Memory Postcards: a workshop for flood survivors
Monday 29 May - Tuesday 30 May
With Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine
What familiar objects and places exist in your mind even when they no longer exist in reality?
A two-hour workshop exploring miniatures, photography, virtual reality, and memory.
We are running workshops for adult flood survivors that will enable you to recreate a part of your memory space. During this workshop you will use paper and modelling clay to build, then photograph your memory space, and take home a postcard-sized print. We will provide templates as a guide for you to learn some 3D papercraft and modelmaking skills as well as photography skills. We will 3D scan the miniature models made in the workshops and place them into VR so participants will also be able to experience their miniatures as life-sized furniture in VR. Materials and light refreshments provided. We invite you to exhibit your postcard at the Quad alongside Collage Club and the Farmers Market on Thursday June 1, 3 - 5pm.
Workshops are for 6 people at a time. Please rsvp to linseygosper@lismore.nsw.gov.au, or call the gallery on 02 6627 4600, or text 0431 597 047 and nominate the times that suit you in order of preference. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds and people living with disability to apply. If you have access needs please discuss this with us so we can assist you.
Workshop times (choose 1 session):
Monday May 29
* 10:30am - 12:30pm
* 1:30 - 3:30pm
Tuesday May 30
* 5:30 - 7:30pm
Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine are collaborating artists who work with miniatures to recreate real and imagined spaces. They are developing a new virtual reality, creative documentary based about floods and the objects and spaces lost. We would like to hear about any flood experiences you’re willing to share. Floods have had a serious and long lasting impact on many communities around the country in the last year. The artists use virtual reality to communicate these experiences in a way that feels more real than the news stories, compelling audiences to contemplate and consider the experience, both to empathise and also to think about their own preparedness. Visit isobelandvan.com to find out more about us.
Photographs are from the workshop, last image is from the series Can’t do without you, 2021
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