Tilting at Windmills
In a new collaboration, Jennifer Hamilton and I recently spent 2 weeks in residence in a historic cottage in The Rocks, thinking about human-weather relations, misrecognition and language, in the spirit of colonial astronomer William Dawes. It was part of The Rocks Windmill program, and you can read more about…
Being an Account of Rain and the Various Ways to Capture it
Extract from the first printed title by ‘Tilting at Windmills Press‘, an underground publishing house that compiles and distributes anonymously authored pamphlets, each exploring a different encounter with weather in which things are not as they seem There is a little well at the back of the cottages, bound by…
Making Time: A Matter of Life and Death
Making Time is coming to Sydney! As part of Performance Space’s upcoming ‘Matters of Life and Death’ program, Making Time will be in residence at Carriageworks and the Eveleigh Farmer’s Market from Feb 23 – Mar 9, 2013. Each Saturday between 8am – 1pm we’ll be setting up a space…
Eating with Intent
Tessa Zettel [Published in Das 500, December 2011] In recent years, much of the work I’ve made in collaboration with Karl Khoe has been eaten. Not by us (the host rarely gets a chance), but by people who’ve been invited into an unusual space of exchange facilitated by the presence…
Michael Stevenson, MCA
Michael Stevenson Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia 6 April – 19 June, 2011 [Highly Commended for the 2011 Frieze Writer’s Prize] There is something serendipitous in Michael Stevenson’s twenty-year retrospective being the final exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art before it closes for long-awaited and controversial renovations. As the…
Remembering Ahead (Or How I Never Learnt to Play Bridge)
[First published as catalogue text in Kathryn Gray (ed.) Rules of Play, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney 2011] o o North: so spades is always the highest, isn’t it? South: no that’s only in the bidding West: you’ll learn by playing, you will. North: let’s just have a crack East: that’s…
Land-escapes: à propos of time, the city and its other
Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe [First published in Zanny Begg & Lee Stickells (eds.), The Right to the City, 2011, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University] At one end of a darkened room or corridor is a curious construction attached to the wall and spot lit. The object is the reverse…
Futuring Sydney Otherwise
(Par-re-buga or Pa-rai-bu-gah or Par-ri-beu-go – Tomorrow) 1 by Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe [Essay originally commissioned for the NIEA hothouse and published in HotHouse Report to the City, 2010, (eds.) Jill Bennett and Felicity Fenner, NIEA, UNSW, Sydney; also an extension of a presentation delivered at the Hothouse Symposium, Sydney Opera House, on 27 July, 2010.]…
Travelling to Utopia and back
Utopia Cao Fei Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2 May – 27 June, 2009 [Highly Commended for the 2009 Frieze Writers’ Prize – judges were James Elkins, Ali Smith & Jennifer Higgie] o Cao Fei’s Utopia is both a place and a non-place. It is a daydream, a fiction and…
Package Tour
An account of the topographical features and earthly delights of Arcadia Journey to Arcadia, nsw Sean Rafferty 26 February – 13 March 2010 No Frills* Artist Run Initiative, Brisbane [First published in 2010 as catalogue essay for Journey to Arcadia, nsw, No Frills] Arriving at Port Jackson in 1788, it…