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At the June edition of Maker Monday, we welcomed John Sear and Jonny Briggs who provided excellent and entertaining talks looking at two very contrasting worlds – pop-up escape games and photography re-imagining childhood.
Renga (2011) was the world’s first 100 player co-operative laser game, known as a “theatrical co-op” game and designed to be played in a movie theater with up to one hundred players, with each player holding a laser pointer.
SCOOT3 combined an action-packed collaborative strategy game that combines table-top planning with computer-generated action.
Jonny’s honest talk looked at the construct of his works, the materials used and the context behind them, leading to a very ‘self-aware’ take on his own work. His topic areas are childhood, family (his parents) and upbringing.
Every piece attempts to recapture elements of his own childhood through adult eyes.
One of Jonny’s key observations on his own work was how the art-making process can empower and give you a voice. His artistic voice was highly inventive, with the use of different materials, cartoon-like imagery, and sometimes the use of the ‘grotesque’ provides a sense of the distorted nature of looking back.
Jonny also felt very comfortable critiquing his own works, accepting them as snapshots of a particular moment not only of his childhood but actually the moment of when they are made.
he photo above consisted of belongings which belonged to Jonny’s parents. It’s only a mirror image from the viewpoint of the camera.
Jonny is often questioning his own motifs and ideas around his own work. It’s fascinating for an artist to acknowledge confusion.
Jonny initiated a great conversation around the concept of the mask in photography and what does it actually mean to be yourself?
