M.O.N.
As part of Hydra Poesis’ 2009 activities we have initiated a new program entitled Masters Of Nothing or M.O.N.
M.O.N. is a process driven, applied research and producing arm to the company designed to invest time and energy into pure practice, our facilitation skills and interdisciplinary artmaking with a broad range of communities/stakeholders/citizens.
In 2009 M.O.N. has been providing mentor and creative producing services to DADAA WA and the Stepping Forward program, is producing a largescale community art project with young people in the City of Swan entitled The Wildstyle Store and is providing peer and critical review services to artist Paea Leach and to the Aphids national tactical media residency recipient.
Check out the Wildstyle Store video wall
and stay tuned for info on the M.O.N. workshop series: Finding Your Fight; conflict in and for performance, and for a full list of creative practice services.
More: Borrowing from the from the coloquial adage ‘a jack of all trades is a master of nothing’, M.O.N. explores the practice of exploration across artforms and ‘trades’. The program is principally inspired by the late Palestinian cultural critic, political activist and writer Edward Said’s commitment to applying his skills of comparative literature beyond what was strictly his area of profession, but was most definitely his concern - his politics and culture. Said encouraged the non-professional, the amateur, the wide ranging comparativist and developmed this into a practice of professional rigour.
M.O.N. embraces the politics of non-mastery, of collaboration and dialogue with the artists, communities, stakeholders we work with, of broad ownership, and - at a more playful conceptual level - the evocative nature of channeling anti-matter and the void.
M.O.N.’s 2009 program is supported by Community Arts Network WA and the Catalyst Innovate fund, the Department of Culture and the Arts and key partner DADAA inc.
