Taking Chances

A 2-Day Mixed Media Arts Course

Skidby MillThursday 15th & Friday 16th July

2004

‘Creativity thrives on risk’

Jude Kelly

Theatre Director

The Course was based on the following premise -

Working in challenging and multi-disciplinary ways

Experimentation

Variety of media

To take risks and experiment

To use external forces to control outcomes

The Course was designed to promote -

Day 1

Activity 1Automatic

Writing

Automatic writing: a method of producing writing where the writer suppresses conscious control, allowing the subconscious mind to take over.

[Links to Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting]

Day 1

Activity 2Contex

t

Day 1

Activity 3

Blank Canvas

Starting with a blank canvas [literally…] create something new using the process of deconstruction

Day 1 & 2

Activity 4How can we

hang on to a dream?

From the starting point of a remembered dream develop a piece by adopting the techniques of automatism and chance and allowing outside influences to determine the progress and outcome of the work

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End

With thanks to –

John Clarke [Director - Beverley Literature Festival]

Bob Tonks [Link Adviser – Visual and Performing Arts]

and all participants.

David Mell

Curriculum Project Manager [Creative Arts]

Sch o o l Im p r o vem en t Ser vice

Taking Chances