EXPLOSION

Pretty excited about a new collaborative project with one very talented Melbourne fashion designer. It will feature some kind of exploding dress.

Talk Talk Talk

We spoke at a Pecha Kucha night at ACCA as part of the opening night of the State of Design Festival. It was kind of nerve racking... There were 100's of people there! Eeep.
We spoke about audience participation and collaborating with the wider public in relation to the pinata project and the coloured fringe on the grey landscape.
Photos to come soon!
And here is a link to Pecha Kucha....
http://www.pechakuchamelbourne.com/

It's a cool idea where each speaker shows 20 images and each image is shown for 20 seconds. It was actually quite fun once we started.
Aye aye aye!
Hasta Luego!

Fringe-tastic

Sarah and myself are currently working on some ideas that feature the grey sky of Melbourne winter and colourful fringing in public spaces. We are exploring celebration once again and also the idea of putting ourselves in situations that can be a little painful but ultimately rewarding. We are fringing public space in the middle of a cold winters day our fingers numb and getting rained on just to make you smile and get you out of the winter rut! And also to make us smile and make sure we don't get into that horrible winter depression! Yuck!






I'm still a little unsure of where this project is heading.... Maybe a large scale fringing of a building somewhere in the Collingwood/Fitzroy area... Maybe...

Now on video!

A guy called Richard Kendall made this video. Let's smash more pinatas!!!

¡INSTRUCCION. PIÑATA. DESTROZAR!

This was a project in three parts put on in February 2011 at Dear Patti Smith Gallery on Smith St Collingwood.
Here's the exhibition statement -
¡INSTRUCCION. PIÑATA. DESTROZAR! Is a celebration of transformation and new beginnings in the guise of building and destroying piñatas. The project is in two parts; the first begins with an open invitation for participants to take part in a piñata making workshop. During this day the participants are guided by two senoritas to construct a piñata and implant in this object a past event that they would like to leave behind. The second half of the project involves the destruction of the piñatas and the cathartic experience for both the maker of the piñata and the baton wielding participant. This project hopes to create a ritual of exorcism through a creative, constructive and enjoyable act.
Below are images workshop madness!!




And the finished product and the smashing!!




And now the destruction debris!!

Mixed Tape Project

Working full time and saving for overseas travels and then going overseas = a quiet creative output last year. It was also the year that a very important collaboration formed. Sarah Barrow and myself teamed up again and a powerful force was unleashed!
After many chats about our mutual love for cassettes and participatory arts projects and letterboxes we settled on the Mixed Tape Project. The idea is to produce a number of cassettes based on a system where one person records a track on the tape and then posts it back to us who then post it on to another person. We have changed this system to an email system though now with a handmade mailout surprise to each person who gets a track on the tape. It's still an unpredictable outcome where we get as much as a surprise as the audience. Check out the blog for details.... (http://mixedtapeproject.blogspot.com/)
We also ventured up to This Is Not Art with a swag of homemade cassettes under the label name "Cassexx" to sell at the Zine fair. It was a success! Cassexx sold out!
This project is still going strong after one year. The tapes are yet to be completed and we are always open for more collaborators!

No Vacancy presents Process Unstitched

For around two months myself and several other clothing people got to work in a space in Georges Building in Little Collins St Melbs for free! The only thing was that the space was a fish tank full of artists who could be viewed by the office workers who use the building as a thoroughfare.
After the two months we put together an exhibition of the work created inside the space. I worked with Kiri Gorter under the title Park and Best for this exhibition. Other people who exhibited were Made by Warren Designs, Violet and I, Sarah Hankinson and She is Frank.





In that first image the neck piece is by Kiri Gorter and it is rad! The blue dress was by me!
The second image is a handmade leather cape piece.... which took hours.