Technical Realization
Two weeks during Semester B
Credits: 2
Oded Rimon
Oded Rimon is an artist born in Jerusalem, and since 2014, he has been living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He completed his degree in Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018, and up until 2019, he was part of the Zik group. Oded's sculptures, installations, and films have been exhibited in Europe and Israel. He collaborates locally and internationally with numerous artists, involving various artistic processes, development, technical production, construction, and execution of different artistic aspirations. His work includes lighting and set design for theater and cinema, site-specific sculptures and solutions, mechanisms and robotics, as well as creating prototypes for working with various materials and techniques. Oded collaborates with artists and individual students in various institutions, including Rietveld Academie, the Rijksakademie, and Bamat Meizag - Shelter 209.
An intensive two-week workshop where we will encounter our creative dreams in the process of transforming them into physical reality. We will start with the formulation of a poetic image and act to bring it into material existence. We’ll try to get as close as possible to the infinite possibilities of realization and confront technical limitations. We will solve or bypass these limitations to learn how they define the way things are constructed. The course will take on a form of physical work and collective efforts, focusing on the creative process in materials and techniques. We will aspire to let the content speak through the process, and through its relationship to material and technique. This will be done while learning about constructions, tools, materials, and problems that involve the force of gravity. In doing so, we will think about labor as performance in itself.
