Eight - open 20-21 March

Open Days 11am-5pm Sat-Sun 20-21 March

Artists talk/discussion 2-4pm Sunday 21 March

Performance 3pm Saturday 20 March: Kit Bylett, Unravelling in Figure 8's.

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Ten artists—Linden Braye, Kit Bylett, Sue Callanan, Lesley Giovanelli, Barbara Halnan, Fiona Kemp & Virginia Hilyard, Margaret Roberts, Emma Wise and Elke Wohlfahrt—have been working in the project space and backroom for nearly 3 weeks and will open the space to visitors on the final weekend as a group show.

Sue Callanan

L: Emma Wise, R: Barbara Halnan

Emma Wise

Lesley Giovanelli

Barbara Halnan

Margaret Roberts (photos the artist)

Kit Bylett

Linden Braye

Elke Wohlfahrt

Virginia Hilyard and Fiona Kemp

Conditions of entry:

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

Perforations opened tonight

 Open 11am-5pm Fri - Sun till 1 Nov

Virginia Hilyard, Peter Humble, Ryszard Dabek,  Rowena Crowe, Geoff Weary

Perforations opens Friday 16 October 6-8pm

 Perforations: Recent work originating on 16mm film

17 October - 1 November 2020

Open 11am-5pm Fri - Sun

Opening  event Friday 16 October 6-8pm

Rowena Crowe

Ryszard Dabek

Virginia Hilyard

Peter Humble

Geoff Weary

The works that form this show are all created to the rhythm of our machine time 16mm perforations. These perforations have become our new time keeping device. What will summer bring? When will the numbers go down? When is a vaccine coming? Can we go back to before? In the context we find ourselves these works reference our new daily rhythms.

Photo credit: Still from How to… lean to by Rowena Crowe, 2020, 16mm, 5 mins

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.
On entry, you will be asked to have your forehead temperature taken with an infrared thermometer. 

Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
Utilise 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. 

Zoom Launch of What do I say about this work now?

Last night 22 people joined the Zoom Launch of What do I say about this work now? Artists, writers, publishers and others were encouraged to participate in this project by writing or talking about one of their spatial works for inclusion in a future post and zoom discussion. 

Screen shot of zoom launch recording

The zoom launch was arranged and conducted by Virginia Hilyard, and the project begun by Margaret Roberts and Sue Callanan speaking about their own earlier works in support of posts already on the blog, and the audience responding in a lively discussion afterwards. This included discussion of space and place, documentation of spatial artwork, how visible information tells you about what you can't see, and the coincidental similarities between the works discussed despite their independent selection. 

Please send your text or other form of reflection on one of your past works ASAP. Those we receive in the next few weeks will form the basis of the next Zoom Discussion. More information about the project is found here.

Next posts will be uploaded soon 

Articulate Turns Nine opened tonight

Open 11am-5pm 7 - 22 December

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Lisa Sharp, Lesley Giovanelli, Michelle LeDain

Virginia Hilyard

Lesley Giovanelli

Sarah Woodward, Margaret Roberts, Jennifer O'Brien

Nola Farman 

left: Mireille Eid; right: Emma Wise

Emma Wise (performed by Ella Dreyfus)

Adrian Hall

Chantal Grech

Paul Sutton & Steve Simpson

Sue Callanan, Jane Burton Taylor

photos: Margaret Roberts

Saturday November 30: 3-5pm: International Remembrance Day for Lost Species:

Join us for a salon of readings, discourse, performance, music & soundscapes at Articulate project space with Anne Casey, Simon Champ, Ross Gibson, Virginia Hilyard, Kraig Grady & Terumi Narushima,  Reject Theatre Group, Uncle Bruce Shillingsworth, Amanda Stewart, Gary Warner and the artists of GOING GONE.

Organised by Juliet Fowler Smith, Noelene Lucas & Gary Warner.
Presented in association with the exhibition GOING GONE.

3-5pm 30 November 2019
ALL WELCOME

UNCLE BRUCE SHILLINGSWORTH TALKS AT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR LOST SPECIES

GOING GONE is open 11AM-5PM Friday to Sunday until Sunday 1 December

image: vexatious extinction equation [detail]  Gary Warner 2019

GOING GONE opened last night

Saturday November 30: 3-5pm: International Remembrance Day for Lost Species

Open 11am - 5pm 16 Nov – 1 December

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Uncle Bruce Shillingsworth talks at the International Day for Lost Species

GOING GONE is is organised by Noelene Lucas and Juliet Fowler Smith as an exhibition that explores creative responses to human-induced species extinctions, ecological devastation and the climate emergency.  It will show the work of Suzanne Bartos, Barbara Campbell, Josie Cavallaro, Simon Champ, Juliet Fowler Smith, Joan Grounds, Virginia Hilyard, Noelene Lucas and Gary Warner.

