EMPACT Workshop / Creative Sustainability
EMPACT Workshop / Creative Sustainability
Lecture on the history of tattooing and linocut workshop with artist Lan Breški
UGM, Strossmayer street 6
Friday, 20 October 2023 (16:00–17:00), and Saturday, 21 October 2023 (12:00–16:00)
On Friday and Saturday, 20 and 21 October, we invite you to a lecture and workshop on the history of tattooing and a linocut workshop. A lecture on the history of "sicanje", "bocanje", tattooing in the Balkans and tattooing in Victorian London on Friday will be followed by a workshop on linocut printmaking on Saturday, led by Lan Breški.
The workshop is part of the European project EMPACT, which addresses the themes of compassion and sustainability and the relationship between them under the slogan "The art thinks like a mountain". The lecture and workshop will address society's attitude towards seemingly permanent symbolic markings of the body - they are only as permanent as the body - and talk about tattoos as a direct indicator of one's relationship to the environment.
Lan Breški will present the culture of Catholic tattooing and the symbolism of tattoos in the Balkans. He will contrast this folk tradition with the tattoo culture of Queen Victoria's time in Great Britain. This will be followed by a workshop on linocutting, in which participants will start from the drawing, which is the basic starting point in both cases - tattooing and printmaking - but at the same time, tattooing can also be seen as a permanent imprint on the body. Motive oriented, participants will be able to relate to the theme of the EKO 9 Triennial: the environmental crisis through the prism of the horror genre. Lan Breški will guide through the process of searching for a motif based on examples from his own drawing, graphic and tattoo practice.
Participants will make a linocut mould for printing a cloth bag. No prior knowledge of linocut technique is required to participate in the workshop. Participants will receive work materials, snacks and refreshments at the workshop. Applications are invited until 15 October 2023 at the following email address: ziva.kleindienst@ugm.si
Programme:
Friday, 20 October 2023
16:00–17:00 Lecture
17.00–18.00 Bubbles with Lan Breški
Saturday, 21 October 2023
12.00–14.00 Linocut workshop led by Lan Breški
14.00–14.30 Refreshments
14.30–16.30 Printing on cloth bags
Lan Breški (b. 2000, Maribor) works with tattooing, drawing, linocut, printmaking and textiles. He attended the fashion design programme at the Secondary School of Design in Maribor and later learned tattooing. He currently tattoos at Mak Tattoo Studio in Ljubljana. His love of antiques, Christian symbols and unconventional beauty has been a great influence on his work. Feeling out of place in the environment he grew up in, he found his escape in the world of history. Through years of research into Victorian clothing, customs and photographs, he has found a way of drawing that aims to evoke feelings of nostalgia for a time we have never been to. More precisely, in his drawings and prints he wants to show the viewer, through surreal elements and contrasts of white and black, beauty where it would not normally be seen, to see a line where it is not really drawn. He started tattooing when he noticed the similarity between the way the body is clothed and the way in which tattooing, through permanent ink, can affect the beauty of the body's proportions and the self-image of the tattooed person.
