Kids' APT - A collaboration

ARTIST WORKSHOPS Crafty characters with Minam Apang For this activity, APT6 artist Minam Apang selected words and characters from different scripts and written languages from countries across the Asia Pacific region. These included Mandarin (Chinese), Devanagari (Hindi), Hangul (Korean), Khmer (Cambodian), Nasta’l q (Persian/Farsi) and Latin/Roman (English). The artist invited young visitors to look at the shapes made by these different characters and imagine how they might be transformed into a mythological creature using colourful plasticine, feathers and beads — taking the written word off the page and into another dimension. Connecting flight with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan invited children and families to work together to make a large-scale collaborative aeroplane from many smaller planes, using only the material of wooden paddle-pop sticks. As the workshop progressed and more participants added their completed planes to the construction, an aeroplane began to emerge from the lawn of the Upper Sculpture Courtyard of the Queensland Art Gallery. Minam Apang works with a young visitor as part of her Kids’ APT Summer Spectacular workshop / Photograph: Katie Bennett Kids’ APT Summer Spectacular was a very successful one in the sense that kid and adult alike had the opportunity to experience a participatory work, an art work that grows with the contribution of everybody. Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan 58