Happy New Year

Adrian Hall Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor 2018

FERMENT opens at Articulate on Friday 4 January at 6-8pm

FERMENT runs from 4 January to 3 February 2019, open Friday - Sunday 11am-5pm

It has five openings—on Fridays 6-8pm on 4, 11, 18 and 25 January & 1 February

FERMENT 1  will open on Friday 4 January showing the work of artists Mandy Burgess, Sue Callanan, Curtis Ceapa, Paul Cooper, der_melicious,  Jacquelene Drinkall, Dominique Madeleine Devadason, Beata Geyer, Harry Klein and  Andrew Simms.

FERMENT1 Roomsheet

FERMENT 1 is the first of FERMENT's five exhibitions that together show the work of 50 artists over 5 weeks. FERMENT is a project designed to present the exhibition as a changing site by re-contextualising each artwork with new works installed in the gaps left by the departure of works that were installed earlier.  This weekly going and coming of artworks is like a slow and progressive dance, each step of which is seen by coming to its 5 openings—on Fridays 6-8pm on 4, 11, 18 and 15 January & 1 February.

By the time it finishes at 5pm on Sunday 3 February, it will have shown the work of Lisa Andrew & Rachel Buckeridge, Susan Andrews, Karen Banks, Liz Bradshaw, Mandy Burgess, Sue Callanan, Angus Callander, Curtis Ceapa , Stella Chen, Lucinda Clutterbuck and Lewis, Paul Cooper, Julian Day, der_melicious, Dominique Madeleine Devadason,  Jacquelene drinkall, Michele Elliot, Merilyn Fairskye, Nola Farman, Beata Geyer, Claire Gibbon, Allan Giddy,  Adrian Hall, Barbara Halnan, Annelies Jahn, Fiona Kemp, Harry Klein, Michelle Le Dain, Joyce Lubotzky, Wendy Miller, Louise Morgan, Nadia Odlum, Renay Pepita, Anya Pesce, Margaret Roberts, Tamsin Salehian, Andrew Simms, Eva Simmons, Anke Stäcker, Helen M Sturgess, Jessica Thallmaier, Rosie Thomas, Mark Titmarsh, Nina Walton, Elke Wohlfahrt and Sarah Woodward.

Liz Bradshaw plans to write about FERMENT, following on from Lisa Sharp, Elizabeth Rankin, Isobel Johnston, Amy Prcevich, India Zegan, Nora Fleming and John von Sturmer who wrote about its predecessors, FERRET, FERAL and FAIRISLE.

Sue Callanan

Beata Geyer

Dominique Madeleine Devadason

Jacquelene Drinkall

Melissa Baveas

Curtis Ceapa

Harry Klein

Paul Cooper

After FERMENT 1 ends on Sunday 6 January, half the artists de-install their work, and another group of artists install to produce FERMENT 2.  These overlapping changeovers continue until FERMENT 5 concludes on Sunday 3 February.

FERMENT 2 will open Friday 11 January showing the work of  Karen Banks, Mandy Burgess,  Sue Callanan, Stella Chen, Paul Cooper, Julian Day, Michele Elliot, Merilyn Fairskye, Beata Geyer, Harry Klein, Margaret Roberts, Andrew Simms, Rosie Thomas and Sarah Woodward.

FERMENT 3 will open Friday 18 January showing the work of Karen Banks, Liz Bradshaw  Angus Callander, Stella Chen, Julian Day,  Michele Elliot, Fiona Kemp, Merilyn Fairskye,  Barbara Halnan, Margaret Roberts, Anke Stäcker, Jessica Thallmaier, Rosie Thomas, Nina Walton and Sarah Woodward

FERMENT 4 will open Friday 25 January showing the work of Susan Andrews Liz Bradshaw, Angus Callander, Lucinda Clutterbuck and Lewis, Barbara Halnan, Fiona Kemp, Michelle Le Dain, Louise Morgan, Renay Pepita, Anke Stäcker, Helen M Sturgess, Jessica Thallmaier,  Mark Titmarsh, Nina Walton and Elke Wohlfahrt

