Artspace
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Everything Falls Apart – Part II
Artspace, Sydney From 10-August-2012 to 16-September-2012
“Everything Falls Apart” brings together several significant works by international and Australian artists presented over two exhibitions. Overall, the project focuses on works examining the collapse of ideological and political systems – actual, imagined, desired – be this via specific events or through broader consideration of the dissolution of, or confrontation with, capitalist, colonial, communist [...]
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Everything Falls Apart – Part I
Artspace, Sydney From 27-June-2012 to 05-August-2012
“Everything Falls Apart” brings together several significant works by international and Australian artists presented over two exhibitions. Overall, the project focuses on works examining the collapse of ideological and political systems – actual, imagined, desired – be this via specific events or through broader consideration of the dissolution of, or confrontation with, capitalist, colonial, communist [...]
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The Other’s Other
Artspace, Sydney From 09-May-2012 to 17-June-2012
“The Other’s Other” attempts to elaborate upon the fluidity of territorial borders and cultural identification through a project which explores some of the complexities of historical and contemporary migration. The exhibition assembles new and recent works by a selection of leading Australian and international artists whose works reflect upon their personal narratives of identifying with [...]
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Khaled Sabsabi: “Mush”
Artspace, Sydney From 21-March-2012 to 29-April-2012
As an artist and community arts practitioner who specialises in multimedia and installation, Khaled Sabsabi’s work reflects the complex and often loaded space of border identities and identity production, characterised by an ever-changing and conditional nature. In Mush Sabsabi projects gridded networks of images over four sides of a suspended monolithic cube, interlacing everyday suburban and [...]
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Adam Geczy: “Beautiful Cities”
Artspace, Sydney From 21-March-2012 to 29-April-2012
Inspired by the apparent social and architectural disparity between Paris’ most frequented tourist sites and the city’s outermost suburbs, Adam Geczy’s “Beautiful Cities” presents an array of imagery rarely associated with iconic global cities, at least not in the manner they are outwardly represented as tourist destinations. Geczy presents fractured views of five cities – [...]
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Alex Martinis Roe: “Non-writing histories”
Artspace, Sydney From 01-February-2012 to 11-March-2012
In “Non-writing histories” Alex Martinis Roe will attempt to highlight gender political operations of non-representation and abstraction by examining the performative effect of non-representational work, which is not often made explicit in criticism or history, and not often in feminist criticism, which historically has engaged primarily with the politics of [...]
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Kate Mitchel: “Fall Stack”
Artspace, Sydney From 01-February-2012 to 11-March-2012
In work developing from her BankART Life III residency in Yokohama, Japan in 2011 undertaken with Artspace curator Mark Feary, Kate Mitchell extends her exploration of the subject within temporally stretched, endurance action work. “Fall Stack“, a five channel video work, places the artist in mundane settings – a grocery store, a [...]
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Alex Gawronski: “The Invisible Man”
Artspace, Sydney From 01-February-2012 to 11-March-2012
Alex Gawronski constructs a space that doubles as both gallery and art-object, perpetually scrutinised by an unseen and absent subject. A new installation, “The Invisible Man” fictionalises the space of the Artspace gallery to broadly conceptualise the interrelationship between the institution of art, its audiences and the spatial models that [...]
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Nothing Like Performance
Artspace, Sydney From 25-November-2011 to 22-December-2011
“Nothing Like Performance”, group exhibition. Works by: Matthew Bradley, Lauren Brincat, Brown Council, Paul Donald, Will French and Yiorgos Zafiriou.
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Fiona McGregor: “Water Stories”
Artspace, Sydney From 01-November-2011 to 20-November-2011
“Water has always been central to me. I grew up on the harbour, learnt to swim when I learnt to walk. I spent entire days in the sea during summer, till my skin crinkled and burnt … I had no idea then that freshwater was so precious. It was on tap – [...]
