In Character

Have you ever been to a museum and it is so quiet that you feel like screaming? Or standing in front of a monochrome oil painting that is so irreplaceable that you suddenly do not know how to stand still without weighing from foot to foot, or where to hold your arms?

The workshop is about how we are expected to behave in art rooms. What rules, structures and languages dictate such norms? It’s about choreography, guides and going to an art exhibition in character.

What are the ways to look at art? Have you ever wondered what an artist is, what they do and how they think? Or maybe wondering what a curator is? In this workshop, we use choreography, performance and writing as tools to use our imagination to think about and work with these issues.

The workshop

In the first part of the workshop, we will look at the visitor. Check out what gestures there are and how visitors move in the art gallery. We will collectively create movement patterns and take in the art space in our very own ways.

In the second part, we will build our own fictional characters and look at art, the art room and the institution through new eyes. In addition, we will make our own tours of the exhibitions for each other “in character”.