Showing posts with label Crooked Rib. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crooked Rib. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Working at Spark Lane
Applying an H2O pattern
Humeyra, Lauren, Hosna, Pesuri and Sumaya on the scaffolding
Lamees and Humeyra spraypainting on the top level
Faza, Mohammed and Lauren stencilling a pattern to the top of the artwork
Crooked Rib and Aerosol Arabic in the News
'Arab Graffiti' on the ABC's Australia Network Newshour with Jim Middleton
'Artist sprays far from home to help share the prophet' in the Melbourne Age
'Artist draws on first impressions' in the Leader
'Imported Street artist cops a spray' in the Herald Sun
'Artist sprays far from home to help share the prophet' in the Melbourne Age
'Artist draws on first impressions' in the Leader
'Imported Street artist cops a spray' in the Herald Sun
'Doodling Downunder' on BBC Birmingham
Monday, October 6, 2008
Skyping with Mohammed Ali
The hub they meet
Crooked Rib take a seat
With just one click
Really, that quick?
We connect to Mohammed
All the way from the UK
To discuss our upcoming wall
One which will take many days.
Many ideas
We had to discuss
From layout to messages
...All that artistic fuss.
Basics were established
Alot more to think through
One thing for certain
A message that you can relate to.
The only thing certain,
A message that you can relate to.
Crooked Rib take a seat
With just one click
Really, that quick?
We connect to Mohammed
All the way from the UK
To discuss our upcoming wall
One which will take many days.
Many ideas
We had to discuss
From layout to messages
...All that artistic fuss.
Basics were established
Alot more to think through
One thing for certain
A message that you can relate to.
The only thing certain,
A message that you can relate to.
Photo taken by Lauren Thomas
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Some bright spark went and found us a wall
Spark Lane, off Flinders Street (in between Exhibition and Spring Streets).
Walk up Spark Lane and turn right to see where we'll be working with Aerosol Arabic in October.
Walk up Spark Lane and turn right to see where we'll be working with Aerosol Arabic in October.
Now we've just got to find some scaffolding!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Crooked Rib & Aerosol Arabic in the Melbourne International Arts Festival Program
Mohammed Ali (Aerosol Arabic)
There’s lots of exciting news to report on behalf of the Crooked Rib crew who have been busy preparing for the exhibition in October.
Our first piece of news is that Crooked Rib is part of the program for this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival. It is a great privilege for us to be a part of the festival and we are very excited! You can download and view the program on the festival’s website.
If you take a look at the program, you’ll also notice that we have a very special guest coming in October, UK street artist Mohammed Ali, otherwise known as Aerosol Arabic. Mohammed will be residing in Melbourne for three weeks to work with Crooked Rib on a street art mural in the Melbourne CBD. This is sure to be an amazing collaboration.
The last piece of news is that Crooked Rib artist Sara Elagha’s excellent (and funny) short film ‘The Interview’ screened at ACMI as part of the Multicultural Arts Victoria project Stories of an African Australia. If you didn’t get a chance to see the film at ACMI, don’t worry as it will also feature in the Crooked Rib exhibition.
Our first piece of news is that Crooked Rib is part of the program for this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival. It is a great privilege for us to be a part of the festival and we are very excited! You can download and view the program on the festival’s website.
If you take a look at the program, you’ll also notice that we have a very special guest coming in October, UK street artist Mohammed Ali, otherwise known as Aerosol Arabic. Mohammed will be residing in Melbourne for three weeks to work with Crooked Rib on a street art mural in the Melbourne CBD. This is sure to be an amazing collaboration.
The last piece of news is that Crooked Rib artist Sara Elagha’s excellent (and funny) short film ‘The Interview’ screened at ACMI as part of the Multicultural Arts Victoria project Stories of an African Australia. If you didn’t get a chance to see the film at ACMI, don’t worry as it will also feature in the Crooked Rib exhibition.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
What's with the Crooked Rib?
It’s simple. ‘Crooked’ is a description. A feature. A form.
No.
It’s NOT a defect of creation.
It’s NOT an insult to thinking.
It’s NOT another word for ‘dodgy’.
It’s only a matter of design.
A required design for functioning inside the body.
A required design for protecting a most important organ inside the body… the heart.
A Prophetic tradition in the Muslim faith mentions:
‘Women are created from the rib, which is naturally crooked, and its crookedness is more at the top; if you try to straighten it by force it will break; if you leave it, it will stay as it is. So accept my advice and treat your wives with kindness.’
Contrary to popular belief, ‘crooked’ is just another one of the many ways to simply articulate on a woman’s complexities and expansions of unique personality and temperament. A detail that is by no means regarded in Islam as a way to inferior a woman’s status or thinking to man’s, but rather to explain a normal trait functioning for humanity.
Basically, this tradition is every man’s guide to dealing with women in a just manner without imposing his thinking, or attempting to re-mould her in a manner harsh enough to break her spirit and wounding her heart.
Simply put, it’s how not to try reforming a rib to the degree of breaking it.
We, the women of this project, chose this name for a number of reasons.
Firstly to express our pride in how we were created to function with the other, in unison, whether it be gender, faith, race or else, for a great humanity.
Secondly to use a generic term to join other’s perceptions with ours as a protective function to maintain harmony and reconciliation for our societies.
Finally to express the flaws in the misinterpretations of our faith made by those claiming to hear our case, yet unwilling to hear our voice.
So please…
Crooked, is beautiful.
Crooked, is natural.
Crooked, protects.
Crooked, functions for humanity’s sake.
We are proudly…Crooked Rib.
No.
It’s NOT a defect of creation.
It’s NOT an insult to thinking.
It’s NOT another word for ‘dodgy’.
It’s only a matter of design.
A required design for functioning inside the body.
A required design for protecting a most important organ inside the body… the heart.
A Prophetic tradition in the Muslim faith mentions:
‘Women are created from the rib, which is naturally crooked, and its crookedness is more at the top; if you try to straighten it by force it will break; if you leave it, it will stay as it is. So accept my advice and treat your wives with kindness.’
Contrary to popular belief, ‘crooked’ is just another one of the many ways to simply articulate on a woman’s complexities and expansions of unique personality and temperament. A detail that is by no means regarded in Islam as a way to inferior a woman’s status or thinking to man’s, but rather to explain a normal trait functioning for humanity.
Basically, this tradition is every man’s guide to dealing with women in a just manner without imposing his thinking, or attempting to re-mould her in a manner harsh enough to break her spirit and wounding her heart.
Simply put, it’s how not to try reforming a rib to the degree of breaking it.
We, the women of this project, chose this name for a number of reasons.
Firstly to express our pride in how we were created to function with the other, in unison, whether it be gender, faith, race or else, for a great humanity.
Secondly to use a generic term to join other’s perceptions with ours as a protective function to maintain harmony and reconciliation for our societies.
Finally to express the flaws in the misinterpretations of our faith made by those claiming to hear our case, yet unwilling to hear our voice.
So please…
Crooked, is beautiful.
Crooked, is natural.
Crooked, protects.
Crooked, functions for humanity’s sake.
We are proudly…Crooked Rib.
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