Workshops
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I customise workshops for children, adults, schools, organisations and corporate clients to familiarise participants with various mediums, techniques and genres. These workshops help participants explore their creative side in a variety of ways.
I customise workshops for children, adults, schools, organisations and corporate clients to familiarise participants with various mediums, techniques and genres. These workshops help participants explore their creative side in a variety of ways.
Selected Workshops
Workshops at Faber-Castell Art Festival
Supported by Faber-Castell
United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year - Artists' Panel
Supported by UOB under the UOB Painting of the Year Award
Workshop for United Overseas Bank-Pathlight
Supported by UOB under the UOB Painting of the Year Award
Workshops at Que Pasa
Supported by The Emerald Hill Group
Workshop for Singapore Art Museum Volunteer Docents
Supported by SAM
Workshops for Ministry of Education-National University of Singapore
Supported by MOE
Both workshops comprised of two parts; the first entailed visual art and the second, a performance. Working on the theme, "I in Identity", participants sketched a number of self-portraits. For performance, they tied images of barcodes with numbers that corresponded to their Identity Card around their neck, prepared during the visual art workshop. They marched onto stage with only these numerals to represent themselves. Forming a straight line, they faced the audience in silence. When upbeat music began to play, they ripped off their barcodes. Some stepped offstage, walking about briskly to acquaint themselves with audience members. As a way of introduction, they distributed their self-portraits which represented various aspects of themselves. Others remained onstage simulating painting. As the music came to an end, all participants gathered onstage and held up pieces of a larger image they had painted in the visual workshop. Together the mosaics formed a huge colourful butterfly symbolic of their transformation and growth through the workshop in terms of a reassessment of their own notions of self.
The workshop in 2002 centred around the theme of creation. In the visual workshop, each student composed an original story about genesis. Next, they painted out their story and told it to the others. Finally, participants collaborated to form one story of creation which was then staged for the performance component. They related this story through shadow play, utilising wayang kulit techniques and props they had drawn and cut out. The following script was read as they delivered their version of genesis. Participants came away with new insights into their own beliefs of where they come from and perceptions of being.
In the beginning there was nothing / But / the intent... / the intent for LIFE. / It vibrated through the nothing / and rippled into every crack and crevice / and slowly but surely / the intent for life pulsed into being. / The pulsing sounded; / with every beat it grew stronger and louder. / It was the pulsing of the first heart. / It was neither male nor female / for it was both male and female. / It was not mineral, vegetable, animal nor human / for it was mineral, vegetable, animal and human. / It was not aquatic, terrestrial, or extra-terrestrial / for it was all these: aquatic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial. / It was all encompassing, / all embracing. / It was everything out of nothing. / It was sound out of silence. / Out of hate, love. / It spread farther and farther. / Space could not contain it. / It was the voice of creation, creating itself.
Copyright 2016 Geraldine Schubert