How can animation be best used to engage children and adults in acknowledging anger and conflict resolution across a multi-cultural society?
Follow on questions:
What cultures exist in NZ? How do these cultures address anger and conflict resolution? How are they sympathetic/ in conflict with each other?
What constitutes "international appeal" for characters? Will NZ animals read to the world and vice versa? Or is it enough that a lizard, bat, bird, frog (from NZ) are on screen with an armadillo, hamster, puffer fish (from world)?
Can adults learn new techniques and break old patterns? How can doing this make a difference to generational conflict? Domestic violence rates? Prison numbers? International relations?
Do kids see animated characters as role models? Do they take what they say seriously? Do they ignore them?
Are girls given the same space to be "bratty" or exhibit "bad" behavior as boys? How can we give them equal space to express anger?
Where do we learn about emotions and handling them? Home, school, religion, media, culture, peers, work? when are they formed? Can an adult really change their programming?
Research hint:
Find out who teaches courses regarding chidren's TV/ anger conflict and kids/ etc and look up their course reading lists and get them through inter-library loan.
Exhibition opening 24 March, Monday 20th @ 5pm for installation.
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