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Gundega Melberga

Lichaam , Geluid , fotografie , Educatie , collage , Artistiek onderzoek

I mostly work in hand-cut paper collage and photo montage mediums. The subject matter of my work is body, identity, and embodied knowledge. I am interested in one's mundane, fleshy, and intimate encounters with the external world that often go unnoticed but play a crucial role in meaning-making and in shaping one's identity.

SKIN - magazine clippings, laminating film dimensions 3m x 1m 2021 My body and the external world exist in convergence. The sensuous and emotional experiences, the lived body of mine is involved in the process of meaning-making, in comprehending who I am and who the bodies I am encountering and interacting with are. My fleshy and mental being is shaped by spaces I exist in, just like those spaces are defined and determined by who I am. Upon an encounter, they become me, I carry those spaces within me. Mundane moments ingrained in my identity.
I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT - series of hand-cut collages / magazine clippings on paper 2021 I often find it hard to put my memories and experiences into words. It seems almost impossible to describe how the touch of my great grandmother’s soft hands felt when I was a child. Or how the air smells when it rains after a long period of warm, dry weather. It is something rather known with my body, inarticulable. In the collage series I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT I’m addressing the embodied ways of knowing - how we experience and make sense of the world and ourselves with and through our bodies. This series stemmed from the research on embodied and somatic learning and meaning-making I did at Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy during my Master's studies there. In the series I’m further exploring the relationship between body and space – how an individual materializes within the relationship with the other.
INTIMATE MUSEUM - INTIMATE MUSEUM is an audio tour which consists of voice recordings and soundscapes that address embodied and somatic learning and meaning-making and the politics of listening, and deal with notions of space and experience. The project was an attempt to develop an approach to teaching in which listening is an educational act and one’s experiencing body becomes a tool for learning. 2019 - 2021 Image credits: Scout Paré-Phillips, Vilde Rolfsen, Elise Valdorcia

I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT collage series

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Locatie: Hopper Coffee, Schiedamse Vest 146, 3011 BG

In the series I'm addressing the embodied ways of knowing - how we experience and make sense of the world and ourselves with and through our bodies. Series stemmed from the research on embodied and somatic learning and meaning-making I did at Piet Zwart Institute of the WDKA during my Master's. In the series I'm further exploring the relationship between body and space – how an individual materializes within the relationship with the other.

https://gundegamelberga.squarespace.com/works

Preparations for Being Together in an Unknown Period of Time. Graduation Presentation 2021

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Locatie: online
In samenwerking met: Piet Zwart Institute, Master Education in Arts

The material on the website represents elements of individual research by students from the Master of Education in Arts, class of 2021. My contribution INTIMATE MUSEUM is on an attempt to develop an approach to teaching in which listening is an educational act and one's experiencing body becomes a tool for learning. I am taking the viewer on a journey to intimate, embodied learning spaces that emerge within one upon encounters and intra-actions with other bodies – material and non-material.

https://meia-graduation2021.pzwart.nl/
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