Dividing/Line week 2

Active 3-4pm Thursday - Sunday till Sunday 19 August

Open 11am-5pm Friday - Sunday

Reservations :

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Alan Schacher, Dividing/Line, 11Aug. Images: Lynne Eastaway

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

First Week of Dividing/Line

The second and third weeks of Dividing/Line will have a different program.

Open 3-4pm, Thurs - Sun till 19 August

Reservations :

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This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Alan Schacher: Dividing/Line

Open 3 -19 August 2018

Visiting times (please note changes made to earlier advertised times) :

3-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 3rd-5th,
4-5pm Sat August 4 (following the opening event in ArticulateUpstairs)

3-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 9th-12th,

3-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 16th-19th

  Alan Schacher, Line of Fire/ Insubstantiality Performed for 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, 1994. Photo credit : Heidrun Löhr

In this project performance artist Alan Schacher sets up a ‘non-space’, intending it to be devoid any art-work or performance. He will construct a barrier wall using simple materials including those gleaned from neighbouring streets.  The thematic of lines, borders and boundaries is part of Schacher’s broader exploratory topic of diasporic experience. He takes this work into solo performances as the ‘diasporic body’ subject, and here at Articulate makes it societal, segregating an ‘audience’ who gather to witness.

What will be created is an apart-heid, an arbitrary division of participants.

This is a work based on the single space of 'the gallery' and in undermining its purpose. It has multiple conceptual precedents and influences, including reference to Chris Burden: Exposing the Foundations of the Museum 1967, Pierre Huyghe: After A Life Ahead, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, two works at the Biennale of Sydney 2018: Jacob Kirkegaard's Through the Wall at the Art Gallery of NSW (which replicated a section of the Israeli-Palestinian Wall), and Marco Fusinato'sConstellations at Carriageworks (which divided a large space with a huge wall). 

Schacher's ensemble performances with Gravity Feed (1992-2004) often played with the performer/spectator contract of spatial enactment, and in his work Line of Fire 1994 he cut symbolically at an institution's foundation. His performance Sweet Separation 2017 is a tiny separation wall constructed with sugar cubes (to be repeated at Bundanon's Siteworks 2018).

Participants should book into one of 12 timeslots online as the event relies on bodies in the space.

This is Schacher’s 2^nd residency at Articulate. In 2011 he created the series One Day Collaborations, in which he collaborated with a different artist each day.

How to attend:

Visiting times :

3-4pm  Fri, and Sun August 3rd and 5th,

4-5pm Saturday 4 August

3-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 9th-12th,

3-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 16th-19th

Reservations :

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dividingline-tickets-48475600827

Following reservation you will receive instructions by email. Please ensure you leave an email address.  Please contact Alan on 0418 272 601 if any problems.

·      (please note there will be no opening or closing event).

Dividing/Line is the second of Articulate's planned Changing Place program, which focuses on single, whole-space installation to emphasise relationships artists construct with location. Articulate plans to use its 2018-19 funding for this program to support and encourage experimental spatial practices, but in the absence of funding from Create NSW, Dividing/Line may be the last one for now.   

      This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Final Crossfires weekend coming up

Open 11am-5pm till Sunday 29 July

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Artists talk by Ebony Secombe in ArticulateUpstairs at 3pm Saturday 28 July

Jacek Przybyszewski, Margaret Roberts, Barbara Halnan, William Seeto

Elizabeth Day, Margaret Roberts

Rose Ann McGreevy, Margaret Roberts

Crossfires opened last night

Open 11am0-5pm Friday - Sunday till Sunday 29 July.

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Artists' talks: 2pm on Sunday 22 July 

Crossfires is curated by Barbara Halnan, showing the work of artists Ros Cook, Elizabeth Day, Adrian Hall, Barbara Halnan, Rose Ann McGreevy, Jacek Przybyszewski, Margaret Roberts, William Seeto and Gary Shaw.