Photo: Chris Tay

Photo Chris Tay

GOING GONE opens on Friday 15 November 6-8pm

Opening 15 November 6-8pm 2019

International Remembrance Day for Lost Species: Saturday November 30: 3-5pm: 

Open 11am - 5pm 16 Nov – 1 December

GOING GONE is is organised by Noelene Lucas and Juliet Fowler Smith as an exhibition that explores creative responses to human-induced species extinctions, ecological devastation and the climate emergency.  It will show the work of Suzanne Bartos, Barbara Campbell, Josie Cavallaro, Simon Champ, Juliet Fowler Smith, Joan Grounds, Virginia Hilyard, Noelene Lucas and Gary Warner.

Juliet Fowler Smith Sunflight, 2018-2019. Photograph

bartosculpture.weebly.com/

virginiahilyard.com

1001.net.au

josiecavallaro.com.au

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CODe7L9I46s

garywarner.net/

FIONA KEMP & VIRGINIA HILYARD: TO RUSSIA opening discussion Sunday 29 September 2-5pm

project space project #23: 24 - 29 September:

Open Sunday 29 September 2-5pm with discussion with the artists.

Virginia Hilyard/FionaKemp   PARE, 2019

During a residency on Kotlin Island in Russia last year we gathered together a visual and sound treasure trove. We intend to let this archive loose into the space of articulate to see how it responds with the space and to work on its development.
Fiona Kemp and Virginia Hilyard

http://fionakemp.com/
http://www.virginiahilyard.com

Three project space projects: Sue Callanan, Elia Bosshard and Fiona Kemp/Virginia Hilyard

10 -15 September
SUE CALLANAN

ARCHITECTURAL AMENDMENTS: BUILDING PERMITS
project space project #21

I intend to occupy the ground floor space of Articulate and investigate ways of adapting or altering its architectural features so as to displace the familiar elements and structure, giving them a new reading. I have, at intervals over the life of Articulate, undertaken interventions in different parts of the space. In this instance, I would like to treat the downstairs  space as a whole, using  industrial materials that I’ve gathered over time, turning them into  a new configuration that takes account of the whole of the downstairs space as a single, but multifarious form.

I’m curious about the slippage between art and its architectural surrounds, and how one can be seamed into the other, such that figure and ground oscillate between each other, creating uncertainty about what was meant to be there in the first place.

There will be no official opening for ARCHITECTURAL AMENDMENTS, but the artist will be available for discussion during the opening of Time and the Ocean at ArticulateUpstairs, on Friday 13^th Sept 6-8pm, and on Sunday 16^th Sept 2-5pm.

Sue Callanan

Sue Callanan​, Remnants: repairs and maintenance undertaken November 2016

17 - 22 September:
ELIA BOSSHARD
BINARY FIELD (THE MEETING BETEEN TWO SPACES)
project space project #22

Opening event: Friday 20 September 6-8pm; open 11am- 5pm Sat-Sun 21-22 September

Elia Bosshard BINARY FIELD in development, Studio One 2019. Still from video by Hospital Hill

A long path cuts through diagonally, dividing the room into two parts. Essentially one line, it is an active object that functions to vertically distinguish between high and low space. Where is high and low? There is no one point when the space transitions from being above to below you. That meeting point

depends on one's relationship to height. The walk from one end to another is slow paced, through which our experience shifts. At what point do we perceive that our relationship with the path has changed or are aware of it changing? BINARY FIELD explores the immediacy of physical environments and how we inhabit and feel the presence of structures as we move by them.

Elia Bosshard

https://www.eliabosshard.com/

24 - 29 September:
FIONA KEMP & VIRGINIA HILYARD
TO RUSSIA
project space project #23

Open Sunday 29 September 2-5pm with discussion with the artists.

Virginia Hilyard/FionaKemp   PARE, 2019

During a residency on Kotlin Island in Russia last year we gathered together a visual and sound treasure trove. We intend to let this archive loose into the space of articulate to see how it responds with the space and to work on its development.
Fiona Kemp and Virginia Hilyard
http://fionakemp.com/

CLEAVE 2019 opened last night

Open Fri-Sun 11am-5pm to 23 June 2019 

Artists talks Saturday 15 June 2pm 

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CLEAVE shows the work of artists Lisa Andrew, Karen Banks, Linden Braye, Jenny Brown, Sue Callanan, Socorro Cifuentes, Ben Denham, Nola Farman, WeiZen Ho, Fiona Kemp/Virginia Hilyard, Jacek Przybyszewski and Margaret Roberts. 

