It's been about four months since my 'fieldwork' at the Splendid Arts Lab in Lismore NSW, which I attended as an independent observer and collaboratarian, documenting collaborative process across art forms. Recently, I've had an article published in RealTime Arts ...Read More
How can art making and art doing allow us to experience our selves? How does an artistic practice foster the development of self, and in turn how does the development of the project of self influence the development of a ...Read More
Title: "yeah...you are all true data" (HAL2009) Date: February 13, 2009. Materials: Chrome tubing, copper elbows, steel wire, audio cable, speakers, microphones, computer programming / software Dimensions: 3m H x 8m W x 20m L (Variable Dimensions) Location: The Moores Building Contemporary ...Read More
Title: Other Side Date: June 01 2008. Materials: Scavenged wood, paint, fake lawn, wheel barrow, earth, grass, time capsule Dimensions: 4500 H mm x 4000 mm W x 2000 mm D Location: Gomboc Galleries and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA, Australia Keywords: Sculptural, ...Read More
Thinking about four recent projects (Other Side, HAL2009, FAIR FM, and Splendid), I reflect back upon my past works and consider how they functioned, how they were purposeful for me, what they did for me and/or allowed me ...Read More
Splendid in progress. Phase one of the Splendid Art Lab initiated. Artists and provocateurs are hard at work, conducting various social and psychological experiments in creativity. Read the full observational report at: http://blog.splendid.org.au Read More
Meaning is meaningful. It's what we all search for, often relentlessly in all that we do. Are we looking for value in a valueless world? Do we want assurance of a purpose as conscious beings? Do we merely need to ...Read More
Notes on One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Miwon Kwon 2002. CHAPTER 1. In this chapter Kwon develops the concept of site and its transformative response to the conditions induced by phenomenological, institutional, then discursive frameworks. Identifying how site-specific ...Read More
As the roles and responsibilities of those associated with the 'art world' are continuously shifting, expanding, and transforming, we see many artists adapting their practices into what can be considered 'curatorial' roles. Works like "The Play of the Unmentionables" (1992), ...Read More
From the 20th of July to the 7th of August I am very fortunate to be conducting some field work on collaborative art processes through a cooperative involvement with the unique arts project, Splendid. Based out of Lismore, NSW the ...Read More
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