ArtPlay schools program
Our 2011 schools program is choc-a-block with creative arts workshops and performances for children in grades K to 7.
Workshops currently available for bookings are listed below.
For more information about school bookings please contact Bobby Napier on (03) 9664 7900 or email artplay@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Raw Art
With Slow Art Collective artists Chaco Kato, Tony Adams and Dylan Martorell.
Raw Art is a collaborative art project with an environmental focus that merges elements of food preparation, drawing, sculpture, design and performance. Through these interconnected activities, students will have the opportunity to investigate their lifestyles and learn a healthy, innovative approach to food, food waste and recycled materials.
Students will engage in a one-day full immersion workshop with artists from the Slow Art Collective, an artistic collective that focuses on creative practices and ethics relating to environmental sustainability, material ethics, DIY culture and collaboration. These artists are: Chaco Kato, Tony Adams and Dylan Martorell. Each is a well-established artist in their own right as well as a member of this process-focused art group.
In addition to working alongside artists and recognising the role of an artist, students will work both individually and collaboratively. There will be time to reflect, evaluate and discuss their works and processes.
Although there is an emphasis on process, not outcome, in these workshops, each day will culminate in a mini exhibition/performance as well as feeding into a larger interactive installation which will be central to the exhibition held at ArtPlay on 31 March and 1 April.
Participants will also take home a photo (or image on a disc) of themselves involved in the process of creating the large-scale interactive installation.
8 February 2012
16 October 2011
Degavlas @ Object gallery, Sydney
'Try This at Home' @ OBJECT GALLERY , Sydney
8 OCTOBER 2011 – 8 JANUARY 2012
Utilising abandoned objects left by local residents for council pick-up, "Degavlas" fostered the practice of re-using and recycling. From these eclectic collecting trips, SAC created a moving body of work from gleaning and gleaners alike.
More infomation: http://www.object.com.au/exhibitions-events/entry/try_this_at_home/
5 September 2011
SHELTER @ McDonald’s drive-through (offsite exhibition of Mis-Design)
Mis-design at Ian Potter Museum of Art
Guest Curator: Grace McQuilten
@ McDonald’s drive-through, underground car-park, corner Smith St and Victoria Pde, Collingwood
24 August – 4 September
open 24hours
Tony Adams, Chaco Kato, Ash Keating and Dylan Martorell are four Melbourne-based artists who collaborate under the umbrella of Slow Art Collective. Their shared concern for environmental issues leads them to develop sustainable art practices that highlight the need for social change.
For ten days the Slow Art Collective will build and install a makeshift dwelling, filming the process and streaming it live to the Potter. This temporary human shelter is designed for use in ‘emergency’ conditions. Whether these conditions come about through a natural disaster, such as flood or fire, a man-made event, such as nuclear fall-out, or a more localised—yet no less devastating event—such as the advent of homelessness, is unspecified. Collingwood provides a context where discrepancies in living conditions are transparent.
Bunkering down in a subterranean landscape designed to be a transit zone, one through which customers pass swiftly between ordering and collecting their meals, Slow Art Collective asks customers to pause and consider the contingency of human welfare upon the built environment, the nature of ephemeral dwellings, and the purposes to which design might be used.
more details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103224396446688
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/art_exhibitions_detail.aspx?view=179
Guest Curator: Grace McQuilten
@ McDonald’s drive-through, underground car-park, corner Smith St and Victoria Pde, Collingwood
24 August – 4 September
open 24hours
Tony Adams, Chaco Kato, Ash Keating and Dylan Martorell are four Melbourne-based artists who collaborate under the umbrella of Slow Art Collective. Their shared concern for environmental issues leads them to develop sustainable art practices that highlight the need for social change.
For ten days the Slow Art Collective will build and install a makeshift dwelling, filming the process and streaming it live to the Potter. This temporary human shelter is designed for use in ‘emergency’ conditions. Whether these conditions come about through a natural disaster, such as flood or fire, a man-made event, such as nuclear fall-out, or a more localised—yet no less devastating event—such as the advent of homelessness, is unspecified. Collingwood provides a context where discrepancies in living conditions are transparent.
Bunkering down in a subterranean landscape designed to be a transit zone, one through which customers pass swiftly between ordering and collecting their meals, Slow Art Collective asks customers to pause and consider the contingency of human welfare upon the built environment, the nature of ephemeral dwellings, and the purposes to which design might be used.
more details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103224396446688
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/art_exhibitions_detail.aspx?view=179
12 June 2011
Brunswick Project
This ‘slow art’ project seeks to transform the Counihan Gallery In Brunswick into an active studio or gallery-as-laboratory environment in June/July 2011. Presented as a series of emerging site-responsive installations and events lead by the Slow Art Collective (SAC), this project involves the art making process taking place within the gallery setting. This slow art environment will develop and unfold during the exhibition and is primarily about the presentation of ephemeral, evolving and collaborative artworks within a public gallery setting and the practice of responding to the specifics of a location
More about BRUNSWICK PROJECT, please go to:
WEEK1: collaboration with RODA RODA - DREAM RIDE workshop
WEEK 2: Open forum about Creativity with Wemakeus Collective
WEEK 4: Art and Science workshop with Scale Free Network
WEEK 5: Ocular Lab, FEAST!
...and more....
More about Brunswick Project
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