Marc Rogerson, Philip Samartzis, Dave Brown with projections by Marcia Jane
Cluster is a site specific installation of kinetic, illuminated sculpture and sound art with video projections by Marcia Jane.
Cluster is created for the VCA Gallery space and comprises suspended illuminated ‘pods’ moved by air currents. The air flow will be triggered by motion sensors detecting the presence and movement of visitors. Soundscape will be drawn from the sound of the pods knocking together plus various sound constructions created by the sound artists. For the visitor to the installation, the experience of sound, touch and light will have an encompassing sensory effect.
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics which concerns itself with the subatomic world. Our normal, everyday use of language and perception are irrelevant in a subatomic environment; nothing behaves as per our everyday, human scale world. And, importantly, the presence of an observer renders the observed changed by the action of being
observed. In fact, the observed entity only becomes an entity with time-space coordinates by being observed.
Cluster will, using art rather than science, create an effect in the visitor to evoke this quantum world.
Exhibition Dates 26 April – 3 May
VCA MARGARET LAWRENCE GALLERY
40 Dodds Street (cnr Grant Street), Southbank
Melbourne, Australia
(across the road from ACCA and the yellow peril)
Thursday, 01 May 2008, 6.30pm FREE
(Sydney)
CESARE PIETROIUSTI — Paradoxical Forms of Exchange
Italian conceptual artist Cesare Pietroiusti presents a public discussion on his practice that will include a series of short screenings. At the end of the talk there will be a free distribution of 150 unique artworks made by the artist for the occasion.
Pietroiusti takes the experiences of life and transforms them into art. Minor events, paradoxical situations or problems concealed in the folds of ordinary life are explored through performative exchanges that implicate his audience in the work. In 1994 the artist made himself available to help anyone who would make a request and in turn carried out various tasks such as cleaning homes or walking dogs. In 1997 he published Pensieri non funzionali, a collection of 100 absurd instructional texts. Many of the ideas from this book have been carried out by the artist himself or by others over subsequent years.
Ideas of economy have played a major role in Pietroiusti’s practice. He often disrupts prevailing frameworks. For his performance Enriching Food (2006), he took over Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery Café for a twenty-four hour period. As head chef he planned the menu and cooked a selection of Italian dishes for patrons. On completion of their meals a generous twist occured, patrons receiving the price of the dishes they ordered in cash.
Pietroiusti is also the co-founder of the international artist collective Nomads & Residents and Progetto Orste, a group of artists and curators concerned with developing spaces for the transmission of ideas through free events. Continuing his interest in developing alternative networks for the distribution of ideas, Pietroiusti has recently collaborated with SPACE (Juraj Carny, Diana Majdakova and Lydia Pribisova) to form Evolution de l’Art, a gallery that sells only immaterial artworks.
Cesare Pietroiusti Tutto quello che trovo, 1999
performance, Firenze.
Photo: Studio Cantini
For more information contact:
Kylie Johnson
Public Programs
T 02 9356 0503
kyliej@artspace.org.au
Artspace
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Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
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PARIS – We are quite aware of what stars do when abroad: the Pompidou centre in Metz by Shigeru Ban, the Louvre-Lens by the Sanaa agency or the MoMA in New York by Taniguchi. We know a lot less about what the Japanese architects create at home. The Maison de la culture du Japon presents a panorama of the last ten years, including the domestic aspect of their activity. Through plans and models we discover monumental creations: a convention centre by Fumihiko Maki or the airport of Kuala Lumpur by Kisho Kurokawa. But thera are also small interventions – a room, a tomb, a tea house in the trees by Terunobu Fujimori – to which the Japanese specialists undoubtedly pay more attention than their foreign colleagues. Beyond the museums, that ensure the grater part of international renown, the exhibition also focuses on other «cycles»: the city (offices, boutiques), life (schools, hospitals , stadiums) and housing.
LONDON – Books, for most mortals, are in paper (even though it is being announced they will be in liquid cristals in a near future). Artists pay no attention to these conventions. They believe books can be in ceramics (we saw that with Alechinsky), in steel or in bronze (the Open Secret by Anthony Caro) or in lead and cardboard. A monumental creation by Anselm Kiefer, The secret life of plants opens the exhibition the Victoria & Albert dedicates to artists’ books over the last one hundred years. We will of course see the best known creations in this genre, among them Jazz by Matisse, next to disquieting creations such as Ode à ma mère by Louise Bourgeois or Wound by Anish Kapoor, a parable on the freedom of expression, where a book is injured by a laser beam. Hirst and Koons, the stars of the moment, will be present but we will also see works by Balthus, Buren, Motherwell or Martin Parr among the sixty pieces exhibited.
- Blood on Paper at the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 29 June 2008
The website of the V & A Museum
