On 30th and 31th March 2015 CEINAV brought together all their 4 artist researchers in London Metropolitan University: Iona Roisin from the UK
team, Lana Zdravković from the Slovenian team, Ninette Rothmüller from the German team
and Raquel Felgueiras from the Portuguese team. We exchanged our experiences and views
about working with marginalized, deprived and discriminated people in the
context of violence as well as debated about methodology we will use on the
art workshops with the survivors of violence. In each country
we will moderate the creative process which will be based on the stories created
out of the interviews with the survivors but
those will just inform the artists; the art workshops will not be built around the stories as some kind of script.
In each country one or two
art workshops will be implemented for all three forms of violence. Whilst there has
to be a set of basic parameters for the workshops some of the more specific
questions cannot be the same across the four country contexts, as they are
dependent on the particulars of who and how many agree to take part in the
workshops, where they are located geographically and how each artist develops
the workshop concept. There are,
therefore, layers of flexibility and variability in the creative process which
we should consider an asset, part of what the project is in fact about – the
processes and creative outcomes will not be the same, they are cultural
encounters!
The process needs to produce
something – a creative outcome – from what participants want to communicate
about intervention that will be accessible to various audiences.
All artists will work within
their fields of experience having in mind that including creative art in the
research project is a certain experiment, both for artists and researchers. But since we have high ethical standards and respect the decisions and wishes of
the people we will work with we hope it will be fruitful for all of us.
Lana Zdravkovic
