TAKING UP SPACE OPENED TONIGHT - ARTISTS' TALKS TOMORROW 2-3PM

Artists' Talks: tomorrow, Saturday 7 March , 2-3pm:

Janine Bailey, Veronica Habib, Jennie Feyen

L-R: Veronica Habib, Lisa Tochler, Katya Petetskaya, Anka Lesniak.
Photo: William Seeto

Helen M Sturgess, Janine Clarke

Katya Petetskaya, Lisa Tolcher, Veronica Habib

Jennie Feyen (foreground);
L-R: Jill Gibson, Katya Petetskaya, Lisa Tolcher

Jill Gibson, Katya Petetskaya

Front-back: Jill Gibson, Che Ritz, Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Front: Susan Buret; L-R: Anne Graham, Barbara Halnan

FERAL3 works

Elena Tory-Henderson, Jannah Quill, Sue Callanan

Elena Tory-Henderson, Christine Myerscough

Ambrose Reisch, Martin Langthorne

Ambrose Reisch

Veronica Habib, Justine Holt

Nicole Ellis, Katya Peteskaya

Helen L Sturgess, Nicole Ellis

Veronica Habib, Helen L Sturgess

Judith Torzillo, Martin Langthorne

Tim Corne, Martin Langthorne 

Elena Tory-Henderson, Helen M Sturgess,
 Katya Peteskaya, Jannah Quill

Helen L Sturgess, Rachel McCallum, Julian Woods,
 Nicole Ellis, Katya Petetskaya

Richard Kean, Katya Petetskaya

Andrew Christie

Andrew Christie. Rachel McCallum, Nicole Ellis, Helen L Sturgess

Helen L Sturgess, Julian Woods, Nicole Ellis

MELISSA MAREE WRITES ABOUT THE DOUBLING IN FERAL 3

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What is Doubling?

The Surrealist notion of 'Doubling' is a technique used to fracture and destabilize an object/image. The uncanny shudder felt from duplication also draws on a crisis of identity of divisions of the self (Unconscious/conscious and/or binary of reality/illusion).

A sense of humour is found in Veronica Habib's 'I Love What You Have Done With Your Hair, Underwear Brief, G-String and Dress' which strongly inspired the bridged link between 'Doubling'. After conversation and consideration of Habib's choice of materials and ideas (clothing/hair and warping of the familiar codes/perceptions of body image/sexuality), I saw a strong link in my manipulation of Mcdonalds Uniforms. The cutting of the uniforms served to create holes to acknowledge the space outside of the uniform – that is left open to audience interpretation.  

Doubling uses the pseudonym of Veronica Habib to show the value of collaborative authorship and the importance of acknowledging fellow artists in process-based projects. This acknowledgement involves speaking with artists in process-based projects in a means of verbal and non-verbal language. After much discussion with Habib I asked her if I could use her name as alias.

The idea of assuming an alias came from the 'Doubling' of Helen L Sturgess and Helen M Sturgess, two artists with the exact same first and last name who were placed in Feral 3's project week. The blurry lines between who was who, I felt created a unintended collaborative authorship. Extending on this idea the pseudonym opens up discussion for collaborative authorship, and visibility and invisibility of the artist in an artwork. 

The idea of Doubling, also forms a dialogue with Andrew Christie's 'Echo' through the duplication and manipulation of everyday objects (basket ball hoops – Mcdonalds T-shirts). Christie's work echoes a sense of erotic doubling, where a hoop net is interwoven connecting the two together. If we think of Echo in literal terms the action of shooting a basket ball into the hoop would cause the ball to clot in this umbilical cord-like net. This poetically playful gesture suggests something deeper of the idea of the Everyday such as a feeling of repetition, monotony and mimicry that characterises everyday life.

