Steak Zombies workshop at the Tate Britain
-------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday 20 February
Identity and freedom of speech
Express what you want to say to the world through a character with it’s own identity.
(Watch movie of the workshop)
2007 © Tate Britain
The first encounter in the Tate galleries was devised to connect the idea of self expression through a character and Mark Wallinger’s piece "State Britain" in which questions of freedom of speech are challenged.
Freeze your identity on entering. Leave your ID behind for the duration of the workshop.
On entering the room one by one, each participant has their picture taken and is given an ID card to fill in.
The questions on the card are related to who they are and what their ideas are.
Objectives: on leaving their identity behind, participants set a blank canvas to build their new identity as activist
On the reverse of the ID-card was another identity card for the new character with questions to help defining it.
Questions include strength and weaknesses, super powers, mission statement and ideas.
After sketching characters on paper and presenting their ideas, the group was briefed on how to craft the character into a three-dimensional action figure - sewing fabric and using colours.
Participants left the workshop with a crafted character that crystallises the ideas and message
they want to put across.
