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<strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />
JANUARY–APRIL <strong>2011</strong><br />
perthfestival.com.au
IMAGE CREDITS<br />
Art can transform the way we see ourselves: challenging<br />
how we think and lead our lives, inspiring us to respond with<br />
imagination, insight and a spirit of adventure to an everchanging<br />
world.<br />
When artists create work in open spaces they enhance our<br />
experience of place in unexpected and sometimes playful ways.<br />
ART:CITY in <strong>2011</strong> brings this opportunity to the people of<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> with a riches of commissioned public projects, exceptional<br />
exhibitions and an address by the founder of one of the world’s<br />
most dynamic artist collectives working in urban settings.<br />
ART:CITY aims to encourage interactions between artists from<br />
across different disciplines and from around the world. In <strong>2011</strong><br />
artists visit from Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Switzerland and<br />
the USA. They join artists in <strong>Perth</strong> in creating art encounters<br />
that are sure to change your perception of place, have you<br />
reflecting upon possibilities, and they might well bring a smile to<br />
your face too.<br />
Over the coming weeks, we hope you and your family will take<br />
the opportunity to explore the array of ART:CITY events and<br />
exhibitions that enliven <strong>Perth</strong> by day and night.<br />
This is art of our times at its most inventive, compelling and<br />
life-affirming – and it’s yours to enjoy freely.<br />
Helen Carroll Fairhall<br />
Manager, Wesfarmers <strong>Arts</strong> and Curator,<br />
the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art<br />
Cover: Tomas Saraceno, detail Flying Garden, 2005<br />
Vila Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
Image courtesy of the artist and Pink Summer Contemporary Art<br />
Page 2 Roderick Sprigg, Study for Pursuit of Happiness I, 2010<br />
Image courtesy the artist<br />
Page 3 Andrew Shoben in front of Monument to the Unknown<br />
Artist, 2007<br />
Image courtesy greyworld<br />
Pages 4&5 Jesper Just , Something to Love, 2005<br />
8:10min. Super 16mm film (production stills)<br />
Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris; Galleri Christina<br />
Wilson, Copenhagen and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York<br />
Page 6 Maschi Fontana, Space Mustang , 2009<br />
Courtesy and © the artists<br />
Page 7 John Gerrard, detail Lufkin (near Hugo, Colorado) 2009<br />
Image courtesy the artist, Simon Preston, New York and<br />
Thomas Dane Gallery, London<br />
Page 8 Nathalie Daoust, Fishing, 2008<br />
Courtesy and © the artist<br />
Page 9 Jess Burke, Gerald Bailey, 2009<br />
Courtesy the artist<br />
Page 10 Genevieve Thauvette, Unica Zurn, 2008<br />
Image courtesy the artist<br />
Page 10 Genevieve Thauvette, Marina Abramov, 2008<br />
Image courtesy the artist<br />
Page 11 Tomas Saraceno, study Cloud City <strong>Perth</strong>, <strong>2011</strong><br />
Courtesy the artist and Studio Tomas Saraceno<br />
Page 12 Nien Schwarz, Radicle (Study III), 2010<br />
Photo Michael Wingate
VISUAL ARTS PROJECTS –<br />
LOCATIONS AND TIMES<br />
Andrew Shoben<br />
ART:CITY Keynote Address<br />
Thur 17 Feb, 6pm<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Concert Hall<br />
5 St Georges Tce, <strong>Perth</strong><br />
www.perthconcerthall.com.au<br />
Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City, <strong>2011</strong><br />
Langley Park West End, cnr Queen Victoria Tce<br />
Sat 19–Sun 27 Feb, all day<br />
Jesper Just<br />
Fri 11 Feb–Fri 8 April, Mon–Fri, 12–5pm <br />
Sun 13, 20 & 27 Feb & Sun 27 March, 1–4pm<br />
John Curtin Gallery<br />
Building 200, Curtin University<br />
Kent St, Bentley<br />
08 9266 4155 www.johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au<br />
Dialogues with Landscape<br />
Tue 15 Feb–Mon 7 March, 8am–10 pm<br />
Whitfield Court, Great Court and Tropical Grove<br />
The University of Western Australia<br />
35 Stirling Ave, Crawley<br />
www.culturalprecinct.uwa.edu.au/dialogues<br />
John Gerrard<br />
Opening Wed 16 Feb, 6–8pm<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Institute of Contemporary <strong>Arts</strong> (PICA)<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Cultural Centre,<br />
James St, Northbridge<br />
17 Feb–3 April, Tue–Sun, 11am–6pm<br />
08 6228 9603 www.pica.org.au<br />
Roderick Sprigg: GOLD<br />
