After School Art Club
After School Art Club (ASAC) is an ongoing co-organized, flexible initiative for 5-15 participants. An hours-long event where we make arts and crafts in a room, framed by the principle of creating “bad” art, reminiscent of how we approached art as children. This is after school.
Photo 1 by Astra Pentaxia
Posters are made collaboratively with event participants/co-organizers, in the spirit of the event itself. Each piece of the event from preparation to clean-up is done as collaboratively as possible.
1: John, 2: Terka & John, 3: Terka, Astra, Max, John, 4: John, Ai, Matt, 5: Neïtah, John
A check-in zine is a living interactive document to each participant at the start of the event. Questions and content developed from 2 hours of individual check-ins with participants after the 2nd ASAC, and is a living document changed with each meeting, as small edits are made to newly scanned copies.
After School Art Club is a practice in community building, and a relay experience, as patterns, teachings, and ideas are brought (and lost) by participants from one art club to the next.
Results of the event are artworks that could not have been done individually, but emerge from an environment of play, freedom of resources, and a feeling of collective. These works turn a critical lens on authorship, and put a focus on the interpretation of the final works from the perspective of the artists, rather than an interpretation by the nebulous public eye.
(artworks by all participants, most photographs by Astra Pentaxia)
Inspirations taken from:
Everyday Art Club, Stone Soup