'Your Message...'
Whitechapel Gallery
Tuesday 27 & Wednesday 28 October 2009
11am - 4pm Creative Studio
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/education/families-and-children
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mobile peace poppy planting |
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mobilography i |
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mobilography ii |
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mobilography_iii_-_balloon_launch |
Tracey Moberly is working with children aged between 6-10 years at The Whitechapel Gallery on a floating exhibition of several hundred balloons. The project is split into two sections, part anti-war protest with red peace poppy seed mobile planting and part mobilography. Using mobilography the children have embraced the mobile phone photo culture and produced amazing photographic results from inside the gallery to be released on London and beyond. The unlikely exhibition will consist of a random audience from where the balloons land. The poppy seeds come with planting instructions, however when falling on wasteland they will self sow. With Armistice Day approaching and the current world in war situation it is a tribute to the armed forces past and present. The tagged balloons with the children's names on the back read:
>### YOUR MESSAGE ### THE PEACE POPPY A MOBILE PLANTING Please unpick these seeds And sew them where they fall >>> YOUR REPLY >>> please text us location planted 07951608787 or write to TRACEY MOBERLY c/o The Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St London e1 7qx
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umbrella poetry protest i |
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umbrella poetry protest ii |
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umbrella poetry protest iii |
Tracey is working with the young artists on getting yourself heard by quiet protest or simple statement the children are using umbrellas to quietly express their sentiments in the autumnal months. They will be producing retrospective poetry and words upbeat & challenging on what they like and have to say.