The Museum of Connection - Workshop with Georgia Clemson and Lina Ivanova at IMT Gallery

For the third workshop in the Museum of Connection series, artists Georgia Clemson and Lina Ivanova invite participants to enter a playful space where connection transcends language, status and differences. Hosted by IMT Gallery, the workshop explores playing games as a way to create visual forms of communication and connection that centre collaboration, cooperation and fun. 

In the last decade, experiences of closeness have shifted dramatically. While digital communication is abundant, many of us now rely on screens for connection. Georgia and Lina began The Museum of Connection in response to this change, inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis - meaning “making-with” - a reminder that creation and survival depend on collaboration.

As children, we knew instinctively that playing with others builds trust, friendship and shared memories. Moving through the world as adults with many responsibilities, we learn that time is valuable and must be spent wisely, not freely shared or wasted. Playtime therefore takes a back seat in a world that centres productivity and optimisation. What happens when we take a break from targets and goals, and just play?

In this workshop, Lina and Georgia will guide participants in creative games with our only goal being to record our activities through cyanotype prints, an experimental photographic process that uses light and shadow to create vivid blue images.

Working individually, in small groups, and as a whole collective, participants will create cyanotype artworks that capture a record of moments in time and the connections that we build. 

As a participant, you will also have the opportunity to contribute your work to the Museum’s living archive, a monument to community created through shared time, attention, and collaboration.

Each workshop in the series explores a different theme, so if you have joined us before, you are warmly invited to return.

No previous experience is necessary. All materials will be provided.

Are you ready to discover the power of collective creativity? Reserve your place and join this radically original happening at IMT Gallery.