TRANSFORMING EVERYDAY SITES is a series of 2 x 2day workshops focused on temporary site-based art and place-making projects in public spaces. The workshops are open to artists, creatives, performers, art workers and other interested individuals of all ages and levels of practice.
TRANSFORMING EVERYDAY SITES will be led by artists Ella Ziegler and Paul Gazzola, whose individual projects, seek to re-imagine public space as sites of community engagement and playful artistic expression. These artists employ a range of methods to highlight, question and renegotiate the importance of individual participation in public spaces.
“I take delight in renewing my own as well as my viewers’ consciousness by highlighting and sensitizing us to what normally passes us by inconspicuously. My independent, idiosyncratic practice is simple and radical at the same time, inspiring wonder, provoking curiosity and making us think differently about what we previously considered ordinary.” Ella Ziegler
Workshop 1: MUNDANE POETRY with Ella Ziegler
Through the installation of signs, flags and marked zones in public spaces MUNDANE POETRY brings to attention the poetic and multi-layered phenomena that surround us in everyday life. Its aim is to put bring into focus what we sometimes ignore and overlook in our daily routines.
Dates: 4 & 5 Oct Time: 10 – 4pm
Location: Port Noarlunga Arts Centre, 22 Gawler St, Port Noarlunga SA 5167
Workshop 2: SITUATIONS with Paul Gazzola
SITUATIONS explores the potential of the local and the everyday as dynamic spaces of artistic engagement. Participants will be invited to consider, develop and conceive new ideas and outcomes using selected sites in Port Noarlunga.
Dates: 9 & 10 Oct Time: 10 – 4pm
Location: Port Noarlunga Arts Centre, 22 Gawler St, Port Noarlunga SA 5167
TRANSFORMING EVERYDAY SITES is an unprecedented opportunity to explore new methods of making, as well as gain skills and practical knowledge in a collaborative and collegial gathering, that will address each participants’ own practices and interests.
Tea and coffee will be provided. As places are limited booking is required.
For more information please contact
Paul Gazzola – mob: 0403959716 / email: [email protected]
Janine Peacock – mob: 0413 754 129 / email: [email protected]
TRANSFORMING EVERYDAY SITES is supported by the City of Onkaparinga. These workshops are also presented in connection to SUE – Series of Unexpected Events an initiative of the City of Onkaparinga curated by OSCA and assisted by The Australia Council and The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With support from The Australian Dance Theatre.
