Walks in the Museum Garden

Leisurely in the garden, under hundred-year-old trees: recreational exercises in the museum

• "Objects that put down roots":  We imagined roots as small objects for use or play, thereby bringing them to life. The roots were drawn and painted - fixed and started from the objects. The uprooted objects were placed in the vegetation of the garden. When evaluating the works, we jointly figured out what kind of plants the objects were transformed into (e.g. what kind of fruit they will have, how big they will grow, what they need, will they feel good where we placed them...). We included the garden in the creation-thinking process.
• "Hold gate, the big frame": The circular Chinese garden construction element involuntarily captures a detail from the space behind it. We made circular frames, which we used to walk around the garden and find the part of the garden that we like the most. We took photos of the view defined by our circle, and then realized it in a drawing or painting. In this task, we directed attention and focused on the details of the garden. What also happened was that the garden as a whole became part of the creative process.
• "I wonder what the statues in the garden might be thinking?": First we took a look at the statues. We made a word cloud and collected thoughts near the statue we chose. We then wrote the most apt thought in the word cloud and attached it to the head of the given statue, recording the action on a photo.
• "Eastern cycle": we drew mandala motifs on CD discs, and enriched their metallic-looking surface with a collage technique. We hung the vibrating decoration rotating in the light on the trees in the garden.
• "Mixed Creatures": Eastern culture is full of so-called hybrid creatures (a creature made up of parts of various animals). We transformed the garden into a kingdom of mixed creatures. During evaluation, just like in the case of rooting items, we talked about the properties of the finished mixed creatures. We made the new creatures using the montage technique.
• "Moving museum": We imagined the case when the Hopp Museum grows arms and legs... and starts... Together we wove a tale about how a day of the moving museum passes. We not only captured it visually, but acted it out and displayed this particular "hands and feet" day of the museum.
• "Dragon Planet": We made the balancing game and chased the dragon following the paths of the garden, and the dragon is trying to reach the flame-pearl that sustains him. The dragon's life force is in the flame pearl, and for us in movement.
• "Framed planes of time": For the contents of the glass box, we collected fallen fruits and stones from the garden. The background of the three-dimensional image was solved using a montage technique. Finally, we arranged the box in layers from the present and past of the garden.

The sessions were made up in connection with the exhibition Made in Asia, 100 years of the Hopp Museum. On the occasion of the museum’s 100th birthday, an exhibition was set up, where visitors could meet a slice of almost all Asian cultures. 

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