QUEST / MELBOURNE ART FAIR

NOULA DIAMANTOPOULOS TO PERFORM QUEST @ MELBOURNE ART FAIR

Artereal Gallery is excited to announce that Sydney based artist noula diamantopoulos will be performing Quest at the upcoming Melbourne Art Fair. 

Noula will be performing an endurance QUEST

Everyday of the Art Fair from

13 - 17 August 2014

At the Royal Exhibition Building

Melbourne, Victoria

The invitation to perform at Melbourne Art Fair marks Quest’s very first performance in Melbourne, and comes following its success and warm reception at last year’s inaugural Sydney Contemporary 13, where it was included as part of Sydney Contemporary Director’s Choice.

Quest is an experimental performance work, in which the artist & participant engage in a silent conversation of questions (no answers) with each other.

Quest is an intimate and personal experience, in which the participant enters a shared space with the artist, and is called interact with the artist in an unconventional form of engagement.

Every Quest is unique, and participants are challenged to be curious, and shift the way they think. Quest highlights the powerful nature of questions, and calls us to question whether the answers we seek could actually be revealed within the questions we ask.

During QUEST, participants are invited to hold a short written conversation of questions with the artist, where no talking is permitted. Participants begin by writing a question and in response, the artist reflects on the question before replying with another question. 

The challenging Q&Q format of the performance is in direct contradiction to the answer-driven society in which we live today. 

“By deliberately focusing on the question rather than the answer, the performance forces participants to stop, pause and reflect – a process which, in many instances, leads individuals to the realization that the initial question they began with was not the real question that lies at the heart of the matter,” she said. 

As part of the endurance performance at Sydney Contemporary, noula sat on meditation pillows in QUEST’s calming pink lit surrounds for 28 hours over 3.5 days, foregoing food, drinks and bathroom breaks throughout the Fair’s opening hours. 

Noula will continue her endurance-like approach to Quest at Melbourne Art Fair, where she will sit for 40 hours over five days. 

NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS QUEST PERFORMANCE WITH DOGUS UNIVERSITY

On Tuesday 19th November 2013, nola diamantopoulos performed SOR/U, a QUEST collaboration with the Arts & Design Faculty of Dogus University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Similar to nola's glowing pink space in the Gallery, Dogus University also created a pink room for their participants to QUEST.

The QUEST was performed via Skype video and a shared online document, in which nola and the participants could digitally handwrite their questions. The questions were in a mixture of English and Turkish.

The performance went for 2.5 hours, and 100 QUESTions were shared over 10 participants.

NOLA DIAMANTOPOLOUS / QUEST

You are invited to participate in a short written conversation with Sydney based artist nola diamantopoulos, where complete silence will be observed. Participants will begin by writing a question on a piece of paper. In response, the artist will reflect on this question before replying with a question of her own. And so the performance will continue… 

Artereal Gallery invites you to participate in QUEST 

- The opening night of the exhibition will be held on Friday 15 November from 6-8pm, with nola performing for the duration of the evening. 

- nola will also be hosting an artist talk on the Saturday 16 November from 3pm.

- On Tuesday 19 November from 6.30-8.30pm watch nola perform QUEST live via Skype with Dogus  University (Istanbul) at Artereal Gallery

QUEST will be also be performed daily at Artereal Gallery from:

Wednesday - Saturday 

11am - 5pm 

15 - 30 November 2013 

"come. sit. quest. what is your question. what is my question. be silent."

QUEST was recently performed as part of the Director's Cut program at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair as curated by Barry Keldoulis. The artist will also be performing in conjunction with Dogus University in Istanbul via a two hour Skype session with participation from students and faculty members.

For further information on QUEST (including an interview with nola diamantopoulos) please click here or watch a video of nola performing at Sydney Contemporary here.

QUEST...

 

Thank you to everyone who participated in Nola Diamantopoulos's interactive performance QUEST. We have had an amazing response to the performance.

See what some of the participants had to say about being part of QUEST.

And don't forget to keep an eye out for Quest in 2012...

QUEST FEATURED IN THE SUN HERALD...

With only two days to go until the end of our Quest exhibition, make sure to head into the gallery and take part in the performance by Nola Diamantopoulos.

Arts journalist for the Sun Herald, Andrew Taylor, recently came into the gallery and spent some time with Nola discussing Quest. Read his write up on Quest here or watch his video interview with the artist.

Drop into the gallery this Friday 16th or Saturday 17th, between 11am and 4pm for a Quest session with Nola...