The workshops at the Shanghai Community International School presented the I AM project through an exploration modern and postmodern concepts in identity.
The students discussed how modern and post-modern artists have used conceptual ideas to communicate the Self and express their identity. In the first session, students experimented with the modernist idea of the human as a subject that is understood in a context of self-knowing. As Rene Descartes put it ʻ I think, therefore I amʼ.
The second session explored the self through post modernism. Each student brought an object that had some personal meaning to him/her. The discussion was centered on how we experience the self through an object and how this identity can be manipulated.
Thank you for the great time we had exploring and working with our identity. The workshop totally helped the students to extend their knowledge about conceptual art. It gave them another way to understand it better while having funʼ
Andrea Stubbs Art Teacher Shanghai Community International School
Photos:
Participants explore ‘the self’ with abstract Expressionism, traditional Chinese ink painting and wrapping of objects at the I AM residency workshop in Shanghai.
I AM 