Questions I’ve been asked
doğa çal & Henriikka Reitalaa
21.22.2024
(EN)
Welcome to the workshop Questions I’ve Been Asked by doğa çal and Henriikka Reitala at Maa-Tila on Thursday 21st of November!
Where do you come from? Is this your work? What will you do as a real job after you graduate? What makes it art? Of course the participants in this exhibition are real artists, aren't they? Can you tell us a bit about your work?
Not many professions raise as many existential and personal questions from others as that of an artist. The need to encounter and tackle them can feel frustrating, annoying, and lonesome.
Based on their own experiences and those of their friends, artist doğa çal and working partner Henriikka Reitala have created a workshop for artists and other actors in arts to come together and find new perspectives and methods to unravel and observe those troubling, alienating questions.
The workshop is part of doğa çal’s longer artistic project that focuses on artists’ work and identities through sharing, discussing, and reframing experiences. The previous workshop was held in May as a part of #StopHatredNow 2024. This time, writing is introduced as a new tool to the workshop. This brings even more focus on the words and concepts we use, and importantly, dialogue.
The workshop is 120 minutes long for up to 12 participants. Some guiding tools are introduced when observing the questions. Participants are free to introduce their own methods as well. The session consists of individual thinking and writing, discussions in pairs and within the whole group. Participants are encouraged to share their thoughts and texts, but don’t have to. The language for instructions and collective discussions will be English, but texts can be written in the language most natural to each participant.
SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/8mRiCYVoNFe88JLRA
WHAT: Questions I’ve Been Asked – workshop to dismantle and discuss for people in the art field WHERE: Maa-Tila, Pääskylänrinne 10, 00500 Helsinki
WHEN: Thu 21st Nov, 17–19
