Even if one doesn’t do performance art, the skills and tools that come from performative practices can teach us so much about art-making: namely how the body, time and space intersect. Painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, fibres, video (and performance!) all involve a multilevel process where we build relationships to our materials and the spaces we work in, whether consciously or not. 

This workshop intends to open up, while slowing down, the steps of production, inviting an opportunity to delve more fully into the choices we make (why we choose which materials to use, how we approach transforming them), the actions we take (experimenting with involving the body at various stages of making) and the spaces we work in (acknowledging how environments also impact our process). Proposed performative exercises aim to deepen our relationship to our art practices: becoming more aware, and less automatic at each stage of making.