Event Info
Course Code: 24FAT000V
This four-week, virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Wednesdays, October 23rd – November 13th, from 10:00 am—12:00 pm ET.
- Wednesday, October 23rd, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Wednesday, October 30th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Wednesday, November 6th, 10:00am—12:00pm ET
- Wednesday, November 13th, 10:00am–12:00pm ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on October 9th, at 11:59 pm ET.
About the Workshop:
In this virtual workshop for all experience levels, Instructor Shirin Salehi will introduce the participants to non-legible books through an extensive one-month discussion on legibility and hiddenness in artwork in book form. Starting with an introduction on illegibility through examples of Asemic Writing, the instructor will propose works intentionally deciphered, unreadable, and inaccessible, through a selection of case studies of Artist’s books and artworks in order to raise questions on what lies beneath the hidden language.
The course is designed to deepen reflection and poetical reasoning. All students are encouraged to actively participate in discussions throughout the workshop. The class will be divided by discussion of case studies and critiques. Though the theory discussion is the basis of the class’s structure, the instructor will work with each participant on their ideas and intuitions in order to create the initial structure of personal Artist’s book project.
The course is open to artists, poets, thinkers, and all creative individuals interested in participating in critique and theoretical discussions related to book arts and to artworks with a specific emphasis on bookness.
About Shirin Salehi
Shirin Salehi (she/her) is an Iranian visual artist, art educator, and translator living and working in Madrid. With an interdisciplinary body of work that explores media such as printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and artist’s books, Shirin Salehi’s practice investigates the poetic dimension of language, focusing on ideas such as illegible writing, erased matter, and hiddenness in images. Trained in printmaking, her work delves into the nuances of time and imprint, exploring both within language itself. She has been an artist in residence at the Academy of Spain in Rome (2021), the Academy of France in Madrid (2014), and Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence (2016). In 2022 she was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in Norway. In her commitment to social issues, she has been combining her artistic practice and teaching with the work of an interpreter and mediator for Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers and refugees since 2020.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
Class size is limited to ensure an optimal participant to instructor ratio. Register now before spots fill up! Registration for this workshop closes on October 9th at 11:59pm. The price of this class is $190. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class. If you cannot comfortably pay tuition but are interested in taking this class, please consider filling out our financial assistance application here. We will notify you if you are selected to receive a scholarship before the start date of the class. To view more information about our current scholarship opportunities, please visit this link.
