Last weekend and artists' talks - Sunday 13 December

Too bright for our infirm Delight & Solo

Open 11am-5pm Fri - Sun 13 December

Articulate began a year-long celebration of a decade of exhibitions and projects with the opening last weekend of Too bright for our infirm Delight, a new single-installation by Sarah Woodward in the project space, and Solo, an exhibition upstairs and in the backroom, of documentation of past single-installations in the project space.  Read more about Articulate's decade here.

CATALOGUE

The second weekend of artists' talks is

2pm Sunday 13 December 

• Solo artists:  Jenny Brown, Chantal Grech, Michele Elliot/Louise Curham (Slowing Down Time), Lesley Giovanelli and the Splinter Orchestra.

Splinter Orchestra,  Splintstallation 2017 2020

Jenny Brown Slow hope: becoming coronavirus 2020. Photo: the artist

Jenny Brown Slow hope: becoming coronavirus 2020. Photo Peter Murphy

Jenny Brown Slow hope: becoming coronavirus 2020. Photo Peter Murphy

Chantal Grech Residues 2020

Lesley Giovanelli  Maybe Coming 2019

Slowing Down Time (documentation) 2020 (video clip here)

L: Alan Schacher Dividing/Line (2018) 2020; R: Perrine Lacroix NO WAY 2020

L: Wendy Howard The Bronze Age Part 1: Travels 2014 2020; R: Beata Geyer ObliqueXT 2020

L: Chantal grech; R: Kenneth Lambert Ph Peter Murphy (video clip here)

Ciaran Begley & Merran Hull Still Morphing 2020 Ph Peter Murphy

Richard Kean Aural Solo 2020  Ph Peter Murphy

Slowing Down Time 2014-15 2020  Ph Peter Murphy (video clip here)

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Conditions of entry to the exhibition and talks:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. Please be prepared to wait if it is full when you arrive.

Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people.

Celebrating Articulate's Decade

Open 28 November - 13 December 

Hours Fri-Sun 11am - 5pm

Opening event Saturday 28 November 1-5pm

Artists' Talks TBA

A5 catalogue of texts: ready for printing at OW

Articulate is celebrating a decade of exhibitions and projects with an occasional series of paired exhibitions over the next twelve months. Each pair will include a new single installation in the project space, accompanied by an exhibition documenting works from different groupings of projects that have occurred in the space over the past ten years. Read more about what Articulate celebrates here.

The first pair is Too bright for our infirm delight, a new single installation by Sarah Woodward in the ground floor project space, accompanied by Solo in the mezzanine and backroom, an exhibition that documents single installations made in the project space since 2010. 

Sarah Woodward describes Too bright for our infirm delight as 'a reflection of the constant fascination with ontology, the fundamental understanding of who we are. As Heidegger states I can only see from my own point of view. That’s what I’m trying to share, my perspective.' Read more here.

Artists participating in Solo are Ciaran Begley and Merryn Hull, Elia Bosshard, Jenny Brown, Alison Clouston and Boyd, Beata Geyer, Lesley Giovanelli, Chantal Grech,  WeiZen Ho, Laine Hogarty, Wendy Howard, Richard Kean, Perrine Lacroix, Kenneth Lambert, Kathryn Ryan, Alan Schacher, Slowing Down Time (Louise Curham, Michele Elliot, Sue Healey and Jo Law),  Splinter Orchestra and Helen M Sturgess. Each document past single-installations they have shown at Articulate in the last decade, and what they say about their works and their documentation can be read here.

Solo roomsheet

Sarah Woodward Too bright for our infirm delight (detail) 2020

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Conditions of entry to the exhibition:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. Please be prepared to wait if it is full when you arrive.

Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people. 

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

see and read more on tumbler

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 - week 4 Jo Law

Jo Law is working in the space in the final week of Slowing Down Time. 
Please drop in at normal opening hours of 11am - 5pm during Friday - Sunday 4-6 April.  

Jo is responding to the sites where Louise, Michele, and Sue worked. Jo is bringing traces of these previous play and experiments back to the space. Amongst the materials she uses are rotoscoped animation, video footage, and physical objects. She aims to animate these multiple layers and create dialogues with these traces as well as with the space.

see images on http://artofslowingdowntime.tumblr.com
http://www.jolaw.org

Chantal Grech: Observations of an itinerant viewer: day 4 and 6 of Sue Healey's interventions

Four white boards, rectangular and upright mark the space along the wall like a metronome marks time. At the end of the narrow vista three more boards hang in front of shallow stairs bouncing the space back onto itself. Now blank, they are the split ground on which grainy ephemeral images of figures have passed, projected. A diaphanous pink sleeve is slipped over one of the boards extending its form to the ceiling. In the darkness below the staircase an   scallop of white threads encloses a triangular space to end in a series of curved gestures against a brown brick wall. Fragile in composition though not in overall size they speak of the hand and of time. A pendulum-like pencil drawing sits on the white wall in the first bay. These are the givens, gestures left as beginnings. The space appears passive.

