Location: Monica's studio, Arezzo, Italy
Course start: March 17, 2027
Course finish: March 23, 2027
This immersive month-long course is entirely dedicated to experimentation and mark-making. Each day unfolds in two complementary parts. The first hour is devoted to the study of sources — examples drawn from different writing cultures, both ancient and modern, palimpsests, natural marks resembling writing and many more. The rest of the day is reserved for practice and experimentation with gesture and mark-making: both the ordered, rhythmic movements of writings and textures, and the disordered, instinctive, intuitive gestures of non legible and asemic writing.
We will study the mark, and the compositional and rhythmic form, of writings from ancient and modern cultures — clay tokens from Susa, the painted stones of Mas d'Azil, Chinese ideograms, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Naxi divinatory scripts, Camunian symbols, Japanese kana, the Etruscan tablet of Cortona, magical scripts — as well as other marks produced by the wind, by animals, plants, the movement of volcanoes, and much more.
This course is predominantly practical in nature. It offers an opportunity to explore mark-making as an embodied knowledge, an act bound to life itself.
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