Spark_Lab

20 April - 31 May 2012

Hatched turns 21 - join in the Spark_Lab celebrations with a range of innovative tours and workshops for primary, secondary, tertiary and community groups.

Engage in interactive exhibition tours and practical hands-on workshops to develop idea-generation skills and an ability to discuss contemporary arts with confidence. Tours and workshops can be tailored to schools' curriculum requirements, making links with artists' skills, techniques, ideas, materials and processes. Tours are free of charge, and workshops (with a minimal cost per student) can be conducted at PICA or at your school.

Workshops include:

ANIMATION
Stop Motion Animation for young people (suitable for primary and secondary students)

Hatched artist Michelle Williamson will discuss her work, The Presence of Absence and guide students through the processes of creating a stop motion animation using themselves as life-sized "objects".
(use image of Michelle's)


CREATIVE WRITING
Fractured Fictions: Creative writing in response to Hatched (suitable for primary and secondary students)

Katherine Greville will lead students through three guided writing exercises in response to three Hatched artworks.
* Creeping in Sideways asks students to reflect on transformation and time, in response to Skye Kelly's Creep
* This is Your Poem invites students to create poetry using concepts from Sarah Jane Haywood's This is Your Song
* Fractured Fairytales provokes a reinvention of archetypal characters through Spike Deane's Into the Woods.
(use image of Spike's)


DANCE
Building Structures for Improvisation & Choreographic Response (suitable for secondary students)

Jo Pollitt will share improvised and choreographic processes propelled by the students interpretation and view of Pip Stafford's work All my World is Scaffolding. The workshop will feature elements of Jo's 'response' work, an improvisation driven dance practice that provokes simultaneous attention to physical, sensorial, conceptual and imaginative worlds. Jo is a highly sought after performer and teacher and is the co-creator of BIG Kids Magazine, a creative arts print magazine that features the work of kids and artists side by side.
(use image of Pip's)

Special Hatched Today & Tomorrow event
Friday 25 May, 6pm
PICA Galleries
$15/$10 concession

Join tomorrow's artistic leaders as the current batch of Hatched artists share insights into their works, followed by a new dance work in response to Pip Stafford's All my World is Scaffolding, co-created by Tara Daniel and Jo Pollitt and also featuring Jacob Lehrer and Kynan Hughes.

Professional Learning
$40 per participant
A Professional Learning Session for educators will be held 1 June 1-4pm by Hatched artist Michelle Williamson.
Michelle will discuss her work, The Presence of Absence and guide participants through the processes of creating a stop motion animation using themselves as life-sized "objects".

Bookings are essential for all Spark_Lab events. For bookings and further information, contact Tara Daniel, Education Program Manager education@pica.org.au or (08) 9228 6316
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EXHIBITION TOURS FOR SCHOOLS
PICA's exhibition tours are facilitated by experienced arts educators who lead students through a carefully devised gallery trail, discussing selected works along the way. Education Notes support these tours by reinforcing and making further links with curriculum, highlighting innovative artistic approaches and encouraging questioning and open-ended enquiry.

Tours are appropriate for primary and secondary school students, and interactive tours for year 11, 12 & TEE classes make specific links to curriculum and encourage active participation by students to develop their skills in responding to contemporary art using appropriate visual arts language. Maximum 32 students per tour.

Primary, secondary and tertiary students can engage in tours and workshops to deepen their understanding of contemporary art-making processes.

Spark_Lab is pleased to offer the following:

Free interactive tours of Hijacked III, suitable for all year levels. Teachers may request curriculum links for the tour, or ask to focus on a particular artist, technique or process.

WHERE: PICA Central and Westend Galleries, PICA Studios and PICA Screen Space
DURATION: 45 minutes
PRICE: K-12 tours free
BOOKINGS: Contact 9228 6316 Education Program Manager Tara Daniel, education@pica.org.au
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HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS
Practical workshops relating to the works of current exhibiting artists are available for primary and secondary school students either at PICA or at your school. These two-hour hands-on workshops make links with curriculum as well as the themes, materials and processes used by the artists.

Workshops at PICA or at your school:
We Australian:
Responding to Simon Roberts' We English series, students consider what it means to have an Australian identity.
Beautiful Creatures:
In response to Petrina Hicks' photographs, students work with contrasting textures and monochrome colour palettes to create their own images.
Fiction from Photos:
A creative writing workshop for students based on the characters they imagine inhabiting the works in Hijacked III.

Workshops at your school:
Digital photo editing tools
Develop skills in Photoshop, use Insight 3D to transform multiple photos into a 3D image, or create an old style 3D images from black and white photographs.

Cost: $10 per student for workshops at PICA or at your school.

BOOKINGS AND INFORMATION: Contact 9228 6316 Tara Daniel, Education Program Manager for more information.
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