Recycled Electronic Sculptures with Suzon Fuks

Join us at The Edge for the Transforming e-Waste workshop series with artist Suzon Fuks.

Come along and learn how to form and design small sculptures using recycled electronic parts, transforming everyday components like circuit boards, wires, and connectors into imaginative artworks. You’ll experiment with arrangement, composition, and basic construction techniques to give new life to discarded materials.

This hands-on workshop series will transform and reveal the hidden world of intricate circuitry that powers our daily lives and inspire you to think about the impact of technology.

You will learn:

• How to safely dismantle old electronic devices
• Facts about our electronic devices and e-waste
• How to create mini electronic sculptures

Suzon offers an active reflection on the production process of electronic devices, planned obsolescence, disparity of goods, sustainability and recycling.

In 2019, Suzon undertook a major decluttering of her studio and started opening up and stripping down old devices. She became intrigued by the exquisite electronics hidden inside phones, hard drives and other obsolete hardware, and was inspired to use these components as artistic materials. Since then, Suzon regularly volunteers at e-Waste Connection (a social recycling enterprise), making imaginative original jewellery and wearable designs, artist books, videos and performance - breathing new life into old devices that have been ethically collected from local sources.

By transforming these components, she invites us to consider ethical and environmental issues and explore ways to divert material from landfills to transform our trash into treasure.

Check out the other workshop in this series:
Workshop 1: 3D Artist Books | 1-5pm | Saturday 14 June

REQUIREMENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WORKSHOP

• Participants must be over 16 years of age
• Enclosed, flat footwear must be worn at all times in the Innovation lab.

BEFORE YOU BOOK

Please read through our Getting Started at The Edge page which includes terms of use. You’ll find answers to age restrictions, what to bring, what to do if you’re running late, refunds and more.

Please become a State Library member before you arrive. If you already have a State Library member account, make sure you know your login details as you may be required to login during the workshop to access State Library computers, and to make bookings for equipment.

Please contact us if you need support to participate in this event and consult State Library of Queensland's conditions of entry before making your booking.

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Suzon Fuks is a multidisciplinary artist. Last January, she made an installation 'e-Galaxy' at the State Library of Queensland in the Knowledge Walk, offering public activations and workshops. She has been awarded the 3-year Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship, a Copeland Fellowship at the Five Colleges in Massachusetts, a Fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre, and an Asialink Residency in India.