Archive 2009
- Bernhard Sachs
- Anathema/Anachronism/Apostasy Catalogue
- Bernhard Sachs Installation Images
- Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
- Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Installation Images
- Cock and Bull
- Installation views of Cock and Bull, March 2009
- Once More With Feeling
- Installation Views of Once More With Feeling
- What Makes This Poem Beautiful?
- Installation images What Makes This Poem Beautiful?
- Sandra Bridie: the artist as composite
- Installation views, Sandra Bridie: artist as composite
- Material Ligero, Five Chilean Artists Travelling Light
- Installation Views: Material Ligero, Five Chilean Artists Travelling Light
- Wallara Travelling Scholarship
- Wallara Travelling Scholarship Installation Views
- The Invisible Generation
- The Invisible Generation Installation Views
ANATHEMA / ANACHRONISM / APOSTASY
Exhibition dates: 29 January to 14 February
Opening: Friday 6 February 6–8 PM
Anathema/Anachronism/Apostasy comprises Bernhard Sachs’ PhD research presentation and brings together work created by Bernhard Sachs between 2004 and 2009.
Anathema/Anachronism/Apostasy is the summary exhibition of a series entitled Trilogy concerning history and representation as theatrum mundi, an allegorical theatre or opera of the world, after the definitive 1924 text by the philosopher Walter Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, The Origin of German Tragic Drama. The title 'Trilogy', referring directly to a sequence of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, is misleading. Trilogy is to date, eight exhibitions, beginning with (Reconstruction of) The Polish Game, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, 2004, which featured a dinner in a heavily decorated interior and the exhibition of its aftermath, and ending (or possibly not) with a recital, Oratorio Faust on 6 February 2009, and its aftermath, in a heavily decorated interior.
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Exhibition dates: 20 February to 13 March
Opening: Thursday 19 February 6–8 PM
The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship is awarded biennially through the generosity of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. The Fellowship has maintained the spirit of the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship, which was first awarded to John Longstaff in 1887. It was offered every three years until 1968 when it became a biennial event. The Travelling Fellowship is designed to allow a young artist to travel and study overseas at a particularly important period in his or her career. The award is for $20,000 and all VCA School of Art graduates (ranging from BFA to MFA level) are eligible to enter within the first four years of their graduation. All exhibitors are short-listed finalists in the Murdoch Travelling Scholarship. Previous recipients include Steven Cox, Jon Campbell, Vera Möller and Andrew Hazewinkel.
Featuring: Tony Garifalakis, Matthew Griffin, Jon Campbell, John Beagles and Graham Ramsay
Curated by Kate Daw and Vikki McInnes
Exhibition dates: 20 March to 18 April
Opening: Thursday 19 March 6–8 PM
Public Lecture: Friday 20 March 11.30 am
Cock and Bull presents new work by five artists from Australia and the UK. Examining and critiquing the institutions and structures of contemporary society through various artistic strategies – including humour, irony and melodrama – Cock and Bull devolves around the concept of autofiction, postulating the artistic self as an instrument of critique. Cock and Bull encompasses a number of approaches such as the shaggy dog story, the aside, the impossible narrative, the invented biography, all constructed and designed to lead the viewer up the garden path. The artists’ private histories conflate with their unconventional versions of institutional critique. By mingling fact with fiction, the works in the exhibition also develop dialogic relationships between and among the artists and their audiences.
Featuring: Timothy Kendall Edser - The Telepathy Project, Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples - Bridie Lunney - Sarah Lynch - Gabriella Managano and Silvana Mangano - Alex Martinis Roe - David Simpkin
Curated by Meredith Turnbull
Exhibition dates: Friday 24 April to Saturday 23 May
Opening: Thursday 23 April 6–8 PM
Once More with Feeling brings together a diverse group of nine Melbourne based performance and video art practitioners to unravel why this art form is so important today and to provide a local and contemporary perspective on this discussion. The participating artists explore diverse themes within their work but each uses themselves as the core subject – employing the artist’s persona as a cipher to explore broader themes links this work to its antecedents.
As an audience, our experience of Performance Art is often mediated through viewing surviving video and documentation of original live performances. Curated by Meredith Turnbull, Once More with Feeling attempts to devolve this sense of art historical and museological archive by exploring how that perspective can infuse performance art being made today.
Featuring: The Badiou Reading Group, Simon Boucher, Stephen Bram, Maria Cruz, Mick Douglas, Marco Fusinato, Neal Haslem, Neon Parc, Elizabeth Newman, and others.
Curated by Lizzy Newman
Exhibition dates: 29 May to 27 June
Opening: Thursday 28 May 6–8 PM
This exhibition curated by artist Elizabeth Newman reveals some of the social bonds that exist behind the making of art work. Included in the exhibition are the artist’s husband (artist Mick Douglas) and children, her dealers (Neon Parc), fellow artists Maria Cruz, Stephen Bram and Marco Fusinato and collaborators such as graphic designer Neal Haslem and electrician Simon Boucher who once helped Newman make a work. The exhibition includes a lecture on psychoanalysis and a performance by members of Al Wunder’s ‘Theatre of the Ordinary’.
From Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2002), p.89.
Exhibition dates: 3 to 18 July
Opening: Thursday 2 July 6–8 PM
Featuring: Catalina Bauer, Rodrigo Canala, Rodrigo Galecio, Gerardo Pulido, Tomás Rivas
Exhibition dates: 24 July to 22 August
Opening: Thursday 23 July 6–8 PM
Material Ligero is a project generated by five artists from Santiago, Chile. During their residency, the artists will create work in-situ at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery. Material Ligero explores three concerns relating to contemporary practice: the ways in which art circulates; the materiality of artworks; and the ways in which the political and visual may interconnect. Central to Material Ligero is the relationship of art and materials within their socio-economic context. The project will incorporate a conference, studio visits, workshop and a catalogue that documents the artwork and includes a critical introduction and background to the artists’ research and conceptual stages of the project across its development. Material Ligero highlights corporality – that of the artist, the spectator and of art itself to embrace the global and cultural potential of contemporary art.
Exhibiton dates: 28 August to 4 September 2009
An exhibition of finalists from the final year of Bachelor of Fine Art degree. The Wallara Traveling Scholarship offers a young artist the opportunity to travel overseas before returning to study.
A Vision Forum project curated by Per Hüttner and Daniele Balit
Opening: 19 September 1-5 PM
Exhibition dates: 22 September – 10 October
When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.
-William S. Burroughs
The events of The Invisible Generation form a series of time-based interventions and the presented work falls between the boundaries of music, performance, installation, interviews, literature and film and uses the genre gap to penetrate the established codes that govern our perception of reality, opening up space for alternative and imaginative thinking and dialogues between cultures.