FERMENT 5 will open Friday 1 February showing the work of  Lisa Andrew & Rachel Buckeridge, Susan Andrews, Lucinda Clutterbuck and Lewis, Claire Gibbon, Nola Farman, Allan Giddy,  Michelle Grasso, Adrian Hall,  Annelies Jahn, Michelle Le Dain, Joyce Lubotzky, Wendy Miller, Louise Morgan, Nadia Odlum,  Renay Pepita, Tamsin Salehian, Eva Simmons, Helen M Sturgess, Mark Titmarsh and Elke Wohlfahrt

FERMENT is Articulate's fourth project that presents the exhibition as a site determined as much by changing artwork as by architecture and location. It does this by intermingling works by two different groups of each week—incoming artists install in a site shaped partly by works continuing from the previous week and the gaps left by outgoing works. It is planned as a slow progressive artists' dance in which each show is one step, and in which the whole is understood through a mixture of observing and remembering.

FERMENT is called FERMENT because it sounds slightly like the FERRET of 2018 and FERAL of 2015, which was named FERAL because it sounded slightly like FAIRISLE of 2013 (titled because of the progressive nature of the Fairisle knitting pattern) and because, like FAIRISLE, its overlapping structure is a slightly feral form of exhibition practice. Follow the links to documentation of the earlier FERRET, FERAL 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5  and FAIRISLE projects.

Final day coming up for Articulate Turns Eight

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.

Open Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm till 23 December 

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Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

More AT8 here

L-R: Barbara Halnan, Ros Cook (top), Nadia Odlum, Anke Stäcker

L-R: Vilma Bader, Renay Pepita, Barbara Halnan, Ros Cook, Nadia Odlum, Anke Stäcker, Pam Kleeman, Elizabeth Hogan, Steven Cavanagh

L-R: Julian Day, Jenee O'Brien, Vilma Bader

L-R: Sonja Karl and Liz O'Reilly, Mandy Burgess

photos: Peter Murphy

Final Weekend coming up of Articulate Turns Eight

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.

Open Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm till 23 December 

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Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

See more AT8 here

Juliet Fowler Smith

L-R:  Genevieve Carroll , Margaret Roberts, Molly Wagner, Jane Burton Taylor

foreground L-R: Mandy Burgess, Sue Callanan, Linden Braye, Jeff Wood, Lisa Sharp, Beata Geyer

foreground L-R: Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Chantal Grech, Fiona Kemp, Kate MacKay,  Jody Graham

L-R: Ebony Secombe, Jody Graham, Noelene Lucas, Mireille Eid, Alison Clouston

foreground: Laine Hogarty, bckground: L Elzabeth Rankin, R: Sarah Woodward

Photos Peter Murphy

Articulate Turned Eight last night

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.

Open Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm till 23 December 

ROOMSHEET

Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

See more AT8 here

Articulate Turns Eight Opens Friday 7 December 6-8pm

8 - 23 December

Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.


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Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

more AT8 here

Fiona Kemp NUZZLE 2018

Sardar Sinjawi  After a Beam of Light: SI Series, acrylic and artificial candle, 2018

Chantal Grech  M other Tongue  64x60.5cm 2018

Julian Day Poles - Alaska Projects - video still by Hospital Hill - 1

Genevieve Carroll THE WATTLE ROOM

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Bill Moseley Trackwork 2018

See previous Articulate birthday exhibitions here: 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

Fakt Abstrakcja opened last night

Fakt Abstrakcja is open 11am-5pm Friday -Sunday till Sunday 2 December

Artist's talk and presentation on fabs by Piotr Szymor - Saturday 17 November, 1 - 3pm 

Fakt Abstrakcja by Malgorzata Sidor and Wienczyslaw Sporecki - opens Friday 16 November

Fakt Abstrakcja by Malgorzata Sidor and Wienczyslaw Sporecki

Opening Reception: Friday 16 November, 6-8pm

Artists’ Talk: Presentation on fabs by Piotr Szymor - Saturday 17 November, 1 - 3pm 

(NB: artists' Talk changed from time announced earlier.)

Open Hours: 11am - 5pm, Friday - Sunday, 17 November - 2 December 2018

Curated by William Seeto

Fakt Abstrakcja is an exhibition by Malgorzata Sidor, Wienczyslaw Sporecki and Piotr Szymor. They are founding members of the Polish Artists’ Association, fabs. The curator first met Malgorzata Sidor whilst attending an art event at Lodz in 1993.  He connected with Wienczyslaw Sporecki and Piotr Szymor on subsequent visits to Poland when Malgorzata Sidor initiated and organised fabs art projects in Poland, U.K., Wales, India and Ukraine.

