Art Workshop - Collaging the Senses: Storytelling

Four day workshop.

“Collaging the Senses” is a writing and storytelling workshop that introduces sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste as instructors in their own right. Students will explore the senses available to them through multidisciplinary exercises, group discussions, writing, and the exploration of Ox-Bow’s campus. Oral history interviews, mindfulness meditation, and transformative justice practices will be explored as possible tools for developing a sustainable artistic practice. Stories are not exclusively written; they lie beyond words, and take root when shared. The workshop culminates in students sharing out work, publicly or privately, developed during the session. Students of all experience levels and backgrounds are encouraged to participate. 

GABRIEL CHALFIN-PINEY is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer, with a background in performance and exhibition-making. They are interested in making by way of olfactory, gustatory, and tactile experiments, prompting audience members to participate as co-creators. They hope to be part of building a play forward-abolition centric-family style eating-oral historical-tattooed-meditative-puppetry bound-molded-meditative-ecology. Gabriel holds an MA in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have shown work at the Dorsky Museum, Panoply Lab, High Concept Labs, and Grace Exhibition Space.