tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64165761688226745772024-03-13T08:50:58.236+08:00BIG Kids MagazineJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953520166230356263noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-71024532546591624732013-05-06T11:37:00.001+08:002013-05-06T11:37:03.306+08:00Into the Dark - the cover revealed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With only WEEKS until we hold Issue 4 - Into the Dark, in hand, we are thrilled to reveal the cover by 2013 Archibald Prize winner Del Katherine Barton and her daughter Arella, age 7. There are a few surprises hidden in the heart of this landmark edition of BIG Kids Magazine so <a href="http://www.bigkidsmagazine.com/purchase.html">SUBSCRIBE NOW</a> to secure your spot in the first mail-out in June! </div>
<br />lilly bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16685489082198368587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-58902039839719590512013-04-24T18:59:00.000+08:002013-04-24T20:23:41.572+08:0013 Rooms: An insiders perspective with Paea Leach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lilly and I were lucky to immerse ourselves in <a href="http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms/">13 Rooms - Kaldor Public Arts Projects </a>together this weekend. After our BIG kid <a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2013/04/artist-and-child-13-rooms.html">Twyla's experience</a> I was excited to fly in on Friday to witness several of my friends working as performers or 'interpreters' in the exhibition. Paea Leach is a long time <a href="http://co-works.co/">dance collaborator</a> and friend and she soon ushered us in through the stage door to join the crowds of all ages. (We were also thrilled to meet John Kaldor who was a generous presence across all the hours we were there on each day).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most talked about rooms features Marina Abramovic 'Luminosity' where the work features a single woman lit up naked on the wall. It is a work of trancendence and endurance and quite simple beauty that also bought to the fore the question of artwork that might be inappropriate for children within a space that so clearly invited them in (we were delighted to see cups of coloured pencils on all the tables in the cafe, and children actively responding to their surrounds, participating in the experience in age appropriate ways).The rooms featuring nudity were clearly signed and a guide gave a gentle reminder before you entered. Despite this, during the times we were in the room, a number of children walked in and not one of them disrupted the viewing of the works in a negative way. All watched openly and easily. Our favourite moment was when a young girl of about 3 responded immediately by lifting her t-shirt - it was a split second response no-one could've predicted, and the performer, Paea Leach handled it with the beautiful acknowledgement of a conspiratorial slight smile. We asked Paea for her responses to this work and of her experience of kids in the mix: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">In Luminosity you are interpreting a work by Marina Abramovic in which you sit on a
bicycle seat affixed to the wall of a small room, naked and still. As a dancer who is moving
constantly, how does being still for half an hour at a time compare?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt;">To stay so still or calm, seated as I am on the bike
seat 'suspended' on the wall, I need to be maintaining a constant awareness of micro
shifts, or small dances if you will. I</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">n some sense you ARE moving all the time.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> I can get really focused on monitoring the minutiae of my
body and the different body systems at play that are helping me stay there, while I work to
maintain a constant and steady gaze and to engage with the audience (an important
aspect of the work is that we seek to connect with the audience via directly establishing
and holding eye contact for an amount of time we feel is right).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My feelings about myself being naked in performance shift daily. Some days I feel
quite empowered performing naked, as often I think not everyone is able (or willing) to do
such a thing. On others I feel very watched, judged, desired, rejected and self judgmental. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Luminosity I can see the audience quite clearly and sometimes the energy of the people
watching can affect how I feel about myself. In my logical brain I think we are all bodies
and we all have a body. It is a basic and beautiful idea. In Luminosity the nakedness is
important for the image and so the work, it empowers me as a performer and woman and
at some point the nudity does not matter. I have spent time watching others and
performing it myself (watching others watch me) and I think the crux of the interest in this work is about connection.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So after a few minutes all you tend to focus on is the face of the
performer. The space can in these moments of connecting becoming empathic, sad,
charged. As we are both seeing and seen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A lot of children come in and I feel that I try and send them a gentle gaze if they want to look at me. A lot do not want to look. Babies seem intrigued, by the light I am guess, and other children have varied responses. Mostly they are a bit confronted by it, or simply fail to see why it is interesting, and fairly quickly want to leave. A lot have made connections between what they are seeing and their own mothers. As I was doing Luminosity just ten minutes ago I watched a mother and daughter watching together. I thought that it is a privilege to be a child who has a parent that is able to bring them to such things. hopefully these parents are part of a stream of parents who are encouraging the next generation of children to learn in new ways...or to think and feel outside the square so to speak, from the beginning of their lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt;">The dance of the work is on the inside of my body. It is between myself and the people I
make lovely and lengthy connections with. It is what is happening between my body and