Opening Wed 16 Feb, 6–8pm<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Institute of Contemporary <strong>Arts</strong> (PICA)<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Cultural Centre,<br />
James St, Northbridge<br />
17 Feb–3 April, Tue–Sun, 11am–6pm<br />
08 6228 9603 www.pica.org.au<br />
Maschi Fontana: Rising Lotus<br />
Sat 29 Jan–Sun 20 March<br />
Opening Fri 28 Jan, 6.30pm<br />
Fremantle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre<br />
1 Finnerty St, Fremantle<br />
08 9432 9565 www.fac.org.au<br />
Nathalie Daoust: Frozen in Time<br />
Sat 29 Jan–Sun 20 March<br />
Opening Fri 28 Jan, 6.30pm<br />
Fremantle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre<br />
1 Finnerty St, Fremantle<br />
08 9432 9565 www.fac.org.au<br />
Genevieve Thauvette: Beheld<br />
Sat 19 Feb–Sun 13 March<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Centre for Photography<br />
91 Brisbane St, <strong>Perth</strong><br />
Wed–Fri, 12–5pm, Sat & Sun, 12–4pm during <strong>Festival</strong><br />
or by appointment 0405 647 889<br />
08 9227 6620 www.pcp.org.au<br />
Jesse Burke: Low<br />
Sat 19 Feb–Sun 13 March<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Centre for Photography<br />
91 Brisbane St <strong>Perth</strong><br />
Wed–Fri, 12–5pm, Sat & Sun, 12–4pm during <strong>Festival</strong><br />
or by appointment 0405 647 889<br />
08 9227 6620 www.pcp.org.au
INTRODUCTION TO THE <strong>2011</strong> PROGRAM<br />
Discernable throughout the <strong>2011</strong> exhibitions is a consciousness<br />
of the fragility of the environment and of humanity, yet the<br />
works collectively convey optimism, suggest positive strategies<br />
and sometimes even offer humour. Across multidiscipline<br />
practices artists share their investigations in poetic, imaginative,<br />
sensitive and sometimes startling ways. They demonstrate<br />
resourceful approaches to community sustainability, whether<br />
it is through encouraging greater human interactivity or<br />
environmental engagement in daily living, or whether it is<br />
conceptually more searching about the health of the globe<br />
and how we might coexist and flourish into the future. Other<br />
projects interrogate the psychological core of humanity,<br />
navigating the rich territory of emotion and empathy, while<br />
some focus upon external forces and their impact.<br />
Significantly, several of the international artists, each<br />
distinguished in their field, are presenting work in Australia for<br />
the first time. This is complemented by the work of local artists<br />
who enhance correspondences across the <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> program.<br />
The ART:CITY Keynote Address<br />
Andrew Shoben, founder of the London-based artists collective<br />
greyworld, delivers the <strong>2011</strong> Wesfarmers ART:CITY Keynote<br />
Address, contributing to dialogue about art in public places and<br />
community well-being. greyworld's aim is to make art in places<br />
that are often classified as urban understudies – places that<br />
might be between or peripheral to the perceived geographical<br />
‘main game’ of the city and its primary business. Their intention<br />
is to activate and enliven such spaces where an audience might<br />
be the least suspecting and where passing pedestrian traffic or<br />
transitory occupants of that space can become participants and<br />
contributors. greyworld is cognisant of the social capacity of art<br />
and unleashing community empowerment, and they employ fun<br />
and technological adaptability to achieve this.<br />
The ART:CITY Commission<br />
Working in Australia for the first time, Argentine artist Tomas<br />
Saraceno has conceived for <strong>Perth</strong> an ambitious temporary<br />
sculpture spectacularly emblematic of his visionary practice<br />
– a practice that straddles science, architecture, engineering,<br />
aeronautics, nature and art. Douglas Fogle writing in the recent<br />
Phaidon publication Creamier suggests that, ‘… Saraceno<br />
practices a kind of ‘science friction’, whereby the utopian<br />
elements of artistic fantasy come into productive collision with<br />
the real world of hard science’. Saraceno considers a future<br />
where community and its mobility in the world might dilute<br />
the highly governed geopolitical systems currently in place and<br />
where living might be less burdensome upon earthly resources.<br />
For all its utopian and futurist overtones, the departure point for<br />
Saraceno is often generated by his interest in the natural world,<br />
starting as he has from the structural intricacy and strength of<br />
a spider’s web or the meniscus of a soap bubble or the shapeshifting<br />
