Why do kids need artists?
Lygia Clark: objects and senses
Every other Sunday of the month the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw holds family workshops for children and their guardians. The workshops aim to introduce the figures of artists featured in the “Creativity Exercises. Spaces of Emancipatory Pedagogies” exhibition.
What the artists have in common is a particular need to use art and artistic situations for educational purposes. We will not focus on watching the material works of art and talking about them. Instead we will take action and experience. Inspired by the artists’ work processes, we will invite families to perform exercises and create together, giving them new methods and tools for experiencing the world around them.
How do we build our relations with objects and our surroundings? How often do we think about their qualities and advantages? This workshop, inspired by the work of Lygia Clark, will be focused on senses and the perception of reality. In a family atmosphere we will think about how we build up the meaning of objects and how our relations to them are expressed in language.
