Workshops
Workshops
Oculus4174 LTD (501c3) is an organization supporting the development of spaces, practices and pedagogy for locating yourself in the story or the story in yourself.
Eyeing
Our current project. The Eyeing Workshop is a small group experience personalized to support your creative production, chart life and career changes and/or for making room for flights of fancy. The experiences are adapted to all kinds of media and are useful for artists and non-artists' alike.
Eyeing helps us take our point of view and turn it into our story.
We invite you to host one of these workshops by contacting us — no special space or equipment is required — this practice is adaptable to all circumstances.
“ I recommend Eyeing to anyone looking to refresh their capacity to create.”
~Jill Cornell, Community Engagement, New York Emergency Management Department, NY
“The prompts and support created a low risk/high imagination environment for me.”
~ Amii Legendre, LCSW and Choreographer, Red Hook NY
What do we mean by ‘story’?
Eyeing recognizes that there are stories everywhere around us; every choice we make, every bit of work we do, every environment we inhabit, every person we meet each tells a story and receives a story about us from us. Sometimes these stories are verbal but often they are visual, architectural or otherwise. Regardless each is a statement about how the world is and what is our place in it.
“A story that can be told just as well by a house, an aging stone wall, or a recipe, as a book or a performance. “
Eyeing is a technique focusing on awareness of the moment, the self, and others combined with groundbreaking autofiction, aesthetic theory and theatrical techniques. It is fundamentally an expressive practice not a documentary one. For our purposes pleasure and possibility are paramount; specificity of feeling is prized over veracity of fact.