ORIGINAL COPY is devised as a space where participants question the meaning of an ‘original’ and its ‘copy’ in contemporary art by exploring various practices of reproduction, copying, and remaking, as well as examining their power as active gestures and critical interpretations to arrive to a ‘new original’.

What reproduction modes and techniques are available nowadays to an artist? What is the meaning of ‘original’ in the historical moment we are living in and what is its relationship to authenticity? What is a copy and what is a ‘new original’?

Following an initial presentation phase of a series of artworks by contemporary artists, each participant reinterpreted the use of practices and techniques observed within the course, so as to translate them into a personal language and develop with their own project. Participants focused on the practices of selected contemporary artists seen as case studies, to explore the use of specific techniques and materials while developing a practice balancing the ‘making’ with the ‘thinking’ process.