mobility of a cloud.<br />
For the past decade Saraceno has produced a series of works<br />
under the banner of ‘Air port City’ alluding to a concept<br />
whereby people could inhabit the skies. He has constructed<br />
works out of inflatable biospheres and explored lighter than air<br />
technology to construct suspended pods. His art gives form to<br />
explorations into complex psychographic, scientific and physical<br />
shifts for inter-community tolerance and for environmental<br />
sustainability. His research incorporates flight, ballooning, natural<br />
energies, plant biology and material technology, all of which is<br />
concentrated on airborne survival and growth.<br />
Cloud City is an extrapolation from cloud formations, bringing<br />
together the engineering expertise of air balloon technology<br />
with the finesse of an artist with an architectural sensibility for<br />
space and experience. In this instance the work is also informed<br />
by a preliminary visit to <strong>Perth</strong> during winter when the crisp,<br />
sunny July sky was punctuated with clouds. As magical and<br />
intriguing as Saraceno’s art appears to be, with each project,<br />
his fascination with clouds as a cellular paradigm for future<br />
occupation in the skies seems more believable and achievable.<br />
Dialogues with Landscape<br />
To commemorate the passing of the 1911 Act that established<br />
The University of Western Australia, seven local artists have<br />
been selected and commissioned to produce work on the<br />
campus. Under the title of Dialogues with Landscape, the artists<br />
have each responded to the natural and cultivated grounds of<br />
the University and the history of its landscape, built form and<br />
community.<br />
This inaugural site-specific event at the University in some ways<br />
encapsulates the imperatives and energies that run through<br />
the <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> program. Nien Schwarz, Bennett Miller Diokno<br />
Pasilan, Julian Stadon, Rachael Dease, George Egerton-<br />
Warburton and Gian Manik, each in their unique engagement<br />
with the location, produce a test tube for the diversity of ways<br />
artists work site specifically with a character, history, nature<br />
and community – how artists can activate and accentuate<br />
place and experience. They have brought to bear a sense of<br />
fun and inquiry, reverence, care and connectivity. For example,<br />
Bennett Miller has sculptured a new territory for the resident<br />
peacocks and Diokno Pasilan has created a temporary Memory<br />
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House in the Tropical Gardens, recalling the Filipino tradition<br />
of community celebration and sharing when moving a villager’s<br />
house to a new location. Performances initiated by artists also<br />
encourage public participation, temporarily affecting their<br />
interactions with the renowned grounds of the University.<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Rising Lotus is the result of a globe-traversing collaboration<br />
between the duo of artists working as Maschi Fontana: Tom<br />
Muller in Australia and Jean Thomas Vannotti in Switzerland.<br />
It is a witty though respectful absorption of science fiction,<br />
mysticism and popular culture. Maschi Fontana’s record of<br />
art attuned to social and environmental currencies, exchange<br />
and systems suggests Rising Lotus aims to bridge the natural,<br />
man-made and paranormal forces through a multi-sensory,<br />
experiential trail of sculpture, sound and print, all of which might<br />
point to anchors sought in an unmoored world.<br />
In his first solo exhibition in Australia, Irish artist John Gerrard<br />
blends fact and fiction in a survey of his remarkable largescale<br />
Realtime 3D projections. In one interview discussing his<br />
methods, John Gerrard refers to online ‘image wandering’ as<br />
a preliminary step to locating landscapes he eventually visits<br />
in reality – satellite technology making it feasible to map the<br />
landscape via computer. What occurs from that point on<br />
continues a highly technical see-saw and synthesis between<br />
the real and the representational, from photography to model<br />
making to digitisation to realtime activation. Within this complex<br />
and controlled level of intervention and manipulation, what<br />
seems never lost is the transportation of the artist’s vision<br />
to audience. Employing orbital camera scanning, the viewer<br />
is lulled seamlessly into time travelling within the work; and<br />
with subjects that touch on the depletion of natural resources<br />
