Held In Brunswick
The Seam will work in collaboration with Asha Bee Abraham on Held in Brunswick [working title], an art and community development project that highlights and addresses concerns around women and security. The project seeks to bring a diverse range of women from across Brunswick to dialogue together about women’s experiences of security, public space and the home and how these issues are interconnected.
Through this project, Brunswick women will hold conversations to explore these issues. We will hold a space for personal stories of (in)security and we will feel held by the community around us.
The stories and ideas will be used as fodder for a public art installation that at once highlights the issues raised and answers to at least one of the concerns. This will be unleashed in tandem with a public event to enable engagement with a wider audience.
Sir Dance-A-Lot
The Seam are working with Atalanti Films to create sets for the short film Sir Dance-A-Lot. Written and Directed by Lana Schwarcz, Sir Dance-A-Lot is the story of a knight in King Arthur’s times who tires of Saving Damsels in Distress, preferring to practice his two-step, in a dress. This is the story of “how our knight saved the day, using not his sword, but Classical Ballet”.
To be shot in May 2013, The Seam are enjoying the playful process of creating tactile collage sets amidst a collection of fabrics, cardboard, dye and watercolours.
Visit our blog for a glimpse of our process.
Rain - Experience
Rain
Art Play
February 2013
Rain is a collaboration between Drop Bear Theatre, The Seam and cellist Edwina Cordingley and has been created especially for babies and their carers.
Audiences are invited to experience the wonder and generosity of rain and explore together water’s elemental connection between parent and child. Carers and their littlest ones are immersed in an intimate, mindful installation space full of surprise, delight and opportunities for connection through sound, touch and performance.
The development of this project was generously supported by Artplay.
“I wish we could create a world like this for babies everywhere! What an intimate and bright experience…”
“The babies were all so mesmerised. I’ve never seen so many babies sitting so still!”
“What a beautiful, life-affirming, good for the soul experience.”
“What a peaceful, calming and engaging work! It gave me inspiration to take home for more play…”
“My daughter loved it! Carefully watching every move and listening to every sound.”
“A peaceful experience, intimate and adventurous at the same time…”
“I felt pure joy watching the look of wonder on the babies’ faces…”
“What a beautiful experience. The music, the sounds, the sights. My bub was engaged the whole time! Thank you”
Thanks to those who participated and shared their responses with us.
Rain - Installation
Rain
Art Play
February 2013
Rain is a collaboration between Drop Bear Theatre, The Seam and cellist Edwina Cordingley and has been created especially for babies and their carers.
Audiences are invited to experience the wonder and generosity of rain and explore together water’s elemental connection between parent and child. Carers and their littlest ones are immersed in an intimate, mindful installation space full of surprise, delight and opportunities for connection through sound, touch and performance.
The development of this project was generously supported by Artplay.
Straight Lines
Straight Lines Are So Good
Egg Gallery, Collingwood
31 August - 10 September 2012
A single mark is made, two points are connected, the line is noticed and shared with another. Resonance is felt, amplified, exclaimed and basked in. The straight lines feel so good! They are at once entirely unique and instinctively known.
Each day unfolds from seemingly insignificant moments. Straight Lines Are So Good explores The Seam’s relational art-making, the colours, forms and textures that emerge from being with these ordinary experiences. From one shared noticing, Straight Lines Are So Good saturates us in the felt-sense of things known yet sometimes unfamiliar.
Also, there were these moments…
Magic
Magic
House of Bricks
18 May - 22 May 2012
Magic is the space between the real and imagined, what you can’t see and what you can grasp. What you can unravel and what you can weave. The Seam inquires into this space, capturing the invisible and making it visible.
Together
To
Get
Her
Rooftop Art Space
20 February - 11 March 2012
Together is an exploration of lost worlds. It is a searching, a purposeful following of both fragile and resilient threads, a traversing through woven patterns of the hidden and the exposed.
The Installation recalls traditional ways of working and feminine ways of knowing. It embraces experiential processes of recreation and renewal, borrowing resonant objects of yesterday, and allowing new forms, textures, and relationships with both the synthetic and the natural alike.
The work of a unique collaborative art practice, Together reforms worlds of glass, rust, polyester and wire in a melding of shared stories, experiences and a steady searching of the natural world.
