MAKE YOURSELF?! / POP-UP EXHIBITION / GSA 3 rd YR STUDENTS
It started with an email conversation between the GSA lecturer Rachael Grew and GoMA about how her Gender and Identity course for 3rd year students at the GSA could connect in with the exhibition Ripples on the Pond. The team here at GoMA offered some ideas and the students met, firstly with Rachael, then with staff at GoMA. The interested students decided to do a workshop and spent time developing their ideas and responses to the works in Gallery 4.
The workshops took place last weekend and thanks to everyone who came along and took part, even the nursery group who turned up on Monday had a go! This weekend we have opened up a space in Gallery 4, currently between installations, for a pop-up exhibition of the collages made last weekend, which have been turned into a sculptural version of ‘consequences’: the game where you add a new body and limbs to the head you choose. It will only be open this weekend so if you took part in the workshop come along and find your work. Also we would love to hear your thoughts tweet or instagram using #MAKEYOURSELF or #GlasgowGoMA.
From the GSA students:
The Make yourself?! workshop started as an extension of our studies on the Gender and Identity course at Glasgow School of Art. In response to the Ripples on the Pond exhibition at GoMA, we decided to focus on the themes of body and identity that are present in all the works shown. We worked with the medium of collage that invited children and adult participants to explore these deep and important themes in a more engaging and playful manner, allowing them to reimagine their own bodies and identities both individually and collaboratively.
We purposefully limited the amount of “human” collage materials to encourage participants to recreate themselves in an unconventional way, opening up the discussion about the nature of identity.
We invite you to take part in this exploration of identity and body, and interact with the collaborative sculptures exhibited.
Be playful.
Alina, Shareen and Vivienne
Thanks to everyone who took part in the workshops last weekend