Pressing Against Apartheid: An Homage to Medu Art Ensemble
Printing Workshop 03.08., 10.08., 24.08.2024 14:00–17:00
With Santiago Calderón García
Language The workshop takes place in English, German, and Spanish
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS Our space is accessible by wheelchair
PARTICIPATION The workshop is open to all but has limited capacity with half of the spots reserved for our neighbours living in Wedding. If you are interested in joining us, kindly send an email with subject line "Printing Labor" to workshop@savvy-contemporary.com with your name and in which neighbourhood you live.
PUBLISHING LABO*R / Pressing Against Apartheid, invites you to scan, print, copy, edit and publish collectively.
“For me as a craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for my people. This is culture.” – Thami Mnyele
Pressing Against Apartheid is a study in printing and art as tools of political struggle inspired by the work of Medu Art Ensemble. Through a series of public screen printing workshops, participants are invited to produce and distribute prints on paper and textiles.
With Santiago Calderón García, we will focus on designing A3 posters together, combining the techniques of screen printing and photocopying. Together we will design and create posters based on images provided, which we can add text to using stencils and cut-outs. We will explore how these techniques can be used and combined for collective creation and cultural resistance, inspired by the ideas and work of the Medu Art Ensemble. At the end of the session, the posters will be folded into a leporello to create a collective publication.
SANTIAGO CALDERÓN GARCÍA is an artist who works in the field of art and cultural education. His focus is on the development of participatory projects as well as on out-of-school places of learning. His artistic mediums include screen printing, drawing and video. Since 2010, he has been conducting art and media educational projects with children and young people in Bogotá and Berlin.
en español
En esta sesión del laboratorio de publicación, nos centraremos en la creación colectiva de carteles en formato A3, combinando las técnicas de serigrafía y usando una fotocopiadora. Trabajaremos en conjunto y utilizaremos imágenes para diseñar y crear carteles colectivos, interviniéndolos con texto mediante stencil y cut-out. Experimentaremos con cómo estas técnicas pueden utilizarse y combinarse para la creación colectiva y la resistencia cultural, inspirándonos en los principios y obras del Medu Art Ensemble. Al final de la sesión, los carteles creados se plegarán en forma de libro acordeón, creando una publicación colectiva.
This workshop is part of the exhibition project LABO*R which takes place within our 15-months-long programme TRANSITIONS, funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