Day 4

Three large black monitors sit against a white brick wall in the first bay opposite the pendulum like drawing. A woman and two men walk the length of a precipitous wall, the same wall, at different times. They are seen in profile against a clear blue sky, simultaneously on the adjacent monitors. It is an experiment; the conditions are the same for each, the difference lies in their response to the task of walking the wall. The woman strides, almost defiantly as the edge of her skirt kicks up and gives way to the forward movement of her leg. Something external, of which we know nothing, motivates her. One of the men, in contrast, walks more slowly with a steady step, the camera shows us his face and a curious smile. He is bemused. Later we learn that he is afraid of heights. The third man is confident, assured, internally driven. The energy that flows comes from the apparent density of his body, the certainty of his place on the wall.

The time involved: the time between the individual walks, the time from the filming to the watching, the simultaneity of watching three past events, now, not to mention Bergson's dureé - the unmeasureable time of individual experience, and finally, imagined time. Multiple times. To the astronomer space and time are knitted together - one dependant on the other.

In the space under the stairs the two-dimensional plane is challenged when the projection of a man turning and slowly 'spinning', is partially caught by the scalloped threads before being released to the wall behind. The projection is small, the size of a hand. It's scale suggests distance but at the same time, like a miniature, it enters the imagination defying scale. Beneath the stairs the dancer is a microcosm, on the opposite wall he enters the scale of the real but his movements and the whiteness within which he revolves place him within a limitless space where his naked body turns within a gold latticed coat that in turn orbits his body as he revolves across the wall like a passing planet, giving the surrounding whiteness an added depth in which the wall attains another state, another kind of representation where the perceived flips into an imagined limitless space.

Day 6:

In the first bay, between the pendulum and a white board, a dancer turns, projected, caught between acts, between two moments – the remaining gestures of previous artists – in this moment present and past exist together. The same dancer turns the same turn in the second bay and under the stairs like a repeated beat, and each time the movement is the same but the site is different and in that difference lies a constellation of possibilities.

The gold latticed gown within which the dancer dances, itself composed more of empty spaces than of material becomes manifestly present at the end of the space as it hugs the shallow steps, drawing the eye back to solid ground, back to now.

The four small monitors find their place at the front of the gallery, face up in a gentle curve, the suggestion of a path, a continuity that points to the staircase, that begins below the empty pink sleeve hanging above them. The three large monitors now sit at the back of the gallery, behind the hanging panels, waiting.

The works engage the periphery and were it not for the solid substance of the black monitors, the projections and emanations together with the physically light objects might be absorbed by the walls leaving the intervening central space to take on a particular presence, a response of its own.

Perhaps the space awaits the presence of the body, of the dancer.

Chantal Grech  April 5/14
http://chantalmgrech.com

SLOWING DOWN TIME - week 3 SUE HEALEY

Sue Healey is working in the space every day this week.  
Please drop in Fri 12-3, Sat 2-5 and Sun 2-4.

Healey's attention is the body and its presence in the space. As a choreographer and filmmaker she relies on the collaborating energies of performers to engage with her tasks and provocations. In a residency without dancers such as this, she is faced with the disappearance of the body.  

Traces of movement find themselves situated amongst the residual Curham + Spence and Eliot materials and memories. In her own words, 'the space accumulates and sparks'.

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

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

SLOWING DOWN TIME WEEK 2 - MICHELE ELLIOT

slowing down time : week two, michele elliot: 

OPEN 11am-5pm FRI - SUN 21-23 MARCH

Michele will be working in the project space on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week. 

Michele writes: 'my response so far to Louise Curham’s film installation and sound performance with Alister Spence and to the space has been through ephemeral drawing. In preparation, I gathered some materials and tools for Monday as a way to begin. There is no plan other than to produce three works, which perhaps in some way speaks to each of my three collaborators. If I were to suggest a framework, it would be around the idea of conjunctions. Or it might also be accumulative practice, to take up a material dialogue with and build upon what I find in the space as well as thinking about Sue and Jo coming in after me.

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)

listen here

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