yours - and the energy transferred. This is absolutely what dance is about for me. It is in </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the choreography of the bodies I see moving, relocating, sitting, rearranging before me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">People are a mixture of arrested, intrigued, needy, impatient, confronted,
alarmed, discomfited, and happy. Many men find it hard to look at me when I am looking at
them. Older women seem somewhat delighted and respectful, women my age are a little
unsure....but once we establish a connection they seem to enter the contract and feel
satisfied and a bit heart warmed. Some people come back. It is intriguing to watch everyone working out how
they feel about it. And of course I can see them and I watch body language, and people
relax, endure the silence, allow the space to open out. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is an incredible experience. </span></div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953520166230356263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-70821491670346721782013-04-16T20:55:00.000+08:002013-04-17T08:17:27.909+08:00Artist and Child: 13 Rooms<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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We embarked on an adventure today to explore <a href="http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms/">Kaldor Public Arts Projects 13 Rooms</a> with the second youngest member of the BIG team, who is 4 years old. There are in fact 12 purpose built rooms in Pier 2/3, each with a door, where live performers interpret some of the worlds best known performance artists conceptual work. It is like a labyrinth of unexpected surprise with each room containing a unique experience. Almost like a choose your own adventure story we journeyed through the rooms at Twyla's pace following her interest and engaging for as long or as little time as she liked.<br />
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There were tribes of children enjoying the spaces today all of whom were welcomed into the experience by the performers and gallery staff, and in turn participated with interest, enthusiasm and respect. There was an overwhelming sense of shared experience and a true disruption of hierarchy in that children and adults genuinely shared the performance spaces side by side, interacting and contributing to the nature of the work together. </div>
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1. Spend some time before you enter the wharf talking to children about ways of interacting and responding to the spaces so that they can have a positive experience. If possible see the exhibit independently before you take children so you have an idea of what you are walking into and can immerse yourself at your own pace (though don't tell them too much as the biggest thrill was the element of surprise as to what might be behind the next door!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span>Depending on their age you could remind them to talk in soft voices, enter and exit rooms quietly, and watch for a while when entering rooms so they get a sense of how they can interact and engage.<br />
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2. In <i>Swap 2011</i> by Roman Ondak a performer facilitates an improvised process of negotiating the swapping of personal objects offered by audience members. Talk to children beforehand to see if they would like to take something to exchange. We spent more than 45 minutes in this room and Twyla was thrilled to swap a small brooch for an eco shopping bag. Another little girl swapped a pencil and an impromptu story about a gnome for some easter eggs.<br />
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3. Make sure you ask for the responsive children's program on entering the wharf. There are coloured pencils on the table in the cafe so bring some paper so you can draw your responses to your favourite rooms together, or write down as many words as you can to describe your experience.<br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953520166230356263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-84078958909809980952013-04-15T22:28:00.001+08:002013-04-27T19:13:34.577+08:00Artist and Child: A Gallery Experience We currently have close friends performing in<a href="http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/13rooms/"> Kaldor Public Art Projects 13 Rooms</a>, a 'living sculpture' exhibition showing at Walsh Bay in Sydney. The nature of some of the work being shown has raised questions about whether certain aspects are appropriate for children. We are interested in provoking a dialogue about the relevance of contemporary artwork in public contexts to the life and experience of a child. What is the impact of children being exposed to work that is not designed specifically for young eyes? As the creators of BIG Kids Magazine we are interested in inviting children into public art spaces in age appropriate ways where their views are valued and they are supported to participate and contribute to cultural conversations. <br />
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As artists, gallery and theatre spaces are like home to us and as such our children are growing up with these environments as part of their everyday lives. We believe in the importance of inviting ALL children into contemporary arts spaces from a young age. Lucky for us in Australia most of the major galleries have wonderful arts programs geared towards children and families that help kids engage and respond to work that is usually curated for an adult audience.<br />
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BIG is very much interested in inviting children into the process and rigorous practice of art making and exposing them to original work and live performance. Theatre and gallery spaces can provoke different ways of seeing, provide opportunities to develop personal perspectives and unique points of view, as well as open doors to new kinds of conversations between kids and grown ups. While galleries tend to invite a particular kind of attention, engagement and behaviour that some might find stifling or difficult, there are many ways to support even very young children to have positive and deeply impacting experiences. Early exposure to complex, creative and diverse environments offers children an opportunity to begin a lifelong relationship with creative thinking and the arts. With support galleries can become fertile and inspiring environments for children where they can develop expressive language and confidence in their own unique opinions.<br />
