Trumpet call

Hey fellow light makers, we are on!! Was so good to meet with Fiona today and share our thoughts from the previous week. Such an intense time with everyone with their own personal universes in such turmoil, with both wonderful and sad news all at once, Wanda we love you, Magdy we love you, Fiona we love you, and hope all your own cyclones pass soon - Dave too with the literal cyclone! (but such is the richness and depth and sadness and extremity of life.)

Just to summarize preliminary thoughts, with a very limited budget we can make a five or six sided free standing piece that is a little bit higher than human height, with three panels per side of about 60cm width, that bolt together. We each make the first one of the side and pass it on to the next person for their response, and then to the next, till the panels are completed. In my thinking six sides would work better here between three of us, starting with 2 panels each: also in terms of the total size, five sides at 60cm wide makes about a metre diameter, which might be a bit small to house the rotating rotisserie light - what do you think?

I asked Fiona about whether she wanted to make a visual panel, but she was happy to focus on the sound and maybe make suggestions as to the content of the panel as reflecting the sound concept (also given time and budget constraints this could be a good idea). Fiona was quite enamored with the idea of working with the rotisserie motor sound - you might want to elaborate on that Fiona????

In terms of interactivity, Fiona and I discussed having a button or sensor maybe on every second panel, as one on every panel might make the sound too congested, and possibly soundtracks that work with the rotisserie motor sound, that could overlay it and work with it. These could be small sensor activated speakers such as in the Light Boxes, and we would need to incorporate them into the visual design somehow, as they would give out a localised sound. They are about 10 x 10cm, is that right Fiona? there is also the possibility of larger speakers located in and around the space operated by the TDU. . . .

Anyway just kick-starting the conversation, meanwhile I'll apply for some more funding, although there are not many options . . would be so much better if we could come up with something for the August/September deadlines for Arts QLD and the Australia Council; Fiona suggested thinking of this as pilot project that we could use to develop further with better funding .. my biggest apologies for not getting more $, the way the deadlines are, Aug/Sept our our best chance, and at that time last year I was still digesting what we had done and wasn't really able to think about a possible future project.

xxxTrace

These are pics of a very cute carousel at Manly in Sydney:

I love this!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/02/28/3150468.htm

Art by Night - images and soundscapes

Art by Night-Concept

The Art by night concept motivated and mastered several aspects of expression, through unifying and melting individual artistic experience into a collaborative and evocative whole, with many other sources of inspiration and different human culture resources. The light collective artists group comes from diverse backgrounds. They have developed innovative strategies, sensitive to their individuality but successfully communicating to a broader audience. Although the works are very personal, each informed by a site- specific experience and influence, they also encourage a second level of interpretation that is larger, more universal and evocative. Their art concept becomes the vehicle through which to explore and learn about one another. In striking a balance between the personal and the transcendental, each artist forges a unique means of communication. This has to be celebrated as a positive forum of exchange. It is the relation between worlds, artists and audience, content and form, in which the artists in one night shaped, and innovatively explored their unlimited strategies of expression, which they chose to communicate.

Magdy Shiha

reconnecting!

hello friends at artlightsound

I've been looking for an opportunity to visit you but maybe that won't happen now until next year. In the new year I'm hoping to set up a space in Townsville for people (multicultural backgrounds, refugees, people with disability, no barriers to whomever) to do things together using some of the techniques I've learned about, from you wonderful artists. So first up, Wanda! Can you email me a quick how to do it step by step approach to making lanterns using merino wool? Would you mind? Also I need to find out suppliers of materials.

As well as this the university wants a letter of support for my project so that can approve it ethically for research. First up though what I'll do is send you a letter that outlines what the project is and what its aims are. Basically it takes its inspiration form what you achieved in Mackay, bringing people from diverse backgrounds together with a range of skills, and then producing a work that the wider community can interact with. It doesn't have to be labelled 'art' but surely it will be that!

Please contact me if you want to talk further.

Cheers

Dave

check this out!

Here is some very amazing work by a UK artist:

http://www.stanza.co.uk/

Launched!

Hi friends,

we are now out there in the blogosphere . . !

Reflecting

Hi folks,

I've written this as part of a proposal and thought I'd share it with you.

I have just been part of a very interesting art experience, by far the most breathtaking one in my life. In true fractal sense the outcome was unknown at the start, as it was a collaborative project that would take shape from our interactions as three visual artists and a sound installation artist. Experimentation sessions were often almost wordless as we explored visually, aurally and spatially, later in the process drawing together recurring concepts and imagery, and then excavating these themes further. Like an archaeological dig, we delved through the layers of our memories and histories, following the footsteps of fleeting archetypal themes, and developed an installation work that engaged all of the senses and drew upon our common embedded memories. The audience/viewers were invited in to this exploration as participants, and the experience for many of them was profound.

We are still trying to determine what it was what it was that galvanised us so deeply as a group, and made this such an engaging experience for the audience. There was a great deal of trust involved, between us as a group and between us and the audience/viewers. The works were deeply personal but not obviously so, only if you took the time to look deeper would you be taken deeper; they were metaphoric self portraits really, offering something of ourselves. Relationship and care were intrinsic to the project – we were present and available throughout the exhibition to talk; people were ushered into a dark space but given a torch and a map so that they could find their way; they were encouraged to explore intimate spaces such as a wardrobe and record their secrets there; they were given free hot drinks and a comfortable space to sit; they could touch the often fragile works and walk though them; they could write their thoughts and responses and add them to the artworks, they were invited in.

I remember

Time and places, have been the trigger to every fleeting moment of our bounded experience. As Goya, visualizes the time, as a giant eating his children at Saturn eats his own. Hamlet comes to confess that he wasted too much time and now time wasted him.

A moment of truth in our vast bounded human endeavours, would be enough to explode our fragile and weak nature as human. It is a consider of so marvelous and extensive scream through that deep rippled light of our solace. An untouched heavenly hunger of hunting the moments that had eat us away, only leaving the shadowy holes and from these, would be our tempting urge for forgiveness.

Any vast beat would only permits that memory to collapse within time but may never leave that smell of the private places which we collide.

Any of such places may not exist today, as we recreate again and every then, such places in a gleam and fantasy of wounder splashes, that kept hanging like ghosts to our celling.


It is the revenge of time and a incomparable ecstasy of the places which we inhibited.


As i remember, i shall only live again and again through these moments of time, smelling the each coroner that my momentary elapsed.

As i remember, my being would melt and shall be laminated again to the every live human existence.

Magdy Shiha
Australia 2010

Hi friends,

Thanks for a quality reflective time on Saturday, good to unearth even more layers, and as Magdy said, there is "yet more light to bring", and thanks to Dave who will hopefully be joining us soon on the blog. I so appreciate the opportunity of working with such a wonderful bunch of people, thank so much!

I came across this gem from Leunig. Dismayed by political advertising he went to the Melbourne Art Fair for some solace, only to find that "art made with the genius of love is as rare as ever." A great read, there are some insights in there in true Leunig style. May we too make art with love!

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-small-glow-in-the-dark-20100813-122c0.html