Workshop for Potential Worlds | TESSA ZETTEL
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Making Time at Artspace
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Read More →: Making Time at ArtspaceLast 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 Making Time in various locations in Woolloomooloo, working with the Reg Murphy Activity Club in October, and this…
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Autonomy/Autarky or ‘Are you sure that’s normal?
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4–7 minutesRead More →: 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 residence at the Summer School for Applied Autonomy, a project by Berlin-based Greek artist Valentina…
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Urban Incubator, Belgrade
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Urban Incubator, BelgradeAs a visiting guest of ‘Belgrade – The Toolkit Project‘, part of the Goethe Institute’s Urban Incubator initiative, last week I gave a talk at Savamala’s KM8 about my recent work at Akrai residency in Sicily. The Toolkit Project is…
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mapping Yurt Empire
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Read More →: mapping Yurt EmpireThe 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…
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Tilting at Windmills
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Read More →: Tilting at WindmillsIn 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…
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Being an Account of Rain and the Various Ways to Capture it
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4–5 minutesRead More →: Being an Account of Rain and the Various Ways to Capture itExtract 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…
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Making Time: A Matter of Life and Death
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Read More →: Making Time: A Matter of Life and DeathMaking 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…
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Eating with Intent
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3–4 minutesRead More →: Eating with IntentTessa 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…
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Michael Stevenson, MCA
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5–7 minutesRead More →: Michael Stevenson, MCAMichael 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…
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Remembering Ahead (Or How I Never Learnt to Play Bridge)
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6–9 minutesRead More →: 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,…