"An art provocation is a search for new meanings that works using doubt to encourage a departure from doxa, while moving toward paradox."
ART PROVOCATION
The goal of an art provocation is to take a person out of their routine. An art provocation disrupts the usual swing of things and ask participants to question their limitations and beliefs. It is a search for new meanings, by way of doubt and paradox.
Benefits for the business:
- developing creativity,
- shaping and strengthening common values,
- bettering interaction among co- workers colleagues,
- improving communication, including intercultural communication,
- for diagnosing group processes.
Length of an art provocation: 5 hours.
ABSTRACTION AS A BRAIN TRAINER
It’s a daily challenge for any leader to handle fluctuations brought on by constant chaos. Using abstractions, we learn to see permanence and order in chaos.
Abstraction assists in developing:
- imaginative thoughts and ideas,
- creative potential,
- a sense of the lay of the land, and
- skills for working in unusual conditions, such as startups.
“Participating in an art provocation, working with art, and penetrating to the core of artistic and creative processes develops management skills by establishing a playing field for research and self-knowledge, one’s behavioral patterns, and one’s emotional reaction to the emergence of management challenges.”
"The purpose of an art provocation is for someone to break out of their limitations. A person should leave that because of something of theirs that is everyday, usual, and limited in its moral, convictions, and limitations."
ART PROVOCATION FOR “TATLIN’S TOWER AS A SYMBOL OF THE AVANT-GARDE AND OF TECHNICAL CREATIVITY”
Let’s create like the constructivist avant-garde!
Goal: Developing technical creativity, teamwork, and the search for common goals.
This activity helps participants learn to:
- reject stereotypes,
- dare to take new strides,
- admit their mistakes, and
- search for new meanings.
A PROVOCATION FOR “CARVING OUT NEW MEANINGS”
Dada-style collage offers opportunities for experimentation and challenges. The ability to ask provocative questions helps find connections between various objects, meanings, and tasks for seeking new solutions. This activity shapes a new view of oneself and the organization.