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Lecture
Could there be some psychological truth behind the stereotype of the eccentric, moody or even mad artist? We do not know. What we can recognise is that we play different roles depending on the situations in which we find ourselves. These roles are strategies for adapting to our social environment. Some are more pronounced than others; some feel especially familiar, and we have grown attached to them. Having many roles means possessing a wider range of strategies and more possibilities for success, including creative success. But where do these roles come from, and how are they organised within us? We will learn to know them from within, to use them in art and to enter into dialogue with them.
Workshop
To prevent our inner “voices” from conflicting with one another, being repressed or becoming disconnected, we will give them allegorical forms. We will give them a voice by creating allegorical characters that make our tendencies and beliefs visible. Through inner dialogue, we will try to understand the nature and reasons of each character.
The aim is to communicate with our inner characters and bring them into relationship with one another: to lighten, gently mock and play with our inner complexity rather than reducing it or allowing one single “character” to dominate. Creativity, in fact, emerges from dialogue among these voices, from their diversity and from their cooperation towards a shared result.
Workshop Topics
Who Is It For?
Visual artists, theatre practitioners, writers and anyone who wants to know themselves better, enjoy the process and develop new creative strategies. Maximum 12 participants.
Duration
16 hours across Saturday and Sunday, plus a two-hour lecture on Friday evening.
Cost
The fee is agreed with interested participants.
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Lecture preview
Different Aspects of a Person
Who says that each of us is a single, undivided personality? Could different beliefs and attitudes coexist within us, sometimes contradicting one another and producing experiences of confusion and conflict?
Becoming aware of these forces can increase our creativity. Imagine that before making a difficult decision, we convened a kind of internal meeting, calling together our characters and voices to seek common agreement. That is what it means to establish an inner dialogue. In effect, we are always working as a team, except that the team is not made up of other people but of allegorical representations of our own complexity and multiplicity: what we call our inner characters.
Restoring the imaginative magic of our relationship with these characters is not only remarkably enjoyable and relaxing; it is also a source of vitality for artists. It nourishes the creation of stories and deeply felt images, works that ring true and are therefore especially meaningful and communicative. Here, too, our inner world proves to be an inexhaustible reservoir of inspiration.