            Associations of artists in Poland are prevalent, even after the fall of Communism, with each city having one or more groups. They provide support for artists and are loosely based on workers’ unions. They can be likened to artist-run-spaces in the U.S., which are membership-based that provide studios and venues for performances, events and exhibitions.

            The artworks in the exhibition are informed by Western contemporary art, however they are moderated by connections to the past, as a recurring concept is freedom and self-expression. The exhibition provides a unique viewpoint for the Australian audience on contemporary art in Poland.

            The title of the exhibition is formulated from the acronym of the association’s name, fabs:

fabs (fact-abstraction) - the idea of the site of activity.

A group of artists (an association) who employ various forms, from performance and installation to ephemeral action, going beyond the classifications of art, which constitute fabs - a site of action, work and exhibition.

Fact is something that is known to exist - a thing in itself, abstraction in not identical with the thing in itself. That which happens between fact and abstraction, or between the physical and the abstract, is a field in which we work. We acknowledge that in the most precisely defined axiomatic systems there may appear some true statements that are impossible to prove.

https://factabstraction.blogspot.com/

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Malgorzata Sidor

Born in 1960. Lives and works in Lodz and Zbludza, Poland. Initiator, co-founder and President of the Artists’ Association fabs.

Artist – Installation and photography. As an artist, she uses installation, photography, sculpture forms and performance. She studied at the University of Lodz, Poland, and Goldsmiths' College, University of London; and received a scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998. From 2005 to 2010 she ran the fabs gallery, Brzeska 7, in Warsaw, Poland; in 2010, she set-up and directed the Association fabs’ Centre and Gallery in Zbludza, Poland. She also initiated a project to build the Piotr Kwit Museum at Zalesie, as well as a number of other projects that supported the local community of the Commune of Kamienica, Poland.

She initiated and organised international arts meetings: Siteations, Cardiff, UK, 1994; Nothing New Under the Sun, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Southdown, U.K., 1996; Golden Seed, Mt Abu, India, 1997; Honey Forest, Bialowieza Primeval Forest, Poland, 1998; Antesound, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland, 2000; Atopos, former Poznanski Factory, Lodz, Poland, 2001; Terrestrials, The Old Norblin Factory, Warsaw Poland, 2002; No Volume, Palac Sztuki, Lviv, Ukraine 2003; Phantoms 1, Borne Sulinowo, Poland, 2005; Phantoms 2, Koneser Factory, Warsaw, Poland.

AKQUARIUM 1 and 2. 2008

“I associate freedom with the road, with movement, so with a journey. A real journey with no return. So I thought: when we are very close to/with someone, we can move away a little, but we still remain attached. And, on the whole, we don’t question our intimacy, but, on the contrary, enrich and intensify that attachment. Thus there is some leeway within certainty. This is what I tried to show in the photographic series AQUARIUM 1. I would call it freedom; freedom towards truth. Because it is freedom that leads us to truth. And truths are most often something very simple; only one must know how to notice them. We need to remember that truths almost always are revelations, and that’s what makes them beautiful. This is what I tried to show in AQUARIUM 2. Why Aquarium? I probably thought of two things. For the first time I personally felt the passage of time; I felt that I lived in a time aquarium, and I wanted to realise it more deeply, and on the other hand I thought of Suvorov’s Aquarium, and of an antidote to that evil aquarium of his.

Aquarium is a partly autobiographical description by Viktor Suvorov of the GRU (Soviet military intelligence directorate). The ‘Aquarium’ of the title is the nickname given to GRU headquarters in Moscow by those who worked there.” Malgorzata Sidor.

AKQUARIUM 1 and 2. 2008

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Wienczyslaw Sporecki

Born in 1964. Lives and works in the United Kingdom.

Artist – Photography and installation. Co-founder of the Artists’ Association fabs.

