Adrian Hall - Yes YOU WILL be - end of first weekend

Yes Chaps - on Thursday 1st. September, 2016.

6.00pm - at Articulate

Live coagulation, sound, action, improvisatory delights.

With an occasional rant . . .

ALIAS:

the Aramoana Live Improvisation Action Society

Kevin Sheehan - Wentworth Falls. artist, muso,

Nathan Thomson - late of Port Chalmers, Otago,

currently Thirroul, N.S.W. artist, muso,

Adrian Hall, artist; peripatetic proletarian ...

in concert, with

Video by Peter Callas, "I Would Have Run But I Had A Heavy Cold' 1980, 11 mins.

Video by Chris Fortescue & Ingrid Seier. Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna. "I Destroy, I Destroy, I Destroy"

And hot hints from Vienna;

Watch this space . . .

This project is supported by funding from Leichhardt Council

Adrian Hall - yes YOU WILL be - rolling program

John Gillies will re-present his 1991 Perspecta work,

at 6.30pm Saturday. 27th. August 2016.

Techno/Dumb/Show  
a work made in collaboration with the Sydney Front.                                                                                                                                                      

and conversations SHALL happen.

Recordings shall be made, as with all dialogue and visitations.

I do expect Cailin Richardson Hall,

to contact from New Zealand with conversation on the decisions facing 

school leavers in the Marlborough area. Saturday or Sunday.

Sometime Sunday, 28th August, 2016, Margot Nash has said she will visit -

conversation and dialogue guaranteed . . . at least.

Just been on the go with Terry Hayes on Skype . . .

He shall be here from 10am on Wednesday, 31.08.2016.

Frolics shall ensue to celebrate 200 years since 1816 . . .

there shall be swinging sounds of that time, 

then 100 years of Dada, 

where-bye Terry gets his rocks off his property, 

and we contemplate the shortness of two thick planks.

We could well be talking with Chris Fortescue 

in Vienna later on that day with images of Haus Wittgenstein. 

And more visible notions relating Chris says, to 1981.

I shall sporadically show recordings of old stuff, from Friday on,

and records of other Occurrences in N.Z. and Belfast,

as suits my whimsy. This morning I read from Francis Bacon,

an essay on "Riches" dedicated to Uncle Scrooge McDuck.

Previously on Tuesday I read "Learning" dedicated to those rascals in Callan Park - with my congratulations. 

These audio texts shall be on <adrianhall.space> shortly.

with other video recordings of occurrences and rants 

happening within "Yes you will be". And you will!

Today I also wrote to that veteran of flame-thrower combat in Italy, truly, the very first Head of S.C.A. and asked if he could help me locate one of those flame-throwers, 

which I might offer to those very students. 

Which direction it could be pointed, is a point in itself. 

This project is supported by funding from Leichhardt Council

Adrian Hall - yes YOU WILL be - opening Friday 26 August 11 am

Open 11am - 5pm  Friday - Sunday, 26 August - 11 September 2016

There will be no normal Friday opening event.

Instead, Adrian shall be running various seminars, events, and live presentations, which shall be posted here and streamed on  http://www.adrianhall.space/ . . . .

 

good not to miss any of it. . .

because you may have already missed: 

"Banzai, Parts One and Two:
DAY ONE - I thought about it - holding a pumpkin.
DAY TWO - I destroyed the world."

With Motoko Kikkawa -  DSA Gallery, Dunedin, N.Z. May, 2016.

Adrian also, amongst other tales and noises, told the story of T. E. Lawrence and Winston Churchill, sitting in a grand hotel in Cairo; drinking Cognac and smoking fine cigars, as they divided up North Africa, to create Palestine.

 

Yes, you WILL be is the first solo Sydney exhibition for over a decade, of the work of experimental sculptor, Adrian Hall, who describes his work as a concern with different kinds of space, including that between people and places - and times.  He has devised a program of live installation and performances in collaboration with Sydney-based artists, discussions with whom are likely to draw out practices and concerns of the Sydney art scene in the 1970s and 80s and 90s, among other things. This was the art scene that Adrian was a key part of.

This art scene was connected to the promise and energy supported by the forward-thinking arts-initiatives of those times. These initiatives included the establishment of Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) where Adrian Hall was the Head of Sculpture from 1979 to 1984, and the post-graduate programme of the School of Media Art at CoFA where Adrian was head in the early 1990s. There, he played a key role in the artistic development of many Australian artists of later generations. The experimental ethos of his programs lived on long after he had moved on, both through the continuation of the programs themselves and through the return of many of the artists his programs had produced to teach at Sydney and other art schools.

It also lives on in Articulate project space itself. Articulate was founded in 2010 by artists whose interest in experimental spatial practices had been developed through participation in the early SCA program in particular. Articulate project space was founded to support such practices as they have developed since then, and is extremely proud to have succeeded in persuading Adrian back to Sydney after all this time.

And so it is an ironic twist that this long-awaited return coincides with the announcement by the University of Sydney of its plans to dissolve Sydney College of the Arts, showing it is unable to recognise its unique contribution to the cultural life of Sydney and Australia. Articulate hopes that Yes, you WILL be can make a small contribution to growing demands on governments and institutions to take more seriously their responsibility to take a leadership role in support for the arts.  

This project is supported by funding from Leichhardt Council

a few years ago in Dunedin . . . 

http://www.adrianhall.space

Final weekend: Reading to the River

above images: Ella Dreyfus

Chantal Grech: Reading to the river - remembrance of things…

a project space project by Chantal Grech

Closing drinks Saturday 13 August 5 to 7 PM

This project follows on from a work in the Feminist Archive show (CrossArts Books 2015) where I proposed that an archive which documented a performance could be further worked on or be part of another work in an ongoing organic process of change and renewal rather than remain a static document recording a past moment.

In this work a series of readings again constituted a performance. This was documented in the form of stills and moving images. The readings were short fragments, some autobiographical, others not. A memorial poem, a work by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, and a short series of remembrances were read at different times of the day in one place- the river Seine, on the bank closest to L’IMA, itself an archive of Arabic culture. The documentation of this performance will be used as the basis of an experimental project that aims to see what happens when different systems of representation are used to explore one work. This project shares the subject of readings to the empty space (Articulate 2012), which was about the nature of home and belonging but extends it to a meditation on loss, memory and the personal as a fractal of a larger community.

The performance is a lament for a moment that is gone, for the loss of a homeland that never was and can never be retrieved. The moment of performing is also past but by including it in a real space as part of a current experience the past becomes  part of the continuous present.

Chantal

http://chantalmgrech.com/