Eva Prats

Close-at-Hand Exercises with Distant Tutors

To start the workshop and to open a dialogue, we felt the need to choose topics remote in time, topics from history, suitably removed from a local perspective. At the same time, to open up distant vistas for both parties to consider together, with a point of contact onto which the two interlocutors, students and teachers, could focus their gaze, the need for ideas that might be bounced off that distant plane, and thus set up a constructive dialogue.