Name: Office for Speculative Landscapes: Embodying Water Spaces
Start: 2024-11-21T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-21T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Camberwell Space, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts

Office for Speculative Landscapes: Embodying Water Spaces

A workshop using movement and embodied writing exercises to explore bodies of water as, and alongside, our human bodies.
About this Event

Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts present The Office for Speculative Landscapes, a dynamic illustration festival at Camberwell Space, blending workshops, performances, talks, and discussions. Reimagined as a hybrid critical-illustration studio and arts-education think-tank, the space will foster experimentation, community, and creative play.

This workshop aims at exploring embodied ways to connect with land and water by listening and thinking through our bodies. Using slow-paced practices of listening, reading, writing, walking and moving, in this workshop we allow ourselves the time and space to explore the connections we form with each other, with the land we culturally identify with and the environments we inhabit. We believe the embodied knowledge that can surface from these practices is essential in imagining alternative non-human-centric and less oppressive relationships with the land.

This workshop invites practitioners and researchers that use embodied practices and movement as part of their methodologies, artists and designers interested in exploring how to use space and their bodies as part of their visual communication practice.

Biographies

Nasia Papavasiliou is a Cypriot multidisciplinary artist. Graduate of Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design, she holds a Master of Arts in Performance: Design and Practice. Informed by fieldwork research and embodied approaches to creation, her practice looks into the notion of land both as a geological and discursive environment. From both physical and metaphysical vantage point, she intricately weaves together nature and geographies with the nuances of grief – drawing parallels to the cosmic expanse; to embrace the divides and complexities between multiple realities of time. Her most recent works were shown at Warsaw Fringe, Vorfluter Berlin, Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Space 2023 and more.

Sara Ortolani is a visual communicator, educator, and researcher based in London.

Her practice - at the intersection of performative design and education, creates spaces for embodied knowledge to surface. Her work takes the forms of film, writings, readings, performative talks and learning tools.

She is currently a PhD student at LCC. The hydrofeminist context in which her research is placed understands rivers as products of human intention rather than nature. Her practice-based research addresses the fragility of the land of the Po River – a consequence of its historical and current over-artificialisation, by proposing a situated hydrofeminist framework that supports the process of imagining new relationships with the land and helps in a necessary shift in its cultural identity.