We are very happy to announce the department alumnus who will share a workshop with the Jewellery–Linking Bodies students is Virág Szálas-Motesiczky (2019). Virág’s workshop will take place on Weds, 11 March 2026.
The workshop is approached as a pedagogical site where relations are materially composed. Fabrication is treated as a mode of inquiry, in which objects function not as representations but as mediating devices that reorganise attention, voice, and responsibility. Working with scores as minimal protocols, students test how participation is structured through use rather than explanation, and how speaking through an object shifts the terms of engagement.
The collective “we” is not presumed as a stable unity but emerges as an intersubjective construction, formed through negotiation, intervention, hesitation, and shared accountability.
The workshop is intentionally situated and process driven, valuing what becomes knowable through the unfolding of the day, where learning takes shape through friction, adjustment, and the continuous reconfiguration of relations rather than through fixed outcomes.
Bio
Virág Szálas-Motesiczky (HU, b. 1990; former Czechoslovakia) is an artist-researcher and educator working across material culture, political memory and situated learning. Her practice examines how objects and inherited gestures organise authority and agency, particularly where collective critical imaginaries emerge and are amplified. Through artistic research and pedagogical experimentation, she develops situated formats in which learning is a relational process of becoming – shaped by friction, unlearning and practised strategies of thinking-by-doing. Her approach foregrounds material and ecological literacy, working with the concept of the quasi-object to activate collective inquiry and critical making within art education.
She studied at Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences). She co-founded Studio Other Modes, an experimental space in a converted church in the Netherlands.
