For several decades, artists – among them Leigh Bowery, Rei Kawakubo, Harikrishnan, Loloxloloxlo loxx, Duran Lantik, Matil Vanlint – have given increasing attention to the question of transformation/deformation.
This workshop offers an introduction to various techniques of creation in latex. Participants will thus be able to design pieces constituting extensions of the body or of another object of their choice. It will involve inventing new forms and therefore deforming, distorting, enlarging, shrinking, accentuating, erasing, sinking, opening, moving, smoothing, or even ridging.
The workshop will begin with the creation of new three-dimensional volumes on the body or on an object. Then, students will explore the body or the object as a territory of creation. They will mix vocabularies: hair, body hair, wrinkles, scars, nails, bones and/or wood, metal, plastic, glass, stone, fabric, leather.
Students will be invited to engage in a reflection on the theme of the body and its modification – from reparative and aesthetic medicine to bodily modification, passing through special effects techniques. The pedagogical objectives of the workshop are to: - Learn the basics of prosthetic fabrication in a broad sense: volume creation, molding, modeling, casting - Develop a personal reflection on the body, its modification, and its hybridization - Implement an interdisciplinary approach - Allow students to become familiar with the medium of liquid latex so they can integrate it into their artistic practice.
The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop and on the degree of active engagement of the student.