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Ben is teaching a semester long elective called Crafticize at RMIT Industrial Design. We explore conceptual and experimental design, and achieve our ideas through craft and handmaking techniques.
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Fly! was a drop in workshop at ArtPlay as part of Little Big Shots 2010. Ben designed the set, costumes, props; and was a workshop leader.
Inspired by by Jan Von Holleben’s ’Dreams of Flying’ images, ArtPlay staff created a stop-motion animation of children ‘flying’ across magical landscapes using aerial photographs transformed with animation.
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The Play Team is a workshop for adults on creative play. Three sessions will be held in September 2010 – see the website for details
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holiday
June 12th, 2009 | Featured, Photography, Theatre
Ben produced, designed the set, costume, graphics, website; and took photos for Leah Landau‘s original contemporary dance piece about a family’s murderous impulse while on holiday. Check out the production website here!
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Bio-Accessories
May 25th, 2009 | Exhibition, Featured, Objects/Product
Bio-accessories is a series of wearable couture pieces which mask the unpleasant sights, sounds and scents of the city. They will be exhibited at the City Library as part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed, in August, 2009. (with Brittany Veitch)
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Bald Bowls
May 3rd, 2009 | Featured, Objects/Product, Projects
Bald Bowls is an interactive process where bald men cast each other’s heads in plaster, then slip cast them to create bowls in the shape of their bald domes. The event grew from the therapeutic sessions of bald support groups and includes art therapy theories. By creating something together, bald men can connect with each other through a unique process, and have an artifact to show for it in the end, which represents their acceptance of balding.
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Privacy Screen
June 21st, 2009 | Featured, Objects/Product, Projects
Privacy Screen was the final outcome of a semester looking how Human Computer Interaction can assist to communicate in public space.
The screen was a working prototype. The person using it stands at the centre and types a private message, which is then stored in a database for later recall and display. The screen represents a barrier between public and private space, and is suggestive of a stage for public/private performance.
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A Little Piece is an immersive puppetry performance which was developed for Fringe 2009 with Tipsy Teacup. An audience of 4 enter a small room with cupboards set in the walls, windows into another world, to experience the story of a toy hedgehog called Harry.
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Paper Jam – Animateur
May 3rd, 2009 | Featured, Photography, Theatre
Paper Jam was the performance outcome from an elective subject in Puppetry. It was performed at MUDFEST (Melbourne University Diversity Festival) and won an award to be staged at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.