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(Image credit – Cal Power, ‘Art school protest’)
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SOLIDARITY
EXHIBITION DATES: Saturday 27th May - Sunday 18th June
OPENING HOURS: Fri/Sat/Sun – 11am-5pm
PLEASE NOTE: There will not be an opening on the first Friday as normal.
See program of events instead.
EXHIBITION
DATES: Saturday 27th May – Sunday 18th June
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS: Fri/Sat/Sun 11-5pm
ABOUT:
Curated by Akil Ahamat, Sarah Fitzgerald, Delilah Lyses-sApo and Alexandra
Mitchell, Solidarity will show the work of sixteen current and recent students
of Sydney College of the Arts, National Art School, UNSW Art & Design and
UTS. The exhibition will demonstrate 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 will be 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.
PROGRAM
OF EVENTS:
FRIDAY
- SUNDAY 11-5pm, OPEN STUDIOS
The
audience is invited to come and visit throughout the duration of the exhibition
to see the process of each artist and how their work transforms over the four
week period. There will also be an opportunity for the audience to make
statements regarding the importance of the diversity of art education in
Sydney, sharing their thoughts in a live blog.
SATURDAY
10th JUNE
1 –
2pm: Panel Discussion – Solidarity = Stability: This panel discussion will
meditate on the need to maintain the diversity of art school’s in Sydney as
well as the notion that with solidarity between the art schools there may be
stability.
2-3:30pm:
Performance: Mending the Memory Gap #3 - Stella Chen
2.30
- 3.30pm: Matter and Organic Resonance: Marta Ferracin with Trevor Brown:
Trevor
Brown will perform live on saxophones, flutes and clarinets. The sounds will be
digitally frozen and positioned in time and space. Natural harmonics, overtones
and microtones will be played to create sympathetic vibrations that interact
with Marta Ferracin's slime mould.
3:30-4:30pm:
Solidarity Artist Talks: artists will discuss their work, artistic process,
what it has been like working in the project space and own thoughts on the
current uncertainty surrounding Sydney’s art schools.
SATURDAY
17th JUNE
3-6pm:
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.
6-8pm:
CLOSING PARTY
THE ARTISTS PARTICIPATING:
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
