AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

[Visuelle Protokolle]

Hi Chris,
 
working with visual artists ...   I would not call myself an artist, and certainly what we do in an Open Space has little to do with art, and a lot with listening, understanding, mirroring, showing people what they say. 
 
I took part in more than a dozen open spaces, and always heard that people were glad to have us around. If that is true for many other forms of meetings as well, for me open space is special, and visualization seems especially helpful. People go from one session to an other, groups mix and merge, and we as visualizers can offer some general picture. So everybody can get a feeling for the whole process and all the different group activities without beeing in all the groups in flesh and blood.
 
The descripion of our work of course describes our technique, . So if you work with visualizers who work on big wallpapers, some of the following might be different.
 
What we normally do: We draw on little cards format A4, and put them together with artist tape on the backside in rows of 6 pictures. All these rows form a picture wall, which stands at a place where everybody passes, in the foyer for example. Every session gets a new head card, followed by the pictures from that session.
 
We worked with three visualizers once, with Michael Pannwitz, more often with two in bigger os, or just one visualizer. We sit in the opening round and draw what we hear, and then bumble around between the groups. Sometimes one group is so important, that we stay there, more often we follow our two feet and switch groups inbetween. We found out, that people tend to talk in circles, so if we sit in a group for 10-15 minutes, we get a feeling for the group process and its results and some pictures which are satisfying for the participants. so it is o.k. to move on.
 
It is important to stay in contact with the facilitator of the os process, just to be available if needed. and it is important to be presented at the beginning, so people don't feel shy if someone comes and sits besides them drawing. It is important to have time at the end of the day to show the pictures. We need someone to scan all our pictures and put them into a notebook with a slight show program (7 sec. per picture is fine) and a beamer, or take fotos with a digital camera to put them into the slide show, and we need time in the agenda, where everybody sits relaxed and lets the images of the day flow by. That normally takes about 7 to 10 minutes.
 
After the os there are several possibilities to use the images, like a picture book, or a virtual picture wall in the net, or a CD for everybody, or a calendar of the most important ones, or exhibitions, or .......
 
I will answer any questions, and wish you a good process!
 
Reinhard
 
VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
Kuchenmüller & Stifel
 
tel +39-0566-88 929
www.visuelle-protokolle.de
 

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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. August 2006 18:51
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Betreff: Working with visual artists at an Open Space


Hi mates:

I have an opportunity coming up in the fall to work with a visual artist for an Open Space I am doing.  The clients wants us to work together and I'm excited by the possibility, but haven't ever done that before.  

So what kind of good stories do you have of working with visual artists (and visual art as a modality) in Open Space.

Daniel?  Reinhardt?  Is Nancy Margulis around?  Others?

Chris

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