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Zuleika Lebow: Creative Approaches workshop

EVENT

Following a zoom workshop with Zuleika Lebow on 2 November 2021, Peckham Platform’s Youth Platform invites you to take part in the session in your own time through this film recording. Lebow is an artist, writer and educator born and raised in London. Using philosophical texts, popular culture and sci-fi as starting points, she creates spaces and artworks to prompt meaningful discussions around race, disability and language.

Details

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Online via Zoom (Recording now online)

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (Recording now online)

6:00pm - 8:00pm (Recording now online)

FREE

Creative Approaches Workshop with Zuleika Lebow and Youth Platform from Peckham Platform on Vimeo.

This special workshop includes a creative icebreaker activity and open crit, encouraging participants to use new ways of thinking about their practice that are imaginative and transferable.

In the live zoom workshop we welcomed early career artists and young adults to participate and give feedback throughout the session. Live interpretation and speech to text transcription were included.

Additional Creative Approaches resources

Zuleika Lebow’s Creative Approaches: workshop powerpoint slides

Zuleika Lebow’s Creative Approaches: workshop Spotify playlist

Performance: Innocent and Aware
A performance piece featuring artists Zuleika Lebow and Kerri Jefferis

Symposium Video: Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Art Schools So Different, So Appealing?
Video by The Common, a collective of artists, thinkers and doers expanding upon the idea of the common(s) as a designated, communal space for the free display and exchange of ideas which seeks to create new forms of cooperation outside the logic of state and market. The Common is Chris Alton, Kerri Jefferis, Zuleika Lebow, Husna Lohiya, Tabitha Parlett, Justina Urbon, Gabriele Zemaityte

Mini Art Doc: Richard Hamilton, “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?”
This 10 minute film by Areli C. focuses on Richard Hamilton’s artistic practice and his collage work

Podcast: The ConveHERsation
A podcast created for women! ConveHERsations about everything from relationships, feminism, health to careers and social media

Instagram resources: Chronic Creatives
Community sharing resources and support for creative people with chronic illness

Screenshot from Zuleika Lebow’s Creative Approaches workshop on Zoom including Yves Klein quote “My paintings are only the ashes of my art” on the left and Zuleika Lebow (artist) and Rachel Jones (British sign language interpretation) on the right.
Screenshot from Zuleika Lebow’s Creative Approaches workshop on Zoom including Yves Klein quote “My paintings are only the ashes of my art” on the left and Zuleika Lebow (artist) and Rachel Jones (British sign language interpretation) on the right
Screenshot from Zuleika Lebow’s Creative Approaches workshop on Zoom including from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Zuleika Lebow (artist), Rachel Jones (British sign language interpretation), Katherine Finerty (curator and co-producer), Scarlett and Ali (Peckham Platform Youth Platform members)
Screenshot from Zuleika Lebow’s Creative Approaches workshop on Zoom including from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Zuleika Lebow (artist), Rachel Jones (British sign language interpretation), Katherine Finerty (curator and co-producer), Scarlett and Ali (Peckham Platform Youth Platform members)
Diagram of “Where’s the Artist” App icebreaker image. Photo: Scarlett Hope-Gates

This workshop is part of our Tilting the Mirror programme, which aims to change perceptions of Peckham and each other.

Youth Platform is supported by The Portal Trust, Art Fund, and Arts Council England and Charterhouse Southwark and was produced in collaboration with curator Katherine Finerty.

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