{"id":2157,"date":"2025-10-16T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgaszynkarczuk.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:27","slug":"shaping-your-workshop-with-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgaszynkarczuk.com\/pl\/shaping-your-workshop-with-adam\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPING YOUR WORKSHOP WITH ADAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workshops 1-2 December 2025 at Two Temple Place, Exhibition Jan-March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found Adam’s post on Moodle and decided to spontaneously sign up after seeing the initial sentence-invitation: “Are you interested in facilitating your own workshop, around themes related to vulnerability, resilience, identity, and emotional well-being?” as well as “Join this session to think through your ideas in a supportive group setting. We will shape a workshop structure together and write a title and description for your session. You will then have a chance to put your ideas into practice at a planned public facing workshop festival”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing that I found very intriguing was the space itself. It was absolutely over-the-top magnificently decadent. I felt like I was on a Bridgerton or Harry Potter movie set. And I was even more surprised to find out we will have the tour of the building before even starting the meeting. Turns out it was all connected. The place was built on a lavish scale by an american property mogul Waldorf Astor in the 19th century. He owned half of Manhattan and his family got death threats in the US, so he fled to London, but here they didn’t accept him as to them he was the new money American, so he sunk 100000000 US dollars, paying it all to a 70 year old architect for designing this “sanctuary” full of hidden doors with locks and with rooms protecting his wealth like vaults. Apparently he was also a philanthropist, but I feel like that’s probably a smaller part of his fortune. Now the space is rented to film companies as well as different galas and events and also has yearly exhibitions and workshops with artists. The artists have to “challenge the space,” considering that the sourcing of wood (mahogany, ebony) and the marble and craftspeople he hired, whose names we’ll never know, none of that was necessarily ethical. Plus, it used to be like some secret club, no one had access, and suddenly it’s open to the public and we’re even encouraged to touch the wooden interiors. We’re supposed to be running workshops there in December and have an exhibition from January to April.  The exhibition will touch on the subjects of Resilience & Struggle with physical and mental health, asking questions such as: How do you deal with suffering? Is it human to suffer, how do we deal with that, what do we do? Ultimately we want to be forstering hope. The exhibition will have 4 sections: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The Weight of the Everyday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Collective Struggles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Human Vulnerability<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Sanctuary and Solitude<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way I would like to participate is start with the drawing\/dancing\/music listening workshop, during which visitors could somehow experience what it would be like to dance with a pregnant belly hanging from you in the front. I want to collaborate with a dancer, who became a mother and I would like her to somehow through dance convey what the experience felt\/feels like for her. Was she able to keep dancing? Did she have to quit? Was it a lot of suffering having to give up her career, feeling excluded by a dance company, having to build a completely new life? I remember becoming a mother felt like becoming completely invisible and it was very hard to deal with that for a while. I would like the viewers to possibly feel a bit uncomfortable when faced with this struggle. Maybe I would invite them to reflect and use available paper to draw with pain sticks, to express how they’re feeling, maybe they might be moved to dance as well. I am also thinking of including my work from the Fringe Warsaw exhibition but potentially destroying with water and transforming the flat paper drawings into more sculptural forms, rounded, embracing the circle as corresponding to the female form, but still with movement as part of the process, adding ribbons and thread to be able to suspend the structure in the air? For now I have loads of questions and idas and I am super excited about this. And still in absolut awe of the space<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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