The Rubbish Project

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The very lovely Theary Seng

Traditional outfit with not so trad details (can detailing!!)

Betsy - gorgeous!!

artsis Tith Veasna

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Nita I couldnt believe your funky attitude and walk!

oh yeah for the blue spray paint and Sata's last minute pattern cutting skills

Beautiful Cheath

Ladies and Gents I give you the Bride and Groom!

Mi-o the fisherman

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The whole gorgeous gang of Rubbish Project models right before going onstage..

Betsy and Nath

I have been saving teabag labels for ages, they are so beautiful!

the creatiuve genius behind the choreography -
Leang Seckon and Madame Dy Saveth

Practise makes puuurfect

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this is Jean-Philippe. He wasn't exactly modelling, although it is obvious he can strike a pose! He was in control of everything sound-y and electrical-like.

The large stage in fromt of Bob Passion's BHOR art centre. In the afternoon we were treated to an actor-led tour of the installation. And Bob kindly asked your Rubbish Proj peeps to provide stuffs for one room. Seckon put two large collages, which included a lot of recycled materials, and we put some lamps from the workshop 18months ago, and some fashion outfits. wahoo!

Our partners

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We are very thankful to

Eric of Scan Hotel

our very good friend Sharon Wilkinson

Rithy Panh, celebrated movie director and founder of the Bophana Centre

and last but definitely not least to Theary Seng, Executive Director of
The Center for Social Development
CSD are our major sponsor for this trip to the beach, and we would like to take this opportunity to say many thanks to you, Theary, for your enthusiastic support of The Rubbish project. It was also so wonderful to have you with us modelling in the show!!

Going down to Sihanoukville on the bus

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The very famous halfway point to the beach is on a bluff where people stop to give offerings

owwww we're all so *gorgeous*!! A bus full of models and superstars and... others! And yes that is a picture of a monkey and a puppy playing!

preparing for Sihanoukville

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yar we actually just got really silly

We weren't sure of too much, only that we were working on getting enough sponsorship to get us down to the beach on a bus!! And, that once there we could WORK that trash on the stage!

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in preparation for the beach we had a meeting, tried on our HANDBAGS...

checked out our costumes from last year, loved them a little...
hugged Sharon Wilkinson, who gave us a donation to help us get to the beach...

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and now we have another thing to do

we will be fabulous and a la mode and in vogue

we are going to the beach

in two weeks

...breathing...breathing...

to join Bob Passion and the bHOR art centre

in their great art project for environment education which is 22-29 November ...

we will be fashion and fashionable.. and covered in TRASH... AGAIN!!

exciting

and so we had a meeting... last night.. and it poured but that was fine

next post photos of the meeting

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these images are from the CAFA students who spent three months thinking about sustainibility and climate change, and this exhibition was the result.
This image of the Mona Lisa was in fact a video, moving image with an actress - an interpretation of what would happen with climate change. fairly soon she was sitting in the rain, shivering and shivering. So cool!

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The Beijing Flower of Sustainibility, in plastik fantastik!

This isn't such a great shot of what was a really nice part of the results of the residency .. one could take a button and there were some blank ones that we could write on. I wrote "kia kaha" on one, and took one that I cannot read! But it looks fabulous!!

This installation was about possibilities of reducing climate change and global warming, by Indonesian artsist Andreas Siagian.

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from Bulgarian artist Petko Dourmana

The Dialogue on Arts and Climate Change was a very creative meeting of like minded souls - even though we were artists, architects, designers, performing artists, scientists and environmentalists.

The first day of meetings took place at CAFA- The Chinese Academy of Fine Art.. it was so amazing to be there, on a very beautiful autumn day. Worthy of special note was their extremely well-stocked art supplies shop! We brought a lot of guff back here with us.

The image above is the Beijing Flower of Sustainibility, the gorgeous result of the residency of German artist Insa Winkler and Danish philosopher Oleg Koeford with the students at CAFA.

