'BLEND'
| Alexander
Jackson Wyatt, Ida Lawrence, Kathryn Ryan and Alexandra Spence
Open
11am - 5pm Fri 22nd - Sun 24th February 2013
6 - 8pm Friday 22 |
Opening Party
Performances begin 6:30pm
2pm Sunday 24 | Public discussion between the exhibiting artists, their
mentors/collaborators, Alison Clouston and Boyd, Christine Olsen and
Alan Schacher, Articulate artists and the public.
BLEND is
an exhibition and discussion of the cross-artform project at
Articulate Project Space in 2012-13. Where by, young and emerging
artists teamed up with established artists from other artistic fields
to produce site specific works for the project space.
Photo: Peter Murphy
Melting Ice, Hanging Net
Kathryn's objects and Alex's sounds combine to form the installation Melting Ice, Hanging Net. Mentored by collaborators, visual artist Alison Clouston and musician Boyd, Alex and Kathryn were given the opportunity not only to work with a different artform but to partake in a collaborative process. Because of this Alex and Kathryn also benefited from the experience of the artist from their own field.
The work took shape from conversations on landscape, process, and materials, hooking into the similarities between the watery sounds of Alex and the sea objects of Kathryn, and the elongated beamed hanging space of Articulate. A defining part of the process was reflecting on the physical object elements of the the sound components (the wires and speakers) and integrating them within the body of the work.
Alex has captured and manipulated the found sounds of fish frying, ice melting and the overheard recitation of the Ramayana (a Hindu epic) by a man in Varanasi, and joined them with Clarinet and Mbrina samples. Kathryn has used found sea objects, and re-worked found doilies to catch and cradle the speakers for Alex's ephemeral sounds. the 'live' wires fall and snake along the floor imagining the space's desire to be both under the sea, fisherman's shack, and collector's curio study.
This project is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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