AAEX (Art As Exchange) is five this year and to celebrate, a weekend of art events in St Helena Park, kicking off with Culture Night on Friday 17th September. It was the first chance for AAEX members to meet members of collaborators MOPOSOGS for the presentation of works from “Awash With Colour.” It was an evening of song, storytelling and visual art.
The rest of the weekend was a series of workshops and participatory art. I was involved in the World Map, pictured below. Members of the public were invited to place a peg on that part of the map – drawn on the ground – representing where they had ever travelled or lived and join up all their pegs with wool, making for a series of criss-cross lines and patterns emerging of the most popular places.