and the impact of our habits of consumption, Gerrard’s<br />
work proposes a reinvigoration of social realism in art in the<br />
technological age.<br />
A survey of selected film works by Danish artist Jesper Just is<br />
also his first solo exhibition in Australia. By presenting multiple<br />
works, a rare opportunity is afforded to see how elegantly<br />
constructed Just’s captivating vignettes are and how intriguingly<br />
and effectively he provokes unsettling layers of empathy,<br />
bemusement, judgement and narrative in his viewer. His<br />
mesmerisingly beautiful film work seems both simultaneously<br />
cognisant and dismissive of cinematic convention, drawing<br />
the viewer into characters and situations which seem familiar,<br />
before suspending them, inviting the suggestion of narrative,<br />
purpose and reflection. Questions of relationships, vulnerability,<br />
gender, power, memory and reality are posed within these films<br />
and the exquisiteness of Just’s direction, timing and sound are<br />
so complete and sometimes unexpected that ultimately the<br />
emotional emancipation and questions raised are self-reflexive.<br />
His art is an exceptional study in intimacy and humanity.<br />
Armed with a video camera and a mission, local artist Roderick<br />
Sprigg has journeyed to the Western Australian goldfields<br />
around Leonora – the remnants and documentation of this<br />
adventure forming his exhibition Gold. Dressed in business suit<br />
from the waist up and reflective mining pants from the waist<br />
down and armed with a cart, the GPX 5000 metal detector<br />
and a pick-axe, Sprigg portrays a contemporary prospector<br />
with a script that is both romantic and soulful: ‘A young man, an<br />
isolated figure, is in search of what is readily available to anyone<br />
who searches. Soldiers, sailors, policemen, lawyers, aristocrats,<br />
the destitute and the desperate – even future prime ministers<br />
and presidents have their place in the historic Goldfields.<br />
Whether it is divine or humanistic, Gold is symbolic of arrival,<br />
of financial, physical or spiritual completeness. A standard. The<br />
material has the power to allure and delude and bring its disciple<br />
to a fear of failure.’ A part of Sprigg’s self-prescribed search is<br />
to literally follow in his father’s footsteps, as his father and uncle<br />
found and established King of the Hills mine. This exhibition<br />
furthers Sprigg’s enduring investigation into masculinity,<br />
aspiration, heroism and failure.<br />
Masculinity is raw in Jesse Burke’s intrinsically humanitarian<br />
series entitled Low, depicting portraits of homeless and<br />
disenfranchised men. Although the subjects are familiar to the<br />
artist, he returns their compliance in being photographed with<br />
artistic reverence, capturing their fragility with pathos and dignity.<br />
Through lighting and by casting their image into velvety black<br />
voids, an aura of grace is bestowed upon these displaced men,<br />
consciously referencing the grief or suffering that marks historical<br />
paintings of Christ. He intersperses these portraits with stark<br />
images of weeds, finding in this conjunction of man and nature<br />
a tribute to the social fringes and to environmental neglect.<br />
In a dramatically different locale and circumstance, Nathalie<br />
Daoust in Frozen in Time explores human vulnerability and<br />
entrapment from a personalised, feminine perspective. Her<br />
photographs disarmingly depict women unnaturally posed amid<br />
the pictureseque Swiss Alps. The ethereal beauty of nature,<br />
enhanced by Daoust’s hand colouring, shrouds the eeriness and<br />
abandonment of the figure. Within a universally appealing and<br />
familiar setting, she introduces a note of discord, softening what<br />
might be sinister or discomforting, or alluding to dream state<br />
versus reality.<br />
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The intent of self-portraiture by Canadian photographer<br />
Genevieve Thauvette is also staged and layered though<br />
unambiguous. Photographing herself in the guise of a number<br />
of significant women artists of the 20th century, her series<br />
Beheld is an assertive yet enigmatic portrayal of women artists<br />
and artistic developments by women throughout the century.<br />
The images, featuring Hannah Hoch, Georgia O’Keefe, Frida<br />
Kahlo and Marina Abramovic amongst others, are consistently<br />
framed in gold, and a doily forms a halo around their heads.<br />
Thauvette includes in her portraits an image of their male<br />
partners, whose careers at times eclipsed their own, perhaps<br />