Crossfires and Navigation 2 opening. Photo W Seeto

Adrian Hall. Photo: W Seeto

Barbara Halnan, William Seeto

Barbara Halnan

Jacek Przybyszewski,  Barbara Halnan, William Seeto

Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day

Ros Cook

Ros Cook

Gary Shaw

Margaret Roberts, Rose Ann McGreevy

CROSSFIRES opens Friday 13 July 6-8pm

open 14-29 July 2018
11am-5pm Friday - Sunday

Opening Friday 13 July, 6-8pm

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Artists' talks: 2pm on Sunday 22 July 

Crossfires is curated by Barbara Halnan, showing the work of artists Ros Cook, Elizabeth Day, Adrian Hall, Barbara Halnan, Rose Ann McGreevy, Jacek Przybyszewski, Margaret Roberts, William Seeto and Gary Shaw.

Rose Ann McGreevy Mind the Gap 2010

Crossfires is a group exhibition based around the connections between artists – both inter-generational in the teacher/student relationship and from the perspective of dialogue between colleagues. The links between artists may be expressed in an action/reaction scenario, where there is a conflict reflected in a divergence of practice.  What is important to me is the dialogue between colleagues – a dialogue through which communication leads to growth both for the individual and within the wider context of the community of practising artists.

Part of my rationale for this exhibition is to continue the sequence of exhibitions facilitated by Rose Ann McGreevy and myself in the years before her death in 2014, but this is only part of the story. The other motivation is to explore the passing on, communication of thinking and techniques which happens in all the art forms – in music the teacher/student relationship is particularly strong and generational lines of composition and performance can be traced back over literally centuries of practice.  Perhaps less clearly defined in the visual arts, it is nonetheless an important element in the ideology of art-making.

It is not that we take the concepts or the practices of other artists, but rather that their practice may inspire our own on a personal level.  Dialogue is the essential element in the transference of passion.  Critique inspires dialogue.­­

I have invited artists to participate who knew Rose, have worked and shown with her, or who count her amongst those who have influenced their own thinking and art practice.

Barbara Halnan - curator

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Ros Cook:

Ros Cook  plumb bobs

Both Adrian Hall and Rose Ann McGreevy were my art teachers when I complete my degree at Sydney College of the Arts in 1981, some 37 years ago.

I have known Barbara Halnan since the 1960s, silk screen printing posters with her in a basement in Campbell Street Chinatown.

The perspex box is a light-hearted comment on quantum mechanics. I was reading about quantum mechanics and planets and what keeps them in their orbit. One of the current explanations is string theory and as I am a practical person I thought a box of spare strings could be useful.

Brass plumb bobs, various sizes and ages, some 19th century

Plumb bobs were originally just lead (Pb) on the end of rope. They provide certainty, structure, are weighted and grounding, cool and tactile to the touch. Plumb bobs structure chaos.

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Elizabeth Day:

Adrian Hall:

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Barbara Halnan: 
White

Acrylic on canvas various sizes.

These small works using thread sewn onto stretched canvas in simple overlaid patterns, then painted with multiple layers of white acrylic, are made with the intention of drawing the viewer into the work.  From a distance the works appear blank.  It is only in approaching them that the patterning created by the thread appears.

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Rose Ann McGreevy:

Rose Ann McGreevy Notebook pages

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Jacek Przybyszewski:

Walk with Rose

What drew my attention looking at Rose's work is a problem that I've been interested in for years: the subject becomes an object.

An example of Rose's work is a sculpture made of raw plywood, monumental but suggesting that the sculpture is walking on the stairs.

At the "articulate-turns-four", annual exhibition, my work is a walking sculpture of Rose. 

I titled my work: For (4) Rose.

Four wooden sculptures of angles, where the interior shaped L is emphasizing by the 'rose’ color.

My 4 sculptures do not require a specific place, but they could be set in the four opposite corners of the whole space or walk on the steps in dialogue with Rose's large sculpture.

I also remember when I came to Articulate with Rose, she forgot something from her studio. We walked along the lower space where there was a temporary exhibition 'black & white'.
Rose suddenly pointed to a small sculpture and she said she liked it the most. For what I have suggested - it can be yours as you like. Rose was surprised when I told her that it was my work and she thanked me for the gift.

 L: Rose Ann McGreevy A Space for Inconsistencies 2013, photo Glann Locklee;
R: Jacek Przybyszewski: For (4) Rose 2014 photo Margaret Roberts

I was very pleased when Barbara said that my sculpture is still in the Rose collection.

