CODEA – THE ART OF STEALING WORKSHOP

The workshop will be hosted live online where you will join Codea and your fellow workshop mates. Participate from the comfort of your home, office or anywhere with a good internet connection. All links and access will be provided ahead of your workshops beginning.

Workshops are open to students, professionals and inquisitive creative minds of all ages and stages.

Language: English
Price: £120
Equipment Required: Laptop

SCHEDULE
Day 1: Monday 20 April (12:00-16:00 UK Time)
Day 2: Monday 27. April (12:00-16:00 UK Time)

WORKSHOP INFO

This workshop is about appropriation: a radical gesture available to anyone working in the visual arts, or, if you prefer a name that sounds less institutional and heroic, plagiarism.

What you will be doing is learning how to shamelessly plagiarize, to take things that are not yours and make them say something they were never meant to express. Re-signification as a practice, as a lineage, as a tool for social and political critique.

By the end, participants will leave with hands-on experience in recontextualizing existing materials and with a sharper, more contradictory, and therefore more honest understanding of what a graphic designer actually is. Creatives make things look good and appealing, no doubt, but they are also producers of discourse, agents of change, armed with an entire archive of pre-existing visual material that is just sitting there, waiting to be ripped off and made to mean something else.

ABOUT CODEA
"Our non-conventional approach to creativity is a way to fight against the predominant homogeneity we all can perceive. Identifying conventions allows us to defy them and make your brand part of the social conversation."

WHERE?
Online via Zoom