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.

A.C.A.B installation at HEIST fundraiser

So, the artistic collective A.C.A.B consists of:

Zinzi & Gina Cuntstruct
Ben Johnson
Nickk Hertzog

We are a Melbourne based interdisciplinary art collective focused on watching tv and wandering around. This is our tumblr if you're interested: http://acabcollective.tumblr.com/

Anyway, last Saturday we did an installation at a wharehouse party in Collingwood, which was staged to raise money for an excellent, gory production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.