(non-chronological) Archive: 2005-2011

2011-11-13T17:21:00.001-08:00

luckily theres no inside ( brick muppet filth face anxiety ladder . emotion traffic reenactment jakarta body )

- 2011 @ OPEN ARCHIVE

Poem-title: by Michael Farrell

Costume design: with Ma & Pa (Jilsi)

Poster: with Jimbo

Models: Sophia Cowen, Tim Darbyshire, Tom Davies, Helen Grogan, John Hewitt, Britt Salt, Lisa Stewart

luckily theres no inside ( brick muppet filth face anxiety ladder . emotion traffic reenactment jakarta body ) re-enacts parts of a performance that i initiated in 2009. The 2009 work, entitled: Sculptural Relations: embodiment, forces, event, and material performance operated through a number of invited artists realising specific tasks, roles and scores. Mimmo Cozzolino unexpectedly photo-documented this performance. In thinking about how to distribute the re-presentation, re-interpretation, and re-modification of these images, i re-consider the form of soft sculpture and stuffed toys.

For Open Archive, i have constructed Muppet costumes inspired by the photo-documentation that Cozzolino captured during my performance. The documentation, stills from Sculptural Relations, depicts Melbourne-based artists Bianca Hester throwing a brick (or about to throw the brick), Spiros Panigirakis throwing a plinth and Masato Takasaka walking around with a ladder on his head. From these images, i have collaborated with my parents — who operate a home industry soft toy business specialising in rocking animals — to transform them into ‘quality plush toy’ Muppet costumes. Employed models were wearing these at the opening and through the course of the exhibition.

This new project continues/discontinues a deviation from Sculptural Relations and enters an experiment with self-parody, fandom, projective re-enactments, identity, caricature, bad taste, documentary and fiction, commercial merchandising and perversion. It will form part of ongoing projects and will be adapted into a B-grade horror/sci-fi short movie, with a screenplay written in collaboration with an ex-employee of the Indonesian Film Censor Institution based in Jakarta.

Terima kasih: Pak Bin (taylor), Sophia Cowen, Mimmo Cozzolino, Tim Darbyshire, Tom Davies, Jared Davis, Marcia Eman, Yu Yin Fai, Michael Farrell, Tamsin Green, Helen Grogan, Eveline Gunawan, Cindy Sandra Gunawan, Jimmy 'Pa' Gunawan, Bianca Hester, John Hewitt, Ivan (taylor), Spiros Panigirakis, Lingkan 'Ma' Pantow, Lia (taylor), James ‘Jimbo’ Ramli, Britt Salt, Lisa Stewart, Saskia Schutt, Sanchia. T, Masato Takasaka, & Thore.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

2011-09-29T20:06:00.000-07:00

DESPERATE EXHIBITION MAKING TECHNIQUES - WITH NIKOS PANTAZOPOULOS. Y3K, MELBOURNE - 2010. AN EXHIBITION THAT TOOK THE MODEL OF A STUDIO RESIDENCY. THEY DEVELOPED WORK SITUATIONS ON SITE WHICH INVOLVED AN INSTRUCTIONAL SCRIPT EXPLORING VARIOUS METHODS OF COMPLEXIFYING EPHEMERAL SCULPTURES AND IMAGES OF SEX, LABOUR, POWER, AND INSTITUTIONAL, AND SOCIAL SPACE THROUGH COLLABORATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY FRAMEWORK.

2011-04-09T20:34:00.000-07:00

Intermezzo - 2010
exhibited within the group show "to give time to time" curated by Domenico de Clario, Queen's Theater, Adelaide. Click here

2010-07-08T19:39:00.000-07:00

SCULPTURAL RELATIONS: EMBODIMENT, EVENTS, FORCES, AND MATERIAL PERFORMANCE, 2009.
PERFORMANCE WITH: BIANCA HESTER, SPIROS PANIGIRAKIS, MICHAEL FARRELL, TAMSIN GREEN, MERRYN LLOYD, SAM MARTIN, MASATO TAKASAKA, ARDI GUNAWAN.(Images here)

2010-03-11T01:47:00.000-08:00

Instant Network - 2010
Organized around the proposition of a micro-group exhibition that could be embedded within a large mass of a particular curated group exhibition (which was realized for Adaptation), "Instant Network" presents a non-chronological display of object/prop/time-based artworks on a horizontal plane taken from one of the existing - movable - walls of the gallery (enacting as a large-scale plinth).

"Instant Network" included contributions by Kristinare Anthony, Brook Shanti Fenner, Hind Habib, Bianca Hester, Therese Keogh, Andrew Kershaw, John Kyritsis, Tom Nicholson, Spiros Panigirakis, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Lachlan Petrus, Long Pham, Catherine Pieper, Light Projects: Tamsin Green & Leslie Eastman, Nellie Rogerson, Utopian Slumps, Julien Tuckett, and Hae Young Yoon.

Adaptation was a group exhibition curated by Mark McDean which involved works by: Tim Craker, Ardi Gunawan, Jordan Marani, Louise Paramor, Brie Trenerry. This project was presented by the Seven Thousand Oaks: Festival of Art and Sustainability. Click here...

2010-01-23T21:30:00.000-08:00

Untitled-clogged passage, 2006.found site: BuildingB; level 5, Monash University.

Images here.

2009-11-02T22:29:00.000-08:00

PROPPING, WEDGING IN FOUR MOVEMENTS - 2009; for
gone in no time gone in no time - artist residency series devised by Domenico de Clario
@ Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
Images click here...

2009-09-11T17:29:00.000-07:00

Influence(s) - with Nikos Pantazis
2009 at LIGHT PROJECTS.

The exhibition is informed by and contributes to Nikos Pantazis’ ongoing project.
Here, i taught Nikos how to use the I Ching,
which involves throwing coins or dice and we
made a video / document with the material gathered.
Subsequently, we developed a score
using the I Ching as a way to devise encounters
with the materials that are available on site.

Click the image above to see the video of the actions in Influence(s).

CONNECTIVES:
Many Things Seen At Once

2009-07-20T18:00:00.000-07:00