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Galleries are public spaces. However, so often we have found talking to friends that they feel they are 'not for them' that the art gallery is an exclusive place for 'people in the know'. Major galleries can feel overwhelming, but by considering simple parameters and realistic expectations the experience is often shared, rich and memorable. We advocate to empower grown-ups to help their kids understand the culture of the environment and what is expected of them in real and practical ways through our ongoing sharing of BIG ideas.<br />
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Tomorrow we will post a response to the experience of viewing 13 Rooms with a 4 year old. We will definitely be going for a babycino beforehand to talk about ways of navigating the adventure together!<br />
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<br />lilly bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16685489082198368587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-27362659400003783212013-04-07T18:58:00.000+08:002013-04-07T18:58:24.293+08:00Artist and Child: Post-it paintingsAll over the world office workers are communicating creatively across city streets with images created out of post-it notes. Our littlest BIG team member Nadia, age 3, is creating her very own cutting edge work exhibiting now on fridges, walls and windows.<br />
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BIG IDEA:<br />
Pick up a packet of coloured sticky notes from the supermarket and make a masterpiece like the post-it painters! Simply put out a sheet of paper and let your child follow their interest.<br />
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lilly bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16685489082198368587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-7442779524776162322013-04-01T23:35:00.003+08:002013-04-01T23:35:45.617+08:00House of Dreaming. A review by Ava, age 10<br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><i>My mum takes me to lots of PIAF and Fringe World shows. We counted that we went to more than 20 different shows this year! After HOUSE OF DREAMING I went home to my mum and said it was the best show I had ever been to. I was telling her everything about it for an hour and a half...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">By Ava Hart, as dictated to her mum Paula Hart:</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>Inside the ABC studio there’s a whole house...</i> </span>When you look at it it’s like a normal house but it’s got a little twist – there are three doors, a giant bush and a bench. You go inside in threes and before you go into the house you are given a cape each and a bunny hat, a crown or a wizard’s hat. We were also given a little figurine each that matched our hats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">We walked into the house, each through our own door. </span>We sat down at our own little table with a big mirror. We had been told we had to put the figurines on a white dot to turn the lights on. On the tables were postcards, pictures and a telephone. We looked at all the postcards. One said, “don’t forget to bring the parrot,” but we had no idea what that meant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">We chatted to each other and wondered what we were supposed to do. Then the phones started ringing.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">We each picked up our phone and our mirror showed a face. We could hear these faces talking through the phone, but each of us had our own conversation. They told us the house was magical and gave us each instructions. Now we knew to head to the next room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/50742479">The House of Dreaming</a>, by <a href="http://www.arenatheatre.com.au/show/the-house-of-dreaming">Arena Theatre Company</a> directed by Chris <span style="color: #222222;">Kohn. Presented at the Perth International Arts Festival 2013 at the ABC Perth Studios.</span></span></div>
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we were the audience, but we felt like we were in the show.</span> </span>Each room felt
different, but we all remembered our instructions to put our figurines on the
dot to make the room work. In some rooms there were people acting. When they
were acting they were telling us a story about who used to live in the house
and what happened to the house. No one had lived there for hundreds of years
they said. Sometimes we heard voices or saw projections. The rooms looked like
real rooms and everything you could touch was like in a real room. Some rooms
were so small all three of us could hardly fit in and </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">sometimes to get to the next room we had to crawl or push through a secret tunnel.</span></span> I am tall so some
things felt tiny when I had to crawl through. At the beginning we were told to
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The way they told the
story was incredibly interesting. You didn’t just have to sit and watch the
show and see what everything did. It was more exciting to touch everything and
be a part of the story. I like that you did it with three people and it was
exciting to talk to each other to understand the story. <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Everyone understood a
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The props were really
amazing in such a small space. It was exciting to see the film projected on the
walls. We liked speaking to real people who were acting because they understood
what we were thinking. It was really cool how they used the technology for the
figurines, a TV, the telephones and stuff that popped open. It was also amazing
how real everything seemed. It was funny when we started speaking to the
projections on the wall because they seemed so real. At one point me and my
friends were laughing so much because it felt so real. In one dark, black room
it smelt disgusting like smoke and fog and yucky stuff. In one room we had to
write down our dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">It was REALLY good to go without a parent.
