Next week your Rubbish project representatives are off to Beijing!
Seckon has been invited to join the Dialogue on arts, culture and climate change next week in Beijing. This dialogue is part of an effort to bring artists and cultural workers from the Asia-Europe Meeting countries together with scientists for discussions on issues of climate change and sustainibility. It promises to be a very interesting time.
He is looking forward to networking with other artists, hearing what other people atre doign in terms of a response to the environmental catastrophes that we all share in making and bearing, and he will also share about what we have been up to - most recently the Naga earlier this year.
This is a project of the Asia-Europe Foundation.
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Links to more stories about the naga installation
May Titthara has put up his story about the naga with a page of photos
Expat Advisory Services has this piece about World Water Day in addition to their original article about the Naga.
Fuschia Boy who lives in Siem Reap blogged us with a few photos we haven't seen - thanks Fuschia Boy!
The FCCC had us in The Wires, their monthly online newsy-letter....
...aaand KI Media have the Cambodge Soir story here in english
and thankyou to Venerable Hiek Sopheap of the Association of Buddhists for the Environment for coming to Siem Reap especially to help us celebrate the naga, making a great speech, and for this story
This lovely visitor to Siem Reap has blogged us, as she happened to be in town for the night of our Naga party at the FCC, as did this person.
Expat Advisory Services has this piece about World Water Day in addition to their original article about the Naga.
Fuschia Boy who lives in Siem Reap blogged us with a few photos we haven't seen - thanks Fuschia Boy!
The FCCC had us in The Wires, their monthly online newsy-letter....
...aaand KI Media have the Cambodge Soir story here in english
and thankyou to Venerable Hiek Sopheap of the Association of Buddhists for the Environment for coming to Siem Reap especially to help us celebrate the naga, making a great speech, and for this story
This lovely visitor to Siem Reap has blogged us, as she happened to be in town for the night of our Naga party at the FCC, as did this person.
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
These beautiful photos were taken by Seckon when he was back in Siem Reap to dismantle the Naga.Friday, 4 April 2008
with thanks to our photographer... Lina
Hi everyone,
Please look at Lim Sokchanlina's photos on his flickr account
Lina, you took so many gorgeous and interesting shots which i *love* .. and all in the midst of mayhem! I am really taken with some of the compositions you thought of, and what you noticed.
Lina was a student of Stephane Janin, who I think you will agree is INSPIRED
Thankyou Lina for volunteering, and for helping us with so many things - not just with photos - but your photos are really lovely and we are saying *thankyou* so much for that...
And we wish you every success for the future with your work, Lina.
Please look at Lim Sokchanlina's photos on his flickr account
Lina, you took so many gorgeous and interesting shots which i *love* .. and all in the midst of mayhem! I am really taken with some of the compositions you thought of, and what you noticed.
Lina was a student of Stephane Janin, who I think you will agree is INSPIRED
Thankyou Lina for volunteering, and for helping us with so many things - not just with photos - but your photos are really lovely and we are saying *thankyou* so much for that...
And we wish you every success for the future with your work, Lina.
Thursday, 27 March 2008
The Naga Installation on the Siem Reap River, for World Water Day
This beautiful installation by The Rubbish Project, although completed by a worthy team of committed and energetic volunteers would not have occurred at all without artist
Leang Seckon.
Seckon, your energy, creativity, drive and artistic integrity cause me to admire you more and more the longer I know you. You are Simply Fabulous!
Who would have thought it possible to complete this beauty in 8 short days?
225m long
1.3m diameter...
about 40 lengths of nylon all the way along her
We lost track - but in the vicinity of
300 000 staples
more than 100 000 pieces of handcut plastic
around 10 kilometres of nylon
150 kg of recycled plastic
more than 600 lights
and certainly a lot of hours of working together!!!
This is the first time to our knowledge such an installation has been constructed in Cambodia or by a Cambodian artist. And we think the timeframe it was achieved in (8 days and a few more for installation and lighting) makes this Naga a symbol of the pure goodness that occurs when grassroots volunteerism meets the arts and the concern we all share about the environment.
Let's love our water, people, and use less plastic and dispose of it more carefully!
Leang Seckon.
Seckon, your energy, creativity, drive and artistic integrity cause me to admire you more and more the longer I know you. You are Simply Fabulous!
