The Hidden Gesture - the works

Vilma Bader, The White Space of Mallarmé detail

Vilma Bader, The White Space of Mallarmé in process

Vilma Bader, The White Space of Mallarmé 2013,  Pigment ink on archival paper,

50, each 22.7 x 17.7 cm. 

Clara Chow  Currency II & III

2-channel digital HD video, 2015

Eliya Nikki Cohen

Embrace, silver gelatin print, 2010

Andrew Christie Tears of Joy

The Hidden Gesture opens Friday 24 June, 6-8pm

Open Friday - Sunday 11am - 5pm until July 17

The Hidden Gesture is curated by Andrew Christie

Works by Vilma Bader, Clara Chow, Frankie Chow, Eliya Nikki Cohen, Mitchel Cumming, Laura Turner and Joe Florio, Christina Lucia, Giuffrida, Aaron Moore

The Hidden Gesture displays work that communicates the unintentionally expressed and the intentionally unexpressed. These artists recognise the inevitable collapse and failure that accompanies probing into the available means of conveying intent – with a strong focus towards, yet not exclusive to, the body – through art. Inevitably each action reveals and conceals elements of our identity and the messages we wish to disseminate about ourselves and others. As identities and perspectives are in constant flow, these works aim to analyse how what is present and absent through intention transitions to its culminated artistic products and what that declares about artistic agency.

Aaron Moore

Stuff self, digital photography, 2015

Clara Chow

Currency II & III

2-channel digital HD video, 2015

Christina Lucia Giuffrida

Part of installation Why You Do This?, mixed media, 2015

Eliya Nikki Cohen

Embrace, silver gelatin print, 2010

Frankie Chow

Homesick, single-channel digital video, 2016

Laura Turner and Joe Florio

Figure in a Dark Landscape, single channel digital video, 2015

Mitchel Cumming

Ad Break, promotional posters in custom A-frame, 2013

Vilma Bader
Everyday, acrylic on panels mounted on wooden frames, 2011

Opening of Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015 tonight

 

 above photos: William Seeto

above photos: Luke Jaaniste

Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015 opens Friday 2 October 6-8pm

Messametito presents Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015

Opening night Friday 2 October
Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Saturday 3 - 11 October.

Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015 is an extension of work that began last year, as a group of scientist were put together to explore a theory about sound. Each scientist was in agreement that the theory made sense. The scientists wrote reports as to why and how the theory could or could not be shown. The idea of a Fcklty (as pronounced by Polish science types) is that like-minded people come together to research and inquire about the same subject matter. 

Yet, more often than not, the people within a faculty will be looking at the subject form various viewpoints. It is with this idea we would like to investigate various artists working within sound, by creating a faculty we are able to learn, teach and engage with each other. This faculty will still be manned by the science types that were there from the beginning and I hope to add some more. Artists working in sound do not engage with scientists or mathematicians and engineers very often. And often these science types do not engage with the arts. By creating a large reaching faculty we the artists get the benefit of discussing ideas with scientists and scientists get the benefits of discussing creative ideas with artists. Controlled= science, kaos= art. Ideally this show is a place where the artists get to meet and engage with others working within their field. We hope that these shows will help to nourish new ideas, contacts and an environment of learning and fun. Strangely enough- when you invite scientist to play- art actually becomes more absurd. This work is an experiment and as such we will continue to learn via trial and error - a fundamental tool used in science to solve problems. “Experimental research is a systematic and scientific approach to the scientific method where the scientist manipulates variables.” Or is this Art?
  
follow via facebook: A faculty is an area where many people converge that look at the same subject matter, however often research it in a multitude of ways. This show highlights many different emerging artists using the subject of sound as a starting point. Through the study of sound, artists often engage in scientific and language studies, as well as musical history and hybridity. By using sound the artist often marries the arts and sciences back together in a submersive and interactive way that is experienced by each viewer individually. 

In a world where creativity has often left the science arena artists pick up the reins again. Join us to investigate the wonderous works by Frankie Chow, Gucci Hummus Wayne, Laura Hunt, Jannah Quill, Liam Crowley, Jeffrey Wood, Bronwen Williams and more

Jenny Alaca will perform  'Destroying 88 Metres'. image credit: Interlude Gallery

Jeffrey Wood

Luke Jaaniste, BLACK BOX SUPER STACK
sonic feedback sculpture using miniature no-input woofers