'no thing after another' : acab collective

'no thing after another' was a site specific installation created by ACAB collective for Trocadero Art Spaces in Footscray. Drawing on the spatial landscape of Footscray, a work was created that merged video installation with sound art and found objects. Construction sites and vacant lots represent zones of transition common to the landscape of the western suburbs. These places exist on the periphery of our awareness, prompting a simultaneous attraction and unease in those that come across them.
'no thing after another' locates the viewer within a transitory space and aims to preserve the unique poetic identity of the current Footscray-in-transit.

Today we de-installed the work, which was a challenge in the 35 degree heat.The exhibition went well though, and I'm very thankful to all who came along to take a look.
For those that missed it, here are some photographs of the installation...

xo

ben johnson and nickk hertzog : residency

Ben Johnson and Nickk Hertzog of ACAB Collective held a studio residency at Blindside Gallery this summer. The resulting installation was created using materials from all over the city and the Nicholas building and explored the complex relationship between place and context in the studio. The studio echoes the logic of spatial peripheries - it is a complex and organic whole. To remove a garbage bag is just as incongruous an action as removing a painting. The work was indelibly linked to the edifice of the studio. Ben Johnson and Nickk Hertzog’s assemblages cohere into a sort of DIY post apocalyptic desert island, where accumulation and entropy have become implicit in the studio space.

(dis-)array at light projects

Upcoming exhibition featuring the ACAB artist’s book.

The book was created at Monash University during (dis-)array, a series of transdisciplinary workshops that focus on making practices public through through the form of the artist’s book.

Opening drinks: 6-8pm, Friday 30 September 2011

The exhibition may be viewed:

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm, or by appointment

176 High Street, Northcote

www.light-projects.com

unmeasuring time : blindside

I've recently been involved in this exhibition, Unmeasuring Time, at Blindside Gallery.



Curated by Zinzi Kennedy, the exhibition includes the work of three female artists; Zinzi Kennedy, myself and Bonnie Lane, with each of us engaging with duration, video and performance in different ways.

"Within screen based installations time becomes spatialized and put on display providing an opportunity for stimulating recognition by spectators of the proportion of formulaic linearity that pervades media experience demonstrating that subjectivity is itself experienced as durational. Viewers of screen-based installation are avowed with the ability to determine their own durational experiences, as they at will autonomously dictate the amount of time that is spent with each work. Video installations have the ability to generate the impression that they are perpetually taking place, even in the absence of spectators they continue, an 'ongoing object.' This perception invites viewers to enter works at any point in the cycle of projections and to explore the illuminated environment at a length of time that they judge as appropriate rather than that decision being made in totality by the artist, artwork or institution. Each artist in this exhibition deals with durational experience uniquely from directly recording a live performance to utilizing the relentlessness of continuous loops. Juxtaposing the video artworks in 'Unmeasuring Time' demonstrates differing approaches to time whilst elucidating videos ability to generate immersive temporal impulses."

-Zinzi Kennedy


I feel like it has been a really successful show. Whilst sitting the gallery over the past few weeks I've gotten some feedback about the work from people visiting the show. Some people were really positive, others disgusted, ambivalent, intrigued..... it's just nice to hear responses anyway. Setting up the show was challenging (as it always is) and by the time we got it all together I was well and truly ready for a glass of wine. Here's some photos from the setup and opening drinks....