Widen the margin of play!
23 and 27 June 2014
Sa Sa Art Projects, #26-28 E2, White Building, Sothearos Blvd.
In Khmer and English translation.
Widen the margin of play!
Monday 23 June, 9am, in the park between Meta House and Phnom Penh Center.
Friday 27 June, 8am, at Sa Sa Art Projects, then move onto the rooftop of the White Building.
During the last week of her Pisaot residency with Sa Sa Art Projects, Xin Cheng would like to invite companions, young and old, to come and discover new ways of being with materials-at-hand and explore niches and leftovers, spontaneous constructions and rearrangements, the pleasures of letting effects emerge and conviviality. The experience may include: temporary playgrounds, fashion accessory-making workshops, wind-powered toys, ad-hoc shelters, sound-making devices and inner-tube spiderwebs.
Bring your friends, sisters, brothers, parents, children, neighbours!
About Xin Cheng
Xin Cheng (b. 1983, China; lives in Auckland, New Zealand) is fascinated by the ingenuity of makeshift creations, the small wonders of daily life and the humility of being alive. She studied ecology, psychology and fine arts at the University of Auckland and was a co-director of RM project http://rm103.org/ (2007-2012). She has tramped in remote corners of Aotearoa for endangered plant and bird research, helped to build an education trail at Angkor Center for Conservation of Biodiversity, Cambodia (2013), lead a village ramble at Stazione di Topolo, Italy (2013), and designed temporary furniture for Tokyo Art Book Fair, Japan (2012). Previous residencies include NKD, Norway (2008) and Enjoy, Wellington (2014). Recently Xin has been collaborating with Chris Berthelsen and companions on savouring the simple pleasures of play with resources at hand and the environment as a given. They are currently working on re-vitalising a suburban park in Auckland. More about XinCheng at http://xin-cheng.info and http://making-doing.info. Follow her activities during Pisaot residency at http://makeshift.xin-cheng.info.
Xin Cheng's residency with Sa Sa Art Projects is generously supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation http://asianz.org.nz
