Immanent Landscape
West Space
Jeremy Bakker, Hamish Carr, Atsunobu Katagiri, Hisaharu Motoda, Nobuaki Onishi, Kiron Robinson, Ai Sasaki, Utako Shindo
Opening night this Friday August 20, 6-8pm
Atsunobu Katagiri
Exhibition dates August 21 – September 4
Immanent Landscape is a project that brings together eight contemporary artists from Australia and Japan to express the idea of ‘landscape’. The project involves exhibitions, artists’ residencies, workshops, talk sessions or catalogue production, and it will be held in Australia 2010 and in Japan 2011. With this manner in which artists move between two cultures over two years period for a project, we aim to create and share a new cultural ‘landscape’.
The participating artists are Ai Sasaki, Atsunobu Katagiri, Nobuaki Onishi, Hisaharu Motoda, Kiron Robinson, Hamish Carr, Jeremy Bakker and Utako Shindo. Their artworks vary from photography, drawing, print to installation, however they have common in reflecting external environments and simultaneously embodying internal environments. Their artworks, therefore, encompasses the urban, mythological, social, historical, or spiritual context that humanity shares. From these diverse artworks a singular exhibition may form an immersive ‘landscape’ where different views intersect.
These artists are also active in engaging with art world through curation, education or production. The project evolves their participation into residency programs, research trips, exhibitions, educational talk sessions or workshops to create dialogues between artists, strength relationships between art communities, and to approach broader audiences. These activities may connect artists cultural knowledge and experiences, resulted in producing an exhibition that appeals to individuals with divers cultural background.
We intend to imagine and share “immanent landscape” that may be embedded in our communal existence.
A new Artists Run Initiative opens in Fitzroy
Dear Patti Smith
Opening night this Friday August 20.
Vernissage from 6pm, launch 7-9pm
Dear Patti Smith launch
Lazy Slum
Blindside Artist Run Space
Opening Friday August 20, 6-8pm
Lazy Slum
As part of an ARI exchange program Melbourne based Tape Projects and Hobart based Six_a will invade and colonize Blindside Gallery. Lazy Slum will be a cross-disciplinary experiment in what happens when you build a society from scratch. Think Lord of the Flies meets Better Homes and Gardens. Dystopian community meets tribal display home. Over three days a game will unfold where audience and artists alike are governed by the rules…