Installation with Ms. Mia

Our G5 students have just had a great experience learning all about 'installation art.'

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

Mia Jordanwood came and spoke to our students about her work in this field. She explained how she has created many forms of art in many countries over the world with a particular message attached to the art form.

Students were then put in groups, given an issue and had to find a space in the school to create an installation.

Here are some examples of what they did:

• Empty food containers in the eating area with statistics to show HUNGER.
• GENDER: Pictures placed on a soccer ball to show how girls struggle to have access to playing the game.
• GENDER: Closing the toilets and sinks to girls.
• EDUCATION: Using the G5 classrooms: One room shows a classroom with access to education with plenty of resources and ample funding, whilst the other shows a classroom with very minimal resources because of lack of funding. 
• DEFORESTATION: This group created an axe and placed in the school garden to chop down the bamboo.
• ANIMAL RIGHTS: This group placed a bottle of medicine in the nurses office made from an animal. 
• HUNGER: Created a tray with no food and a message and placed it in the snack area.

...and now the pictures.

                                                                           Ms. Mia

The classroom with resources 

                          This classroom had many resources and was light with suitable temperature

                                      This classroom was dark and cold representing countries                                                                                without power or money to supply adequate resources.

                                          Ms. Mia working with one hunger group

                                                    This group blocked off the girls toilet

                                    A stark contrast between our snack shop and what happens elsewhere

                               This represents boys playing football whilst girls sit on the side.

                 This represented a soccer ball showing that children should be playing and not working.

                                         This bottle represents medicine made from animals.

                                       This is the hunger groups with statistics for the shortage of food.