1.1. Programme Outline
The second intervention is a series of workshops. The workshops have two part: podcast and art creating.
Podcast part: Paticipaters are invited to record their own perceptions of family, the impact it has had on them, and what they think the perfect family would be.
Create a sculpture of the ‘perfect family’ using thread, clay, paper, etc. during the recording of the podcast.
Art Creating part: The full results of the workshop will be presented in the form of an offline exhibition and book upon completion of the workshop.
The two sections will run concurrently and all artworks and interviews will be presented in the medium of a book upon completion of the workshop series.
1.2. Space and Equipment Selection
Any enclosed space that requires a small table for creating artwork. Also, audio equipment will need to be available to record the interviews.
1.3.Inspiration
This is a group of participatory artworks in which the artist invited a number of people who are cared for by carers, interviewed them about their emotions arising from living with a carer and invited them to make stone sculptures.
2.1. Workshop Details
2.1.1. Opening
All participants will be individually invited to a room where a psychologist will monitor the participants’ psychological condition in real time. Participants will initially choose their favourite material and start talking about some basic information about their family, e.g. last name, occupation, region etc.
2.1.2. Second Step
Subsequently, depending on the depth of the interview, respondents will mention the influences and legacies that their families have brought to them.
2.1.3. Create
After talking about their own family influences and legacies, the artist will invite participants to talk about their own idea of the ‘perfect’ family. Feeling their own emotions, they will create abstract sculptural works of art that express their anger, happiness and fantasies.
3.1. Follow-up（Third Intervention）
The full video and podcast of the creative process and the work will be collated and divided into two parts: 1. an offline exhibition and 2. a book.
3.1.1. Offline Exhibition
The video and the sculpture will be placed together, and the textual presentation of the work will be confusing and misplaced. This will reflect the loss of family issues and provoke the audience to think about the work on site, ultimately achieving the proposition of “rethinking the relationship between the individual and the family”.
3.1.2. Book
The whole material will be compiled into a fictionalised family history, with all images and text derived from workshops and interviews, but the intervention will be reflected in the fact that the order of all the narratives is deliberately disrupted, ultimately constituting a logical family history, but from the true stories of the various different families.
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