To Beijing

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Next week your Rubbish project representatives are off to Beijing!

Seckon has been invited to join the Dialogue on arts, culture and climate change next week in Beijing. This dialogue is part of an effort to bring artists and cultural workers from the Asia-Europe Meeting countries together with scientists for discussions on issues of climate change and sustainibility. It promises to be a very interesting time.

He is looking forward to networking with other artists, hearing what other people atre doign in terms of a response to the environmental catastrophes that we all share in making and bearing, and he will also share about what we have been up to - most recently the Naga earlier this year.

This is a project of the Asia-Europe Foundation.

Links to more stories about the naga installation

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May Titthara has put up his story about the naga with a page of photos

Expat Advisory Services has this piece about World Water Day in addition to their original article about the Naga.

Fuschia Boy who lives in Siem Reap blogged us with a few photos we haven't seen - thanks Fuschia Boy!

The FCCC had us in The Wires, their monthly online newsy-letter....

...aaand KI Media have the Cambodge Soir story here in english

and thankyou to Venerable Hiek Sopheap of the Association of Buddhists for the Environment for coming to Siem Reap especially to help us celebrate the naga, making a great speech, and for this story

This lovely visitor to Siem Reap has blogged us, as she happened to be in town for the night of our Naga party at the FCC, as did this person.

incredible interpretation of Naga Girl story

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the Naga being dismantled

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Some beautiful naga shots

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These beautiful photos were taken by Seckon when he was back in Siem Reap to dismantle the Naga.

with thanks to our photographer... Lina

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Hi everyone,

Please look at Lim Sokchanlina's photos on his flickr account

Lina, you took so many gorgeous and interesting shots which i *love* .. and all in the midst of mayhem! I am really taken with some of the compositions you thought of, and what you noticed.

Lina was a student of Stephane Janin, who I think you will agree is INSPIRED

Thankyou Lina for volunteering, and for helping us with so many things - not just with photos - but your photos are really lovely and we are saying *thankyou* so much for that...

And we wish you every success for the future with your work, Lina.

The Naga Installation on the Siem Reap River, for World Water Day

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This beautiful installation by The Rubbish Project, although completed by a worthy team of committed and energetic volunteers would not have occurred at all without artist
Leang Seckon.

Seckon, your energy, creativity, drive and artistic integrity cause me to admire you more and more the longer I know you. You are Simply Fabulous!

Who would have thought it possible to complete this beauty in 8 short days?

225m long
1.3m diameter...
about 40 lengths of nylon all the way along her

We lost track - but in the vicinity of

300 000 staples
more than 100 000 pieces of handcut plastic
around 10 kilometres of nylon
150 kg of recycled plastic
more than 600 lights
and certainly a lot of hours of working together!!!

This is the first time to our knowledge such an installation has been constructed in Cambodia or by a Cambodian artist. And we think the timeframe it was achieved in (8 days and a few more for installation and lighting) makes this Naga a symbol of the pure goodness that occurs when grassroots volunteerism meets the arts and the concern we all share about the environment.

Let's love our water, people, and use less plastic and dispose of it more carefully!

Saturday morning

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We are so Burberry! The bag.. the undies.. the shirt and one other person had the satin necktie..

flags looking beautiful as everyone knew they would!

more preparations

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who is that gorgeous girl with the piglet curls?

work it - strut it- work it-

so fabulous, even just in the practice!

just chilling - a very hot morning

Saturday morning preparations

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Everyone agreed the dance performances were electrifying and world class - problem is we all were busy and have no photos of their actual performance - any kind souls who were there and would like to email to me pls do so... floddy at gmail

Madame Dy Saveth - the brains behind the model training choreography and training.

Christi Abby and jessi - just gorgeous! You all were stars on the night

Sata, Belle, and her mother. Where do you all come from - so talented, so beautiful, so purehearted.. you must have dropped straight from heaven!