Islands Of Safety
2024I was invited by tutor Whiskey Chow to lead a 3 hour creative workshop for a group of 15 students from MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. This was part of the annual Festus programme for MA Sculpture and part of Whiskey’s unit, NESTING: (MIS)PLACEMENT, (DIS)EMBODIMENT, (RE)NEGOTIATION, (RE)IMAGINATION, AND (RE)DIRECTION.
My workshop titled ‘Islands Of Safety’, included activities that bring connection amongst students borrowing from mental health frameworks, ‘Migration of Identity’, and creating zones of connection to help aid transformation.
This included an icebreaker string and dialogue web, an introduction to the work of the Vietnamese Mental Health Services (and demonstration of how to make Vietnamese lemonade-Recipes of Life), and a Body Mapping Drawing excercise.
These approaches continue my exploration of the Vietnamese Mental Health Services, and ways in which methodologies around ‘well-being’ and culturally sensitive approaches can be used in psychoeducational frameworks to explore how to support artists as people, and as individuals, from the perspective of displacement, migration and diaspora.
