| FLY: a kite-making workshop to explore the shapes and sounds of insect futures |

About the workshop: 

Learn to make a singing kite and maybe communicate with local insects and butterflies.

Findings about insect wing patterning, flight, and behavior can suggest new approaches on how we cohabitate with insects and can apply to a creative kite making process – experimenting with pattern, shapes, movement and sound.

This workshop is an open discussion through direct insect observation, conversation, and three-dimensional hands-on kite making, on xenobiotic and environmental changes that are affecting and changing insect behaviours and biology, and how we can respond to those changes.

About the Artist:  

Eleanor Qull [Alias Eleanor Tullock, Delano Roosevelt]

Maker, sound artist, and Australian exile based in California and the western states.

After graduating with a Master of Architecture in Design, Eleanor has put formal design training under scrutiny and intense stretching - to experiment with free-form creative practice in experimental audio, sculpture, writing and theoretical inventions. This has included large scale projects such as ‘Flog’ (an architecture magazine), the Graham Foundation supported ‘Never Discuss Politics at Home’ (an attempt to make architecture TV) and a daily practice of making objects both small (dueling gloves, horns, instruments) and large (a 40 ft X 28 ft hand painted kabuki drop curtain, ‘The Mountain’ for a performance in the Festival of New Works, Red Cat Theatre 2021).

She moved to the Western states to explore the complex intersections between the landscape, the built world, ecology, and diverse, and sometimes secret, communities.

Register Now: https://form.jotform.com/251475301226146
Questions? Email program@openairmt.org