Workshops carried out by schools and social structures in the Gare Quartier, the city of Strasbourg and beyond.
Workshops designed by Stimultania.
With the Vauban Kindergarten, the Romans School - Koenigshoffen, the Leclerc Primary School, the Neuhof Primary School, the Northern Elementary School - Illkirch-Graffenstaden, the XV School, the Lamartine College - Bischheim, the Lycée Notre Dame, and the CROUS Strasbourg.
As well as the Institution Saint-Joseph - Adèle de Glaubitz Association, Entraide Le Relais - Ateliers Passerelle, the Local Mission of Saverne, the CADA / CIR / SAMI - Foyer Notre Dame, the SAMNA Adélaïde Hautval - Strasbourg, the Center Socio-Culturel Fossé des Thirteen, the OPI Elsau ARSEA and the Eurometropolis ARSEA Medico-Educational Institute - Ganzau site.
As part of the exhibition Mountains (from Lebanon to Kenya) by Nadim Asfar, Simon Norfolk and Klaus Thymann, presented from 07.01 to 28.03.2021.
The exhibition Mountains (from Lebanon to Kenya) was to allow Stimultania to offer a breath of fresh air to its visitors, a great breath of fresh air after a period of heavy health crisis. The dates of its programming finally fell into full confinement (second of the name). If the exhibition was closed for the general public, educational and social structures were still able to benefit - for a short time, at least.
Children, adolescents and students from schools in and around the city were able to discover the world of the three artists (Nadim Asfar, Simon Norfolk and Klaus Thymann), and be inspired by them, during practical workshops designed in connection with the themes of the exhibition: Beauty of the landscape, memory and heritage of a native country, consequences of global warming, but also light, colors, material, and photographic technique.
“The colors of the mountain” workshop
The leporellos by artist Nadim Asfar, a kind of accordion-books, are composed of photographs of the Lebanese mountains gradually progressing according to the advance of the day, and captured by the artist during his walks. In this temporality, light and colors are crucial. Divided into several groups according to the different shades (which correspond to the various luminosities of the day), the children began by making shapes appear using colored ink stains on a sheet. In a second step, the children figured in the felt of the mountains, creating a landscape on each of their creations. Finally, they experimented with the folding of the latter, and assembled, in a temporal logic and by a gradation of colors, the different works. A common leporello was then created, to be displayed in class.
“Draw with light” workshop
Inspired by the work When I am Laid on Earth by Simon Norfolk (2014), in which the artist shows a ribbon of fire delimiting the former location of a glacier that has almost disappeared today, participants were invited to discover “lightpainting”. This photographic technique relies on the use of a light source, for example, a flashlight, to draw shapes while shooting. The exposure time, also called “exposure time”, must then be long, and be done in a dark environment. The settings specific to this type of shooting were made with the contribution of the participants, in order to allow them to appropriate the technical dimension of this activity, and to discover the properties of the shots. The light sources were of different intensities and different hues, in order to experience the technique as a whole.
