Motivated by Art – Art of Motivation
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Website / complete blog of the project: See https://mamaproject.wordpress.com
- 5 partenaires européens
- Rencontres créatives transnationales et transdisciplinaires
- Performance collective finale (chorégraphiée par le groupe Dancing with Differences, Portugal)
The MA-MA project (Motivation by Art – Art as a Motivation) is a interdisciplinary artistic project for disabled young adults (18-30 y.) This project is based on creative exchanges between artists and mentally or physically disabled persons.
The main idea of this project is a mutual learning experience: In this partnership we would like to link art and handicap, and propose some active exchanges where the handicap is in the center of a creative learning process, and where the artistic experience will be open to many artistic forms, in the meaning of an “art without borders”.
We would like to create an innovative exchange of practices, learning to learn from artists as well as from handicapped people, giving a mutual motivation and developing an efficient awareness about the creative potentiality in each of us.
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The reasons why…
There is in our societies a huge need of awareness, concerning our vision on disability -and all kind of handicapped or limited people- who are normally underestimate, if not just rejected. There is also a fear of them.
This conception needs to be changed, or to be developed for more objectivity, and for a more integrative way to think and to act with differences. Our society needs skills to learn how to take down the discrimination and the prejudice, and how -on the contrary- to use the weakness into a force, to increase the value of each person in any condition, to give to this person a right place in the society and specially to become aware that each one have to learn from each other.
-Disabled people have a very special intuitive way to express themselves in the artistic field, and to consider it. Through their handicap (or even “thanks” to it), they have a different approach of the creativity and the artistic process, and they are able of another understanding of the artistic work and its meaning.
-An artist is a person who is looking for more understanding of himself and of the world around him, through the artistic experience and its sens. Artists plays therefore an important role in our society, and belongs to it in a quite special way. Art is also a research of the limits, to understand oneself. In this meaning, artists and handicapped people are connected.
The project takes place in this “reciprocal need” of the experience of each other, to give a new impulse in artistic as in social fields, as well as an efficient support and motivation for disabled persons in the society. This innovative approach of the artistic work will be a very stimulated learning experience in Europe, for all the participants, and also beyond the project itself.
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Objectives of the project
Giving a reciprocal motivation: Awareness of an efficient capacity to be creative
The main objective is to give back a reciprocal motivation, through an innovative exchange of persons, artistic practices and learning process, between artistic organizations and organizations for disabled persons (and specially between artists, learners, educators, trainers, trainees or teacher…).This project proposes to develop and to broad some creative behavior in our societies and between the people, as well as the understanding of the artistic activity as a way to be active, responsible, independent and creative of its own everyday-life. This common and creative work will be a substantial factor for motivation.
Development of creative and innovative teaching methods
Trying a communication through the artistic work, exchanging creative working methods and new approaches (in the field of learning and teaching) will be also an objective between the participants of this project, as well as a reflexion about the understanding and the use of art. It will also be the occasion to develop some pedagogic actions or programs, in the frame of organizations for disabled persons as well as artistic education.
Encourage an art without borders
The artistic practices in this project will be mixed for an “art without borders”, to advantage the creative process of each participant, and its understanding of it. It will be the place for promotion and use of different artistic languages as an element of social inclusion of people with disabilities and other.
Different forms of expression will be inserted in the artistic, educational, and therapeutic process fields, and will be used without any restrictions, in a performative way including visual and free art, but also the body, movement, voice, rhythms, improvisation, theatre, puppetry, experimental dance, meditative work, choreography…
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Final performance
The final objective of this project consists in a common performance project realised with some people of the target groups of all partners. We will all meet on the island of Madeire (Portugal), and realise this interdisciplinary performance project in cooperation with the group Dancing with Differences, our partner of Portugal.
It will be organised together with partners, artists and disabled people all along the project. The visits and workshop will be focused on the preparation of this last performance, and we will meet together in order to take some decisions concerning the implementation of this common creative project, regarding the target groups and the special decisions to take regarding the different artistic practices.
Dancing with differences Group (partner from Portugal) will be the artistic director and host of this performance project. Each partner will be responsible with his target group for one aspect of this performance:
–Lithuania for the music and songs
–Germany for visual art and video
–Poland for stage and objects
–Estonia for the costumes
This performance will take place on the 12th may 2012 at the end of the partnership, with all the partners and some learners from all the participating organisations.
Here you will be able to follow each steps of our work concerning the elaboration of this common artistic work together.
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