SLOWING DOWN TIME 3 in process

new Sue Healey website

 Sue Healey @ Carriageworks July 2015

 Slowing Down Time 4 at Belconnen Arts Centre in Canberra on 12 June 2015

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SLOWING DOWN TIME 3

Jo Law, Michele Elliot, Louise Curham and Sue Healey

press release 

Project dates: 7^th – 26^th October

Closing event: Sunday 26^th October 2-4pm

Project space opening hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am – 5pm

For access at other times between 7 and 26 October contact the artists on 0414 494 559

Each artist will be working in the project space on the following dates:

Jo Law 12th-16th Oct

Michele Elliot 7-11th Oct

Sue Healey 17th - 22nd Oct

Louise Curham 24-26th Oct

Slowing Down Time is an ongoing project that aims to open up a dialogic space for artists Jo Law, Michele Elliot, Louise Curham and Sue Healey to create works together. This is their third iteration of Slowing Down Time. It builds on the previous two, the first here at Articulate project space in April and the second at the Faculty of Creative Arts Gallery, University of Wollongong in August.

above  image: slowing down time 1

Their collaboration explores the premise of slowing down time in order to create a palpable zone where the experience of time is decelerated. Responding specifically to the site, the artists invite the audience to negotiate the dimensions of the space and experience minute details and interventions, to consider fragments and residues of memories and objects. The four artists share an attentiveness to the everyday, to materiality and gestures, to domestic scenes and traces of habitation.

Each artist takes the space for five days and has a day overlapping with the next artist. The layers of work evolve over the duration of the project as a new contribution is added each week. These responses culminate in a richly textured and layered work in the final week of the exhibition.

image left : slowing down time 2

The nature of this project pivots on a dialogic and accumulative practice. As a conclusion to the project, the artists will lead a discussion about the creative process of the work and invite the audience to participate in critical dialogue about the making process and whether they have succeeded in slowing down time.

image left: slowing down time 2

Slowing Down Time - final day

L-R: artists' talks: Sue Healey, Michele Elliot, Louise Curham, Jo Law

The last day of Slowing Down Time showed the accumulated works of four artists who have distinct practices but share similar aesthetics and are very familiar with each other's practices. It is an interesting example of collaboration in which both individuality and commonality are  maintained.  For example, the direct drawing (pencil on plaster wall) by Michele Elliot is linked to the animated line projections of Jo Law; the sound-super8 collaboration of Louise Curham, Alister Spence and Alexandra Spence merge with the dance projections of Sue Healey. This project also explores relationships between the space within images and the space in which images are located through the use of movement and stillness. The progressive nature of Slowing Down Time is also taken up again in the following project, Fair Isle, with the difference that the Fair Isle artists come together randomly by selecting a fortnight- time slot, and the interactions between works is also expected to be more random.  

slowing down time blog

SLOWING DOWN TIME performances artists' talks and discussion Sunday 6 April, 2-5pm

SLOWING DOWN TIME will finish this weekend with the accumulation of 4 artists' projects built up over 4 weeks, including a version of the performance by Louise Curham, Alister Spence and Alexandra Spence developed in week 1. 

The performance, artists talks and discussion will be held on Sunday 6 April,  2-5pm. Please come along to participate in the discussion of this most interesting experiment in artist collaboration that crosses disciplines as well as artists' practices, space and time.

Slowing Down Time will also be open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday to 6 April.

Roomsheet pdf

http://artofslowingdowntime.tumblr.com/

Louise Curham https://vimeo.com/user2675588

Michele Elliot http://www.micheleelliot.com/

Sue Healey http://www.suehealey.com.au/

Jo Law http://www.jolaw.org

SLOWING DOWN TIME: end of week 2

Slowing Down Time week 2 (detail: Louise Curham & Michele Elliot)

Roomsheet pdf

http://artofslowingdowntime.tumblr.com/

Louise Curham https://vimeo.com/user2675588

Michele Elliot http://www.micheleelliot.com/

Sue Healey http://www.suehealey.com.au/

Jo Law http://www.jolaw.org

CURHAM & SPENCE X 2 PERFORMANCE-INSTALLATION 15-16 March 3-5pm

Sat 15 & Sun 16 March, 3 - 5pm: Curham & Spence X 2, performance-installation by 

Louise Curham (Canberra), Alister Spence (Sydney) & Alexandra Spence (Toronto)

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Curham & Spence X 2  Saturday 15 March

Curham & Spence X 2 uses Super8 films made by Louise Curham that are back-projected onto three hanging white perspex squares, and that work as visual scores for Alister Spence to improvise with a prepared fender rhodes keyboard, mixer, samples and effects pedals. The improvisation is heard against/with/through the 25-minute loop of soundworks by Alexandra Spence that she sent from Toronto, and also the sound of the four super8 projectors on the floor that are programed to periodically start and stop projecting across the floor onto the side wall (as well as the random sounds of cars and planes).

A form of Curham & Spence X 2 will be included in the final event of Slowing Down Time on Sunday 6 April 2-5pm.

http://artofslowingdowntime.tumblr.com/

http://www.alisterspence.com/

SLOWING DOWN TIME open from Friday 14 March 11am - Sunday April 6

Sat 15 & Sun16 March, 3 - 5pm: Performance by 

Louise Curham (Canberra), Alister Spence (Sydney) & Alexandra Spence (Toronto)

Louise Curham 10 March 2014 

afternoon movies

Day 1 on vimeo

see progress 

Slowing Down Time is a dialogic project evolving over a 4-week period by artists Jo Law, Louise Curham, Michele Elliot and Sue Healey.

Open from March 14 to April 6, Slowing Down Time will be marked by a closing event and artists' talks on  Sunday 6 April, 2-5pm. 

A second stage of Slowing Down Time is also planned for October 2014. 

 Sue Healey, Door Chair Bed & Stair 2007

 Jo Law

 Michele Elliot Some Kind of Longing 2012

Starting with the premise of slowing down time, this project involves the collaboration of four artists working in different media—textile and sculpture, choreography and moving image. The project will start with an installation in the space by one artist. The work will evolve over the four weeks of the exhibition as each week one artist contributes a response to the existing works in the gallery. These iterations will create layers of work that converse. Why this way? The project’s ambition is to open up a dialogic space for artist to create works together that do not form an argument, but rather, an experience. The process demands listening to what others are saying, thinking about the responses, and putting doubt on the table. This dialogic space extends to the audience, where new ideas can emerge through conversations. The Articulate project space is an ideal place for this project because it gives us an opportunity to engage with Articulate’s community in critical dialogue.

Responses by the artists can be viewed weekly, culminating in richly textured and layered works in the fourth and final week of the exhibition. The nature of this project pivots on an open dialogic process where the result is not entirely predictable. The aim is to produce a final piece with diverse parts that are in consonant with each other—a reflective space where time is slowed down. This complex landscape will be on view at the closing event which will host an open discussion with interested public and members of the community.

Press Release