Thoughts from Saturdays workshop
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so…..we put our stories on the table….using it like a platform. The story cubes kept us running around and producing our stories into the table. i found the activitity we did in the past 2 days facinating really. To me, it wasn’t just ” talking about you do ” but it was also like a ” hi, how r u?” and really gave me a sense of ” you are very welcome into this platform .”
so i must say, it was really like a ” welcome to this place “ and i consider this a very good start!!!
probably i have been thinking a lot about how i got community people together to share their ideas. what would they feel like for the first time when they were in a kind of situation that they could say something……..
i made a 16-shot picture while also walking around and panning the camera. It reminds of a jigsaw which there are lots of pieces separated while also connected. dont know what im trying to say exactly but ..yeh..thats what i felt!!!
Thanks guys!!!!!
MATT HUYNH is a Sydney based comic creator and illustrator. Huynh’s graphic novels span a diverse variety of genres from surrealist fantasy to polemical essays, dramas and autobiography. His comics work has received recognition from Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comic Arts and Publishing, the Australian Cartoonist’s Association, ABC and Sydney Morning Herald. His inky, energetic brushwork has appeared on magazines and prints to clothing, accessories, health resources, tattoos, film, performance projections, vinyl toys and dolls. When he’s not at the drawing table, he can be found conducting instructional workshops, public presentations, exhibitions and live art demonstrations. He’s been known to operate under the pseudonym ‘STiKMAN’, having taken a bad high-school nickname to heart.
Huynh’s participation in artists’ collective, ‘Popperbox’, has fostered an exploration of new media art, performance, installation work and digital work.
Find out more at www.stikmancomics.com and www.popperbox.com.
Today in the workshop, we were talking about the aspirations and goals we have for our work, the obstacles in the way of achieving them, and the steps we could take to overcome them and get there. Ali talked about his parkour practice, and in terms of this practice of urban movement, you look around and use what you have around you to negotiate your obstacles. Restating these big tasks in terms of the real movement of the body was very exciting and helpful.
Chugging down the water, where the rough of industry has shifted and shaped the flow and course of a river that has seen the interlocking and colliding histories of the many cultures that have travelled on and lived around it.
The first of a series of 11 wanderings Orlagh and I are doing around western Sydney took me on a wander around the center of Fairfield with Tiffany Le Shoy. (It that began with me getting lost and having to be rescued by Tiffany) then revealed the confusing arrangement of some public spaces at the same time as the very human scale and vibrant life on streets that have not been sucked dry by a shopping center. From shops of fabulous gold jewelery to discount hardware stores spilling out onto the street I noticed the care and creativity taken over the look of the street, and I saw people sitting, chatting, carrying bags of groceries and even cars stopping for pedestrians…
Alice Angus, co-director of Proboscis, is an artist inspired by rethinking concepts and perceptions of landscape and human relationships to the land. Over the last six years she has been creating a body of art work exploring concepts proximity and remoteness, technology and presence, against the lived experience and local knowledge of a place. With Proboscis her work combines artistic and curatorial and she is currently working on: ‘Lattice’ a project for the British Council’s Creative Cities initiative in East Asia; ‘Anarchaeology’ a new commission with Render at the University of Waterloo Canada, to ‘excavate’ stories and experiences in the Waterloo Region, ‘Snout’, a collaboration with inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts, London) and researchers from Birkbeck College exploring relationships between the body, community and the environment; Topographies and Tales (2004-2007) a collaboration with Joyce Majiski investigating issues of landscape and identity in the North. Recent projects range from ‘Social Tapestries’ a 5 year research programme exploring the social and cultural benefits of local knowledge sharing enabled by new mobile technologies, ‘Navigating History’ a series of commissions in libraries and ‘Landscapes In Dialogue’ a web based series of video clips and essays inspired by a residency with Parks Canada.