Artistspeak program 2008
The South Australian School of Art (SASA) invites students and staff at the University of South Australia and also members of the public to attend Artistspeak. In 2008, this weekly series of talks by emerging and established artists, designers and craftspeople is held 1.30-2.30pm on Tuesdays in the Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building, at City West campus.
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2008 program information
Study period 5 2008 (July-November)
Study period 2 2008 (March-July)
- Weeks 2-5 (PDF file, 79kb)
- Week 6 - Moelyono
- Weeks 7-10 (PDF file, 77kb)
- Weeks 11-13 (PDF file, 100kb)
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Mark Kimber
| The compelling force that drives my work is
finding a situation where the play of light, form and landscape converge
in time and space to create an elusive and ephemeral piece of theatre.
This work stems from a 25-year fascination to photograph the urban
landscape in which I grew up. Spaces while abuzz with activity and
perhaps welcoming during the day are, by night deserted and conversely
unsettling. Images with the appearance of a film or stage set, the
backgrounds reduced to graphic and carefully lit, cut-out forms. Camera
time stretches beyond the moment-by-moment time in which we see, to a
world of compressed time and unworldly colours glowing with a light only
photography can see. Mark will exhibit his new body of work Edgeland at STILLS Gallery, Sydney, October 2008. |
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Darren Siwes
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'To date, the artist's signature style has been that of physically
inscribing himself into the landscape as a ghostly or real Indigenous
presence, and in moving beyond this to the landscape of the mind, the
imaginary, Siwes is charting new territory. He is also moving into the
private sphere and, as dramaturge rather than subject, explores
restrictive bourgeois ideas of colour. Ideas many prefer to keep behind
closed doors.' (excerpt from 'Mum, I want to be Brown' by Catherine
Speck, 2006) Darren Siwes' current exhibition 'Oz Omnium Rex Et Regina' is showing at Greenaway Art Gallery until 17 August. |
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Brigid Noone
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A strong influence in my own work is a notion of attempting to make
sense of my internal and external world, including such themes as
vulnerability, awkwardness, desire, love and home. These have comprised
some of the dominant areas of interest in my work, with undertones of
political and broader social reach. At this stage in my research the two
central concepts that are appearing are vulnerability and intimacy. Visit Brigid's website |
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Andy Petrusevics
| 'Painter, performance artist, video artist, Andy Petrusevics has
been making his anachronistic brand of ideological observation and
commentary under the e tag for many years... The works are littered with
references to the TV aesthetics of B-grade 60s sci-fi, dada-esque
typologies and contemporary psychological machinations...Yet there
remains something abiding about his take on the dumb forces of power:
absurd, banal and funny' (EAF).
His exhibition e belief is at the Experimental Art
Foundation until 16 August. Visit Andy's website |
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senVoodoo
| Sydney based senVoodoo (AñA Wojak and Fiona McGregor) will discuss their practice before the opening of their show 'Arterial' at the Experimental Art Foundation on 12 June. Arterial is a work about loss and mourning that uses the primal medium of blood. The opening will include a live performance at 6pm, and the exhibition will continue until 21 June. |
Annalise Rees
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'While my practice is largely sculpture and installation
based, I am interested in how drawing can physically occupy the spaces we
inhabit. I think of drawing in both two and three dimensional terms, as
something which can generate place, as well as being representational of it. I am interested in how place affects our sense of self. Place being
somewhere we travel to as well as something we carry with us from one
geographical location to another. In this sense I refer to place as a term
used to locate and categorize particular spaces in relation to our
emotional, intellectual and physical responses or interactions with them.'
Annalise's talk (.wmv file format) |
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Mark Siebert
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Mark Siebert
will bring us up to date with his busy studio practice as he prepares for a
show with Greenaway Art Gallery later in the year. 'Maybe in this spectacle, In Mark's museum, the fans storm the stage. The
Museum was invented in the same year as the guillotine (Georges Bataille).
Could this be an attempt to reclaim something from our enculturation by the
popular media?... It could be an affirmation of autonomy, or a revolt
against cloned experience... Or it could be Serious Fun?' (Paul Hoban,
SASA lecturer 2005) |
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Gosia Wlodarczak
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Gosia Wlodarczak's exhibition
'Cinderella II - The
Dreamer' in the SASA Gallery is a hybrid of drawing with
interaction and performance, installation, video and sound. It represents a
further investigation of issues addressed in the installations: Living Edge
(2006) and Skin of The Wall (2006). |
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Bridget Currie
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Bridget Currie graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 2001 and
since then has had an active independent art practice grounded in sculpture. As
one of the founding members of Downtown Art space, she has been involved in
artist-run activities throughout Australia and is a strong advocate for DIY and
grassroots artist networks. Bridget has exhibited widely at a national level and
has just returned from a seven month residency at the CCA Kitakyushu, Japan. Her
work featured in the exhibition Years
without magic at the SASA gallery in 2007. |
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Professor Yin Xiaofeng
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Professor Yin Xiaofeng is an artist and academic from North East Normal
University Changchun, Jilin, and is one of China's most highly regarded artists.
Professor Yin undertook a four-week studio residency in the Sculpture and Installation Studio at the South Australian School of Art. |
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Janet Laurence
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'Sydney artist, Janet Laurence, is today best known for her site-specific
installations. Often referred to as the "architects' artist", Davina
Jackson, editor of Architecture Australia has suggested she is "a
serious candidate for the title of Australia's leading public artist".
Her works are amongst the most accessible and public of any artist in
Australia.' |
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Moelyono
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Moelyono was born in the city of Tulungagung, East Java, but went to
Jogjakarta, Central Java, in the 1980s to study painting at the Institute of
Indonesian Arts (Institut Seri Rupa Indonesia). Soon after completing his study
in Jogjakarta he went to Jakarta to work in a number of jobs in the
advertisement industry. However, he decided to return to his hometown to become
'a community-based artist' working with the children of fishermen in Brunbun
village, near Tulunggagung and other places in Indonesia. |
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Andrew Best
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Best's artwork is a personal take on the possibilities of contemporary
life. In oil paintings, collage, and sculptures in painted concrete, Best
creates a densely nuanced and self-referencing pop landscape, invoking
questions of time, process, ontology, nature and magic. Best's
multidisciplinary practice include both community and gallery-based
projects, ranging from the exacting mimetic handmade weeds of Paradise; the
international artist's community 5000 Houses, the magical, drug-fueled
jungle/hamburger restaurant Knox, Pauline - an imposing ten by five metre
reproduction of the video game Donkey Kong, and other projects in which 'the
mundane just momentarily becomes fantastic'.
Visit Andrew's website Andrew's talk (.wmv file format) |
Satsuki Tanaka
Satsuki's talk (.wmv file format)
Ann Linnemann
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In my studio, I design and produce short series of functional tableware in
porcelain, stoneware and earthenware. I also work with sculptural vessels
embodied with elements of the human form, movement and body language. The
sculptures reference my fascination with different cultures, the human body and
mind. My studio and gallery is in Copenhagen. |
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Michael Kutschbach
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Kutschbach's purposefully articulated ornamentation, which refutes the
romantic claim of an artwork's originality in its repetitive structure and
anchoring in the everyday, reveals the historical division between art and
design as questionable, if not altogether negligent misinterpretation. Kutschbach consciously mixes art and design.
He plays with suggestive causal interrelationships that are potentially simply a
matter of analogies and confronts the consciously critical questions regarding
the difference between art and a real object with ideas for the design or
aesthetic optimization of our living environment. (Dorothea Jendricke,
Catalogue essay for 'crash test at seth's arc' Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide,
2007) Visit Michael's website |
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