Who would have thought it possible to complete this beauty in 8 short days?
225m long
1.3m diameter...
about 40 lengths of nylon all the way along her
We lost track - but in the vicinity of
300 000 staples
more than 100 000 pieces of handcut plastic
around 10 kilometres of nylon
150 kg of recycled plastic
more than 600 lights
and certainly a lot of hours of working together!!!
This is the first time to our knowledge such an installation has been constructed in Cambodia or by a Cambodian artist. And we think the timeframe it was achieved in (8 days and a few more for installation and lighting) makes this Naga a symbol of the pure goodness that occurs when grassroots volunteerism meets the arts and the concern we all share about the environment.
Let's love our water, people, and use less plastic and dispose of it more carefully!
Saturday morning
We are so Burberry! The bag.. the undies.. the shirt and one other person had the satin necktie..
flags looking beautiful as everyone knew they would!more preparations
who is that gorgeous girl with the piglet curls?
work it - strut it- work it-
so fabulous, even just in the practice!
just chilling - a very hot morningSaturday morning preparations
Everyone agreed the dance performances were electrifying and world class - problem is we all were busy and have no photos of their actual performance - any kind souls who were there and would like to email to me pls do so... floddy at gmail
Madame Dy Saveth - the brains behind the model training choreography and training.
Christi Abby and jessi - just gorgeous! You all were stars on the night
Sata, Belle, and her mother. Where do you all come from - so talented, so beautiful, so purehearted.. you must have dropped straight from heaven!Friday, 21 March 2008
Tomorrow is World Water Day: Reflections
.. and the Naga is almost ready.
Last night felt bitter sweet as we realised it was the last chance to take photos of her without her lights. The beauty of the structure I have found powerfully affecting as she unexpectedly takes on different light, and shadow. In pieces under Darryl's house she was beautiful, but bursting onto the Siem Reap River, bursting from the plastic which lies hidden beneath so many waterways, she has a new power.
The reflection the greened Siem Reap River affords was unexpected. Perhaps the deepest pleasure comes watching everyone coming down the street do a double take, stop to look, ask, take photos, show their grandchildren. Woohoo!!! Cambodian people are getting the link from the powerful traditional icon which the naga is, to the current environmental crises in Cambodia. Seckon's brilliant allusions are easily understood. A naga has appeared covered in plastic to point to us caring more for our environment. Somehow, surely together in true Cambodian style, communities can coalesce - first discussing then changing the way we are living on this beautiful land that is Srok Khmae.
This is my first experience of the life that an artwork of this size possesses... resonating the energies hundreds of people who helped birth her. There is a powerful parallel between the collective focussed work that produced this object, and how we need to really look at and address environmental issues.
Anyway, pls click for more on World Water Day and our page
Last night felt bitter sweet as we realised it was the last chance to take photos of her without her lights. The beauty of the structure I have found powerfully affecting as she unexpectedly takes on different light, and shadow. In pieces under Darryl's house she was beautiful, but bursting onto the Siem Reap River, bursting from the plastic which lies hidden beneath so many waterways, she has a new power.
The reflection the greened Siem Reap River affords was unexpected. Perhaps the deepest pleasure comes watching everyone coming down the street do a double take, stop to look, ask, take photos, show their grandchildren. Woohoo!!! Cambodian people are getting the link from the powerful traditional icon which the naga is, to the current environmental crises in Cambodia. Seckon's brilliant allusions are easily understood. A naga has appeared covered in plastic to point to us caring more for our environment. Somehow, surely together in true Cambodian style, communities can coalesce - first discussing then changing the way we are living on this beautiful land that is Srok Khmae.
This is my first experience of the life that an artwork of this size possesses... resonating the energies hundreds of people who helped birth her. There is a powerful parallel between the collective focussed work that produced this object, and how we need to really look at and address environmental issues.
Anyway, pls click for more on World Water Day and our page
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Flags up at the FCC Angkor
All laid out on the lawn
A man up a tree. 
Two men at the bottom of the tree holding the ladder
Seckon and the fish
With the completion of the structure of the naga our attention has turned to the festivities this Saturday night at the FCC Angkor. This evening as the sun set behind this beautiful building, the flags were raised on a cable between two trees
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