We invite you to join the two-day workshop Freedom to Perceive at Tselinny.

This workshop is an artistic practice in which sight stops being the primary way of perceiving. Music becomes a source of form, relief makes composition tangible, and colour grows out of inner sensation. At the centre of the workshop is an attempt to trace how sound can move into form, form into relief, and relief into colour.

The workshop is built around collaboration between artists and blind participants. We invite artists who are interested in working through co-authorship, listening closely, discussing sensation, and searching together for a visual solution. What matters here is not an academic result, but the process itself: how form appears, how it shifts through dialogue, and how perception can be translated into image.

The first day, on April 19, will be preparatory and open only to artists. Participants will be introduced to the concept of the workshop, listen to a musical track, create an abstract composition, and apply a relief contour that will become the tactile foundation of the final work. The aim is not to illustrate the music, but to grasp its structure.

On the second day, April 22, blind participants will join the artists. Together they will return to the musical track and work with sensation, shade, intensity, and association. In this process, the blind participant determines the colour solution, while the artist helps translate it into visual form.

The result of the workshop will be both a collaboratively created work and an experience of attentive perception in which sound, form, relief, and colour remain closely connected.

The workshop is led by Evgeniya Kazakova, an artist whose practice engages with inner states, perception, and transformation. Her work explores the relationship between sensation and form. This workshop continues her interest in how inner experience can become visible.

Registration for artists is available via the link. Registration for blind participants is available via the link.

The first day of the workshop will take place on April 19 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, and the second day on April 22 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at Atelier, Tselinny’s educational space. The workshop will be held in Russian.