Students in the University of Hartford’s Nomad Interdisciplinary MFA took an Art & Ecology course with Christy Gast and Camila Marambio of Ensayos in June, 2020. Ensayos believes that that imagining a better future requires sound science, aesthetic sensitivity, creative experimentation, collaboration, and systems thinking.… Keep Reading
‘Felting/Feeling’A Wool Felting WorkshopLed by Christy Gast Saturday, 31st August, 12:30–2:00pmOuter Space1/170 Montague Road,South Brisbane Open process-ing (making and talking): Wet felting of wool is a tactile process during which the animal fibres must be shocked, massaged, and submerged in hot and cold water repeatedly. Wool dyed… Keep Reading
Workshop: SAT, AUGUST 10 AT 1 PM at the Swale House (House 15) in Nolan Park on Governor’s Island in NYC, Free Wool needs teeth to bond with dye. Soaking the fibers in a mineral-rich bath is called mordanting. We’ll collect seawater from Buttermilk Channel… Keep Reading
WORKSHOP: COASTAL CURRICULUM Saturday, November 3rd from 12 to 1 pm at the Museum Park Baywalk, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), 1103 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION Ensayo #4 (Coastal Curriculum) research pods exist in Tierra del Fuego, Northern Norway, New… Keep Reading
In this masterclass and workshop, students will be introduced to in-production web series Distancia, hear about the origins and contemporary relevance of fan subtitling (fansubbing), learn about the specific constraints and conventions of subtitling, and be guided through hands-on fansubbing exercises using the open- source… Keep Reading
Carolina Saquel will reflect on the construction of the image as a process of fabrication, composition, manipulation, and viewing, speaking about the procedures of the one who “makes” images by revealing her own process, including presenting her system of references, her frameworks, and her habits.… Keep Reading
As part of the project to spawn a variety of interrelated Coastal Curricula, Denise Milstein will hold a workshop at the Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Montevideo, Uruguay. The two sessions develop a framework for artistic and scientific collaboration based on the work… Keep Reading
This short film was produced as the result of a series of workshops with a group of teenagers from the New York Aquarium’s Wildlife Conservation Corps, which focuses on public-facing science and ocean advocacy projects. Led by the Aquarium’s artist in residence Christy Gast, they… Keep Reading
En español recordar viene del latín, cordis, y significa volver a pasar por el corazón. Algunas semanas después de nuestro taller SSSS en el Victoria College of the Arts Secondary School Camila y yo nos juntamos a rememorar. A volver juntas a pasar por la… Keep Reading
SSSS is a playful first attempt at co-creating a coastal curriculum for Melbourne, a first throw of a skipping stone along the surface of Phillip Bay, that took place during the month of March 2017 thanks to the artist Sean Peoples who offered Camila Marambio… Keep Reading
BHQFU, New York’s Freest Art School, is pleased to present TRIALS ON AN ARCHIPELAGO, a residency, seminar, and exhibition focusing on Ensayos, a nomadic research program based in Tierra del Fuego (TdF) at FUG (Foundation University Gallery). Since 2010, Ensayos has brought together artists, scientists… Keep Reading
About Ensayos workshop at Paris Climat 2015: The artists from Ensayos (Randi Nygård, Christy Gast, Carolina Saquel and Karolin Tampere) shared performative tools and radical listening techniques developed through fieldwork experiments focusing on sensitizing to, being with or becoming non-human actors in Patagonia and… Keep Reading