NAVIGATE1: 'DOING THINGS WITHOUT AN AIM' with The Yard House Collective.

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NAVIGATE introduces our First FREE two-day immersive learning environment this September. DEADLINE: FRI SEPT 6TH- See below for application details. Please email early so we can accept you onto workshop prior to deadline. //NAVIGATE is a two-way learning, roving group of artists. Between a yard, a boat, and a studio, we will use temporary sites where artists can set-up in the city. Navigate aims to facilitate a programme of transitional two-way education and practice building around and after Hackney WickED Festival 2013. NAVIGATE is a two-day immersive learning environment which explores ideas of collaboration and artist-practice issues through key themes in the lead artist's practice.// ‘DOING THINGS WITHOUT AN AIM' A two-day workshop led members of the Yard House Collective. When? Saturday 14th September 10am - 5pm Sunday 15th September 12pm - 8pm Location? In and around Hackney Wick. In available spaces; Arbeit Gallery, Performance Space, The White Building, yards, canal, and so on. Who? Led by Louise Ashcroft, Noga Inbar, Oliver Roy, and Jack Tan in collaboration with various peers from the Yard House Collective. "IT'S NOT A HOUSE - IT'S AN ATTITUDE OF TOGETHERNESS". SHARING LUNCH, TIME, SPACE AND THOUGHTS ON SOLIDARITY, BOUNDARIES, DOMESTICITY, EXCHANGE, CARING, POLITICS AND WAYS OF MAKING AND EXISTING WITHIN ART. WE SET OUT TO LIVE IN THE SPACES BETWEEN US. We are a group of artists who met at the Royal College of Art Sculpture Department in 2012 and have been working together and parallel to one another this year building a house in the college yard which was both a living sculpture and a context for individual and collaborative works. We occupied the house for several weeks during the final show and activated it through a programme of events and lunches. For more info see: http://sculptureyard.blogspot.co.uk/ What is our 2-day workshop? ‘Doing Things Without an Aim' Noga, Jack, Louise and others from the extended group will each lead short exercises on this theme, which they will develop collaboratively. For example: Exercise 1. In the studio. Not drawing. Noga will investigate drawing without an aim (when is a drawing neither a plan for something else nor a finished thing in itself? Drawing as drifting). Exercise 2. Jack will facilitate a time of cooperative food planning and preparation; with no menu, recipe or desired outcome. Cooking as a cumulative decision-making. Participants For artists and non-artists. If you want to be part of ‘Doing things without an aim', please send an email to noga.inbar@gmail.com and C'C Sadie on sssade@hotmail.com and Gerald at gerald.curtis87@gmail.com. Write a paragraph on why you are interested/who you are/any images or web links. Deadline: Friday 6th September 2013. For Artists Information see link to Hackney WickED DEVELOPMENT site below. //NAVIGATE is hosted by Gerald Curtis and Sadie Edginton. Supported by DEVELOPMENT at Hackney WickED festival 2013.// SEE: www.developmenthackneywicked.blogspot.co.uk/p/artists-development-for-artists-2013 for more information.