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25.6.20

The last Weekend of An Installation by Lesley Giovanelli is coming up

Open Friday 12 - Sunday 28 June
11am -5pm Friday to Sunday

This immersive installation uses fabric, texture and colour, expanding through space to incorporate the architecture. Inspired by the rich colour and lightness of an Indian sari, the installation creates the experience of walking inside a 3D painting with movement in every direction; above, below, across and around.

https://lesleygiovanelli.com/

Photos: Silversalt

8.6.20

Articulate re-opens with An Installation by Lesley Giovanelli

Open Friday 12 - Sunday 28 June
11am -5pm Friday to Sunday

https://lesleygiovanelli.com/

An Installation by Lesley Giovanelli 2020

Because of the COVID-19 restrictions, there will be no opening event and we ask visitors to please observe the following

• ensure you keep 1.5m distance from others

• use hand sanitiser available

• a maximum of 35 people are allowed in Articulate under the 4sqm/person restriction.

• leave your name and contact number in case of contact-tracing

26.10.19

A resistance to flow opened last night

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday until Sunday 10 November

20.10.19

A resistance to flow opens Friday 25 October 6-8pm

Scarlett Steven

Open Fri - Sun 11am - 5pm 26 Oct - 10 Nov

Stickiness describes a material in transition. It is neither solid nor fluid, but exists at the viscous midpoint. It is fluidity in slow motion. It flows, but not so fast that it washes itself away. It oozes slowly, it resists ‘total material annihilation’. Despite its sluggishness, this material is impossible to pin down for long. It cannot be held to a particular material state, or to a particular place. It is perpetually moving towards, or away from something, or somewhere. It distends in a widening pool, or creeps towards the floor. It yields, in that it moves to accommodate the things it encounters. But these same things cannot emerge unscathed. They become stained, or oily—they get dissolved, or broken down. While stickiness can change the things it touches, it too is affected by these encounters, as it separates from itself and leeches into other objects. It can leave itself behind, in fact, it insists on leaving itself behind, but it does not transfer itself. Its particular tackiness is only ever present in the material itself, not in its absence. Its trace becomes an oily slick that is difficult to remove. It can be masked, but never fully erased, and always threatens to leech through. Its tackiness gathers up the things it touches, and creates randomised archives, which are accumulated and lost. Stickiness draws things together before breaking them apart again, but always carries with it the traces of where it has been before. Stickiness may be human or non-human, organic or synthetic; it is a property, a material, and a process simultaneously.

This exhibition features a sticky goo created in studio especially for this project. It engages in a material exploration of stickiness and asks, what is the political significance of goo? In a world that values, monetizes, and is characterised by both speed and fluidity, what would it mean to move slowly, or to coagulate? What would it mean to clump, to stick together, to stick around? To stay behind, to stain? To be difficult to remove? Stickiness speaks to the things that are impossible to move beyond, to let go of; those things that cannot be forgotten. It speaks to a politics, a method, a strategy that lingers—a politics that, like an oily residue on a gallery wall, can never be entirely erased.

21.9.19

BINARY FIELD opened last night - Elia Bosshard

open 11am-5pm till Sunday 22 September

photos: the artist
https://www.eliabosshard.com/

19.9.19

Elia Bosshard's BINARY FIELD (THE MEETING BETWEEN TWO SPACES) opens Friday 20 September 6-8pm

open 11am-5pm Sat-Sun till 22 Sept

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/

3.8.19

Writhe is open - Ciaran Begley's artist's talk today at 3pm

Open 11am-5pm Fri-Sun 3-18 August 2019

Ph Peter Murphy

Veronique Delauney operating Writhe. Ph Peter Murphy

Bhupen Thakker operating Writhe. Ph Peter Murphy

James Koh operating Writhe, Ph Peter Murphy

ROOMSHEET

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

28.7.19

Ciaran Begley's Writhe opens Friday 2 August at 6-8pm

Writhe

Opening Friday 2 August 6-8pm

Open Fri-Sat 11am-5pm 3 - 18 August

Artist's talk: Saturday 3 August 3pm

Ciaran Begley Writhe 2019 (diagram)

Writhe involves a series of structures that confront the public with contortions of space itself. Four hanging sculptures arranged throughout Articulate’s long project space hang from the exposed wooden struts of the building. These heavy works Installed along the middle of the space set up the architectural space as a stage for spatial contortion. These room dividers delineate new internal spaces and when moving expanding in a rectangular form containing a complex contorting form enveloping the gallery space with danger and intrigue.

The work is a complex reinterpretation of previous work engaging those who know my work with an impossible reconfiguration of known forms with new movements and a departure from the safety of the wall. For new viewers this work is a step into the zone. A landscape of new possibilities and new dangers where the laws of physics and assumptions about gravity give way to a world where space is governed by action, movement and form. A space where the choices we make become environments for others and comprehension an elusive concept.

In this work I have challenged the limits of my own capacities of engineering and installation to present a work that challenges my own capacities of expectation and experience. Please join me in this new world.

Ciaran Begley

http://www.ciaranbegley.com/

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

1.6.19

Dermis Final Day and Closing event tomorrow

Closing event 3-5pm Sunday 2 June
Artists' talks 2-3pm Sunday 2 June

Helen arrived on site three days before the opening with a large pile of dressmaking patterns (obtained via ‘WANTED’ postings on Freecycle), several big balls of string and rolls of waxed baking paper, lots of eyehooks and a large tub of wood glue – along with plenty of tools – and set to work. The next day she brought her beloved sewing machine, a camera and tripod and some AV equipment, and with a great deal of help from family and friends, worked on.

During the three-week run she transformed the space. She made use of points of attachment that remain from past exhibitions, and the interior architecture of this former auto workshop, to explore the palimpsest of marks and incidental ‘memorabilia’ that people – both singly and collectively – leave behind. Visitors had the opportunity to experience the different stages of the installation by coming to both the opening and the closing events, and are welcome to assist the artist if they’d like to.