workshops
Experimenting with research-creation
methodologies for thinking sleep
Team members, collaborators, and guests present workshops to consider how various material, creative, and maker practices provide insights into sleep.
Falling(S), a movement workshop
with Yoojin Lee
Two options:
Wednesday, 22 Feb, 2023 , 6-8:30pm (Studio A)
Friday, 24 Feb, 2023, 6-8:30pm (Studio C)
Montreal
What does a sleeping body-being become against the backdrop of a world that is lit 24 hours? What does this state of repose mean when there is no time to pause? What lullaby can we sing for another? How do we fall asleep (together)? How do we fall (together)? What and who is falling (with or without us)?
Moving nearby the above questions, we will explore falling(s) through our own and one another’s bodies. We will be accompanied by I like to stay horizontal, a series of digital printed pillows. We will be guided by the pillow-bodies, our bodies and the multiplicity of bodies that we share the space with.
Some of the places we may find ourselves in: light / darkness, verticality / horizontality, activity / inactivity, visibility / invisibility, intensities of slowness, mutual support, tender vigilance and safe surfaces. There will be a particular attention to what is in-between and disrupts these given notions or categories and how they are embodied. We will write and gather traces that emerge from our time together.
Open to all. No previous experience or knowledge is required, although an interest in (non)movement, dance, performance, sound and/or writing is welcomed. Please wear or bring clothes that you feel comfortable moving in. You are welcome to join only one or both sessions. Max. 10 participants per session.
Moments gathered from the workshops will find their way into a new work that will be developed for the SoS exhibition. The workshops will also be an opportunity to find potential collaborators/performers.
If you are interested in participating, please email Yoojin directly at: yoojin@nijooy.com.
Yoojin Lee is a SoS artist-in-residence. More about her and her work.
SLEEP'S OTHER SELVES, workshop + Demo
with Yiou Wang
Thursday, 23 Feb, 2023 , 6pm
McGill Campus, Montreal
If you are interested in participating please email Yiou directly at: yiou@mixanthropy.com.
Dreaming of Sleep: A Speculative Design Workshop for Non-Normative Sleep
with Caroline Sinders
Wednesday, Feb 1, 2023
Montreal
Caroline Sinders is an award winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. She’s the founder of human rights and design lab, Convocation Research + Design. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, intersectional justice, systems design, harm, and politics in digital conversational spaces and technology platforms. She’s worked with the Tate Exchange at the Tate Modern, the United Nations, the European Commission, Ars Electronica, the Harvard Kennedy School and others. Caroline is currently based between London, UK and New Orleans, USA.
Noctural Milieus: A sound design and sleep workshop
with Devon Bate
Thursday, March 10, 2022
2-4pm EST, on Zoom
Devon Bate is a composer and sound designer, currenlty Research Assistant with the Sociability of Sleep, and an MA student at Concordia University. His creative work explores how listening shapes social space, community and identity, and his academic research focuses on backgroun noise and ambient audiovisual media on popular streaming platforms.
DREAM SCenes: A comic and zine workshop
with Jenny Lin
In this workshop, I will share some of the dream recall, recording and editing strategies I’ve used when creating my “Pandemic Dreams” comic series, and talk about my interest in writing and drawing about my dreams as a way of navigating the space between documentation and fiction. We will discuss strategies of selection that can be used to distill and convey the feeling and narrative? of a dream; how dream recording can be a meaningful personal exercise; and how it can also be approached as a gesture of sociability, with a reader / viewer in mind.
This workshop will include some hands-on zine-making activities of a few single-sheet structures, as well as short writing and drawing exercises that activate these zine structures into platforms for our dreams.
Participants are welcome to share their own dream writing and comics created during this workshop.
To follow along in the exercises, please have with you:
- a dream you remember
- 6 sheets of paper that are easy to fold by hand (I will be using 8.5 x 11” printer (bond) paper for my demonstrations but you can use other types you might have on hand)
- a ruler
- scissors or an exacto knife with a surface to cut on (for example, a piece of corrugated cardboard or a self-healing cutting mat)
- a pencil
- an eraser
Jenny Lin is a visual artist based in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Working with experimental narrative and autobiographical fiction, primarily in the form of print-based installations, artists’ books and zines, Lin is drawn to the socio-political, accessible and community-based aspects of print and zine-making, self-publishing and self-distribution. Lin uses drawing and text as a way to process life experiences and current events, parsing situations into visual sequences that move through, in particular, discomfort, ambiguity and uncertainty. She has collaborated with Eloisa Aquino as B&D Press, a queer art and micropress project, since 2009. Lin was involved as a core member of Qouleur Qollective, a member of articule’s Fabulous Committee, and cofounded the Queer Print Club at Concordia University where she teaches as a sessional instructor in the Print Media Program Area.