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Embrace the power of collaborative creation in the second in a series of transformative workshops led by artist duo Georgia Clemson and Lina Ivanova, hosted by IMT Gallery. In The Museum of Connection you are invited to explore the generative possibilities of collectivity through a series of guided creative exercises, and to imagine working together as a new way to survive in the future of our damaged planet. In the last decade, our experience of closeness has radically shifted. Digital interactions, though abundant, have left many of us reliant on screens for connection. Georgia and Lina began The Museum of Connection in response to this change, inspired by Donna Haraway’s term Sympoiesis, meaning making-with, a reminder that all creation and survival depends on collaboration. The duo will transform IMT Gallery into a space of encounter, a shared and fertile ground where real-life connection and creativity can take root. Each workshop in the series will be themed for a collective act: food, play, touch, and movement. For this workshop, Lina and Georgia invite you to use your whole body to create and image with a difference, exploring the theme of movement. In this workshop, we will gather in the gallery space to create one-of-a-kind artworks collectively and individually. The event will begin with a specially themed meditation, written by the artists, and unfold into writing and drawing games. The primary technique in this event will focus on cyanotypes, a form of experimental camera-less photography. This technique reduces the image to its fundamental components – light, shadow and form. The process is unpredictable by nature, resulting in artworks that record our intentional and incidental marks, the traces of presence, sharing, and interaction. Each image created is ephemeral but can be ‘fixed’ as a lasting memory of the moment. The workshop will culminate in the collaborative creation of a large-scale cyanotype. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to contribute what you make to the Museum’s growing archive, as a living monument to community, built within two fleeting hours, yet resonant with the lasting memory of connection. Each workshop in this series is different so if you have joined us before, you are welcome to join us again. No experience is necessary. Please bring your preferred drawing materials and paper, additional supplies will also be provided. Meet the artists: Georgia Clemson and Lina Ivanova are London-based artists with fifteen years combined experience in creative facilitation. They first exhibited together in A Cohesion of Light at Peckham 24 (2021), and created The Museum of Connection in 2024. Both artists have a background in experimental photography and make work challenging the conventions of the medium. Georgia’s work has been featured in Source Photographic Review, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue Italia. Recent exhibitions include The vessel that contains me at Creative Health Camden and Retreat: the UK’s first climate refugees at Middlesex University as part of Barnet Climate Action Month. Lina is a co-founder of Revolv Collective and a recipient of the Turner Contemporary Portfolio Prize. Her work has been exhibited by RPS, South Bermondsey Art Trail and Goethe Institut Bulgaria. Her most recent commission is Business is driven by quarterly results, a public art installation in Croydon, funded by Turf Projects. Are you ready to discover the power of collective creativity? Reserve your place and join this radically original happening at IMT Gallery.