Art Challenges
Within the LACA learning model, the Community Challenge in Arts represents C=CREATE.
ART
Community Challengers incorporated art challenges in a variety of media: Film, Visual Arts, Performance and Songs. In Portugal, Latvia, Serbia, Croatia and Italy young people created their own art pieces and learned how to reflect climate-related topics, challenges and solutions in their own artistic language. Participants learn to express their perception of societal and ecological developments reflected from their own perspective and reality.
All information, the description of workshop formats and the explanation of creating a Community Challenge in the field of art is written in the Community Challengers Guide/Part ONE
VIDEO ART
Video art is an art form that relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology, such as video tape recorders, became available outside corporate broadcasting. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; installations viewed in galleries or museums; works streamed online; works distributed as video tapes or DVDs, and performances that may incorporate one or more television sets, video monitors and projections, displaying live or recorded images and sounds.
As a part of the Community Challengers project, two-day video workshops focused on creating content about climate change.
Video art challenges took place in Portugal, Croatia, Latvia, Serbia and Italy. Here are some of the works they produced:
Stop-Motion Video Art Project: “Zelene Povrosine” (Croatia)
Video Art Project – “What does last more?” (Portugal)
Stop-Motion Video Art Project – “Ispusni Plinovi” (Croatia)
VISUAL ART
Works of art perform a social function since they are created for an audience. The topic of climate change and its consequences on a local level can be tackled through artistic interpretation, techniques of drawing, sketching ideas, and even the creation of murals.
A mural is a large painting on a wall or ceiling inside or outside a particular structure. The very importance of murals and their impact on society can be seen through the history of wall paintings, from cave drawings to the present day. They are also present in all civilisations in history as a part of cultural heritage.
Murals can be created in private, enclosed spaces or in the public space. In the context of the Community Challengers workshop, the place of murals was chosen to be accessible to a wider audience. The topic of climate change and its consequences on the respective local levels is tackled through artistic interpretation, raises attention and awareness, and is accessible on a long-term scale.
The Community Challenge workshop of painting a mural took place in Zagreb/Croatia, Aizpute/Latvia, Belgrade/Serbia and Loano/Italy.
Find here the process and results of the art challenge in Croatia, Latvia, Serbia and Italy:
Mural Creation, Serbia
PERFORMANCE
The Performance Art challenge tasked participants to imagine and design trash-based “mutants” that would change people’s consciousness and inspire changes to bring about a better tomorrow. Through a mutant’s story, the message is also a metaphorical call for action – a joint action to address local and global ideas.
During an International Youth Exchange in Belgrade, Serbia, young participants from five European countries took part in a Performance challenge. Each country team created masks out of plastic and trash and, in a performance on the streets of Belgrade, aimed to create attention through mutant-like movements and performances, raising awareness of plastic trash and its consequences for planet and society. The performance pieces follow the classic dramatic structure, with exposition, rising action, a climax and a denouement in the form of a ‘moral of the story or a message. The pieces present onlookers with the issue of plastics and the impact of climate change on biodiversity.
Community Challengers Performance Art – Serbia
Community Challengers Performance Art – Portugal
Community Challengers Performance Art – Latvia
Community Challengers Performance Art – Croatia
Community Challengers Performance Art I – Italy
Community Challengers Performance Art II – Italy
Community Challengers Performance Art III – Italy