Type of activity: Visits with workshops for primary school

Duration: 75 minutes (45′ interactive visit + 30′ laboratory)

Teaching materials: wood lamps (torches), white paper, objects of different shapes, fluorescent markers, panel to obscure the sunlight.

Performance: The activity can be carried out by two classes at the same time, one class will first make the interactive visit and then the workshop, the second class the reverse path.

Interactive visit
Are you afraid of the dark? How do you perceive it? What do you imagine when you are in the dark? How can we go through the darkness or represent it? The interactive visit, focused on the concept of light/darkness, perception/visibility, will be addressed to primary school classes and will focus in particular on the direct observation of the works on display in the exhibition, exploring different languages and perceptions of darkness, of darkness.
The visit will focus in particular on some installations that will be a source of inspiration for the development of the laboratory. The works of: Boltanski, Monster Chetwynd, Flavio Favelli, Gino de Dominicis.

Educational workshop
During the workshop, the theme of darkness will be addressed through the game of art, with the aim of reducing fear. Through the construction of a new reality, with the use of black light (wood light), you will create unusual shapes, starting first from the imagination of figures and objects related to the dark, and then create through the use of this special light, magical and unexpected apparitions, thus arriving at new perspectives of perception of reality.

Costs
120,00 euro incl. booking + 5,00 euro per student.

Type of activity: interactive tours for secondary schools.

Number of participants: two classes at the same time.

Duration: 75 minutes (45 minutes guided tour – 30 laboratory).

Teaching materials: guide cards, folders, pencils/pens.

Interactive visit
The interactive visit to secondary schools will focus on some key themes of the exhibition to allow participants to understand and deepen the complex installations.
Through the guide cards delivered at the beginning of the exhibition, the participants will be divided into groups and will have to find through key words the works of the exhibition related to the chosen themes.

During the first part of the activity (about 30 minutes) the group will have to go autonomously to look for the works corresponding to the following themes, each related by a specific reference card:

• Memory
• Theatricality
• Light
• Caducity
• Visible and invisible
• Illusion
• Rituality
• Repetition

In the second part (45 minutes), together with the educator, the thematic interweaving of the different works will be retraced through a debate that will arise from the reading of the works of the participants.
This participatory reading of the exhibition will allow the classes to understand more effectively the complex theme of each work, through a personal reflection first and then shared with the group and the educator of reference.

Costs
100,00 euro incl. Booking + 5,00 euro per student.

Type of activity: visits with workshops for families.

Target: children (4-8 years old accompanied by an adult).

Number of participants: 10 children.

Duration: 75 minutes (45 minutes guided tour – 30 laboratory). Sunday at 11:00 a.m.

Teaching materials: cardboard silhouettes with references to the works on display, torches, curtains or panels to obscure the sunlight. (Part of the activity will take place in the dark).

Interactive visit
The family activity will be divided into two parts: an exploration visit to the exhibition and a workshop part (dedicated to the moment of doing) inspired by the myth of Plato’s cave.
After exploring the exhibition with an interactive approach, participants will be taken to the workshop to reflect together on the concepts that emerged during the guided tour.
Are you afraid of the dark? What does darkness make you think about? How did the artists deal with this theme? Which languages and meanings emerged from observing the works on display? How are light and shadow related?

Educational workshop
The family workshop will deal with the theme of darkness, working on the concept of shadow and light in a theatrical way through the use of one’s own body and the creation of silhouettes inspired by the works on display. (The myth of Plato’s cave will be briefly told before the beginning of the activity).
We will move on from the observation of the shadow of objects to the invention of our own characters, made possible both through the use of our own bodies and through specially constructed silhouettes with references to works in exhibitions (e.g. the work of Boltanski, Monster Chetwynd…), transforming the space of the laboratory into a real shadow theatre.
The shadow will thus become a real expressive language for the participants, giving rise to different forms of narration.

Costs
Child 4-8 years 10,00 euro
Adult 12,00 euro