WHY DO KIDS NEED ARTISTS?
Yona Friedman and Superstructures
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 ttogether, giving them new methods and tools for experiencing the world around them.
Hungarian architect Yona Friedman is the author of the “Iconostase (Protenic Structure - Space Chain)” installation presented in the exhibition. The workshop inspired by his work is an invitation to the world of mobile, flexible, organic architecture. Friedman's way of thinking about life in the city and architectural structures is far from what we are used to in our daily lives, but maybe it's not so far from children's imagination?
