Exhibition 49
c3 opens its new show on Wednesday the 24th October at 6-8pm
Show runs from 24th October - 11th November 2012
GALLERY 1
FOYER SPACE
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS
TARA GILBEE
The series, 'You must remember this' is part of a range of investigations Tara Gilbee has made around forensics traces and personal remnants. The notes abstract qualities, elegant cursive writing and layered sense of palimpsest draw together to create beautiful inscriptions in the form of photograms. When the floating paper inhabits such a dark void, the writing has an X-ray or forensic quality to it. The inscriptions of scuff's, wear and tear, as well as the hand written word work in contrast with the type, thus rendering the timelines of history in the notes little life.
This work describes the nature of remembering and re -collection, the process of collecting and re-presenting these works exerts some ideas around the process of memory and recall. A textual surface that embodies more than the words meaning, an imagined past and a personal interpretation of its current state.
SPACE A
IN BED WITH WEDDLE
ANDREW MYLES
In bed with Weddle takes its name from the failings of falling to sleep. After lying in bed Weddle paints naively in very short intense bursts with the paintings rarely reworked. The series of works explores Weddle's life in Melbourne after leaving his home town two years ago.
SPACE B
RECAST: AKIHABARA
ROB BALL
RECAST: AKIHABARA aims to stimulate curatorial propositions in relation to visual experimentation, relational aesthetics and global economies simulated by consumerism. During an artist residency at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, I engaged Japanese residents in sculptural mould making production to cast locally produced outmoded technology. I then assembled and photographed the cast objects in public spaces throughout Akihabara, a retail hub renowned for sales of electronic goods.
The exhibition presents a series of photographs that document these relational events. Throughout the exhibition period I will recast the objects presented in the photographs to create a fluid art space where the relationship between thinking and making is open-ended.
PROJECT ROOM
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
BIRGIT JORDAN
Through a Glass Darkly, originally a biblical phrase, refers to looking into a dark mirror (the glass) where reflection is very poor, meaning one cannot see the complete picture and not fully understand.
The experience of working on this project links to the phrase in the literal and in the metaphorical sense. The initial inspiration was drawn from 1920's (dark) photographic glass plate negatives found at a flea market, depicting rocks in the sea at an unfamiliar locality in France. Under the strange influence of the photographs, imagining the untold story around them, an intuitive process of making works about rocks and water began, leading me on a journey to strange, but slightly familiar places. The process of making felt like looking through a glass darkly until the final images came to be.
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
BIRGIT JORDAN
Through a Glass Darkly, originally a biblical phrase, refers to looking into a dark mirror (the glass) where reflection is very poor, meaning one cannot see the complete picture and not fully understand.
The experience of working on this project links to the phrase in the literal and in the metaphorical sense. The initial inspiration was drawn from 1920's (dark) photographic glass plate negatives found at a flea market, depicting rocks in the sea at an unfamiliar locality in France. Under the strange influence of the photographs, imagining the untold story around them, an intuitive process of making works about rocks and water began, leading me on a journey to strange, but slightly familiar places. The process of making felt like looking through a glass darkly until the final images came to be.
GALLERY 2
c3 Projects presents
ARCHIVE 3
TORIE NIMMERVOLL - JASON MALING - JESS HOOD - VIVIAN COOPER SMITH
SIMON MACEWAN - TRUDY MOORE
Presented to coincide with the 2012 Abbotsford Convent Open day
Sunday 11th November 11am – 5pm
Six artists are given access to a number of archival images documenting the Convent Site from 1890 to 2004 and instructed to develop works that create a link between the moment in the photograph and the present day. The photographs in the collection show not only the passing of time but the way a physical space can represent the thoughts and visions of each generation that inhabited the Convent.
This project is commissioned by c3 as part of an ongoing documentation of the Abbotsford Convent site, becoming part of an annually created collection of works.
GALLERY 3
ACCUMULATE - PROLIFERATE
DENA ASHBOLT, CATHERINE CLOVER, PATRICIA TODARELLO AND KEITH WONG
In a digitized community where volumes of information are encountered at speed, we are constantly drawn, both visually and aurally towards immediate and abridged experiences. In response, Deb Bain-King curates this exhibition with the aim of presenting works that look at the various ways in which information is perceived and received; with the goal of espousing moments of suspension and pause, asking the viewer to linger, and become aware of the layers revealed beyond the initial act of what is seen.
Dena Ashbolt, Catherine Clover, Patricia Todarello and Keith Wong create work that involves accumulating detail and data over time, gathering quietly observed moments of understanding to create works that must sift slowly through the senses, to reveal shifts of meaning and perspective. The exhibition moves from the multiple viewpoints of Ashbolt’s video drawings, to the barely visible of Todarello’s wall paintings; from the implied sound of Clover’s photographic foray into the awareness of the birds, to the displacing of silence in Wong’s performative work which takes place on Armistice Day.
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