A short course during which 2nd year students from two paired schools in Limerick City (Educate Together and St Clements) analysed a selection of work from Phase 1 of the 39th EVA International. First by finding language to describe it, and then converting this language into the complete opposite. They recorded these descriptions as podcasts and swapped them with those from another school. Each group ‘translated’ the description by attempting to convert to its opposite once more, to try and imagine what the other students were looking at. 

 

Finally, students created artworks to represent their interpretation of the original EVA artwork described by the other group. This project encourages students to explore the use of language in art, building on EVA’s Better Words project, and highlights the role of audio contact in moments of isolation, with podcasts functioning as a ‘tin-can telephone’ between schools separated by the current crisis.

 

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