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"What's the Sea" Kids Workshop
The workshop invites children between the age of 5 to 12 to participate.
Time: 2 pm on May 13th and 14th
Address: The 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia • Pavilion of China - Out Door Tent
Arsenale - Magazzino delle Cisterne, Castello 2169 /F - 30122, Venezia
Why am I doing ‘What’s the Sea?’
I met some children at an event. When I asked them to draw the sea in their views, they started painting without hesitation. Finally they got nearly the similar pictures, like a curve, which symbols offing, with sun, beach and coconut palm. Even the students with fine arts training draw in the same way. It seems like the former teachers have already described the picture of sea to them, a tender, brilliant, serene but unbearably vulgar one. So I spent time finding the works about sea by 20 artists, including Ma Yuan, Ma Hezhi, Katsushika Hokusai, Hiroshi Sugimoto, John Constable and Andreas Gursky. The images of sea created by them were of all kinds of shapes and postures, sometimes romantic, sometimes deep and melancholy. Sometimes the sea becomes furious and brutal. I want to re-introduce the various and mysterious sea to children, to make them understand the real sea through their independent thinking and drawing the sea. I can also learn from the children a brand new understanding of sea through this way.
The reason the program named ‘What’s the sea?’
1. We want some new images of sea from the children’s boundless imagination and instinct with a natural charm.
2. We want the children to get rid of the simple idea of sea, and to find the image in their own views.We encourage them to create the independent and bold imagination.
3. In ‘What’s the Sea’, there is no script, plot and expectation. The only thing we do is to encourage children’s participation,and try to find a clue from the collections of their works. The storyline will grow by their imagination and full of possibilities. Therefore, the process of making is also a process of seeking.
4. The only requirement is that folding the paper. The middle line means the sea level, to ensure the basic requirements of the animation.
At last, we link all works of children follow facial expressions of the sea, which makes up this silent animation. You’ll see something happen in the sea in some short cuts, as if you stood at the seaside,seeing a fish jumping out of the sea, then disappears quickly before you know what have happened.
Thus, the result of this animation is unknown, just like the name of it, what’s the Sea, the process of looking for will go on, the animation will go on as well.
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