Creating objects and leaving them as a legacy for the future are not always the same.
Children know that their creations in the sandbox will eventually collapse or be dismantled, yet they enjoy crafting and imagining various objects. It's perhaps because these creations are temporary that they can freely shape them and make their own interpretations.
Let’s awaken our senses by touching and gripping sand again, and expand our world of imagination. Begin by greeting the person next to you with a handshake, sandy hands and all.
The workshop is part of Toshiaki Hicosaka's artist-in-residence Tying and Untying Sand Strings, organised by the research project Unearthing Multispecies Intellectual History: Earthing the Trajectory of Area Studies, led by Eiko Honda at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, and funded by the Aarhus University Research Foundation and the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
