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Claire Canham + Claire Bushby along with Mark Stewart (Murdoch University Collection) will be speaking on March 8th 2012, details coming soon.
Work in progress – ‘Uvula #1′ Mixed media, 2012.
The Conservatorium is a show curated by Anna Dunnill and Renae Coles, and the first exhibition to take place in Perth’s newest ARI, Paper Mountain. The Conservatorium is a part of FRINGE WORLD Festival, Perth 2012.
The Conservatorium
Opening Night >> Friday Jan 27, 6pm
Exhibition Dates >> Saturday 28 Jan – Sunday 5 Feb
Opening Hours >> 11am – 5pm daily
Paper Mountain >> First Floor, 267A William St, Northbridge WA
Thanks to Geoffrey Drake-Brockman and Richie Kuhaupt, we had a 3D lasercube installation inside the studio for the end of year break-up – thanks also to Paul Lindsay who played.
Studio night is held monthly (Thursday 9pm+) at 64 Crawford Rd Maylands (rear) Guest speakers are invited to speak on a subject of their choice – please feel free to bring friends. BYO drinks
Trevor Richards (click images below to view respective sites) ‘Paris/Venice: Highlights and Insights’
Gallery Install, Paris 2011.
Trevor will be discussing his solo show in Paris (installed in June this year). Trevor later travelled to the Venice Biennale and will be talking about the ideas behind the show and highlights of other exhibitions in Paris and Venice.
Berenice Rarig
Whispered Prayers, 2001, folded coffee filters. By Berenice Rarig.
Berenice will be talking about her artistic development and her redemptive vision for contemporary conceptual art. ‘A redemptive art practice must surely begin with establishing the need for redemption. It must point a finger at secret shelters and rattle the doorposts of straw salvations. It is not a practice of patching, propping or bandaging’ Rarig, 2006
Calendar …
October 27th - Rick Vermey + Dr Kirsten Hudson
November 24th – Berenice Rarig + Trevor Richards
December 8th – Christmas Breakup Drinks + Geoffrey Drake Brockman’s ‘lasercube’ installation
2012 Calendar
March 8th – Claire Bushby + Mark Stewart (Murdoch University WA)
April 5th - Paul Moncrieff + Leigh Robb (PICA)
May 3rd - Louise Morrison + Andrew Varano
May 31st - Douglas Sheerer + Kyle Hughes-Odgers
Miik Green/Brad Ladyman are producing a new work for BHP’s new Australian headquarters – 125 St Georges Tce, Perth – due to be completed in March 2012.
Images coming …
Oct 27th – Rick Vermey + Dr Kirsten Hudson
Images: Rick Vermey, Selected Projects
Same difference
Rick Vermey is an artist who uses a diverse range of traditional and digital media tools, in a wide-ranging visual art practice, incorporating print, photography, painting, sculpture and public artworks. Rick’s approach to creativity is to make ideas central to the art-making process. He allows a concept to direct an artwork and shape its final material and form.
In recent years, his field of endeavour has been commissioned, site-specific artworks for public spaces. Commissioned artworks typically respond to a given brief. Often their location also pre-determines a particular “public”.
Rick will illustrate aspects of continuity linking “behind the scenes” visual research from his various projects, to reveal the “artist’s hand”, engaged in his recent, outwardly dissimilar, public artworks.
TASTE MY SORROW – an elegy of loss and insatiable desire.
Engaging with the trauma paradigm of our post-1945 age, I rub against Jill Bennett’s proposition that we need to find a philosophically informed way of engaging politically with traumatic feeling. Convinced that we need to do more than simply recognise the affective force of the visual aesthetic encounter, I propose a phenomenologically fleshy, fully sensory, personally invested empathic imagination that stimulates all the senses, not just vision. Critically resisting impoverished economies of care surrounding bodies in/of trauma, this talk experimentally speculates on how practice-led-research that reconnects materiality to the discursive and sight to the rest of the senses may offer a means to activate a new empathic contingency for “being with” and caring for “Other” bodies in/of trauma. Kirsten Hudson, 2011
Velvet Curtains is an initiative between Glenn Bergsma (singer/songwriter) and myself. We combine beat poetry, spoken word and performance with jazz fusion. We are are available for gigs, any bookings please email Glenn at shiftthepower@mac.com.
Audience participation is part of the Velvet Curtain experience …
Latest Gig – Photo courtesy Julian Masters
Thanks to the Feedback Group for the review on ‘Sexy Blobs’ facilitated by Merrick Belyea.
It is great to have such a group in Perth for critical feedback … Click on the image to be taken to Feedback Etc
Contributors:
David Bromfield, Cynthia Ellis, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Renae Coles, Brad Ladyman and Benjamin Forster.