XINYU LONG
Research Festival
Workshop ----- ’ The will of nature’
Organisers：Xinyu Long, Shuwen Wang, Yaoxuan Wang
The poster made by me
Workshop Description:
We wanted to make a co-produced mixed-materials installation based on the themes of eco-feminism and human and nature. We will collect things from nature and our own clothes as materials to create the work together, and hope that through this activity we can re-examine the relationship between women and nature.
Our target audience:
BA&MA PAINTING 1st year students, We wanted to limit the participants to their own backgrounds which is interested in feminist and nature.
What will be created?
An integrated material installation, which is realized and assembled by the group.It will eventually be placed in its natural environment to be photographed and documented.
Drafts and reference plans
The aim for your participants to learn and to feel:
It is hoped that participants will rethink the symbiotic relationship between women and nature through the use of art, and raise awareness of the need to participate in the protection of ecology and respect for life, and rethinking the social structure . They will improve their self-identity, reconcile with themselves and heal themselves through the link with nature. Besides, we hoped that the resonance of women's experience of life will lead to a deeper understanding of the continuity of life and the harmony of nature
The aim I want to learn:
Get more inspirations and comfort from communicating with people who share the same feelings or interests as our and working together on a piece of art. To consolidate and deepen the theoretical and creative experience of artistic practice on the theme of symbiosis.
How does this link to your art practice and research:
Witches' activities often involve collective rituals to realise a connection with nature and spiritual forces and to gain new power to make people value nature and the feminine, so I recreate these rituals in the form of a workshop and draw attention to the symbiotic relationship between the feminine and the natural.