Parents would tell you how to do it, but it was really good to explore on our
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"I feel very much like I am </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">calmly walking towards an abyss </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of sorts, into the dark indeed.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">I have so loved the MAN festival these people's work/life and the day-to-day accumulations. </span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Oh it starts to make sense, I start to see a way". Alexandra Harrison.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Last
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<span lang="EN-US">Kicking, belly down</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(me in the pool,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">the it in me)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Waiting for the introduction</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For a sign, for a ray</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meanwhile,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A choreography of meltdowns</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And small revivals</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yesterday I was ready</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today I am begging for time</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This build-up is not curated</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oh there is a date</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Or give and take </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yet? They ask me</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yet?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anticipation is pressure</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And the artist is worried </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist is lost</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Or,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist is gardener</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist is cook</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist creates order</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist cleans and cleans and cleans</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist is still, sometimes,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And the artist falls apart </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nor leap fences like she used to</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist is barely a lover</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The artist is not a mother</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yet</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">(Before
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Alex working on her artist's response for the Child Artist Response Project that will feature alongside the provocations of Ruby, age 12 in the pages of Issue 4, Into The dark. </i></span></td></tr>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Rainer Mallee<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> - b</span></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">orn 23rd December 2012, named on Christmas day.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A manchild, long and lovely, 55cm, and 4.1kg. These numbers seem important and make the eyebrows of the midwives shoot up. All's well, we're out of hiding, but going slow". </span></i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rainer in his BIG designed romper for Mini And Maximus taking in the fans at the National Dance Forum!</i></td></tr>
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After an incredible climb, we have just finalised design on Issue 4 -<b> INTO THE DARK. </b></div>
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We are now slowly adjusting to the light again after long nights and days and weeks (and months!) of decision-making, limit-pushing and last minute landings. PHEW! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Draw your dreaming' INTO THE DARK contribution by four sibling-artists age 13-21, <a href="http://www.mrspoqui.com/">Mr Spoqui</a>, Portugal</td></tr>
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INTO THE DARK has arrived as a clear marker of development and consolidation for BIG. After over two years of working together we both feel this fourth issue is the culmination of so many of the initial ideas and hopes we had for the BIG pages. We are so excited by the contributions, the artists and the growing work between us, that the anticipation of holding it in our hands feels like the first time. It takes a very long time for projects of these proportions to grow into themselves and we feel as though we are again standing at the beginning of everywhere we want to go. </div>
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After journeying so deeply <i>INTO THE DARK,</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> we are excited to announce a new theme centred </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">on emergence, seeding new ideas, and exploring environments - both real and imagined: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Issue 5 - SEED to SKY</i></span></span></div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953520166230356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-75697287712882147882013-03-17T17:35:00.000+08:002013-03-17T18:39:19.673+08:00Artist and Child: Collage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Collage is the art of glueing cut shapes and images onto a page. There is something wonderful about the far reaching mess of pages spread across the floor and the physical act of sifting and sorting to find the paper treasures that attract your eye. The collage process can be an intuitive experience of addition and layering, or a conscious way of creating landscapes and figures. </span></span></div>
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lilly bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16685489082198368587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-13387199394725002482013-02-28T17:29:00.000+08:002013-02-28T17:29:25.163+08:00BIG featured in Russian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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lilly bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16685489082198368587noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-58615186668258960832013-02-17T23:19:00.000+08:002013-02-17T23:19:11.718+08:00BIG at Fringe World<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l04ziPO7bJw/UR0MCKw9fWI/AAAAAAAAA9I/_UOP-ls9nTM/s1600/2013-02-09+15.27.28.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l04ziPO7bJw/UR0MCKw9fWI/AAAAAAAAA9I/_UOP-ls9nTM/s200/2013-02-09+15.27.28.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MT3U_w2OfGA/UR0LmZ1mWEI/AAAAAAAAA8c/HpUJpr15_oo/s1600/2013-02-09+14.13.52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MT3U_w2OfGA/UR0LmZ1mWEI/AAAAAAAAA8c/HpUJpr15_oo/s200/2013-02-09+14.13.52.jpg" width="200" /></a>Western Australia's 2013 <a href="https://www.fringeworld.com.au/">Fringe World</a> has taken over the city! There are circus tents on skyline rooftops, the giant sculptured wheel of <a href="http://www.sppt.asn.au/programme/view/mechronos">Mechronos</a> captivating passers by, real life mermaids beckoning, Spiegeltents and fairy lights, and a plethora of performances for kids of all ages. Last weekend we had our BIG team meeting for Issue 4 with Pippa and Luca in a grassed caravan outside the fabulous Lunar Circus Big Top. The Perth team were once again brilliant in their navigation of the draft pages and inspired in bringing missing page links together and telling it like it is! With a continual text stream to Sydney, artworks were chosen, decisions made and a debrief of Game On! all rolled into one VERY hot days work! (40degrees). Following the meeting we enjoyed the Kids Comedy Gala - wonderful collection of artists all presenting at Fringe World, including the hilarious Mr Fatt and his brilliantly irreverent band, the silent film comedy of Tom Flanagan's <a href="https://www.fringeworld.com.au/program/event/5f1ee582-7af6-49fc-95cc-61c1e1f8e197/">Kaput</a> (go see it!) and the endearingly talented<a href="https://www.fringeworld.com.au/program/event/5f1ee582-7af6-49fc-95cc-61c1e1f8e197/"> Pitts Family Circus</a>. If you are in Perth and have little ones, even an evening stroll through the cultural centre will provide a big night out - so much is there in the atmosphere, sounds, and energy of this incredible festival. A truly inspired and vibrant event. Don't miss it!<br />
