Past show
Strangely Familiar [working title]
Designers: Suzie Attiwill, Matt Davis, Michael Geissler, Leah Heiss, Rochus Urban Hinkel, Rachel Hurst, Roger Kemp, Jane Lawrence, Stephen Loo, Andrea Mina, Gregory More, David Morris, Sean Pickersgill, Linda Marie Walker and SueAnne Ware Exhibition launch Exhibition invite (PDF file 177kb, download Adobe Acrobat) |
SF[WT] #1, Gini Lee, Digital Photo |
![Artwork: SF[WT]#1 by Gini Lee](../images/strangely/lee.jpg)
Gini Lee: A curatorial invitation
Strangely Familiar allows works to mature and alter over time; either through ongoing operations on work or simply through a gradual accretion of things in the SASA Gallery and Kaurna building space. Although difficult logistically this might mean that things are sent or arrive unexpectedly over time. The curatorial task is to work with the works submitted to ensure that any alterations, repositioning are properly negotiated over the three weeks of the show. The exhibition will be in a nearly completed state by Sunday May 27th when RMIT and UniSA academics meet again in the gallery to review, discuss and maybe rework the works. Paul Carter will work in the SASA Gallery on May 28th and 29th to expand upon ongoing discourse and also to offer a new work made for Strangely Familiar.
The idea is really to move between the spatial and performative aspects inherent in design and art research works.
Select the images to the right to see it enlarged in a new screen.
| Suzie Attiwill pantheon sunday 18 february
2007 A visit to rome, to an idea, an image, a building I had encountered through publication only the Pantheon. I wanted to record what happened materially, spatially, temporally to gather the excess of the encounter; to expose myself to sensations as distinct from my preconceptions; to strangeness as distinct from the familiar. A colleague who assisted in the process of transferring the footage to DVD suggested a number of edits These are also included in the exhibition as artefacts produced through an encounter, as productions of reception (pantheon 2007, ramesh ayyar).
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 Suzie Attiwill
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| Matt Davis The unbearable lightness of
seeing This piece considers the paradoxical condition of representations of Australian outback landscape as a singular digestible graphic. It engages questions around how, in spatial practice, one might meaningfully engage with such landscapes, and representations, and transcend generalist clichs. It does however recognize the potency of the clichs; the emptiness; the enormity; the light; the dominance of planes, both sky and ground; and the horizon.
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 Matt Davis
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| Michael Geissler Dot World An exploration, a dissection through Dot + Line, a transaction + discovery as process, in drawing rigor continuous manipulation of medium as expression, to unravelling spatial expression as an ongoing play with drawing. This character + symbolic use of iconic + ritual form engages in a liquid performance of density in congestion + space transitions to capture a theatrical thought
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 Michael Geissler
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| Leah Heiss Matter 001 Matter 001 is a series of crystalline artefacts which resemble something between chunks of hematite combined with what one might imagine meteors to look like. They respond to human presence through variable light pulsation which increases their sense of parallel alien-ness and familiarity. They seem to throb as one approaches, perhaps they are radioactive? The forms are based on the strangely familiar concept, often represented in movies, of mysterious meteor showers that deliver unpredictable forces to earth.
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 Leah Heiss
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| Rochus Urban Hinkel My_placEs In the museum of art the famous name on the explanatory sign next to the work demands that we admire and look at the work in a certain way. Should the name on the explanatory sign be unfamiliar, an unknown artist or designer, in all likelihood we would consider the work differently. We might not even pause to consider the work at all. The work engages with our experience of daily spaces and places and explores how we contextualize them.
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 Rochus Urban Hinkel
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| Rachel Hurst & Jane Lawrence patterns of
domesticity The incomplete and well-thumbed set of 1950s Italian DOMUS magazines were obsolete to the library, but a serendipitous mine of captivating and highly charged images for our research on the everyday and domesticity. Modernity and its technologies liberated not only the spaces of the house but also the housewife. Symbolic of this, the design of the apron shifts markedly from being a pragmatic, protective garment, to both a fashion item and a symbol of the pristine nature of the modern home. The work is a collection of abstracted 3-dimensional aprons, which convey aspects of a selection of the projects in DOMUS.
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Rachel Hurst &
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| Roger Kemp Untitled I am interested in the interior as a site of negotiation and using design as a strategy for investigating and participating in existing spaces. It is through this engagement or participation with an existing space that other interiors are constructed. The underlining ideas behind this work come from an enquiry into location, view and distance in interior space. Distance is a significant condition encountered in space. The work intends to simultaneously reduce and extend the depth of view experienced within the gallery space. It asks for a close inspection via a number of viewing holes whilst promoting a negotiation of visual distance via displaced vistas of the interior space.
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 Roger Kemp
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| Stephen Loo Work Surface II: The writing
of the ordinary First movement
Wednesday 9 May 2007 Pergerakan kedua Jumaat
18 Mei 2007 Third movement
Saturday 26 May 2007
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 Stephen Loo
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| Andrea Mina 2007 These matchboxes were collected from the ground in India where they had been indiscriminately discarded. This filthy waste has been reconfigured and given a new breath of life through its conversion into reminiscences of the people and animals encountered whilst travelling through India.
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 Andrea Mina
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| Gregory More MetaIslandBeta Meta Island Beta presents an island as a space prior to identity: based on Wu Cheng'ens 1590s tale Journey to the West (commonly known as Monkey). Meta Island Beta establishes a virtual island that regenerates itself in real-time relative to sensor information. It combines a projected videogame environment with an abstracted physical island form embedded with electronic sensors. MetaIslandBeta is currently in Melbourne, and will be installed here from the 26th May.
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 Gregory More
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| David Morris Our unrequited dream
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 David Morris
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| Sean Pickersgill
My Battle Eye The work is a series of animated sequences/shorts that explore the relationship between the production of form and the affect of experience. Using digital environments I create short thematic sequences that explore the image as both a didactic descriptor and as the trace of some other condition. Most photographs look like other photographs, most buildings like other buildings, most cinematic scenes like others. My question is whether this is an expression of a discriminating culture that seeks to find ever-more subtle differences in the Same, or whether these iterations and reiterations are instructions to look back at the Real.
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 Sean Pickersgill
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| Linda Marie Walker Medicine Our drawings, our books and us, we all go along at the same pace, with an uncertain foot. (Helene Cixous) The advice of Michael Geissler (Adelaide) and James Geurts (Melbourne) was gratefully incorporated into the cabinet; the cabinet was made by Chris Woods (Adelaide); the garment was made by the frock-maker Adriana Loro and the seamstress Therese Scriva (Adelaide); the bowl was made by Angela Valamanesh (Adelaide); the book contains a collaborative text with Michael Joyce (New York). |
 Linda Marie Walker
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| SueAnne Ware
Noticing Me!bourne Christophe Girot writes that the technique of grounding is about reading and understanding a site and probing into the successive histories of place. It is a process implying successive layers both visible and invisible in which a designers attention is focused on what already exists in situ. This project proposes to read and act in the landscape as a palimpsest. The project is about not just unearthing existing layers but succeeding them with new contributions. Dr. SueAnne Ware in collaboration with POD Design - Bridget Keane, Cassandra Lucas, Melinda Harvey. Data Gathers- Nick Rose, Nicolette McNamara, Adrian Marshall, Adrian Napoleone, Matthew Meszaros, Lucas Patetl, Caitlin Perry, and David Tatangelo |
 SueAnne Ware |