Tuesday, June 25, 2013

COLLABORATEURS: NINE EXHIBITION OPENINGS. NINE DAYS. NINE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS...


Bridie Connell_Free Fall performance shot_2012


Nine artists. Nine collaborative projects. Nine days. Nine consecutive exhibition openings... 


For nine consecutive days from the 3-11 July, within the confines of a 3 metre x 3 metre white cube contained within the gallery space, Artereal Gallery will present a series of collaborations as a platform for initiating new ideas and objects, sometimes unpredictable encounters, and for developing critical social and artistic relationships. 

Acknowledging that collaboration has moved into the mainstream of visual arts practice in the past decade, Collaborateurs offers an insight into the variety of ways in which artists collaborate with others: be it their peers, family, mentors, a musician, dancer, film-maker, with machines and technology, or simply with their audience.


FEATURING:  ELLA BARCLAY, LIAM BENSON, DAVID CAPRA, BRIDIE CONNELL, TULLY ARNOT & CHARLES DENNINGTON, NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS, LEAHLANI JOHNSON, SYLVIA SCHWENK AND KARINA WIKAMTO 


The personal and professional ties that bind artist and artist, artist and mentors, friends, colleagues and collectors will be expressed and interpreted as intervention, as performance or installation, or serendipitous outcome; others may simply present a collaborative work produced before or on the day. 

The diverse program opens with an installation of David Capra’s Wizard of Oz Intercession series of ceramic sculptures he produced in association with his constant muse the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz’. The marquettes are re-imagined sets from his recent performance pieces for the Workout program at The Museum of Contemporary Art. Sylvia Schwenk presents 'A shared space' recording an unexpected encounter for two grave diggers at work in a German cemetery. Michael and Karina Wikamto, a brother and sister pair from a family whose father’s given name and cultural identity were outlawed by the militant Suharto regime, create simultaneous versions of their family tree; Michael’s is computer generated while Katrina’s sculptural collage integrates objects and images to symbolize family members. 

Dance is an element common to several collaborations. Liam Benson in association with choreographer Nick Atkins develops, rehearses and presents a dance routine, Pas de deux for a noble savage exploring gender and masculinity. Bridie Connell’s St Theresa Swoon creates an image and immersive environment of religious ecstasy through repetitive dance moves that are curiously based on a seductive classic burlesque fan dance performed to a mediative single drum tone sound-scape by American musician Brian Chase (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). 

Long term artistic duo Tully Arnot & Charles Dennington will collaborate with each other and instructions found on the internet for Adam “Myth Buster” Savage’s instructions for DIY personal hovercrafts. They will employ their idiosyncratic sensibilities and skills to produce two ‘Hoverchairs’, which in the end become portraits of their collaborative peculiarities. Artist Nola Diamantopoulos will conclude the program with Quest, an endurance performance of a continuous questions only dialogue with a succession of psychotherapy students ‘in search of the soul’.


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