No Ego

While in the weeds of any creative project, it’s easy to get myopic or lost in overthinking and perfectionism. This workshop is all about breaking up that calcification by using uncreative methods borrowed from various creative histories across artistic mediums. Looking toward the techniques of artists, writers, and musicians like Paul Klee, Bernadette Mayer, Brian Eno, Corita Kent, Carl Stone and others, we’ll discuss historical and contemporary examples of various modes of working designed to remove ego and move beyond the self in order to get outside of our own heads and transcend common blocks to creativity. The goal is to leave the workshop with a toolkit that you can incorporate into your process and a new, relaxed sensitivity that will follow you everywhere.

This workshop is led by artist, writer, and educator Sara Magenheimer in collaboration with Are.na. It’s for anyone working in any medium, and there’s no experience necessary to participate.

Learn more about the workshop and Sara’s work in this interview on Are.na Editorial.

About Sara

Sara Magenheimer is an artist preoccupied with language whose work spans moving image, writing, performance, collage, sound and sculpture. She is based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include a survey show at Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY; The New Museum, NY; Timeshare, LA; The University Art Museum in Albany, NY; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, NY. Her videos have been widely screened including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Oberhausen Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The New York Film Festival, Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, EMPAC at RPI, Now Instant Image Hall, The LA Festival of Movies, Sydney International Film Festival, Flaherty Seminar, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She was the recipient of a 2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2015 Artadia Award, the Prix De Varti at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2020 and awarded a Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva in 2021. Magenheimer authored Notes on Art and Resistance A–Z after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In 2019 Wendy’s Subway published Beige Pursuit, Magenheimer’s first book of writing.