Final weekend of the music-art PLACE coming up

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Otopsy Klamar - Its not fair

Otopsy Klamar - Refugee 

If you have been unable to get to the show I have curated PLACE  you still have a chance to get to it - this Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the final days of the exhibition. There are concerts this saturday and sunday as well. If you missed the first concert we are repeating it on Saturday the 17th, in it the hugely talented Timorese artist exhibiting Alfeo Sanches Pereira talks about his work with musical responses performed by Otopsy Klamar singing his powerful and poignant original songs. Along side  them Julia Ryder on cello and me on clarinets weave through the space playing works that reflect the wonderful works of art exhibited in this show, taking the audience  on a journey that cojoins the art and music. Sunday is full of surprises with the Splinter Orchestra and violinist, composer Hollis Taylor andK;lamar performer, composer Margery Smith combining forces for an afternoon of improvisation, collaboration and reflections - do consider joining us and share the experience and a complimentary glass or two of wine or something softer. 

There are two sound installations in the exhibition worth spending a bit of time with, even if you can’t make the concerts, the space is open from 11am to 5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week.

Some of the wonderful artwork of Alfeo and delicately painted mangrove roots of Meta Dos Santos Barreto are still available  for purchase, and well worth seeing. 

Hope to see you sometime over the weekend - Ros

Today's concert in PLACE - tomorrow another concert at 3pm

Alfeo Sanches Pereira (left)  (with Ananias Carlos) in front of his paintings explaining how hard it is to learn to become an artist in a place where there are no art schools and where people are more familiar with fighting than drawing.

Ananias Carlos in the Articulate recording studio today

Ros Dunlop, amazing performer and organiser

PLACE - first sunday concert

next concert: Saturday 11 March 3pm

Ananias Carlos (Otopsy Klamar), paintings by Alfeo Sanches-Pereira  & pillar by  Nathalie Hartog-Gautier/Penelope Lee

Ros Dunlop

Alfeo Sanches Pereira (left)  and Ananias Carlos (right) in front of paintings by Alfeo Sanches Pereira

Ros Dunlop (left) and Julie Ryder (right)

PLACE opens Friday 3 March 6-8pm, with live performance at 6.30pm

Open: 11am - 5pm Fri - Sun, 4-19 March 2017

P L A C E explores the connections between sound, place, time and identity through visual and sound worlds. 

P L A C E  is a collaborative installation and music series organised by Ros Dunlop, that explores the visual and sound worlds of landscape, identity, indigenous roots, and the world of space and time of acoustic and artificial sound, both prepared and improvised.

P L A C E  delves into a synesthetic fusion of sound and visual, and the possibilities of each enhancing the imaginative and emotional connection to the other. Soundscapes are translated into sculptural landscapes. Visceral feelings and thoughts are expressed through both visual and musical lines, shapes and layers. 

Developing over the course of the exhibition period, the first week will be dedicated to “open studio” installation and experimentation between collaborators, followed by live performances, within the installation, of music both written and improvised. As the musicians perform each composition, the audience will be physically led through the space and a new part of the installation, a new world or landscape, revealed.

(left) Ros Dunlop - clarinet/bass clarinet. photo: Geoffrey Ambler 2013
(right) Julia Ryder - cello. photo: Kirsty Beilharz 2016

Artists

Composers: Corrina Bonshek, Brigid Burke, Ursula Caporali, Stephen Ingham, Margery Smith, Hollis Taylor and Felicity Wilcox

Musicians: Ananias Carlos (Otopsy Klamar), Ros Dunlop - clarinet/bass clarinet, Julia Ryder - cello, Margery Smith - clarinet/saxophone and Hollis Taylor - violin

Visual/sound Artists: Brigid Burke, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Penelope Lee, Holly Ryder-Ingham, Alfeo Sanches-Pereira, Peter Smith, Alexandra Spence and Rachel Jones

The cities, they tremble - Alexandra Spence 2016 

 birds - Holly Ryder-Ingham 2017

INSTALLED ART/MUSIC WORKS  

PARADISE  artists: Penelope Lee & Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

with

HUMANITY WASHED ASHORE  composer, Margery Smith, Liz Smith, musician,

Bass clarinet : Ros Dunlop

CORHANWARRABUL composer, Stephen Ingham & artist: Holly Ingham 

HERE   sound artist, Alex Spence     

MISSING THREADS  artist, Alfeo Sanches-Pereira, musician,  Topsy Klamar

POPPY    artist, Peter Smith & composer, Margery Smith, musicians, cello, Julia Ryder  & clarinet, Ros Dunlop

LIVE  PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS

1. Opening 3rd March 2017  6pm

Sound Installation 

HERE     Alexandra Spence 

Sound Installation

CORHANWARRABUL Holly Ryder-Ingham, Stephen Ingham

Live Performance 6.30pm opening night

PARADISE  artists: Penelope Lee & Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

with

HUMANITY WASHED ASHORE  composer, Margery Smith, Liz Smith, musician,

Bass clarinet : Ros Dunlop

  

MISSING THREADS  artist, Alfeo Sanches-Pereira, musician, Otopsy Klamar

2. Live Performance Sunday 5th March   3pm

entry $20 adults, $15 students, concession

POPPY    artist, Peter Smith & composer, Margery Smith, musicians, cello, Julia Ryder  & clarinet, Ros Dunlop

PARADISE  artists: Penelope Lee & Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

with

HUMANITY WASHED ASHORE  composer, Margery Smith, Liz Smith, musician,

Bass clarinet : Ros Dunlop

       

LANDS COLLIDE composer/artist Brigid Burke,   cello, Julia Ryder, clarinet, Ros Dunlop

MISSING THREADS   artist, Alfeo Sanches-Pereira, 

musician,  Ananias Carlos (Otopsy Klamar)

technical requirements: speakers, amplification, microphone,  projection

3. Live Performance Saturday 11th March   3pm

4. Live Performance Sunday    12th March  3pm 

entry $20 adults, $15 students, concession 

YURRABIRONG   composer, Felicity Wilcox, dancer,   TBC , bass clarinet, Ros Dunlop

PARADISE  artists: Penelope Lee & Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

with

HUMANITY WASHED ASHORE  composer, Margery Smith, Liz Smith, musician,

Bass clarinet : Ros Dunlop

AS SMALL BIRDS PLAY  composer, Corinna Bonshek, 

film, Rachel Jones, bass clarinet, Ros Dunlop 

PAPUA MERDEKA    composer, Martin Wesley-Smith 

GREENS PARK, GEORGETOWN  composer, Hollis Taylor & bass clarinet, Ros Dunlop

technical requirements: speakers, amplification, microphone,  projection (from computer)

5. Live Performance Saturday    18th March   3pm 

6. Live Performance Sunday      19th March   3pm 

entry $20 adults, $15 students, concession

PETALS composer, Ursula Caporali & cello Julia Ryder

IMPROVISATION musicians Margery Smith, Alexandra Spence, Ros Dunlop, Julia Ryder, Otopsy Klamar, Hollis Taylor

POPPY    artist, Peter Smith, composer, Margery Smith  & cello, Julia Ryder  & clarinet, Ros Dunlop

(MORE DETAIL ON THIS PROGRAM AS THE PROJECT PROGRESSES)