Category: PROJECTS
mapping Yurt Empire
The past 2 weeks have seen me mapping away for Yurt Empire – a rogue housing project and site-specific encounter planned for November 2013. This slow-growth project (involving 22 other artists) recently came together for its third development Lab, focused on site brokering, infrastructure and yurt design, and formulating a…
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…
Collected Fictions
Notes on Notes on the Art and Manner of (Dis)arranging One’s Books by Tessa Rapaport & Karl Logge [A review of Notes on The Art and Manner of (Dis)arranging One’s Books*, which took place in September 2008 at CarriageWorks as part of the LiveWorks festival of live art./ First published…
If I’m not mistaken, it is ‘Soybean cake’ / Kalau saya tidak salah, itu ‘Soybean cake’
A story about cross-cultural exchange, eating and drawing in two parts, recently published in the ‘gang re:Publik‘ anthology. To see pics of Pemandangan itu sangat kabur, the work discussed in Part 1, click here. Part 1. Leura/Katoomba Beyond the clumsy groupings of bored tourists weighed down by daypacks and camera…