30 Mar 2019, 2:00-5:00pm
Venue: Kon Len Khnhom, alley lane behind St 360 (between St 105 & St 113) Map: https://goo.gl/fPhpXo

“Imaging Cityscape”
with Pen Sereypagna & Vuth Lyno
in Khmer and English

Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are the five basic senses giving forms in human’s mind. “Imaging Cityscape” explores the possibilities to visualise images of Phnom Penh through two senses, image and sound, combining with participants’ memories and experiences living in the city. The idea of visualizing images of the
city is not only finding spatial quality and truth, but also the relationship between events and surrounding urban artifacts.

Any place in the city is an image of memories: an image recording a palimpsest of memories of triumph and sorrow, boom and bust, the heroic and the mundane. As part of the city, we walk through it observing its present landscape and reflecting on the past, until these images are boldly printed into our memories. Noted by the
eye of vision and by the soul of memory, a city’s streets, structures, and buildings contain great discourses on history. These discourses set up a spatial order, the images that capture the manner in which the transitory present is perceived. A city’s decomposed images become a way of seeing, knowing, remembering, and representing the city. Representational forms of the city become aestheticised
commodities representing a livable city, turning urban artifacts into events that people remember, and reflecting different stages of social and political rhetoric.

To explore the city, architects and artists make drawings of lines, paintings of colors, filming of movements visualising their feelings, memories, landscapes,architectures, and lives.

These are ways among others to form a place containing memories, visualise the qualities of life, and experience the surrounding environment. Learning from those methods, the workshop is divided into two acts:

​Act 1: Reading text and watching film.
Act 2: Imaging Cityscape: After reading and watching film in Act 1, participants are asked to draw the landscape of the city. The drawings can be a story, a streetscape, a building, a moment in time, or a sound.