Our No Boundaries team (Cindi Drennan, Brendan O’Connell, Daniel Kojta and David Capra) met last week to plan how we would work together on a common goal for a few days in November, as a pilot project of No Boundaries (a long term project to explore and support disability services of Western Sydney through an artistic process that engages with individual people from many walks of life).
For our pilot project we have decided to create multimedia portraits of unique people who live in Penrith and the Western Sydney region.
The process will involve making multimedia portraits about a number of individual people, who live in or are connected to the area (as a first criteria) and who are hidden from public view (as a second criteria).
A multimedia portrait uses a combination of many audio and visual elements, to represent a person. We expect to collect and combine photos, sounds, music, video, things that represent a slice of life from a unique person’s point of view.
These portraits will aim to reveal people who are often hidden from public view. It may be that they are unable to interact in typical everyday activities, or perhaps not normally able to access public spaces or conversations, or simply that they have a unique life that other people may learn from knowing about.
Our portraits will allow us and the viewers to be with them to experience life from their perspective. The portraits although short, are intended to reflect aspects of their unique insights, challenges, successes, joys, suffering, and perspective and celebrate that each life is unique.
Making the portrait will involve: meeting the person, collecting some words and images from them, or about them; and then this will be edited into a 30 second to 2 minute multimedia portrait that may be played on a website, seen on DVD or projected in a public place.
If you would like to nominate someone to have a multimedia portrait reveal the uniqueness of their life, please contact us.
You may also wish to create a multimedia portrait about yourself, or of someone else, if you think it fits the criteria then we would encourage you to do so and will be able to suggest ways to get some technical support if you need it, and would love to showcase it when you make it.