The annual A.R.M. Holding Children’s Programme, now in its 6th year, presents artist-led workshops as part of the fair’s public programme, encouraging curiosity, collaboration, and environmental awareness. Bigfoot project is a hands-on workshop that combines storytelling and creative making to explore imagination, empathy, and world-building.
The workshop is based on the story of Little Bigfoot arriving in Dubai, a new and unfamiliar place. Participants will need to imagine how Bigfoot experiences this new world and design environments that help it feel safe, curious, and at home. Using guided prompts and hands-on creation, participants learn to think from another perspective, building spaces not for themselves, but for someone else.
Tomas Daukša (b. 1988, Lithuania)
In his practice, Daukša explores imagined realities, parallel worlds, and the experience of moving between unfamiliar environments. He examines various systems, electronic, biological, or communal, documenting the phenomena within them through creation or observation. His ongoing Bigfoot Worlds project presents Little Bigfoot as a curious traveller who moves through portals into new dimensions, encountering landscapes that are strange, playful, and sometimes disorienting.
Rather than portraying Bigfoot as a monster, Daukša reimagines it as a sensitive figure navigating unknown territories, offering a lens through which themes of belonging, adaptation, and perception can be explored. For The Children’s Programme, Daukša uses this mythical character to engage children in exploring habitat, ecology, and tangible environmental spaces, combining storytelling, sculpture, drawing, and installation to create immersive worlds that invite reflection on how we relate to spaces that are new to us.
