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Exercises
Make a SpaceParliament Debate
The Fall of the Studio (And Others)
Art in a Time Like This
Always Try and Read Something Beautiful on Waking, First Thing
Senses and the Soundscape
Tailoring a Conceptual Experience
All Ears Workshop
Notebook Exercise
What is School For?
The Human Camera
Drawing Exercise
Rumpelstiltskin-ing
Hallucinations Without Drugs
Art Proposal Thought Exercise
Banner Drop
Remote Choreography
Hey Student & Hey Teacher
L
Image to Body
Listen ’n Speak
Tuned in: Listening and Thinking-Out-Loud Together
Copyright It
49 Ways to Change Your Home
Play by the Rules
Tight Doorways Into Big Rooms
Book Drop
An Exercise in Automatic Writing
The Tour Mindset Exercise
The YES! Principle
Mycological Provisions
The Sentence
Starting Out
Tilting Time – An Exercise for the Mind
Lines Into and Through Head-Space
The Circle Game
River Crossing Puzzle
Mental Exercise / Mental Pause / Mental Force
Diary Exercise
Participatory Reading Event
On Making Things From Scratch
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Exercise for Urban Areas
Collage Scavenger Hunt
Time Totem
News Papers
Singing Rocks
To Get Away from the Romantic Idea of the Individual
The Reception Game
On Half-Blind Drawing
25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth
The Excluded
Unspoken Projection Between Strangers
Instructions for an Unexpected Absence
Time Totem
This exercise encourages thinking about shared experience and individual interpretations of specific moments. Each child receives the same instructions but individual results will vary greatly.
Create a collective totem sculpture representing a specific amount of time.
It is recommended that the project is introduced by discussing how we measure and appreciate time. Get suggestions from the class.
Give each child a fist sized lump of white air-drying clay.
Give the following instructions:
“You will be timed for five minutes as you play with the clay. You can roll the clay in your hands, squeeze it, pinch it, imprint it with your fingers. Do not try and make a shape, just feel the clay.”
After five minutes STOP immediately.
Everyone should create a hole wide enough to thread the clay into a totem.
Restart the timer and give the class the following instructions:
“You will now be timed for twenty-five minutes as you paint the clay. Use the paint provided to decorate the clay with colourful patterns and designs, follow the contours of your fingers.”
Beads/feathers or any of the other materials provided can be added at this point too.
After twenty-five minutes everyone must STOP immediately.
Everyone now has a small lump of clay representing half an hour of their time and creativity.
String the individual moments together to create a large time totem.