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Coming - Alan Schacher : Dividing/Line

Open from 2 August 2018:
Visiting times :
3-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 2nd-5th,
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 1986,

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-Palestine Wall),

and Marco Fusinato's Constellations 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 2nd 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 Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun August 2nd-5th,
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 note there will be no opening or closing event)


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