During this period, in which the image takes precedence, we will seek to link it to words. To this end, we will use creative writing. We will activate the senses, awaken emotions, link memory and imagination, and will connect word and image in a free union.
We will put short texts and various types of images on the table. All this over the course of four mornings, during the first week of the year, in a workshop atmosphere, learning from each other.
This is the timeline of the workshop:
2 January -- Words and graphic image
This will be the day of graphic images. After analysing illustrations by several authors, we will prepare brief texts with different objectives: the word as a companion of the image, the word as a counterpoint of the image, the word as an accessory of the image.
3 January -- Words and pictures
We will talk about photographs. We will use our own and those by others. Old and new, colour and black and white photographs. The voices hiding behind the photos will emerge in a micro-story, in a poem or as a suggestive aphorism.
4 January -- Words and audiovisuals. The script comes before the image
We will link words and audiovisual material. We will develop a process that will start with an idea, perception, emotion or sensation to write a brief script. Or at least we will try.
5 January -- Words and audiovisuals
We will talk again about images and audiovisual material, although precisely in the opposite direction: we will create the texts about the images.
In this workshop given by Yolanda Arruera we will seek to link images to words.