The remains of the shirts also form a reference to Margaret Roberts 'Blps', where the leftovers form markers on the floor. Since 'Cutendpaste' a prior process-based show I participated in with Marg, I have been influenced by her spatial interests in merging abstract space with everyday familiar space. The abstraction of the everyday object (Maccas uniform) is an attempt to merge these two spaces, to draw on relationship between work practice and art practice. The instability of casualisation in the workplace is felt by many artists across broad spectrum of professions: hospitality, retail, and education. Doubling attempts to open questions on the impact of work relations on art practice, the holes acting as a point to see-through.

Melissa Maree

25 Jan 2015

FERAL 3 Opened last night

and closes at 5pm, Sunday 24 January, after which half these works will be removed and another 10 or so installed for FERAL4 which will open on Friday 30 January. 

FERAL3 ROOMSHEET

Above photos: William Seeto

 image Sue Callanan; non-voice sound: Jannah Quill

FERAL 3 opens Friday 23 January at 6-8pm

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Artists in FERAL 3 are  Bianca Burns, Sue Callanan, Andrew Christie, Timothy Corne, Nicole Ellis, Veronica Habib, Justine Holt, Richard Kean, Blaide Lallemand, Martin Langthorne, Melissa Maree, Rachel McCallum, Christine Myerscough, Katya Petetskaya, Jannah Quill, Ambrose  Reisch, Helen L Sturgess, Helen M Sturgess, Elena Tory-Henderson, Judith Torzillo, Allen Alain Viguier and Julian Woods.

FERAL is a progressive, overlapping exhibition program of over 60 artists that will be open Friday - Sunday 11-5pm between 9 January - 8 February 2015. Its five opening events are Fridays 9, 16, 23 + 30 January and 6 February at 6-8pm, each of which will show the work of a different combination of about twenty artists.

FERAL is designed for artists to experiment with installation or location of artwork in an architectural space that is already altered by the earlier installation of other artists' work, and which will be altered again when another group replaces that earlier installation. 

The FERAL project is part of the broader Articulate interest in the relationships artworks form with their locations. It does this by focusing in particular on the contribution that the changing installations of artwork make to the constitution of a site.

Jannah Quill 2015

Christine Myerscough SPLICE 2014 

Richard Kean Aural Labyrinth 2012

Melissa Maree 2014

Andrew Christie Game of Agony 2014

Ambrose Reisch Recall 2015

Katya Petesakaya L:Cycles of a full breath 2015; R: Clock count down 2015 

Sue Callanan 2015

Helen L Sturgess 2015

Veronica Habib video still 2013

OPENING TONIGHT @ 6-8pm - Articulate Turns Four: Colour, Form, Line

Curated by Dr. William Seeto

PRESS RELEASE                                                                   Colour Form Line blog

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Articulate Turns Four: Colour, Form, Line opening reception: Friday 19 December 6-8pm;
and open 11-5pm each day 20-28 December, except for 25 and 26 December

Articulate Turns Four: Colour, Form, Line shows the work of Lisa Andrew, Elizabeth Ashburn, Clementine Barnes, Lynne Barwick, Linden Braye, Brogan Brunt, Sue Callanan, Andy Chi Yau Chan, Shirley Cho, Clara Chung, Vivienne Dadour, Ella Dreyfus, Judith Duquemin, Edwin Easydorchik, Michele Elliot, Nola Farman, Kath Fries, Brigitta Gallaher, Jane Gavan, Beata Geyer, Anne Graham, Veronica Habib, Yvette Hamilton, Laine Hogarty, Adrian Hall, Barbara Halnan, Sahar Hosseinabadi, Tom Isaacs, Melissa Maree, Rose Ann McGreevy, Anne Mosey, Christine Myerscough, Jennifer O’Brien, Sue Pedley, Sergio Plata, Jacek Przybyszewski, Christopher Raymond, Margaret Roberts, Marlene Sarroff, Kevin Sheehan, Andrew Simmons, Sardar Sinjawi, Anke Stacker, Paul Sutton, Jane Burton Taylor, Toni Warburton, Gary Warner, Cecilia White, Elke Wohlfahrt and India Zegan.