Live Art with Lisa Cheung
March 2009
March 2009
Lisa Cheung’s practice is concerned with creating communal spaces where interaction and exchange can take place. Taking inspiration from everyday activities or hobbies, she relocates these activities into public spaces such as parking lots, gardens or public parks.
Drawing on themes such as order, colour and wonder touched upon in the Ulla Van Brandenberg exhibition, Cheung worked with Year Five Pupils from Osmani Primary School to create a mini vegetable patch in their school playground.
Arranged by colour, they planted an assortment of vegetables, herbs and seeds brought from home by the students. Vegetables and plants included; lettuces, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, and rocket, rosemary, lemon thyme and oregano. The students also planted a mystery box of seeds that came from the remains of fruit, the back of spice cupboards and mothers’ donations.
Once Lisa Cheung’s one-week residency had finished the students managed to upkeep the garden until summer time when they welcomed Lisa back and enjoyed a picnic made from their plants, which they shared with the rest of the school.
Drawing on themes such as order, colour and wonder touched upon in the Ulla Van Brandenberg exhibition, Cheung worked with Year Five Pupils from Osmani Primary School to create a mini vegetable patch in their school playground.
Arranged by colour, they planted an assortment of vegetables, herbs and seeds brought from home by the students. Vegetables and plants included; lettuces, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, and rocket, rosemary, lemon thyme and oregano. The students also planted a mystery box of seeds that came from the remains of fruit, the back of spice cupboards and mothers’ donations.
Once Lisa Cheung’s one-week residency had finished the students managed to upkeep the garden until summer time when they welcomed Lisa back and enjoyed a picnic made from their plants, which they shared with the rest of the school.