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Amazing to watch our BIG babies grow into girls who have a LOT to say :) Mini magazine-makers!lilly bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16685489082198368587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-18527004593666480162013-01-21T07:42:00.002+08:002013-01-21T07:42:52.537+08:002013: In CollaborationThe year has begun in full and as we both race and tread tenderly<i> Into The Dark</i> buoyed with the incoming contributions from the most INCREDIBLE collection of kids and artists, we are excited.<br />
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We are also working on our second MAN Festival and have an awesome line up including the gorgeous new <a href="http://www.themotherload.org/">Mother Load </a>project, and a VERY new mother artist. If you would like to be considered for an upcoming festival send us an email with MAN in the title to info@bigkidsmagazine.com<br />
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To kick off 2013 we will spend this week in Sydney for days of on-the-floor pagination and BIG dreaming with our two not-so-baby girls in tow. We have a BIG meeting at the Opera House (grin!) and trips planned to various galleries and of course, the beach. My boys have been promised the next trip but this time it will be a girlie escape :)<br />
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Even though we are so used to the long distance magazine-making and have certainly developed unspoken telepathic creative processes to enable side by side looking from afar, it is always so wonderful to be hands on in the same room, actually curating, writing, drawing, painting, dreaming and watching the work come to life.<br />
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As we head into the making of our FOURTH and FIFTH issue this year, we are joined by a quietly expanding team, namely my mum who is helping us to make very slow motion sense of gst and other such number feats and Lilly's brother who, via the US, supports us in our business renderings. We tackle every day the demands of a small business and this help is invaluable. BIG is a full time as yet unpaid arts project that does not just publish existing content - the curation and creating of content means that we are in constant collaboration with each other, with our designers, with international projects and organisations, and with the artists and kids who we invite to participate. The making of this BIG artwork is a side by side project of mammoth proportions! It is incredible to watch it growing so fast from the inside and we are both looking forward to another BIG year :)<br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953520166230356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-65817261267791902712012-12-24T06:24:00.000+08:002012-12-24T06:24:08.189+08:00Side by Side Celebrations <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From the recent lights of Chanukah in the Sydney BIG office to the Christmas Eve carols of Perth HQ, we have been celebrating side by side and are thrilled to continue the good cheer with the announcement of a grant from the WA Department of Culture and the Arts. Hurrah! </span></div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953520166230356263noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416576168822674577.post-62225217659402930912012-12-07T13:06:00.002+08:002012-12-07T13:06:51.919+08:00The Making of a magazine - two years in.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The nights are late and the work is as driven as it was when we began whispering this BIG thing to life more than two years ago. Sometimes we are exhausted. Forever managing ways to mark out the time differently, to acknowledge the work done by the other and together, to do what we can, to remember our voice in the overwhelm. The administration is relentless and roles are necessarily divided. The creative work is ongoing between us and behaves much like a child demanding attention to the exclusion of all else. And sometimes like a child, it has to wait which, more often than not, ends with EVERYONE grumpi ;) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As the BIG creative directors, we are also our own PA's - responsible for sleuth work on returned to sender subscriptions, for invoicing and advertising, for business, for responding to submissions, for curating the artwork, for the features, for collaborative design, for blogging, face booking, emailing, meetings and meltdowns. It is a BIG journey, daily, and mapped mostly by the energetic rise and fall of the four little people in our lives. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Right now we are immersed in the beauty of a new work unfolding. The creative development of Issue 4 Into The Dark is well under way even though it will not be published for 5 months. It is the most exciting time, ideas drawn up and exchanged at all hours, words scribbled on scrap paper and paintings flown through a cracked iPhone screen for immediate response. It is a fuelled and firing process with the luxury of a slow burn over the holiday period before the speed and adrenalin of final design in the new year. We are beside ourselves with the quality and QUANTITY of artwork and words received from around the world. Current collaborations and exchanges are on the go between here and Russia, Helsinki, the Netherlands, New York...sometimes we pause and catch our breath and laugh a little for the enormity of this BIG project. Last night I was asked if we could speak to some artists about how we got BIG off the ground. Well, we can hardly remember the specifics (except that every step has been recorded here on the blog) and agree it was unthinkable that we made the bulk of the first magazine without a SINGLE spoken conversation! We could write a book on the making of a magazine (and yes, it is on the list!) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As we watch the pages growing almost by themselves, we speak increasingly about a BIG pedagogy that is a realisation of where we have been working from for so long; that of valuing the work of children and artists side by side. That of giving a voice to the concept of not knowing. Of challenging the authority of art practice and paradigm. Of firing creative response without prescribed expectation or goal. Of contributing to the conversation about the value and accessibility of arts education. Of giving permission for new ways of open-ended art making and risk-taking. Of nurturing bravery, imagination and making visible the power and impact of generosity and collaboration. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Of a process of co-authorship that is significant and immersed yet driven with individual still voices maintained and spacious. And of this balance of particular practice of co-authorship and creative process in relation to collaborating with children. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">For us both we feel the BIG work is a growing culmination of 20 years each as practicing artists and educators. In arriving at a clear vision for BIG there is again space for the creative work between us to thrive and spark threads unexpected. Lilly works on a series of dark monsters and I respond with words scrawled over late night print-outs. We dream up the beginnings of limited edition artist books with our work published as a response to each of the magazines. We follow instinct and watch the BIG world build as a paper city between us. A continuous and evolving exhibition. Marks made and erased and made differently in response to the other. Live and in process. </span><br />
