GADGETRY PROGRESS

Andrew Burrell's communicating gadget

Joey Nguyen at Kath Fries' Bubble gadget

Drawing gadget by Madeline Callanan

Drum gadget by Sam Bruce

above photos by Joey Nguyen

plus see Jon Drummond's Vimeo of same

Linden's feathered thingies

click here to see it move

Jon Drummond's video of Linden's drawing tops

Samuel Bruce drum in progress

room sheet in progress

KINETIC MACHINES & GADGETS OPENING FRIDAY 25 JAN 6pm

Kinetic Machines & Gadgets is a project by 12 artists who will work in the project space for a fortnight on individual or collaborative gadgetry or gadget-ideas. Come to the opening on Friday 25 January 6-8pm and look at, advise on and even tinker yourself with gadgets-in-progress.  It will be open again on Fri- Sun 1 - 3 Feb (11am-5pm) - come again to contribute further, or just to see what progress has been made. The plan is that 'finished' prototypes will be on show on the closing on Sunday 3 February from 3-5pm.

IN CASE YOU MISSED NOCTURNE

Second degree: an account of an encounter

As you walked in to the space the light fell on a group of blackened masks or faces, slightly larger than life, installed on the wall to one’s right between the timber posts. It looked as if the masks   may have been covered with bitumen but there was no aroma of pitch.  Their presence hovered within   a perceptual space that was neither scary nor cute.

The next alcove was darkened.  Many small framed objects became illuminated at intervals. A bluish light emanated from photographic images of night scenes in bushland of some sort. As one peered into the images one could begin to perceive amorphous forms; slightly human, slightly animal like (the artists crouched, shrouded in blankets wearing animal ears). To the far left end of the wall, one of these objects depicted a bluish veil. Opposite on the brick wall was a miniature video of a moving image of mist rising from a landscape.

As one continued   to move straight ahead in darkness, the path was closed off with a curved screen.  Mounted above and behind it, a data projector   sent a beam of blue light through the screen and onto the wall: the final motif in the space.  Two small button s on a little game console could be manipulated by the viewer to expand or reduce this blue beam of light into a thin line or a huge blue blob that occupied the entire wall.  There were sounds.

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NOCTURNE - OPENING NIGHT

NOCTURNE: Sometimes the bump in the night may be closer than you first imagined. . .

Nocturne is an exhibition of new work and collaborations from Katherine Olston and Andrew Burrell, opening at Articulate project space on 

Friday 15 June 6-8pm.

The exhibition is open: 11-5pm, Thursday 14th June- Sunday 17th June

The exhibition Nocturne is a compelling and eerie mix of childhood beasties

and adult horrors projected onto the backdrop of the deep, dark Australian

Bush.

Nocturne presents new collaborations by Katherine Olston and Andrew

Burrell in response to their seven-day art residency in the near-ghost town of

Glen Davis (population 27) in the Greater Blue Mountains National Park.

Through installation, sculpture and interactive real-time 3d, and with reference

to both horror movies and children’s books, the artists explore notions of

personal internal fears and anxieties projected onto the larger external space

of the Australian Bush. The work focuses on the Australian Bush as both an

environment to be explored and a construct of the ‘colonial other’. The Bush is

often seen and portrayed (by this colonizing other) as a mysterious place,

often dangerous and usually to be feared. When combined with the darkness

of the night, the sense of fear associated with the Bush is compounded and

the menace of the unseen can materialize into reality.

press release

invitation