Aspies For Freedom

Artist Creates Art with Autistic Kids  

2005-11-27 16:20:42  

As one of the artists participating the Commonplace project ¨C which is aimed at raising awareness of autism - Liao Bangming has discovered a new way to get fresh inspiration for his work.  
Liao Bangming asked 6 children from Stars & Rain, the Beijing home for autistic children, to help him finish an artwork at the opening reception for the Commonplace exhibition. He gave each child a pencil and let them draw whatever they liked on a piece of white canvas.

The children were all excited at the chance to attend this unique activity. They flipped from one side of the canvas to the other, as they drew with their pencils. Some of them even left their footprints on the painting. When their parents asked Liao if the footprints would mess up the work, Liao said it was ok, just let the kids do whatever they like.

The finished work embodies Liao Bangming's exploration of the relationship between autistic children and art. The artist says he hasn't yet thought of the right title for the work.  

Source: China Broadcast

Picture here: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/mmsource/ima...fe1127.jpg

Presumably the home is actually an orphanage. China's one-child policy has created a great amount of girl and disabled orphans.

I've no idea, Amy.  :? I just thought the idea of autism interacting with art might be of interest to other AFF members.

I've noticed that stories about autism appear quite often in the Chinese media that I am able to access, whilst there are very few from many other developing nations.

Stella

Maybe the chinese ones are translated into english more than other languages of developing countries.

Stella you do a very good job bringing us the news, you are our AFF Newshound. :smile:

I wanna see what the autistic kids' pictures looked like.

I should have liked to have seen them too, Energeia - and learnt more about the interaction of Chinese autistic children and beluga whales - a story I posted a few weeks ago.

Still, I think it a good sign that Chinese foreign-language broadcasters consider these small news items about autism of sufficient interest for international audiences.

Stella