0: Open Studio & “Fanzine Project” with Amit Goffer & Vera Lossau
September 12 2018, 2-8pm
In English with Khmer translation
Sa Sa Art Projects, #47 St 350 (off 95)
Sa Sa Art Projects is pleased to welcome you to an open studio by our current Pisaot artists-in-residence Amit Goffer and Vera Lossau, who have spent the last six weeks in Cambodia. This residency is made possible through the support from Bezirkregierung Düsseldorf, Germany; Sylt Foundation and Rei Foundation.
Vera Lossau is working as a multidisciplinary artist who recollects and combines fragments from diverse materials into new imagery. During her stay in Pisaot residency she picked up the technique of collage, which she had used more frequently during the last four years. To create those collages, she is only collecting found material, which means she does not photocopy or scan, print, scale or multiply images. In Phnom Penh, she found a pile of "Globe" magazines which became the base for a collage book she is working on. While playing around with cut-out images from this material based on South-East Asian cultural and political life, Vera is working simultaneously on several collages which are gradually finished. More about Vera Lossau at: www.vera-lossau.com
During the residency, Amit Goffer immersed himself into a general research in order to try to understand the city of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and the space between them. While putting a special focus on architecture and historical sites, he especially found a connection to other countries, for example via the buildings of Vann Molyvann, seeing similarities between architecture, communities and different daily struggle situations. Amit is reflecting about the urban changes inside and outside of Phnom Penh, the simultaneously existing structures of the old and the new, the notion of inheritance and loss and the new developments that are building and undermining new societal structures. While exploring the different layers of this city and its people, Amit created his personal archive. He not only took thousands of pictures, but also collected different texts, digital materials and objects that will merge into artworks. More about Amit Goffer at: www.amitgoffer.info
The artists would like to thank all the artists and authors to collaboration with “Fanzine Project”: Tal Amitai-Lavi (Israel), Asad Azi (Israel), Sopheap Choun (Cambodia), Colin Crotty (Ireand), Avraham Eilat (Israel), Di Lu Galay (Myanmar), Amit Goffer (Israel/Germany), Marian Hester (South Africa), HOMELESS Collective (Cambodia), Kanel Khiev (Cambodia), Dara Kong (Cambodia), Vera Lossau (Germany), Han Lynn (Myanmar), Nicolaus Mesterharm (Germany), Phyu Mon (Myanmar), Benjamin Nachtwey (Germany), Juan Pablo Nazar (Chile), Gilad Ophir (Israel), Tim Page (Great Britain), Lilla von Puttkamer (Germany/Hungary), Jean-Alex Quach (France), Oded Ronen (Israel), Sopheak Sao (Cambodia), Sreymao Sao (Cambodia), Jaco van Schalkwyk (South Africa), Astrid Styma (Germany), Sim Sydalis (Cambodia), Anurak Tanyapalit (Thailand), Amalia Valdes (Chile), Indra Wussow (Germany/ South Africa)