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This year I started at a very big, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>very busy place, this place is called high school. Coming from a school with </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>59 students I wasn't sure how a place with over 1000 students worked (especially </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>ones who were so much bigger than me). There were only 5 year sixes when</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>I graduated primary. When I started high school I knew one person. Over the</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>course of the year I have tried to find a 'best friend', I have made lots</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>of 'just friends' along the way. Turns out, my best friends are all still </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>at my primary school. My best friends are both in year 5. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>I just really want kids everywhere to know that its ok not to have your best </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>friend at school with you. Your best friend doesn't have to be the same age,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>same look, live in the same area. Nothing! Your best friend is the person </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>who laughs with you, smiles with you and has a great time with you. One of </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>the most important things to me is that kids everywhere know that its ok </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>to be friends with whoever you like, regardless what other people think.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This enormous, gorgeous painting is by sisters <a href="http://www.wedontneedamap.com.au/about/artists/amy-french" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ff6132; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Amy French</a> and <a href="http://www.wedontneedamap.com.au/about/artists/lily-long-jatarr" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ff6132; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Lily Long</a>. Karlamilyi is a complex and layered work, brimming with knowledge about native animals and plants, journeys through country, ancestral beings, waterholes and landforms. French and Long's distinct visual language challenges notions of desert painting, blending figurative and abstract imagery to present an energised landscape that is filled with elements of the seen and unseen world. </span></div>
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For a moment we wondered if this was the right direction for our BIG work as we have strong feelings about some contemporary fashion options for children that take them so far beyond their years, or strongly stereotype them by gender. We LOVE <a href="http://miniandmaximus.com/about/">Mini & Maximus</a> and as you can see they are far more than a fashion line - drawing inspiration from children and artists, and creating an incredibly cool eco friendly product that is made for real life PLAY.</div>
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We are thrilled to have been invited to create a work for the very beautiful <a href="http://www.boekie-boekie.nl/">Boekie Boekie</a>, a Dutch children's magazine that has been running for 21 years and has 88 published issues! The creators of the magazine have also created a wonderful project called <a href="http://www.poem-express.com/">Poem Express</a> where children from all over the world make <i>Poem Posters. </i></div>
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fact that you are moving faster than you have ever gone before</b><span class="Apple-style-span">. I am very drawn to Frank Partnoy's idea from </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wait-useful-procrastination-Frank-Partnoy/dp/184668594X">Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination</a>, <span class="Apple-style-span">of how we 'manage delay' in order to expand time:</span></span></div>
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pausing for as long as necessary before they act, even in the face of the most
pressing decisions. For good decision makers, time is more flexible than a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In wrapping up this week with the BIG MAN, I have truly enjoyed spending some virtual time with each of the artists featured in the Festival and all the other artists I have come across in the process. What a rich and multi-dimensional experience! Ideas are coalescing and a Phd proposal is making its way onto paper to be submitted at a time somewhere in the future. Virtual presence is being reassesed so I too can participate in the magnificent community of artists of all disciplines who dance the weft and weave of motherhood and arts practice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As two mother artists we live all of it at once. BIG was built in the sleep hours and habits of our littles. You cannot undo being an artist or a mother. You just are. Scroll through the posts below to find a week of links to mother artists and projects inspired and true. There are many more coming. If you want to join the <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2011/11/rachel-power-introduces-mother-artist.html">MAN</a> </span></i>party send us an email to info@bigkidmsagazine and we will do our best to position you in the mix of our next curated MAN Festival early next year. Here we extend our huge thanks to Vivienne Rogis who has done a wonderful job working within our immediate and madly responsive BIG process as guest editor. We look forward to welcoming you into the blogosphere Viv ;) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>The brand new issue (3) of BIG kids Magazine just been released called <a href="http://www.bigkidsmagazine.com/purchase.html">Game On! </a>We have a feeling both you and your child just might love it! We also thought to point you Into The Dark in the hope you might like to <a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/p/contribute-into-dark-2013.html">CONTRIBUTE</a> a little something side by side with your child. </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">See you there, Jo and Lilly xx</span></span><br />
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<i><a href="http://lilymaemartin.com/gallery/">Lily
Mae Martin</a> is an artist, mother of a two-year-old, and nomad who after being based in Berlin has moved four times since her daughter Anja's birth - from Cardiff, to Melbourne, back to Berlin</i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><i>, and most recently back to Melbourne.</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">In her drawing and writing project </span></i><i><a href="http://berlindomestic.wordpress.com/">Berlin Domestic</a> Lily Mae, like</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.maandpafilms.com/bios.html">Mary Trunk</a>'s work</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, has
drawn inspiration from the everyday, actively seeing her life as mother &
artist, w</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">eaving them together as she can,</span>
and sharing it with the world through the blogosphere</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">. Her recent article on Motherhood and friendship appeared in</span></i><i> </i><a href="http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/article/kids-in-berlin/"><i>Killing Your Darlings</i></a><i> and her blogs </i><a href="http://berlindomestic.wordpress.com/"><i>Berlin Domestic</i></a><i> & </i><i><a href="http://lilymaemartin.com/blog/">Lily Mae Martin</a> explore the territory of the mother artist with insight. She was featured on <a href="http://rachel-power.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/i-know-ive-been-off-boil-lately-in.html">The Rachel Papers</a> just last week and here she contributes her experience to our <a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2011/11/rachel-power-introduces-mother-artist.html">MAN:</a></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I
think 'a Mother' is seen as something a woman becomes - </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A woman before she has a
baby is everything she is then she becomes a Mum and that is all that she is.