questioning the role of muse or equal. Framed kitschly like icons<br />
and with the figure choreographed like a saint with an attribute,<br />
Thauvette produces work that is as playful as perceptive of art<br />
lineages and the roles gender and devotion.<br />
Margaret Moore<br />
ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN<br />
FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS <strong>2011</strong><br />
JESSE BURKE<br />
Jesse Burke’s photographs evoke a deep lushness with images<br />
of velvet black darkness, blankets of pine needles, blood, love,<br />
and sadness. He photographs the natural world around him<br />
as well as the men who are a part of his life, whether family<br />
members or friends, to explore the vulnerability of masculinity.<br />
He is drawn to moments where a rupture or wound is physically,<br />
emotionally, or metaphorically inflicted. He employs concepts<br />
such as male bonding and peer influence, masculine rites and<br />
rituals and man’s connectedness to nature in order to expose<br />
these instances.<br />
Jesse is an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design where<br />
he received his MFA in Photography. His work has been<br />
exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid, Miami,<br />
Los Angeles, Seattle, Tucson, Providence, Ottawa and Boston<br />
and was recently selected to be a finalist for Review Santa<br />
Fe and Critical Mass 2010. Jesse was the 2008 recipient of<br />
the Rhode Island State Council on the <strong>Arts</strong> Aaron Siskind<br />
Fellowship. He is represented by ClampArt gallery in New York<br />
City, where he had his first solo exhibition Intertidal in June<br />
2010, and by Platform Gallery in Seattle.<br />
NATHALIE DAOUST<br />
Nathalie Daoust has created and exhibited her photographic<br />
works around the world and most recently was included<br />
in the Athens Photography <strong>Festival</strong>. She also held a solo<br />
exhibition in Sao Paulo. Daoust studied at the Cegep du Vieux-<br />
Montreal in the 1990s. She utilises a range of traditional and<br />
contemporary techniques and has trained in anaglyph and<br />
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lenticular photography. Her practice has involved numerous<br />
site-based projects and residencies, and her ‘New York Hotel<br />
Story’ series – which was also published as a book – saw the<br />
artist taking up residency for two years in the Carlton Arms<br />
Hotel, an underground legend where every room is decorated<br />
by artists from all over the world. Daoust’s Frozen in Time<br />
series was produced while undertaking a six-month residency<br />
in Switzerland and was supported by Conseil des arts et des<br />
lettres du Québec.<br />
RACHAEL DEASE<br />
Familiar to local <strong>Perth</strong> music aficionados as the front-woman<br />
of Schvendes, singer-songwriter Rachael Dease regularly<br />
impresses audiences with her spine-tingling vocals and<br />
innovative neo-gothic arrangements. Her artistic practice<br />
uncomfortably straddles the realms of classical, contemporary<br />
and alternative music, and previous works include orchestral<br />
scores and commissioned compositions for film, theatre and<br />
performance. Rachael freelances as a composer, instrumentalist,<br />
vocalist and soundscape designer, and past collaborators include<br />
director Matthew Lutton (ThinIce), choreographer Chrissie<br />
Parrot, artist Marcus Canning and dancer Rakini. She has<br />
worked closely with the Totally Huge New Music <strong>Festival</strong> and<br />
Tura New Music as a curator and event manager, and developed<br />
the popular Road Trip events where local bands reinterpreted<br />
and performed film scores. She presents a new string quartet<br />
composition for Dialogues with Landscape, delivered through a<br />
quadraphonic sound system embedded within Winthrop Hall.<br />
GEORGE EGERTON-WARBURTON<br />
Following on from his whimsical Chicken Stampede project<br />
for the 2010 Next Wave <strong>Festival</strong>, George Egerton-Warburton<br />
presents a series of performances for Dialogues With<br />
Landscape that seek to explore perceptible ley lines within<br />
the UWA campus. Informed by a performative practice that<br />
investigates rarely-probed spectrums of hierarchical Australian<br />
culture and society, his multidisciplinary works have included<br />
staged events presented in squares, streets and supermarkets.<br />
Tangible outcomes incorporate but are not limited by painting,<br />
sculpture, installation and sound. His outcomes are often<br />
