John Gillies: Proposal for a Performance Space

Final performance

Photos: Colour: Marta Ferracin; black and white: Christopher Verheyden

FERRET 5 opens Friday 23 February 6-8pm

FERRET 5 will open Friday 23 February showing the work of  Susan Andrews, Michele Beevors, Bettina Bruder, Sophie Coombs, Carolyn Craig, Julia Davis, Marta Ferracin, Sarah Fitzgerald, Jane Gavan, Michelle Grasso, Lyn Heazlewood, Caitlan Hespe, Kendal Heyes, Elizabeth Hogan, Lisa Jones, Michelle Ledain, Tom Loveday, Joanne Makas, Alex Moulis,  Eva Simmons, Helen M Sturgess, Yoshi Takahashi, Sienna White and Elke Wohlfahrt.

FERRET 5 ROOMSHEET

Helen M Sturgess Untited 2018, Photo: Louise Morgan

Articulate’s FERRET project shows the work of over 60 artists during the 5 weeks from 26 January to 25 February 2018. Each of its five shows is open Friday to Sunday, 11am-5pm, with Friday night (6-8pm) openings on 26 January and 2, 9, 16 and 23 February.

FERRET is Articulate's third project that presents the exhibition as a site determined as much by changing artwork as by architecture and location. It does this by intermingling works by two groups of artists each week — incoming artists install in a site shaped partly by works continuing from the previous week and the gaps left by outgoing works. It is planned as a slow progressive artists' dance in which each show is one step, and in which the whole is understood through a mixture of observing and remembering. FERRET 5 is the fifth and last of these FERRET shows.  

L-R: Marta Ferracin, Sophie Coombs, Sienna White

Sarah Fitzgerald, Carolyn Craig, Joanna Makas, Michele Beevors, Liz Hogan

L_R: Eva Simmons, Susan Andrews, Sarah Fitzgerald

L-R: Carolyn Craig, Joanna Makas, Michele Beevors, Liz Hogan

Helen M Sturgess

Yoshi Takahashi, Julia Davis/Lisa Jones

Jane Gavan, Julia Davis\Lisa Jones

Bettina Bruder | Jane Gavan

Alex Moulis

Caitlan Hespe

FINAL SOLIDARITY WEEKEND COMING UP

SOLIDARITY is open 11am - 5pm Fri-Sun Sunday 18th June

Curated by Akil Ahamat, Sarah Fitzgerald, Delilah Lyses-sApo and Alexandra Mitchell, Solidarity shows the work of sixteen current and recent students of Sydney College of the Arts, National Art School, UNSW Art & Design and UTS. The exhibition demonstrates the need to secure the diversity of art education in Sydney. Throughout the duration of the exhibition sixteen artists will use the project space as their studio space, working in sixteen mini studio spaces. The studios are open to the public who are invited in to see the process of art making, to talk with the artists and to see the final work at the Closing Party on Saturday 17th June from 6-8pm. 

SATURDAY 17th JUNE

4-5pm: Performance: Mending the Memory Gap #3 - Stella Chen.

5:30-5:45pm: Performance: Matter and Musical Motion (plate bells, piano and voce) - Marta Ferracin with Kim Cunio and Heather Lee: Kim Cunio and Heather Lee will play with plate bells and intervals of piano and voce to generate a cosmic musical motion inspired by the concept of growing found in nature. The cyclic nature of the music is designed to mirror the organic motion happening in the installation itself. 

6.15pm Address by local Greens NSW MP, Jamie Parker

7 pm: Performance by Liz Hogan 

6-8pm: CLOSING PARTY

THE ARTISTS PARTICIPATING:

SCA - Kalanjay Dhir, Marta Ferracin, Delilah Lyses-sApo, Sophie Suttonberg

NAS  -  Dominic Byrne, Sarah Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin

UNSW A&D  -  Stella Chen, Alexandra Mitchell, Caoife Power, Douglas Schofield
UTS  -  Akil Ahamat, Ayesha Wasique, Kristina Savic, Rathai Manivannan

Photos Alexandra Mitchell

Solidarity afternoon of performances and talks

Mending the Memory Gap #3: Stella Chen used water to make the temporary language of the body's imprint and of its words

Caoife Power talked about her practice of collecting parts of the city and bringing them into her studio . . .

Rathai Mannivannan talked about using her art practice to explore her Tamil culture in Australia 

Marta Ferracin talked about experimenting with the effect of sound on the growth of slime 

Alexandra Mitchell discussed the incorporation of sound into her art practice

Kristina Savic discussed the struggles she has with making art without a studio 

Sarah Fitzgerald discussed how she is using her location beside Parramatta Road in her work

Elizabeth Rankin discussed her use of narrative in her work and how it so often turns out to the narrative of her own life

Solidarity Studios occupied

The Solidarity studios are now occupied by Kalanjay Dhir, Marta Ferracin, Delilah Lyses-sApo, Sophie Suttonberg (from SCA), Dominic Byrne, Sarah Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin (from NAS), Stella Chen, Alexandra Mitchell, Caoife Power, Douglas Schofield (from UNSWA&D) and Akil Ahamat, Ayesha Wasique, Kristina Savic, Rathai Manivannan from UTS. Please visit when open on Friday - Sunday 11-5pm till Sunday 18 June, or at other times whenever people are there working. 

Below are images from some of the studios.  

Caoife Power

Marta Ferracin

Rathai Mannivannan

  Alexandra Mitchell  

Stella Chen

Elizabeth Hogan

Ayesha Wasique

Douglas Schofield

Elizabeth Rankin

Delilah Lyses-sApo

Dominic Byrne

Kristina Savic

SOLIDARITY artists' studios

One of the things Marta Ferracin is doing in her SOLIDARITY studio is working out how to grow single cells Physarum Polycephalum (slime mold) by protecting them from light and bacteria. She is also working with sound that resonates the concept of growing found in nature. Find out more about this on Saturday 10 June at 2.30 - 3.30pm (see program in earlier post). Photo: Marta Ferracin

SOLIDARITY artist-dinner last night

above photos: Marta Ferracin

Marking studio locations - above photos: Sue Callanan