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Panni Poh Yoke Loh, Painting, Photography, Live Art & Installations

“In my live art I communicate directly with my audience creating situations and possibilities for them to interact and time to positively contemplate their place in creating harmony within their surrounding environments both natural and urban.”

Meditating on the City

This live art piece was carried out to consider the real challenge of gaining peace and balance within the urban environment and to create an opportunity for onlookers to consider stopping.

Photographs by Hafsah Naib for a Decibel Arts Council commission 2004

Tea Talks Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Tea Talks Artists Residency Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, U.K. 2006 I held tea talks with people of diverse backgrounds at the 7 exhibition sites of the work from 21 different countries from Asia. The art was the live element plus video and photography and paintings that recorded the interactions. During the 3 month residency local school children were also involved and as a finale scattered the dried tea leaves from all the tea talks as healthy compost into the earth of an especially planted tree to commemorate the residency.

	Tea Talks 1 Tea Bags-Tea Talks- installation, Waterloo Pavillions Blackburn, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle


	Tea Talks 2 Tea Talks-Anjum Anwar, Lacashire Council of Mosques and Dean Christopher Armstrong Blackburn Cathedral, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle


	Tea Talks 3 Tea Talks, Artists talk, Waterloo Pavillions Blackburn, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle


	Tea Talks 4 Tea Talks, Opening Event Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle

Another City? - Manchester City Library

Another City?

On my artist’s residency at the Chinese Arts Centre I was struck by the dominance of the built environment and also staying in a white cube gallery my own need for the natural world.

Building a garden in the space I immediately felt more alive. I tended daily to the plants and trees that bore fragrances traditionally from the west in lavender and rosemary and from the east in sweet gardenia’s.

Visitors were initially impressed by the beauty and fragrance of what they assumed to be an eastern garden but on closer inspection discovered the miniature clay building s of Manchester’s landmarks such as ‘Manchester City Library’ Manchester City Art Gallery’ , Urbis as well as Chinese pagoda’s and bridges all dominated by the natural world

Another City? - Pagoda

Another City? - Chinese Arts Centre

Buddha says SLOW

Forge Dam, Sheffield, UK
2004

	Peace Prayer Flags Postern Tower Contemporary Art Gallery, York 2004. This installation was created by interacting with the people of Sheffield and York to make marks on a flag whilst thinking of peace. I stitched them together in the formation of Prayer Flags to send out this good energy into the world but in positive respect of the people of Tibet’

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M.A. Show, Holden Gallery
Manchester Metropolitan University
2003

How would life be if in the business of the world we thought of equality and peace

Peace Servings Ellesmere Green, Sheffield 2002 I directed videoed and photographed this event on Ellesmere Green, Sheffield, U.K. with 20 different people of different ethnicities, cultures and faiths men and women to demonstrate and express the desire of people different from one another to meet with each other, gain understanding and to create peace and harmony.

	Peace Servings 1

	Iqbal Serves

Abbeyfield Park Multicultural Festival

Burngreave is a vibrant rich area of many cultures and to celebrate this I initiated this festival in 1999 after hosting a Chinese Lion Dance earlier that year and organised until 2004.

For me creating the Abbeyfield Park Multicultural Festival was like painting a painting, it came from the same creative source.

It was a colourful work of live art that I am very pleased to say lives on and grows.

The joy of the festival was in seeing people of diverse cultural backgrounds. The joy of the festival was in seeing people of diverse cultural backgrounds meeting together in celebration relevant to them as they took their important place in it's creation.



Crowd enjoying the stage performances-Abbeyfield Park Multicultural Festival photograph by Lee Furness	Chinese Lion Dance and Festival Banner	Panni receives the Community Cohesion Award from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the organisation of the Abbeyfield Park Multicultrual Festival, 2004