Continuing our series of year-round development opportunities, we are pleased to announce a new workshop during November. FREE to attend: to book please email Yvonne Carmichael.

Artist Workshop with artist Shona Macnaughton
1pm - 5pm, Saturday 29 November, 42 New Briggate, Leeds.
 

The Dark Pool Programmer and her algorithms will descend on Leeds marketplace with the task of searching for soul...

In this workshop we will start from this image of seduction and intimacy, a Bill Withers album cover from 1981. With the intention of recreating this highly staged image in the context of now we will look to our immediate locale in Leeds city centre. A public action to find a private image - what does the image of love look like in the new age of dark liquidity? Beginning with a discussion on the notion of what the public realm is, ideals of freedom, what is ethically permissible in actual public space and how the digital sphere changes this, we will formulate a set of commands and movements which will be performed in the saturday shopping environment. Participants will work together to formulate a script which the artist will perform, leading the participants on a tour.

Shona is an artist interested in the commercial image and its representation of property, architecture and domesticity. Using text, performance and animation her recent works have touched upon economics, politics, post-human feminism, and how technology shapes our relations.  For this session attendees will be invited to participate in the making of a site based group performance work.
 
Shona Macnaughton lives and works in Scotland and Belgium. Shona holds an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art and is a member of the collective Eastern Surf. Shona has performed and exhibited at CCA (Glasgow), Talbot Rice (Edinburgh), The Tetley (Leeds) and Generator Projects (Dundee).