Keeping up Momentum: Pushing the Envelope with Diana Ali

Mail Art and correspondence work has been an active way of collaborating and sharing art, without the pressures of working with a gallery, since the 1960s. It is a process which is inclusive, inventive and imaginative. For this Keeping up Momentum session, Pushing the Envelope, OCA tutor Diana Ali will share her projects and work based on this theme and show how the physical sharing of work can become viral and globally participatory.  

Students will work with provocations which will then be posted to another and concluded with a collaborative element. You are required to be open minded, be playful and willing to share work.  You will need your art materials, envelopes, blank postcards/blank cards and sketchbook (and/or camera phone and access to a printer). Processes that will be involved could be text, collage, drawing, textiles, sculpture, painting, music and photography. 

Be prepared to make work and be able to spend a little bit of time between the two sessions developing and/or collaborating on creative work. You will be put into cross-disciplinary groups for breakouts during the sessions.

The first session runs on Zoom from 10am to around 12.30 on Saturday January 29th and the second at 10am - 12.30 on Saturday February 12th.

To book a free place on these workshops please add your details to this registration sheet.  You will need to be logged in to your OCA account to edit the sheet.  We have 100 places in total. Keeping up Momentum is open to all OCA students - any course, any level.

The Zoom log-in for both sessions will be:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87980726528?pwd=NVRDUkFTQ21IWmVyTFFjOWhVY0xTdz09

Meeting ID: 879 8072 6528

Passcode: 367939

A reminder and details of your team allocations will be sent to you a few days before the event.

Keeping up Momentum is a student-led initiative to inspire, motivate and connect OCA students.

For more information please contact Helen Rosemier, helen416376@oca.ac.uk