A Child's Eye View

Friday 30 August 2013, 5:30-7:30pm
Sa Sa Art Projects, #26-28 E2, White Building, Sothearos Blvd.
In Khmer and English translation.

A Child's Eye View
By Children of the White Building
In collaboration with Aziza School, Sa Sa Art Projects and artist-in-residence Emma Ota

Over a period of three weeks, artist-in-residence Emma Ota engaged with AZIZA school and children of the White Building in a series of workshops, developing a range of work in animation, video, photography and mapping.

The children have taken up basic media technology as an eye upon their world and come to apply it in questions of collectivity, community, divisions of "us" and "them" and the sense of authorship in our shared and lived spaces.

The workshop culminated in a public event A Child's Eye View where the children presented their moving image work to their parents and neighbours, and distributed a unique map of the White Building community they collectively created.

About Emma Ota

Emma Ota is a curator, art coordinator and researcher based in Tokyo, Japan. She is Director of the dislocate art project, which challenges the meaning of locality in globalised technology driven society. Ota is also engaged in long-term research on media art and artist-run spaces, particularly in Asia. She pursues art as a platform for the collision of ideas and debates surrounding the current conditions of society. She received a Master degree in Visual Imaging and Sciences from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, in 2011. During her Pisaot residency at Sa Sa Art Projects, Emma researched Cambodian art spaces and explored collaborations between children in Phnom Penh’s White Building and children in Tokyo through a series of media art workshops. www.dis-locate.net | www.eonsbetween.net | www.inter-play.com