“After the period of primary and secondary education, 1970–1983, as a result of his upbringing at home, he engaged in activities against the political system effective at that time in Poland. This situation also contributed to the blockage by the authorities of further normal education and his forced enlistment in the army. 1981 saw a breakthrough in the decision to become an artist. Initially, thanks to his alternative education and independent contacts with lecturers of the Visual Arts High School in his hometown, he was educating himself and working in the field of graphic design and painting. His works at that time displayed serious political commitment; were inspired by German expressionism and DADA, and in particular by Kurt Schwitters, who fascinated him. These elements led to the creation of ‘Mobile Gallery MERZ1’ – an author’s gallery in a suitcase, whose space were some places that the artist reached during his artistic journeys, during which he found alternative spaces of contact with audiences (railway stations, private apartments, parks, underground passages, pedestrian streets, etc.), transformed into Mobile Gallery MERZ1’s space for the duration of art activity. After 1984, he gradually moved away from political involvement – as a result, among others, of forced service in the army – which he abandoned after taking up studies at the Faculty of Textile Design of the State Academic School of Visual Arts in Lodz in 1986; which he subsequently abandoned at the turn of 1988/89, disappointed by the lack of authority figures and the rigid framework of the educational programme inhibiting individual development. He defines this period by the sentence: ‘I never studied there, and only walked around this school’s corridors, looking for something intriguing...’. Contacts with independent culture circles, regular artistic travels around the country, outside official institutions of visual arts, and intense creative work resulted in a large number of presentations and his working out his own ways of communicating with the audience, which can be termed ‘physical Internet’ – a very direct, as for those times, relationship with the audience, which consisted not only of the presentation of his own work, but also of placing them in the context of the audience’s familiarity with art, including talks about the circumstances of the making of the work, theory and the artist’s ideas. After the political transformations in Poland and in Eastern European countries in 1989, he joined the mainstream activities. Unfortunately, he soon discovered the superficial nature of those transformations, which also led to the elaboration of the method of ‘anonymous artist’ and ‘fractional existence’. In 1996 he started to function as ‘Rudolf Schwarz – signum fractional existence’. At the same time he resigned from functioning in the official artistic circuit. Having met Malgorzata Sidor in September 1997, he began his involvement in the idea of creating the Artists’ Association fabs, which has become his only official form of functioning in the public space. The shows are extremely intimate. They are documented exceptionally sparingly, and their essence is a direct conversation with the audience, aimed at a thorough description and conveying the intent of the piece. An important stage of the artist's path was the work as documentary photographer in press agencies in 1998–2003, deliberately subordinated to the idea of ‘fractional existence’. Since 10 April 2010 (the day of the tragic plane crash of the Polish presidential delegation in Russia) he has lived in exile in the U.K.” Wienczyslaw Sporecki

ASYMMETRICAL THREAT. 2008

“(Wienczyslaw Sporecki) is interested in the structures of power and the specific methods of influencing this power on people. He is trying to show the impact of public institutions on the functioning of various communities… Several photographs depict soldiers in a military unit. The signatures below are ‘Tal’, ‘Dioxin’, ‘Cortisol’, ‘Ergot’, ‘Bromine salt’. These are the names of toxic chemicals that can be used in foodstuffs, which can not be seen. Tal easily dissolves in water. In this way was poisoned former Russian intelligence agent, Alexander Litvinenko. Dioxins can be smuggled in vegetables. They were used against the current Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. Cortisol can be given in meat. Ergot, the hallucinogen-inducing hallucinogenic parasite can be used in flour, and the brominated salt in salt. With these substances you can eliminate uncomfortable people. These are all new activities that have not been treated so far as military. And yet they use military special forces. It turns out that today a soldier does not have to wear a uniform and his weapon does not have to be a rifle.” Joanna Kiwilszo, 2008

ASYMMETRICAL THREAT. 2008

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Piotr Szymor

Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

Translator and Editor. Co-founder of the Artists’ Association fabs.

Education	1978-1984. University of Lodz M.A. in English Philology – specialisation: English literature. 1989-1995 University of Oxford (St Hugh’s College) Postgraduate studies - passed a D. Phil. Qualifying Exam Doctoral thesis: Shakespeare’s Novella-shaped World
Residencies as Translator	Spring 2007 Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium, Straelen, Germany 20/07-20/08. 2007 Das Übersetzerhaus Looren in Zürich, Switzerland 21/09-4/10.2009 The House of Literature at Lefkes, Paros, Greece

https://factabstraction.blogspot.com/