Sue Callanan Rediscovering Cristina Iglesias (2019). Plasterboard. I first saw Cristina Iglesias’s work in the Guggenheim, NY in the late 90’s. The large concrete and tapestry works nestled into the architecture- hard edged on the outside, soft and domestic on the inside. I’ve created a mini version to insert itself into the architecture of Articulate- the outer plaster surface continuous with the plaster walls of the space; the inner walls, revealing  the exposed paper surface of the plasterboard, with their fragile scrapings mimicking the soft interiors of Iglesias’s work.

Linden Braye Igloo 2019 (fibreglass, perspex, metal, cotton string, copper wire, plastic)

Karen Banks  aAND, 2019 Video projection, 3.22min, yellow glass 25mm x 35mm
Single channel video work projected onto glass. Using hand-processed 16mm film that has been subjected to digital manipulation the video projection re-discovers the ‘hand’ as object within the context of Dora Maar’s Untitled, 1933-34 (shown left).  Following the contours of Maar’s photomontaged image, the video traces an unfolding into an unknown landscape; it is here the ‘hand’ negotiates containment and escape.

Front to back: Ben Denham, Margaret Roberts, Virginia Hilyard/Fiona Kemp, Lisa Andrew, Jacek Przybyszewski
Ben Denham HEAT DEATH: SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING, REPRISE (2012), single channel video, 2:43 minutes. A remake of Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing by Francis Alÿs.

Margaret Roberts  Dance 2019 (floor, wood, scenic paint+shoe polish 240x90cm).  Dance enlarges Sophie Taeuber’s Vertical-Horizontal Composition, cuts it into its parts and locates them together on the floor, aiming to incorporate the actual place of dancing that Taeuber included implicitly in her painting.    margaretroberts.org

Nola Farman   The Hermit’s Tablecloth (Version 3)

A re-contextualization of a passage from Eugene Ionesco’s Le Solitaire concerning a peaceful, solitary life besieged by the politics and power struggles of others, which are ultimately  inescapable. 

Virginia Hilyard/FionaKemp   PARE, 2019     Single channel video

The work of Andrei Tarkovsky was the catalyst  to use a 360 camera on a recent residency in Russia. For Cleave we are specifically working with the sense of ‘a peeling’ - of one side from the other - a by-product of the 360 video spheres. While moving through a space as it is being filmed, the fabric of the environment is being peeled away. What is being filmed is the body of a house in decay.  http://www.virginiahilyard.com     http://fionakemp.com

Lisa Andrew HighWayWear, 2019  polyester, plastic and pineapple silk, Wooden stand, variable dimensions. Visitors are asked to please pick cloth up and wear it.

WeiZen Ho The Subtle Beings Installation, 2018  beams, hair, perspex

I am extending upon one of the elements to the The Subtle Beings project installed in 2018 at Articulate project space.  It was a response to the conversations and stories exchanged in the communion area next to the home of one of the female shamans from the ‘Rungus’ tribe in Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), where major possession rituals take place. I am reflecting on how the roof structure of the area we were sitting in would be raised several storeys higher during ritual ceremonies and a small platform would be built close to the roof area, enough for the female ritual-maker to conduct her invocation song and dance. It is also connected with the fact that the female maternal lineage has been disintegrating as daughters are less willing to take on the apprenticeship role. weizenho.com                                                                                              

Jacek Przybyszewski TearWalkingimages 2019 (paper, tape, table, floor, wall) Walk signifies for me movement, process or transformation from one meaning to another. What interests me the most is a process… “Not only the  result, but the road to it also, is a part of the truth. The investigation of truth must itself be true: true investigation of truth is unfolded truth, the disjunct members of which unite in the result.” (Eisenstein citing Marx). This work  follows other walking works (SkyWalk mirroring sculpture and WindowWalk photography collection from Factory49 Paris 2016, Walkwithrose interactive floor wooden pieces 2018 and Walkforrose, wall blue tape drawing 2018 at Articulate).

Jenny Brown The activists cave _ charting the historical critique of capitalism. 2019 (detail). Through tapestry titled Maladaptation, Jenny Brown traces the alienating effects of capitalism that sits in the world of activist-on-the-run, Bev Smiles now caught in Kaufman’s hyperreal ‘Adaptation.’

Jenny Brown The activists cave _ charting the historical critique of capitalism. 2019 (detail). Through tapestry titled Maladaptation, Jenny Brown traces the alienating effects of capitalism that sits in the world of activist-on-the-run, Bev Smiles now caught in Kaufman’s hyperreal ‘Adaptation.’

Socorro Cifuentes  Experiencing the World as Our Own (2018, 11'43") is a rearguard remix with different ideas and experiences of activists and intellectuals regarding storytelling, orality, listening, memory and justice. This remix work is thought of as a practice of listening to important political ideas/practices, and aims to recirculate and create relationships among them.