Anke Stäcker, Elke Wohlfahrt, Liz O’Reilly and Sonja Karl - open from Friday 16 April

                                                            SERIOUSLY VAGUE 

presents

four solo exhibitions:

Anke Stäcker – Random Discoveries

Elke Wohlfahrt – Positively Negative

Liz O’Reilly – Travelling Light

Sonja Karl – Revealing Visions

Anke Stäcker investigates streets with female names in Sydney, Elke Wohlfahrt works with the hardware of analogue photography, Liz O’Reilly plays with the weight of treasured ephemera, and Sonja Karl reveals changing scenes in different lights. 

Conversations between these four artists working entirely independently of one another have uncovered relationships and unexpected dialogues between their work. By deciding to combine individual exhibitions under the one collective Seriously Vague, the artists invite you to look for connections. 

Exhibition  Friday 16 April  - Sunday 2 May 2021

Opening  Saturday 17 April 1-5pm 

Performance by Liz O’Reilly 

Saturday 17 April at 3pm 

Artists talk with Anke, Elke, Liz and Sonja 

Saturday 1 May at 3pm

Anke Stäcker Watch for Mabel 2020 (digital photo)

Elke Wohlfahrt – Positively Negative 2021

Liz O’Reilly World Cases 2021

Sonja Karl Fluid Shifts on the wing 1 2021

Conditions of entry:

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

Final Weekend coming up of Articulate Turns Eight

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.

Open Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm till 23 December 

ROOMSHEET

Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

See more AT8 here

Juliet Fowler Smith

L-R:  Genevieve Carroll , Margaret Roberts, Molly Wagner, Jane Burton Taylor

foreground L-R: Mandy Burgess, Sue Callanan, Linden Braye, Jeff Wood, Lisa Sharp, Beata Geyer

foreground L-R: Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Chantal Grech, Fiona Kemp, Kate MacKay,  Jody Graham

L-R: Ebony Secombe, Jody Graham, Noelene Lucas, Mireille Eid, Alison Clouston

foreground: Laine Hogarty, bckground: L Elzabeth Rankin, R: Sarah Woodward

Photos Peter Murphy

COMMON FATE open from Thursday 19 April

Common Fate – Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly – Artists-in-residence

Common Fate is an open residency of project work culminating in a series of installations and performances. It is a changing reflection on our personal collections of death and memory objects. It explores the multiple narratives of our inherited possessions and intimacies.

Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly, Installation, ‘memento-mori – Narratives of Inheritance’

Articulate will be open 11am-5pm, Thursday to Sunday until Saturday May 5^th during which time there will be opportunities for discussion and interaction with the artists in the evolution of the project.

Saturday 21st April 1 – 4pm

1.00pm Screening of award winning documentary – TENDER

The heartwarming story of a community coming together to challenge mainstream attitudes to dying, death and the business of funerals. 

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Sunday 22nd April: 2:00 – 4pm

2pm Performance

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Saturday 28th April: 2.00 – 4pm

2pm Artist’s Talk:  Invited artist Sylvia Griffin presents her contemporary practice of working with memory and trauma.

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Sunday 29th April: 2.00 – 4pm

2pm Performance

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Friday 4th May 6pm

Finissage: Performance and closing drinks

Due to the sensitive nature of discussing death and loss, we ask that there be no recordings of performances or talking circles out of respect for the participants and observers.  Please arrive 10 minutes prior to performances thank you.

Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly, Installation, ‘memento mori – Narratives of Inheritance.’(detail)

After someone dies there are objects left. We call them possessions, and understand them not just in the sense of literal ownership, but in the complex way an object reflects a person back to themselves. However fleeting or lasting, the intimate connection to an object is something we all have, and when death severs that relationship between person and possession, what becomes of it?

This liminal space of loss is where the project Common Fate resides, as an exploration of collections of objects left behind after death and an extrapolation of their resonance as possessed or known objects or lost intimacies. After death some possessions are highly visible, all over a person's house: next to their bed, in their bathroom cabinet, in the kitchen or in the drawers of their desks. However a great numbers of possessions are hidden, sometimes never seen by loved ones until after death.

Who possesses these visible and hidden objects now? When we see the material things in someone's possessions as a collection of intangible and intimate connections between them and the actual object, we can also see narratives around the transferral, dispersal or disposal of these possessions as layered and intricate relationships, family history and cultural inheritance.

Common Fate aims to reach out to the community; to initiate conversations, to provoke memories and stories, opening up expressions around diverse cultural concepts of death in order to bring to the fore what closure really signifies. 

Sonja Karl and Liz O'Reilly will be artists in residence in Articulate project space from 20 April 2018, using their personal collections of 'death objects' as the basis for Common Fate, from experimentation to installation, incorporating a dialogue with the community, finishing with a closing on the third weekend. 

Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly, Installation, ‘memento mori – Narratives of Inheritance.’(detail)