Rainforest as Methodology: Workshop with Cruda Collective
Thursday 20 April 2023
12-1.30pm
Library AKI ArtEZ
How can we translate ecological principles to artistic research practice? Rainforest as Methodology is a one-hour coaching workshop by Cruda Collective. In this workshop, you will work with the notion of artistic research as an ecosystem – an environment with different active layers, and one that is continually evolving.
Starting with the forest floor that composes the artistic foundation and positioning, participants will collectively journey through the understory (creative period), the canopy (network) and lastly, the emergent layer where the presentation of artworks and research generates meaning in their interaction with audiences and wider contexts. Along the way Cruda Collective will help you to ask questions and construct strategies to develop your own artistic research practice.
The workshop will be introduced by Agnieszka Wolodźko, lecturer and researcher at AKI ArtEZ and APRIA Platform Board Member. The workshop ties in with APRIA’s Open Call ‘Ways of knowing’, in which students and researchers explored different ways of producing knowledge. Interested in learning more about this? Read the Open Call articles here.
Reservations
Places for the workshop are limited.
Please reserve a spot by emailing doingartisticresearch@artez.nl by Monday 17 April.
This event is hosted by APRIA and the Library at AKI ArtEZ. The workshop is in English.
About Cruda Collective
Cruda Collective is formed by interdisciplinary artists, researchers & filmmakers Laila Saber Rodriguez (CAI-CDMX) and Andrea Galano Toro (CL, ES). The collaborative duo explores how regenerative practices such as ecology, magic and spell-writing can destabilize western forms of knowledge production. The word Cruda means ‘raw’ in Spanish, referring to the raw worlds the Collective encounters and their particular approach to research and storytelling. The duo operates through workshops, coaching sessions, exhibitions, screenings, and performance readings.
About Doing (Artistic) Research
Doing (Artistic) Research is a collective effort of Werkplaats Theorie, Honours Lab, Studium Generale, Library, APRIA and ArtEZ Press. In short: a number of ArtEZ departments dealing with artistic research and expressing it in different ways. More information on the website.