Which isn't true, Motherhood isn't an end. It's just change, a beginning.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Images from the project <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://berlindomestic.wordpress.com/"><i>Berlin Domestic</i></a></span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I was pregnant I had no idea what to expect and I was
afraid I would stop making art. However when I became Anja's mother I found a
new and stronger voice- I realised that art was a great way to express
everything about motherhood- the pain, the joy, the fear, the sleeplessness,
the isolation. I decided to start </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="http://berlindomestic.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Berlin
Domestic</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> as I needed to work out a new way
for me to draw, a way I could draw when I was with my daughter. It also helps
me because when I feel completely overwhelmed and utterly alone, I know that
someone out there will read my writing and see my drawings and connect with it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My creative process is something I have been developing and
refining for years. I'm mostly interested in drawing but lately I have been
exploring painting and writing as well. Being an artist is tough, there </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">are</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> a lot of set</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">backs
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fter I recovered from Anja's birth and could focus enough to
read a book I read </span><a href="http://www.rdog.com.au/main.php?id=dividedheart"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">T</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he
Divided Heart</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. It was so interesting hearing
about women so driven by their practices and a lot of them moving away from
their families with a small child, like I ended up doing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have to admit it took me some time to really understand
the book. My baby was only a few months old and while I still managed to make
some work I didn't have any artistic demands. When we moved back to Berlin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> when Anja was only 6 months old,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">was</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> when I began to understand the division. I had to fight to
get time to make my work, to get the space to make my work. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I encountered more issues with this as well. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">P</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eople </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">were
seeing</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> me as a singular entity and demands
were being made on me to participate in things on a level that does not work
when you have a kid. I thought</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">;</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> there must be a better way to do
this, so I left my studio space and beg</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">n
working from home. As a family unit we've all learned to balance this, it took
18 months to work it out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xgj4RzGJzmU/UJvA74o1U1I/AAAAAAAAAtA/cea18kWUnjc/s1600/Lily%2526AnjaJuly2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xgj4RzGJzmU/UJvA74o1U1I/AAAAAAAAAtA/cea18kWUnjc/s400/Lily%2526AnjaJuly2011.jpg" width="236" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think <a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2011/11/rachel-power-introduces-mother-artist.html">MAN</a> and <a href="http://www.bigkidsmagazine.com/">BIG</a> are great ideas and places for women to
no longer feel alone. I struggled a lot with becoming a Mum and still being an
artist. I felt a lot of the time Anja and Mothering wasn't something I could
bring up in regards to art things. I did a few interviews after having her
where I don't even mention anything about pregnancy, birth, babies, poo - you
know, the things that my life mainly consists of now. So finding groups and
networks that do talk about this is refreshing. Being able to connect with more
parents who are artists is enriching. Being able to talk about concepts, paint,
process and nappies, sleeplessness - it's a lifeline. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><i>The </i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2011/11/rachel-power-introduces-mother-artist.html">Mother Artist Network</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><i>(MAN) is an initiative of Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue and BIG Kids Magazine. This inaugural mini MAN Festival has been curated in collaboration with guest editor and mother artist extraordinaire </i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://mirramu.wordpress.com/biographies/vivienne-rogis/">Vivienne Rogis</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><i> to whom we are so grateful! </i></i></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Mother Artist Sandi Woo is an independent producer/dance artist based in
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; white-space: pre;">Sandi Woo and son Eddie Mailer </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; white-space: pre;">Photo</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; white-space: pre;"> by</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; white-space: pre;"> Kathryn Santospirito</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">September 2012 - Broome, WA</span></span></td></tr>
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What do I have to say about juggling arts practice and
parenting? More like - what don’t I have to say and where do I begin?</div>
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I’m currently in the ‘gearing down’ phase of the busiest
year of my life. I have delivered two community based projects in Broome and
the Kimberley. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/YTMDKimberley"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">YouTube Me Dance 2012</i></a> <span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">& </span><a href="http://www.umbrellamag.com.au/articles/gallery-moves-slices-of-life"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gallery Moves</i></a><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">. Which are also written about </span><a href="http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/artforms/community-partnerships/news_items/broome-dance-project">here</a><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> & </span><a href="https://open.abc.net.au/posts/tags/gallery%20moves">here</a><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am currently working on my third <span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">project </span>for a local organisation – Theatre Kimberley – called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Staircase to the Moon. </i>A locally
written, produced and performed music theatre production that will christen the
newly refurbished Broome Civic Centre in early November.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Exciting. Exhausting. Exhilarating. </i></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have been doing plenty of soul searching about how to balance my creative yearnings and my family responsibilities. One thing I knew was my creative desires were more powerful BECAUSE of my family. But they were also the ones most affected by the ‘busy schedule fall out’ and stood right in the firing line of one frazzled and exhausted Mum.</div>
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Two young boys call me ‘mum’. Dear, sweet Eddie (4 yrs) who
we think is forming strong aspirations to be a breakdancer, but is probably
more of a contemporary performer. And Frank (1 year) who at this early stage is
showing signs of being either a professional boxer, or just a school yard
bully. Either way he enjoys moments of contact improvisation with his brother.<br />
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It would not be possible to write about juggling motherhood
and creative practice without crediting my husband as the real reason I am
still standing and the family is still (relatively) happy and healthy! Seriously.
