May 18, 2015
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ESTAR(SER)

We are thinking we will continue with the dialogue currently taking place at RAYGUN Projects this month, in regards to both the underlying premise behind ETSAR(SER) as well as specific projects found within each contributing artists discourse. Within their current exhibition the audience members are asked to consider the botanical works of Margaret Preston in relation to the her levels of experience with and investigation of the flowers themselves. Margaret Preston

Image from National Gallery Australia

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Here is some dialogue and further investigations on ideas of ESTAR(SER) taken from contributing artist Graham Burnetts website. An intriguing maze of inquiry.

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May 18, 2015
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ESTAR(SER) SAL RANDOLPH (USA), AUDRA WOLOWIEC (USA) and D. GRAHAM BURNETT (USA)

Last week and throughout the weekend we (and members of our community) were honoured to be able to spend the time with our contributing artists from New York, Audra, Sal and Graham. Bringing with them a project that involved participation from the audience on specific approaches towards sustained viewing of an art object, they carried out activities at both the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane as well as RAYGUN Project space in Toowoomba. The process required the audience members to meet the artists via a formal session of dialogue whereby historical ideas concerning focused engagement with works of art were delivered. With reference to Australian artist Margaret Preston, the audience members were guided through a ‘zen’ approach of varying structural methods of visualising the flowers. Each individual was asked to focus on botanical fragment through processes of feel, touch, imagining and sight.

Tomorrow Sal and Audra will do an extended project with RAYGUN by delivering a talk in Melbourne at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

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May 17, 2015
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AUDRA WOLOWIEC (USA)

On Friday in the space at RAYGUN we held the last section of Audra’s project. Members of our community visited Audra and shared with her their thoughts on the sea. Different people shared ideas in various formats including music, printed images from constructed collages as well as readings of poetry and general discussions surrounding memories and thoughts on the sea. The highlight was when Ali (one half of RAYGUN) seduced Audra with her music by performing a work on her Double Bass, transcending our concrete awareness to rhythmical spaces belonging to an other world. We are super interested to see how Audra compiles her gathered material in to either a completed work or ongoing project.

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April 25, 2015
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Audra Wolowiec and tumblr

Audra Wolowiec’s project sae is in full swing. Thank you for everyone who has contributed thus far, Audra is adding the contributions to a tumblr account which is wonderful, please do have a look.

As mentioned in an earlier post, we would love you to contribute to this incredible project. Email writings about the sea to audra.wolo@gmail.com. We’re looking forward to welcoming Audra on May 15th, to meet with her in Toowoomba and read your contribution about the sea please email raygun@raygunlab.com to make an appointment. We can’t wait!

(below is a sneak peak of tumblr)

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April 22, 2015
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UPCOMING IN MAY (15TH) SAL RANDOLPH, D. GRAHAM BURNETT AND AUDRA WOLOWIEC (USA)

Returning from USA, artist Sal Randolph will be joined by Audra Wolowiec and D. Graham Burnett. They will be visiting RAYGUN in Toowoomba, the Institue of Modern Art in Brisbane and RMIT in Melbourne during their visit in May. Join in for some spectacular dialogue that will prompt you to consider how we ‘look’ at art today.

IMA Brisbane 14th May at 6pm – RAYGUN Toowoomba 15th/16th May 6pm – RMIT Melbourne 19th May

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April 3, 2015
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AUDRAS LAUNCH NIGHT AT RAYGUN

Thank you to our amazing audience for stepping out on the first night of the Easter holidays and joining us at RAYGUN for Audra’s first participatory event. We have collected a few readings already based on themes associated with the sea and are asking members of our community in the coming weeks to come and visit Audra when she joins us in Toowoomba from the USA in March to share your own thoughts on the sea. We will keep you posted with updates on our gatherings and if you live away from Toowoomba but would like to join in, just email us a poem, image, song, story or how ever you feel the sea/ocean resonates with you. Audra will collect and collate all of our information and compile it in a beautiful hard copy book and audio CD. Kind of like an art work based around ideas associated with the sea, in particular for Audra how water molecules attract each other, but belonging to a collective of friends and strangers from all around the world.

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March 24, 2015
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MAP Blue Mountains and WEST Projects

Check out this dynamic space in the Blue Mountains (west of Sydney) in New South Wales run by Billy Gruner, Sarah Breen Lovett, Miriam Williamson and Mike Myers. Theres not much that isn’t going on here but mostly we love their commitment to modern art projects and the crazy awesome architecture that consistently features in and around the space’s discourse. They also are in collaboration with REFLEX wall painting project here in Toowoomba. Today we received these super informative catalogues in the post. Thanks Sarah Breen for taking the time to put them together and thanks Billy for collaborating with REFLEX (as well as some of RAYGUN’s) artists.

Check them out.

Modern Art Projects (MAP) is a social and cultural engagement program designed to explore the nexus of art and architecture via a broad inter disciplinary field.

MAP has been established as a not for profit incorporated association to co-ordinate programs in a broad range of cultural activities including a multiplicity of contemporary artistic practices, writings on art and culture and the archiving of local histories.

The lead curators and coordinators of MAPs founding contemporary art group include Billy Gruner, Sarah Keighery, Sarah Breen Lovett, Nikki Walkerden, Miriam Williamson and Mike Myers all associated with the Blue Mountains region in NSW, Australia.

MAP is a not for profit program with partner organisations both locally and internationally.

MAP has curated a series of public and private event-based curation of contemporary art placed in unique domestic architecture and grounds. These one-day only, “Art & Architecture” open house projects are made possible by owners generously opening private spaces for public engagements.

The MAP “Art & Architecture” project is supported by The Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust Cultural Grants Program 2013 & 2014. This support is matched by the generosity of the arts community in the spectacular region of the Blue Mountains.

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