Lean Too

So whats been leaning lately?

Well have been talking about global community and climate refugees and stencil art…. how will this come together you ask! well it seems we have a few partakers from around the world and through an artist urban means will start a conversation about the nature of the natives… and the climate, who gets affected first and what this actually means. And lets throw this around and put it back on our walls.

So how do you start a conversation about climate with those who have no voice? How do you make it interesting ….not patronising… and learn from it whilst making a really fucking interesting beautiful artpiece.

We are about to… try at least.

Step 1: connect worldwide. 2 – find platforms, spaces and inspiration. 3 – meet some amazing people.. and get to it!

a creative plan is a hatching…

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Hi Team!

Our new work, ‘Fluid Taxonomies’ is a large scale light installation for State of Design Festival. www.stateofdesign.com.au

A smile, eye contact, affection, communication, interaction, technology and connection are the starting point for our piece, to reveal patterns and inspire discussion of design, community and connection in the city. Please find attached the full brief.

To be installed in the top level of the GPO in a beautiful space from the 24th – 30th July as part of the Design Festival Hub.
We will be holding an event opening on Tuesday 26th July so please save the date, invites and details to come. This project is a community project, we will be weaving together the materials in a workshop scenario in mid July (please let us know if you would like to be involved in this).

This is also a crowd funded project, we do not get grants or subsidies and do not have a financial backer.
Check out our Project page: http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/1094/description/0/7412

Crowd funding is an innovative new model of funding creative projects from the ground up (see http://www.theage.com.au/technology/ideas-anyone-anyone-20110618-1g958.html) . We are looking to raise funds for the fabrication and catalogue. Every little bit counts and only if the project reaches it’s targeted financial goal is the money taken out of your account. There are rewards (checkout the page) and we are open to other ways of people getting buy in – so if you have any suggestions please let us know.

If you could help us by forwarding this information onto your friends and colleagues to help spread the word, it would be most appreciated! Every dollar helps!

Thank you! And we look forward to seeing you at the opening!

Let me know if you would like any more details or to provide any ideas, comments, to discuss or want to get involved in the project.

Philippa Abbott & Simone Bliss
{Lean Too}

A bit more about the project:
This installation is comprised of three pieces. Each piece explore social patterns in a specific physical zone – Curtin House Rooftop, Melbourne Central Station and an indigeneous family living on native title land in the Central Desert. Each form is derived according to the mapping data and what this means for our sense of each other and community. We will be using LED rope lighting and traditional weaving techniques to create the pieces at a human scale. You will be able to walk through, around and contemplate with pieces ranging from 1.5m to 5x2m.

Fluid Taxonomies: Art installation using light by Philippa Abbott & Simone Bliss on Pozible.

Lean too is back. Social innovation, creative communities and ecologically minded stuff.

With a difference. lean too is now the official collaboration of Philippa Abbott and Simone Bliss. For all things interesting, artsome, grounded and well minded.

We start this journey with the documentation of our new work, ‘Fluid Taxonomies’, an installation that explores social fabric, place and intimacy.

Keep in touch…

Simone & Philippa