After starting work at 5am, he finishes at 2pm. This allows me to get a few
hours of work in at the end of the working day. He hangs out with the kids from
2pm and helps to complete a large portion of the home duties too. It frees me
up for rehearsals, meetings and important bonding time with my computer. He is
also the sounding board for all the good and bad twists and turns we go through
on the ‘project super-highway’. Oh, he’s a reasonable copy editor too! Thanks
Darl!</div>
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<pre style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Karli Linaker, Susan Rush, Sete Tele </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Photo </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">by</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Abigail Workman</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">(Man at Work Media)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Sept 2012 - DACOU Gallery, Broome </span></span></span></pre>
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As hard as this year has been logistically and
administratively, it has been the most creatively fulfilling year of my life. Possibilities
feel endless and the rich and fertile community I’ve started to work with seem
at the ready. All these wonderful elements converging and I have never been
more ‘time poor’ in my life! It’s amazing how much you get done in 2-3
consecutive hours of uninterrupted work time. And lets not forget all the
thinking time in between hanging out washing, folding washing, cooking dinner,
feeding the chooks and packing up the toys (over and over again in a day). Not
a minute of the day is wasted! Hang on, is Facebook time wasting?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Really, it’s not surprising that motherhood and creative
practice go so well together. Both provide amazing, life changing moments you
cannot plan for. And both require a ‘concept plan’ of some sort – an overarching vision –
but you kind of work out the details as you go. You ride the ebbs and flow, you
find yourself in a difficult moments, which make you relish the joyful bits
even more. </i></span></div>
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My next project combines motherhood and creative practice.
I am exploring the relationships between children and their parents/grandparents.
I want to test my own notions of parenting by building a creative environment
where the children lead the parents. Why? Because of the seemingly constant
requests I make of my toddler to live his life at an adult pace. Also, I have
been inspired by the work of BIG magazine. I want to provide other parents (and
grandparents) an opportunity to have a creative experience that is shared, led
and centred on their children. I’ve conceptualised a project so I can play in the studio
with my own children. I will be mentored through this project by inspirational
and talented Mother Artist- Felicity Bott.</div>
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My stomach backflips at the thought of what lies ahead next
year<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">. A</span>nd<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">,</span> after reading <a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2011/12/director-sally-richardson-speaks-to-man.html">Sally Richardson’s MAN article</a>, of what lies ahead in the
years to come. I am<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span>going to the
post box everyday to check if my copy of Rachel Power’s <a href="http://www.rdog.com.au/main.php?id=dividedheart">The Divided Heart – Art and Motherhood</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>has arrived. Excited much?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you BIG Kids Magazine, thank you MAN. <span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>Imagination is… a wonderful gift<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><i>The </i></i><a href="http://blog.bigkidsmagazine.com/2011/11/rachel-power-introduces-mother-artist.html">Mother Artist Network</a> <i><i>(MAN) is an initiative of Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue and BIG Kids Magazine. This inaugural mini MAN Festival has been curated in collaboration with guest editor and mother artist extraordinaire </i></i><a href="http://mirramu.wordpress.com/biographies/vivienne-rogis/">Vivienne Rogis</a> <i><i> to whom we are so grateful! </i></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;">The <b>Mother Artist Network</b> is</span> a place that invites BIG ideas and discussion about creative practice and motherhood. Through a forum of ongoing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;">blog posts the MAN</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> will feature voices of mother-artists at all stages of artistic engagement and motherhood. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;">We</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> very much hope you will contribute to the conversation by commenting below or emailing us at info@bigkidsmagazine to add your story to the mix. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> </span></span></i></div>
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