‘The becoming of art/artists in our time’

Landing Thoughts x Vessel, an ongoing peer-to-peer learning series at the Naval Store

PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING COLLABORATION

Vessel joins Landing Thoughts in the delivery of a six part peer-to-peer learning series designed for practicing contemporary artists and creatives with workshops, writing sessions, artist talks, lectures and more.

With one session per month, this is a mutual learning environment and we encourage you to book for all 6 or multiple sessions, however you can also join for only a single session if you so choose.

ABOUT LANDING THOUGHTS

Landing Thoughts, founded by Kate Moss, Laura Piasta, and Magni Moss is a post academy distance course for practising artists, makers and thinkers, developed from a shared desire to form new critical conversations within the contemporary arts discourse.’

Previously modelled as a one year distance course, for this new adapted version together with Vessel, Kate and Magni will lead 6 thematic sessions, aimed at artists/makers/thinkers to further develop their practice in a new context. Through mutual learning, material investigations and conversation this experimental model of knowledge production also examines what it is to land delicate thoughts in language.

ABOUT VESSEL

Vessel is a new interdisciplinary exhibition space and non-profit contemporary arts organisation that explores and generates new ideas of change through art, creativity, experimentation and societal exchange.

www.vesselcontemporary.org

WHERE/WHEN

Flexible/agile depending on workshop requirements.

Based from Vessel at the Naval Store, 141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup

Session 01. Thursday, 31st of July, 6pm-10pm.

Share your practice and thoughts - Kate Moss, Magni Moss

Intro talk on how to be an artist/continue to be an artist today drawn from personal experience to instigate different perspectives and a conversation with room for a get-to-know-each-other session.

Vessel at the Naval Store, 141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup.

Session 02. Wednesday, 13th of August , 6pm-9pm.

Foundation back and forth - Magni Moss

What kind of art (worldview) do you do (have)? What kind of worldview does your art communicate? What is (your) process?This workshop investigates philosophical cosmology, ontology and epistemology as a fundament for our art practices. Lecture and group discussions.

Vessel at the Naval Store, 141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup.

Session 03. Sunday, 21st of September, 10 am-4pm.

Words as material - Kate Moss

Approaching writing as an active process to slowly digest and critically examine the world around us. Within studio practice or broadly in life, writing can happen anywhere, on the train, on the sand at the beach, as a sketch, as a beginning - magic happens when we allow ourselves to sit and write. Looking at the writing of Nancy Holt, Lisa Bellear and Inger Christensen. Switching off phones and from the commute to the workshop, participants slowly land in the room-activating a different mode of doing.

Meeting at Vessel, workshop participants will be walking off-site (more details to follow).

Session 04. Wednesday, 8th of October, 6 pm-`10pm.

Beuys Beuys Beuys we’re looking for a good time -Magni Moss

About Beuys and how art can (can it?) be political. Taking point of departure in one of the most influential artist of the 20th century we look into how one can and can’t make a change today, with help from French philosopher Jacques Rancière investigating conceits of radical democracy and consensus. Introduction by Magni, screening of Beuys the documentary and post movie discussion.

Vessel at the Naval Store, 141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup.

Session 05. Sunday, 9th of November, 10am-`4pm.

Weathering/Listening-Kate Moss

Furthering on from Words as Material, this workshop centres listening as an active, engaged practice —crucial to artistic process. How do we centre listening- listening with our whole body- in our individual practices? We will be thinking with artists, writers such as Jazz Money, Daniel Browning, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Kinsella, and Etel Adnan.

Meeting at Vessel, workshop participants will be walking off-site (more details to follow).

Session 06. Sunday, 14th of December, 1pm-`5pm.
Material as part of an immanent quality - Magni Moss

What importance, role and effect does the actual material have that we use? We start with a theoretical note connecting to our second session but with a special focus on experience and immanence, looking at the lifelong practice of Inge Grünwaldt Svensson. Then, we will get into a painting material workshop making egg oil tempera and talking about paint and pigments.

Vessel at the Naval Store, 141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup.

Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 30 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 150. Free for First Nations folks. All tickets are first come, first serve. Our capacity for each session is 20 participants.