Family festival Garage Under-18

Date

From 2 September 2018

Schedule

12:00–18:00

Place

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

DESCRIPTION

As part of Gorky Park’s 90th anniversary festivities, the seasonal family festival Garage Under-18 will be held for the third consecutive year at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art on the first Sunday of September, coinciding with Russian Knowledge Day.

Garage welcomes children, teenagers, and their parents to spend this day having fun and learning new things in the Museum where they will have the chance to participate in various workshops and become the first visitors to find out the details of Garage’s upcoming fall/winter exhibition season.

A contemporary art museum is a place of opportunities where everyone can find something new for themselves, discover previously unknown things, acquire novel skills, get an exciting experience, and creatively realize their ideas. Together with the Garage team, children and adults will delve into the world of contemporary art and explore its diverse languages while experimenting in five different museum spaces.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Free admission with advance registration.

Accessible for visitors with disabilities. Pedagogues trained in Russian Sign Language will be present at the venue to help deaf and hard of hearing people.

REGISTRATION

Schedule

Theater of objects and phenomena

With the world enduring as an infinite network of connections and relationships between things, people, events, and phenomena, the majority of these “intersection knots” nevertheless often elude our attention. Artists, writers, and directors make these conjunctions visible and even tangible.

Garage educators will engage the visitors in an exciting game of staged installations. The participants will try out the role of directors in an invisible theater, where, by the power of imagination alone, objects are given voices and put in a dialogue with each other, thus revealing their invisible bonds with people.

Time
12:00–18:00
Place
West Gallery

Workshop: Design language

By combining the necessity to offer practical solutions with the freedom of a genuinely artistic imagination, design operates as a universal language. In fact, a tiny icon on the screen of a gadget can replace an entire verbal sentence, while a chair will always remain a chair, regardless of its extravagant shape or the unusual materials it is made of.

Using available and improvised materials, educators from the Danish Museum of Art and Design (Copenhagen) will offer the visitors the chance to experiment in furniture design and production in the space of Garage Kids' Room and participate in a thrilling linguistic test, set to reveal whether it is possible to replace verbal language completely with the visual one—using images, gestures, and objects— when people of different countries and cultures meet each other.

Time
12:00–18:00
Place
Garage Kids' Studio

Animation studio: Learn in 60 seconds

Apparently, most children would prefer to replace school text books with cartoons. Animation is a great tool for articulating complex phenomena in a simple and telling way or for sharing one’s thoughts with others. Learning new things is always a delightful process, but explaining them to another person may be not that easy. This is when animation can be really helpful. Together with the tutors, children and adults will narrate their original short stories using the technique of cutout animation. 

Time
12:00–18:00
Place
Garage Auditorium

Laboratory: Ten experiments with one paper sheet

Ideas and imagination are more crucial for creativity than materials. Using imagination only, one is able to transform a thing into a dozen different objects. Imagination is the basis of all creative practices. What can a simple sheet of paper become? It can turn into a letter or a memory container, become a mask that covers face, a toy, a canvas, or a sculpture—it can be almost anything provided that imagination is involved. Everyone is welcome to try and witness such transformations in the space of the Ten experiments lab.

Time
12:00–18:00
Place
Garage Screen summer cinema

Art mediation at the exhibition Infinite Ear

Certain art projects instigate the viewers to engage in an investigation of new phenomena and their individual perception thereof. The exhibition Infinite Ear creates a unique acoustic environment where one can sense, imagine, comprehend, and hear sound in new ways, which is possible thanks to the original musical instruments invented by the artist Tarek Atoui, as well as via interaction with Garage’s art mediators and performers.

Time
12:00–18:00
Place
Garage Central Gallery