Video by Liam Kesteven
Artsider is open 11am-5pm Friday-Sunday till 27 July.
Artsider is open 11am-5pm Friday-Sunday till 27 July.
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| Dorit Goldman |
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| Dorit Goldman - Once u have seen oz why would u go back to Kansas |
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| Veronica Habib (showing ArticulateUpstairs) |
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| Melissa Maree - Photo: Liam Kesteven |
Conversation between
Melissa Maree and Margaret Roberts about Artsider at Articulate project space:
25 July 2014.
MR: Was it you who had the
motivation to make Artsider a progressive changing project?
MM: The idea came from a collab work with Dorit at Syndey
College of the Arts. We occupied a bare, empty wall outside the auditorium,
subject to the public at SCA. Both of us discussed placing an artwork on this
wall in response to one another, as a dialogue. Intuitively, this visual
dialogue involved overtime but with our own everyday lives pulling us in other
directions the time between placing more work/replacing work from the wall got
wider. It was at this point the process driven project dissipated and became a
static, artefactual objects on a exhibition wall.
So I thought it would be really
great to have time in a space where artists were constantly making and
producing work that is ephermal and transient, with a focus on practice and
process over end-means. Dorit and myself work in a similar intuitive manner and
were interested in the everydayness of artists physically using space – public
and private – to make their artworks.
MR: Does that mean you are not
interested in making a set of rules for yourself in advance but making artwork
that simply passes the time in a public space?
MM: Yes and no. There is still a kind of structure, because
Artsider occurs within a daily work time 9-5 period. We as artist already
create formal rules for ourselves, limitations on what we choose to use as
materials. So Dorit and myself limit the 'rules' to just formal organizations,
such as when we worked on the auditorium wall at uni – we stuck to works being
placed in horizontal line. I think the more rules there are the more the
process is set out to fail. The only real rule is the everydayness of practice.
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| Janine Bailey |
Conversation between Janine Bailey and Margaret Roberts, 20 July 2014:
MR Can you start by talking about why are
you interested in coming in and using the space as a project space to work in, and
how has that come out of your art practice - is it a new way of working for you?
JB It is new to me to
work in a professional gallery, just to have free range in a space this big,
just having the room to lay out a large piece of plastic, having professional
lighting, being able to stand back from the work. I did bring in things I made
in the last few months that kick-started the process here and I have used that to
inspire my work over thesse last couple of days, especially the GPS tracking.
Tell me about the GPS tracking.
I started working
with GPS tracking last year when I was paddling in Sydney Harbour, and also
walking, aIl generating lots of drawing. I did it for months and months
everyday, and from them I made prints.
They are very organic shapes as you can see on the large paper. But I
started very small scale and worked up to those very large pieces. It was really challenging.
And the most recent way
of using the GPS was to go to the 19th biennale. I went to the 5 sites and tracked
myself walking around— Carriageworks, MCA, AGNSW, Artspace and Cockatoo Island.
And from those drawings I decided I would make paper sculptures. I don't know
where that came from. I had some paper left over from a print edition that I
had done. I had some nice black,
quite matt, 230 gsm paper and it just dawned on me that I should cut the shapes
out of the paper, and then I made that first sculpture there—the black one hanging
is made of 5 separate shapes and I put them together and I realised that
everyday I could dis-assemble and re-assemble it and make a new sculpture.
And from there on I
went onto make the bigger one which was quite time consuming but I actually
really liked that and I ran out of that paper and tried to purchase some more
but found that I liked this polypropolene transparent plastic that is similar
to the paper but its more robust. Then yesterday, in the gallery, I used my app
on the phone to do my GPS tracking and started at 3 different points in the
gallery and made 3 different drawings. Then I made 3 different sculptures from
those, and instead of hanging them on the wall I made shapes with them and put
them on the floor.