Polymorphous Magical Substance
31. 7. – 12. 8. 23

Colour moves faster than theory – from natural objects (pigments from the earth) to pure fabrication, back to just the light of the computer screen. Colour is tied to physicality, to material nature, even though it has no material nature of its own. Colour is a challenge to the status quo. There are traces of colour in history, but for the most part, the colour tends to escape, leaving only whatever it had been temporarily tied to. Colour seems to remain potentially trauma-inducing. It is preverbal, which hints at a potential of universality. However, the same use of colour can carry significantly different cultural interpretations. This course is a chance to experiment with your relationship to colour in your work, whether studying colour mixing and theory or a process of unlearning and making way for your intuition.

The title of this colour workshop is a chapter from Michael Taussig’s What Color Is the Sacred? Our days in the course will start with group discussions and sharing experiences and experiments with colour. Afterwards, there will be ample time for collaborative colour experiments, studio work and individual consultations. We occupy the painting room. However, students working in all media are encouraged to apply.