Tag: Sydney
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…
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…
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…
Field Work as Sustainment: The Futur(ing) of Art Practice
2. Field Work Lisa Kelly & Dennis Tan 4 – 18 October 2008 Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney [First published in July 2009 in runway, Issue 14: Futures. Reproduced courtesy of The Invisible Inc.] Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would think that it…
Under Construction
Approaching Sean Rafferty’s Ghost Mountain by Tessa Rapaport Ghost Mountain Sean Rafferty 15 January – 1 February 2009 MOP, Sydney [Published as typewritten text in Locksmith Project Issue 2, 2009, Locksmith Project Space, Sydney] o Around 800 words. Structure to reflect the way Ghost Mountain stages itself. Begin by identifying…
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…