join Tomasz Wojtasik's psychoeducational workshops and artistic action ‘Art in/of reaction’
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The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a year-long project, READY, STEADY, ART!, a series of art events throughout the city of Katowice aiming to creatively animate its inhabitants.
The scope of the project is two-dimensional and includes complementary actions: on the one hand, happenings, performances and events by guest artists, on the other — educational-motivational workshops.
The goal is to create situations that contrast reality, stimulating imagination and encouraging reflection our major concerns: identity, culture, ecology and more. Children, youth and the elderly will be involved in the educational-motivational part of the project. Workshop-like meetings with artists will show them various forms of artistic expression, and engage them in the design and realisation of the projects, thus developing their independent artistic direction.
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
‘Art in/of reaction’ is a project which involves two meetings comprising elements of psychoeducational workshops and artistic actions in public space in the Katowice city centre. We have given these meetings a working title of ‘A mask/Masks’, because it is your own made mask that will serve as a pretext for action and reflection on your identity, the phenomenon of development, your needs and awareness of what is important for you, what you need from others, what you choose to conceal and to reveal.
At the conclusion of the action, masks made by participants will be left in the urban space as an intriguing vestige of the project.
We would like to extend our invitation to wheelchair users — you are welcome to come and actively participate in our project.
8th November, 4.00 p.m.
Tomasz Wojtasik
Psychologist, trainer, educator, author of numerous projects combining psychoeducation and creative expression; his work draws on a psychodynamic paradigm.
