Every time we start thinking of making a work of art we are confronted with the problem of how to get form and content in balance. Here form will be called approach, content will be regarded as choices of subject matter.

The workshop starts from the issue of subject matter, and will raise questions like: What is the relevance of subject matter? How do we choose subject matter? Should we love it? Find it beautiful, interesting or important? Is subject matter personal? What if we don’t make a choice and use anything? The workshop offers a number of about 25 assignments based on these questions. Assignments vary in duration, character and complexity. Their duration ranges from 5 seconds to 3 hours or more.

Character: from memory-drawings and instructed methods to exercises with a more imaginative demand.
Complexity: from easy-to-respond exercises to exercises that appeal to highly personal experiences.

Each and every exercise will be connected to specific demands from a technical point of view; from simple black and white drawings and watercolours to paper cut-outs and combinations. Only two-dimensional approaches are worked with.
Stage one of the workshop ends with the completion of the exercises; stage 2 deals with discussions about the value of the chosen subject matter. Where and when became the approach important as an example of personal vision? In stage 3 participants will be invited to produce a work of a more permanent character, based though, on one or more earlier exercise-results.