What The #@*%? WORKSHOP with Melanie Jackson 27.10.22
- Aldous George
- Nov 24, 2022
- 2 min read
This two-part workshop will explore the subversive potential of the cartoon in all its manifestations - from the medieval notion of the moveable composition to contemporary manifestations of sculpture and moving image, assemblages that might project us into imaginary futures.
For the first session we will consider artists such as Andy Holden, Chitra Ganesh and others to explore ideas of transformative visual landscapes and logic, misrule and dissent. Fusing the explicit with laughter, absurd comedy creates a sense of play and of suspension that amongst other things - allows us to expose the hypocrisies, injustices, and contradictions of the powerful and to examine ideological justifications. Cartoon logic often flips registers between the granular and autobiographical and the abstracted and absurd, between lived experience and speculative fantasy - whether to create a theory of representation in the case of Holden, or a way of living otherwise in the mode of Ganesh.
For the second part of the workshop we will introduce each other to our comic anti-heroes, subversive speech acts, and futures rewritten with comic logic. We will assemble material we gather into a zine, working into and over pages. As part of the project we will also explore the growth of small publishing in international contexts – and consider them as spaces of dissemination for contemporary artists.
We will provide paper glue and cutting tools - bring original drawings, photocopies, magazines and journals to cut, collage, ink out, paper over.
https://www.frieze.com/article/laws-motion
https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/chitra-ganesh-on-utopia-futurity-and-dissent
The workshop was a collaborative mix of peoples sketches, paintings, artwork, magazine, collage etc and as you can see from the pics below the process evolved as people moved around the table adding to an existing area. Photos were taken during the whole process and the result was a zine created in Adobe InDesign. (pics after process pics below)
The finished Zine:
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