awareness. Weronika is also a founder of CHANGEment coaching for artists and creatives.