A week later
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AN UPDATE ON LEE WALTONS SOFT SERVE
A week later
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist talks about curating and how he expands it to include architecture, poets, novelists, maps and gardens utilising the idea of the expanded exhibition. Ulrich Obrist references Diaghileff, the producer of the famous Ballet Russe, who wanted to bring all the arts together through Ballet (Stravinsky, Picasso etc.) in the same way Ulrich Obrist believes that through the art works we can bring together all the arts. Love it.
LEE WALTON OPENING NIGHT
Participants who had been in touch with Lee or who decided to be a part of the project bought their objects from a place they had never been to before and agreed never to go back to.
The project was super inclusive and while it bought everyone together in what seemed a unique way considering the nature of the ‘white cube’ gallery space, it also made people aware of and think differently about their own memories and experiences, as well as others. Check out the videos below of shared experiences. xx
LEE WALTON Opening Night
On Friday night we had Lee’s opening ‘Objects From Places We’ve Never Been’.
Participants who had been in touch with Lee or who decided to be a part of the project bought their objects from a place they had never been to before and agreed never to go back to.
The project was super inclusive and while it bought everyone together in what seemed a unique way considering the nature of the ‘white cube’ gallery space, it also made people aware of and think differently about their own memories and experiences, as well as others. Check out the videos below of shared experiences. xx
LEE WALTON STATEMENT
We asked Lee to write a statement/paragraph about his upcoming show this Friday night.
Genius
xx
A Short Statement / Memory For The Exhibition Objects From Places We’ve Never Been Before:
When I was very young, probably about 7 years of age, I was walking with my uncle along a pavement road in the California Mountains. We were returning from somewhere, I think. Off the left side of the road was a very steep downgrade filled with Redwood trees, pinecones, and bushes. It seemed untouched.
We kept walking and I kept looking. Wondering. I wanted to go down there. We kept walking.
Finally, I stopped and told my uncle my idea. “Lets hike down that mountainside?” He pointed into the woods and responded, “Do you see that tree? First, you hike down there, touch that tree and hike back up.” I saw the tree. It was not very far, but far enough.
Minutes later I returned up the mountainside to the paved road. Slightly out of breath. Exhilarated. My uncle responded, “Ok, now go touch that same tree one more time.”
Lee Walton
Eva Koch APPROACH
On the idea of interpretation and searching to understand our environment through actively making, (see Hayley French’s contribution through the previous post), I thought it appropriate timing to contribute the work of Danish artist Eva Koch through her video APPROACH. Eva investigates the theme of interpretation through ambiguous communication in that even though we live within a field of interpretation, and speak the same language, it is not given that we understand the same thing.
Enjoy.
101 ART EXPERIMENTS – HAYLEY MEGAN FRENCH (WRITER IN RESIDENCE)
Hayley sent the following note in her email, in which the above was attached (love it):
This text is something I have been playing with since I was in Toowoomba last year when I came across the book 101 Science Experiments at Kyle and Tiff’s house. For me it has some nice simple connections to the ideas in Brad’s book he just sent up on inventiveness. Not sure what exactly I am going to do with it yet but I have become very interested in this author and am slowly collecting more of his books.
Children’s books are important.
LEE WALTON/HAYLEY MEGAN FRENCH
Our writer in residence Hayley Megan French is also participating in Lee Walton’s upcoming show ‘PLACES WE’VE NEVER BEEN’ (Opens Feb 7th). The same day that I received the following video from Lee Walton giving an overview of the show in our inbox, Hayley found this following related quote. Love it.
‘How long have I been here, what a question, I’ve often wondered. And often I could answer, an hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.’
Samuel Beckett, Stories and Texts for Nothing
BRAD BUCKLEY and ECOLOGIES OF INVENTION
There’s one thing to be excited by the expectation of a new book arriving in the post, it’s a combination of the heightened senses, a moment of wonder at what new experiences may arrive from the minds of the author, the visual and tactile surprises of the book as object and of course the smell! But it’s another to have your own ARI (RAYGUN) mentioned/supported within the pages.
Here is our new book Ecologies of Invention, edited by Brad Buckley, John Conomos and Andy Dong, Sydney University Press, 2013. A book about inventiveness, borne out of aesthetic ambition and how this impacts on and changes our culture and society. Brad Buckley and John Conomos’ essay The Artist Run Initiative: An Agent That Blurs The Studio, Laboratory and Exhibition Space, Creating a Site For Inventiveness, talks of the necessity of the Artist Run Initiative, (opposed from the commercial site/gallery) as being a space or ‘white cube’ for recent graduates and artists to exhibit, allowing for a broader degree of innovation and experimentation.
Thank you Brad.
DAILY TOUS LES JOURS
Check out this design studio and their investigations of collective experiences.
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