Making Time is designed for individuals in adult education and the arts to refresh and expand their working processes. The course examines the relationships between art, education and re-localized societies in an age of increasingly scarce energy sources. It attempts to elaborate on the idea that artistic process offers a re-imagining of social situations yet often fails to translate into the vocabulary of everyday visual languages.
Lanzarote’s complex relationship with central Europe – as both participating EU member and peripheral holiday destination, serves to highlight issues now being faced globally: economic downturn and escapism are mapped across the island’s sublime yet haunting landscapes.