Blow me a KISS
The AIR KISS community art project is back. This is where everyone gets to be part of making the art. This year it is called Blow me a KISS and we will explore an artistic conversation around offshore wind farms.
The Unity Project
The Unity Project is returning to KISS in 2024 under the fabulous guidance of local artists Penny Sudabin and Tim Rushby Smith.
Not only does Unity create a stunning woolen canopy, but it allows the community to explore difficult, controversial or sensitive conversations in a calm and creative way.
Unity offers 32 statements and the public can choose the ones they resonate with by wrapping a string of wool around the pole with that statement.
As the project progresses a colorful woolen canopy is created that is a visual survey of the community's perspective. No words are needed, just a gentle action of participation to share your thoughts.
At the end of the weekend the canopy’s configuration will tell us a story about the people who participated and what they wanted to share about the subject.
This year we are going to research how people feel about the offshore wind farms.
The pinwheel wind mill farm
As a compliment to the Unity project conversation, we will create a pinwheel windmill farm on the hillside of black beach reserve.
Participants will be able to make and decorate a windmill to blow in the breeze.
Make a big one, a small one.
Decorate it with a picture of what you are thinking.
Colour it to tell a mood story or write some words to share your experience of KISS, Unity or anything you feel like saying.
Step back and watch your crafty work blow elegantly in the wind.
Thanks To The Artists
Penny Sadubin and Tim Rushby-Smith are local artists, educators and facilitators of creative fun. We believe art should be accessible to all and as such always work to provide opportunities to bring out the inner artist in all that come to the Festival. We both have our own arts practice.
Penny is an artist-educator at the Bundanon Trust and works in local Secondary schools, her artistic practice can be seen at pennysadubin.com. Penny's art practice explores our human connections to nature and our interactions with the landscapes around us. Tim is an artist, writer, and disability advocate. As a wheelchair user, he facilitates courses in skills for independence for people living with a spinal cord injury. Penny and Tim look forward to running workshops for young people interested to be involved in creating the maze in the lead-up to the Festival, as well as co-creating with the community in April.
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