Rose:–must be said that the word conceptual in relation to art has now a multiplicity of meanings which is confusing and perhaps like 'postmodernism' no longer has any meaning– still pondering…

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Margaret Roberts: 

LITTLE-HANNE-DARBOVEN spells its title out across the length of Articulate one letter per day for the three weeks that Crossfires occupies the space.  It is intended to recognise the actual time and space we occupy, contextualised by Darboven's larger scale interest in time. 

The plan for LITTLE-HANNE-DARBOVEN came into my head while reading about Darboven’s 1971 work, Books: A Century, a ceremonial recognition of time as part of the objective reality in which we live. This plan is to:

1.     divide length of a location equally by 21

2.     cut 13 paper squares by that length

3.     cut one letter of LITE-HANDARBOV from each to make 13 stencils

4.     locate pile of cut letter stencils on floor at one end, and lean a broom beside

5.     on day 1,  collect dirt by sweeping floor and nearby footpaths

6.     locate stencil L on floor against wall at starting point

7.     place day 1’s found dirt on floor to fill the empty L

8.     remove stencil and return to pile of stencils

9.     on day 2 collect dirt by sweeping floor and nearby footpaths

10.  locate stencil I beside where yesterday’s square would have been

11.  sweep dirt from yesterday's L against the wall

12.  place day 2’s found dirt to fill the empty I

13.  remove stencil and return to stencil pile

14.  repeat 5. to 13. progressing through the letters spelling LITTLE-HANNE-DARBOVEN, until 3 weeks ends and length of location is reached.

Margaret Roberts Little-Hanne-Darboven stencils 2018

I had seen Darboven’s work from the distance of images, and long planned to see it more closely. After I had the plan for LITTLE-HANNE-DARBOVEN, I read more about her work, discovering that even those knowing her work first-hand still find her practice enigmatic. Enigma is also something Rose liked in her work—and, when discussing it with her, I understood that she saw it partly as a way of asking people to engage directly with her visual/spatial language and how it interacts with the location it occupies jointly with them. The plan also enabled me to suggest Joseph Beuys' 1972 Ausfegen (Sweeping Up) as a reminder of Rose's own connection with Beuys in Belfast, as well as point to the actual time of the present in which Rose is absent, while her works remain.

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William Seeto: RmG 3 

RmG 3 is new work that developed out of deconstructing RmG 2, which was created in memory of Rose McGreevy for the exhibition William Seeto: The Space in Between in 2015/2016 at Articulate Project Space.

William Seeto, 'RmG 2 (work in deconstruction)'_2016. Corrugated cardboard, acrylic paint. Photo: w.seeto    

RmG 2 was made from corrugated cardboard and acrylic paint to examine the space ‘in between’ sculpture and painting/ site and artwork. It expanded the use of corrugated cardboard as media by revisiting works made twenty-three years earlier as a result of a residency in Berlin that looked at the European sensibility for using everyday materials in ‘ephemeral’ artworks, a term located in duration and descriptive of material.

RmG 3 is based upon everyday materials not only as readily available media but also for their inherent expressive qualities. It seeks to extend dialogue between sculpture and painting by blurring the lines in order to expand contextual meaning that takes it to the next stage, and in doing so continue connections generated by reworking artworks and ideas sparked through deconstruction and reconstruction that is inspired by Arte Povera.

            “Arte Povera is most notable for its use of simple, artisanal materials, it did not use these to the exclusion of all else. Some of the group's most memorable work comes from the contrast of unprocessed materials with references to the most recent consumer culture. Believing that modernity threatened to erase our sense of memory along with all signs of the past, the Arte Povera group sought to contrast the new and the old in order to complicate our sense of the effects of passing time.” Tracee Ng.

In a way the RmG 3 is influenced by Rose McGreevy who set the scene by not looking at spatiality in a literal sense, as a diagram or visual metaphor that explored and confronted rupture and straddled culture, but as a personal codex that offered formalised dialogue, where ‘site’ and ‘art’ was queried as to whether one or the other was more important and did it interact, inform or interfere with the work. The dialogue created for Crossfires continue connections with Rose and other artists.

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Gary Shaw:  from Belfast

These are drawings of a small sculpture made out of pipe cleaners. I moved around this sculpture making observations from different angles much like a drone for example (I have bought a drone and have been flying it around the studio.)

