Author: Tessa
Making Time at Artspace
Last month the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) opened at Artspace. As a finalist in the show – which continues until 12 Dec – I’ve been presenting…
Autonomy/Autarky or ‘Are you sure that’s normal?
[Conversation & photo essay originally published 2013 in Runway Issue 23: ‘Prototype’] In August 2013 Tessa Zettel (TZ) and Sumugan Sivanesan (SS) spent a week in…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…