Virtual Workshop: Experimental Typography with Chani Perera

Sunday, 8 August 2021
10 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. (SLST)
Free and open to all; register in advance for this meeting: Registration Link Geoffrey Bawa’s architectural practice not only involved designing spaces but also customising typography for certain projects such as the Bentota Beach Hotel and the Kandalama Hotel. Building on this relationship between architecture and typography, Chani will guide you in exploring type as image experiments in a knowledge exchange mixed media  workshop.

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An avid lover of puns, buns, the sun and reruns, Chani loves experimenting. Whether she's designing or teaching, she approaches everything and everyone as an experiment. That way no-one gets bored. Chani is currently a tutor at the Visual Communication department and the Strategic Advisor to the BA programme at AOD. Her very own experiment Riot House, is a developing curation of her journey in graphic design, through which she collaborates, creates and educates.

Website: www.riothousesl.com
Instagram: @riothousesl.com

Closing conversation:
The Gift at Lunuganga

Sunday, 29 August 2021
10 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. (SLST)
Free and open to all;

Watch the Conversation

In 2019, as part of the artistic programme commemorating Geoffrey Bawa’s 100^th birthday, Lunuganga hosted a series of installations by artists and makers from Sri Lanka and abroad, in a series where the garden was explored as a site of hospitality and a place of encounter. Each artist responded to Bawa’s practice and his garden through a unique, site-specific work developed over an almost two-year period. Launched in January 2020 on the cusp of a global pandemic, the works endured a time of unprecedented uncertainty, and offered pause for reflection on the meanings of generosity and intimacy.

Marking the closing of The Gift, the five artists, Kengo Kuma, Lee Mingwei, Chandragupta Thenuwara, Dayanita Singh and Dominic Sansoni will speak with Suhanya Raffel, (Executive Director at M+ Museum in Hong Kong and trustee, Geoffrey Bawa and Lunuganga Trust) about their experiences and processes making and engaging with work in this last year.

View The Gift projects