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Coming up: One day the rain will come ...
Eamon Sprod and Camilla Hannan
A new site specific installation created from the sounds of Melbourne Central.
At the West Wing, Melbourne Central.
Open: 12-5pm each day
Dates: Wednesday June 2nd - Tuesday June 15th
Performance: Sunday June 13th 7.30pm.
Camilla Hannan is a sound artist working exclusively with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience. Her interest lies in site-specific multi speaker installation that reconceptualises the sonic landscape she finds herself working in. www.camillahannan.com
tarab/eamon sprod explores re-contextualised field recordings and tactile gestures formed into dynamic, psycho-geographical compositions inspired by discarded things, found things, junk, dirt, the ground, rocks, dust, wind, walking aimlessly, scratchy things, decay, and most if not all the things he sees and hears. tarab's work has become increasingly site specific. More than simply documenting a given site, tarab is interested in teasing out half narratives, visceral sensation and heightened awareness of a location. www.23five.org/tarab.
The Safari Team
West Space is proud to present the West Wing, an off-site project space within Melbourne Central, a large retail multiplex within Melbourne’s CBD. This is a Melbourne Central and West Space partnership, and we are excited about the difference possibilities that will arise through presenting an artistic program in this unique space, as well as the ability to offer artists free space in the city.
West Space received an overwhelming response to the recent call for proposals, and we have started to program a diverse and experimental calendar. The satellite space offers unique possibilities for artists as well as offering visitors to Melbourne Central an experience different to the retail experience they expect.
To find the West Wing: The West Wing is located on the second level of Melbourne Central, near Freedom Furniture and directly underneath Hoyts Cinema.
Safari Team: Evolution Explosion!
The first project to inhabit West Wing has been the collaborative group Safari Team, who have been in residence working on their latest project Evolution Explosion!, which will be launched next week as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival.
Evolution Explosion! explores the past, present and future of human evolution by jamming together science and imagination, fact and fiction. Evolution celebrates life on earth, the human brain, natural selection and our long distant amphibian ancestors. Video, collage, animation, performance and drawing all jostle for airtime in a five-screen open-air pop culture experience.
Venue: Birrarung Marr
Dates: 13th - 30th May
Time: after dark
This project has been supported by the City of Melbourne, Besen, JB Seed, ArtPlay and West Space West Wing.
Safari Team (Lillian O’Neil, Blaine Cooper and Jon Oldmeadow) is an artist collaborative that has been working across disciplines since 2005. The team formed whilst its three members were studying Fine Art at Monash University, and has since exhibited in Melbourne, Sydney, Italy and Canada. Pursuing a high-energy, DIY aesthetic, the trio utilises a broad range of mediums including video, installation, performance, collage, drawing and sculpture. Inspired by Gilbert & George's concept of 'Art for All’, Safari Team aims to produce work that can be appreciated by a wide and varied audience.
24 Hour Drawing Project
Coming up at the West Wing
8am Saturday 22nd May until 8am Sunday 23th May.
The 24 Hour Drawing Project is an event in which artists start and finish a work of art in a continuous 24-hour period. It is a combination of intensive studio practice, public performance, endurance test, and spectator sport. Each artist works on a piece of their own which relates to ideas of time, duration, activity, repetition, or labour. The definition of ‘drawing’ is loose, and more along the lines of Avis Newman's description as ‘a generative space of thought’ or ‘an unbounded space that becomes a site of transformation.’ Visitors can view the project and speak with the artists, and see a side of contemporary art that they might not ordinarily encounter. This will be the seventh performance of the 24 Hour Drawing Project and the first to include artists in Shanghai, China. The two locations will be connected periodically throughout the day and night via Skype.
Participants include David Evans, Byron Scullin, Louise Grant, Kendall Nordin, Hannah Bertramand Zhangju (Zoojoo).The West Wing is located on the second level of Melbourne Central, near Freedom Furniture and directly underneath Hoyts Cinema.
David Evans is a self-taught drummer who co-founded Melbourne-based instrumental band This is Your Captain Speaking. Though not widely known in their homeland, This is Your Captain Speaking has developed a cult following in Europe and the US and is one of Australia’s best known ‘post-rock’ bands overseas, having toured Europe and achieved extraordinary acclaim from around the world.
Byron Scullin is well known for his sound production work with Chunky Move, one of Australia’s best known contemporary dance companies, and for soundtrack work on films such as Wolf Creek. Byron is also a highly sought after recording and mastering engineer, and is a lecturer in Sound at the RMIT School of Art.
Louise Grant is a Melbourne-based artist who creates temporal garden spaces, collages and paintings investigating colonial perceptions of natural landscapes. Louise Grant has exhibited throughout Australia and was the recipient of the City of Melbourne Young Artist Grant for 2007. Louise has participated in four previous 24 Hour Drawing projects.
Kendall Nordin draws, cuts, stains, tears, marks, burns, tapes, glues, inks, plays, writes, dances, sings, produces, serves, and teaches. She hails from Washington DC and received an MFA from RMIT in 2005.
Hannah Bertram completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003 and a MFA in 2005 at RMIT. She has exhibited throughout Australia and since 2008 has been exhibiting internationally. She is represented by Dianne Tanzer Gallery and Projects in Melbourne and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong.
Zhangju (Zoojoo) is a traditional ink artist and graphic designer who lives in Shanghai, and has exhibited widely throughout China since 2004.
The Envelope
Monday 24 May to Saturday 29 May.
The Feminist Salon is a group of artists, writers and performers who meet regularly to read and discuss the texts of French theorists working in and around issues of contemporary psychoanalytic discourse, philosophy and constructions of ‘the feminine’. The Envelope residency at the West Wing is inspired by Luce Irigaray’s thoughtful, poetic and ultimately empowering proposition of ‘The Envelope’ as a space where identity, desire, sexuality and meaning can be constructed. The week long residency will engage this new space and the public with numerous possibilities of discussion, sensorial experience, performance, film, sound and visual art.
Participants include Sharon Billinge, Dr. Louise Burchill, Angie de Latour, Catherine Evans, Janice Gobey, Kate Just, Anastasia Klose, Sarah Lynch, Caroline Phillips, Caroline Thew, Jane Whitfid.
There calendar of activities includes:
- displays of painting, photographs, sculpture and audiovisual artworks.
- daily discussion groups of various texts, in particular Luce Irigaray’s notion of 'The Envelope' (the creation of a feminine identity).
- a knitting workshop on Thursday 27 May.
- visiting professor, Dr Louise Burchill, will be conducting a special seminar discussing the influence of Irigaray on visual art on Friday 28 May.
- a film night on Saturday 29 May.
Throughout the residency a reading room will be available to the public who are invited to join in and interact with the artists, discuss ideas and participate in activities. If you are interested in joining in, log on to www.thefeministsalon.blogspot.com.
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