This in-person workshop will guide artists through the process of self-narration by combining image, sound, and prose.
How do we self-narrate our stories through our fragments? Hybridity can be a task of process in which the text, the image and the sound live independently yet through motions and time melt together. Separating sound from image, digital from physical and text from edits and letters, each aspect can speak to itself, then the other and from their fragmented state form a whole. Through the exploration of how we can interact with images and sounds, old and new, found and personal, how can we explore, through process, new ways to speak hybridity, self, poetry, identity and story.
In this workshop we’ll navigate self-narration through process. Everyone has a “box” of fragments scattered or safely carried through time. By exploring them each separately – the images, the sounds, the papers, the found and forgotten videos and memories or the letters written along the way – we’ll explore together a new way to place our own stories within a timeline. Following an introduction presenting the process, participants, with their own gathered pieces, will explore how to create by combining image and/or sound and/or prose and discuss what it means to speak ourselves this way.
This is an in-person workshop offered at Digital Arts Resource Centre (67 Nicholas St, Ottawa). To participate in this workshop, all participants must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask while on site at DARC.
Course Outline
Saturday, August 20, 11am-2pm
Materials
• Please bring materials to create your own box of fragments (this can be anything including audio, video, text, textures, prose – think of what you want to include in your process of narration)
• iMacs will be provided for participants to use, but you are welcome to bring your own laptop if you prefer
Accessibility
All doors at DARC have accessibility buttons to press for automatic entry. DARC is located on the main floor (one story above ground) of the Arts Court building. DARC’s main entrance is located at 67 Nicholas Street which is fully wheelchair accessible. Alternate wheelchair-accessible entry is available through 2 Daly Ave at the Arts Court main entrance or the Ottawa Art Gallery. Elevator access is available from 9AM – 11PM. DARC staff are available and happy to assist with all inquiries and requests regarding physical access. We also welcome inquiry, feedback, and resources regarding accessibility and accessibility improvement by phone (613.238.7648 x. 4) or by email at access@digitalartsresourcecentre.ca.
Visit https://digitalartsresourcecentre.ca/access/ for information on how to get to DARC, language barriers, fragrance policy, and access to programming.
