Drifting with clay is an optional contemporary art course by ceramic artist Özgü

Gündeşlioğlu and art educator/artist Vera Anttila.

The course is designed to introduce ongoing transdisciplinary themes and

approaches in the practice of contemporary arts; and to form a basis for students

to response through thinking and making. Moving beyond rigid categories, this

course revolves around the theme “plasticity” through drifting as a walking practice

and clay as a material, as well as other assistive methods.

During the course, students experience a variety of media, but emphasis is placed

on clay and its characteristic both thematically and practically. Even though, the

course focuses on unfired phase of clay, to expand the thinking through material

approach, students experiment with ceramics and related concepts like experi-

mental glazing, firing on a basic level. Participants explore contemporary art on

a process oriented and experimental platform through walking as a site-situated

practice and embodied theory.