I have been thinking about the different interpretations that we have of the same thing if we only change our perspective of it.

There is a book by Raymond Queneau called Exercises in Style that could explain better.

Anyhow I think this piece is about my process towards something else. Looking at something constantly in a new light... I think Rose would have liked this and do think of her sometimes when stuck and think of what she would say.

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Biographies of the artists:

Ros Cook:

Elizabeth Day: elizabethday.com.au/

Adrian Hall: www.adrianhall.space/

Barbara Halnan: bhalnan.blogspot.com/

Rose Ann McGreevy: 
roseannmcgreevy.blogspot.com/
www.blurb.com/b/1393887-art-works
rochfordstreetreview.com/category/exhibitions/rose-ann-mcgreevy-1945-2014/

Jacek Przybyszewski: przybyszewski.blogg.org/

Margaret Roberts is an installation artist since the 1980s, working with art's potential to contribute to the much-needed revaluation of place. She is also a co-director of Articulate project space and lecturer at the National Art School.  www.margaretroberts.org

William Seeto is an installation artist and independent curator with a practice of 37 years. His site-specific constructed installations investigate non-objective abstraction and perceptual qualities in constructed environments, which reconstruct architectural space in a blend of minimalism, process art and kinaesthetic experience that incorporates immersive light, sensory perception and luminal effects of uniform light (Ganzfelds).  williamseeto.blogspot.com.au/

Gary Shaw: www.artisann.org/artist---gary-shaw.html

A Response to Chaos opened yesterday

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday until 8 July

Steven Cavanagh

Parris Dewhurst

Genevieve Carroll

Bill Moseley

A Response to Chaos is open from Friday 29 June

open 11am - 5pm, Friday - Sunday, 29 June – 8 July

Opening: Saturday 30 June 3-5pm

Genevieve Carroll

Steven Cavanagh

Parris Dewhurst

Bill Moseley

CHAOS: 
• Complete disorder and confusion. 

• The property of a complex system whose behaviour is so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.

• The formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.

A Response To Chaos brings together 4 artists as they explore and evaluate current and artificial realities that reside here in the world and in the cosmos.

Bill Moseley

Chaos

In an imaginative look at the origins of the universe, and the cosmic fingerprints left on earth by distant events, I have used the antiquarian process of wet plate collodion photography.

Tintype photography, which renders an image in deposits of silver nitrate, is also an artifact of distant stellar events. By this I mean that recent studies have determined that silver, along with other heavy metals, has it's origin in exploding supernovas long ago in deep space.

The location of Lake Mungo NSW responds to both human and cosmological events that leave indelible and sometimes mystifying artifacts that reward the informed and circumspect observer to the significance in Aboriginal cosmology that finds order in apparent chaos.

Genevieve Carroll

The Wattle Room - Chapter 10 - The Anatomy of Still life 

Genevieve Carroll's art is a visual autobiographical memoir of her observation of the world. Her artwork has an intuitive immediacy to it, an urgency that reacts as an internal discourse to mapping the personal and universal themes of existence through the subjects of still life and the human condition.

This series of drawings, plywood poems and sculpture respond to the chaotic world that we live in, a mapping of the ever growing lost connections, realities and artificial realities that we navigate. 

Inspired by the 15th century Vanitas Still Lifes, which historically showed symbolic meaning through the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often running parallel with the ideas of wealth, pointlessness and pursuits of earthly aspirations. These tangled muscular drawings are edgily humorous and poetic, conveying internal and external worlds colliding together, demanding to find a resting place.

The artwork acts as a subconsciousness of the interior self and the consciousness of the moral social self where emphasis is on desire and despair.

Parris Dewhurst

#unemployment

This bright and playful work upon closer inspection holds darker undertones about the prickly experience of unemployment. It echoes ideas from the Greek Mythology Sisyphus who was condemned to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down again, repeating this action for eternity.

Steven Cavanagh

This moment in time when the past is asking something of the present and future…

There is a strange humming noise emanating from the earth. 

People in states of psychological crisis and personal transformation are grappling with the deepest existential questions of the human condition.

Perhaps to be human is to forget? To exist in a state of selective amnesia, creating simple truths that render experience a rewritable and negotiable fiction.