![White room with two white sofa covered in bright dots](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/Kusama_-_The_Obliteration_Room_2012_Simon_Lenk.width-340.jpg)
Installation view of Yayoi Kusama The obliteration room 2002-present at Tate Modern, 2012. Photo © Tate photography
The Challenge
Decide where in your classroom you want to work – this could be agreed together with your students, or set as a specific challenge from you.
To transform the space, choose from the suggestions below (or add your own!):
- If your classroom is already quite busy, try cutting spots out of blank newsprint paper to stick over the walls to create an emptier space
- Invite pupils to add words to an area covered in blank paper until they decide it's finished. Does anything start to make sense? Can it be read?
- Choose a cheap material that you can use in quantity (ideally recycled) such as junk modelling material or newspaper and cut shapes out of it to stick onto the walls
- If you’d prefer not to cover your walls, try coloured tissue paper over windows, vinyl on the floor or even stickers on a single object like a chair or table.
The key part of this challenge is to keep talking and thinking with your group. Here are some starting points:
- Who is the artist making this work? Could it be all of you?
- What is collaboration?
- When is the artwork finished?
- How can people see the finished work (photographs, a private view?)
![A group of young people drawing and writing with colourful markers onto a white wall.](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/Assembly_Tate_Modern_2017_photo__Tate_Seraphin.width-340.jpg)
Assembly, Tate Modern 2017. Photo © Tate (Seraphina Neville)