Artwork by Wednesday Kim

Participants must be aged 18-25.

Participants will be given a $20 voucher.

Bookings essential.

You are invited to participate in a shared creative experience that explores how using technology makes us feel. After spending way more time online during the pandemic, lots of us are familiar with doom scrolling, zoom fatigue and other kinds of online anxiety.   
 
This workshop will use creative processes to help us reflect on life online. We will be inspired by the MENTAL exhibition, particularly ‘The Aesthetics of Being Disappeared’ by Wednesday Kim which explores connections between technology and mental health. The workshop will be a group process using wordplay and drawing. You won’t be asked any direct questions or expected to talk extensively about yourself. 
 
MENTAL explores stereotypes surrounding mental health and reflects different ways of being, surviving and connecting. The workshop is part of a research project that investigates how art and creative approaches can help to support more critical, playful and imaginative ways of relating to digital technology and its negative effects on mental health. 
 

The workshop will be led by  Vanessa Bartlett, a researcher at the University of Melbourne. Please email Julianne Bell julianne.bell@unimelb.edu.au by Wednesday 1st September to secure a space.

Limited spaces are available but further workshops are planned in the future.