simultaneously surreal and sentimental, ironic and pathetic,<br />
and regularly delight the viewer. He has exhibited widely since<br />
completing his Honours degree in Fine Art in 2009 – highlights<br />
include Rounds (PICA), The Yellow Vest Syndrome (Fremantle<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Centre), the 2008 and 2009 Fremantle Print Award<br />
and Charlie Sofo and Tom Polo’s Friends exhibition at TCB in<br />
Melbourne. In November 2010 he presented a new body of<br />
performance-driven work at Goddard de Fiddes Gallery.<br />
MASCHI FONTANA<br />
Maschi Fontana is an artistic duo consisting of Tom Muller<br />
and Jean-Thomas Vannotti. Its name derives from the artists’<br />
grandmothers’ maiden names – (Laura) Maschi and (Daisy)<br />
Fontana. Muller who now lives in <strong>Perth</strong> and Vannotti in Neuchâtel,<br />
Switzerland studied together in the early 1990s and with Lionel<br />
Wyss formed the graffiti collective known as 296 (1990–96).<br />
Maschi Fontana is an optimistic strategy intended to facilitate a<br />
fuller participation in the flow of global ideas and opportunities<br />
by two artists who live away from major art centres. Locating<br />
their practice within a neo-mystic futurist platform, Maschi<br />
Fontana aims to push the boundaries of their cross-hemisphere<br />
collaboration into obscure and uncharted terrain.<br />
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Tom Muller was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1975,<br />
trained in Italy and Australia and was mentored by the<br />
illustrious Ilya Kabakov in New York. His work has been<br />
exhibited in the prestigious Primavera exhibition at the<br />
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Australian<br />
Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the<br />
Melbourne Art Fair and at the Art Gallery of Western<br />
Australia. Muller has also been the recipient of numerous<br />
residencies and awards, including the Encouragement<br />
of Australian Contemporary Art Award from the Qantas<br />
Foundation.<br />
Artist’s website: tom-muller.com<br />
Jean-Thomas Vannotti was born in 1974 in Bedigliora,<br />
Switzerland and lives and works in Neuchâtel,<br />
Switzerland. He graduated with a degree in <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />
from École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne in 2000. He<br />
has held six solo exhibitions in Europe since 2000 and<br />
participated in numerous group exhibitions. In 1998<br />
he was commissioned for a wall painting at European<br />
Centre of Silicon Graphics, Cortaillod and in 2001 he was<br />
Scholarship Holder from canton of Neuchâtel to Berlin.<br />
JOHN GERRARD<br />
Born in Dublin in 1974, John Gerrard received a BFA from the<br />
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University in<br />
1997 and an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in<br />
2000. In 2009 he was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie van<br />
beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.<br />
Recent solo exhibitions of Gerrard’s work include Cuban School<br />
(Community 5 th October) at Simon Preston Gallery, New York;<br />
Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2010); Sow Farm: What You<br />
See is Where You’re At, Scottish National Gallery of Modern<br />
Art, Edinburgh (2010); Directions at Hirschorn Museum and<br />
Sculpture Garden Washington DC; and Animated Scene at the<br />
53rd Venice Biennial Venice (2009); John Gerrard at Temple<br />
Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (2008); and Dark Portraits<br />
at Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2006). Recent group<br />
exhibitions include The Fifth Genre, Gallery Lelong, New York;<br />
Invited EV=A, Limerick, Ireland; and In-Finitum at Palazzo<br />
Fortuny, Venice<br />
John Gerrard lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and Vienna,<br />
Austria and is represented by Simon Preston Gallery, New York<br />
and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.<br />
JESPER JUST<br />
Jesper Just was born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark and<br />
lives and works in New York.<br />
His distinctive and distinguished career in film work has seen<br />
him hold an extensive and impressive list of solo exhibitions, a<br />
selection of which is listed here beginning with his first major<br />
solo exhibition in Australia for the <strong>Perth</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> at John Curtin Gallery Australia (<strong>2011</strong>); Herning Art<br />
Museum, Denmark (2012); BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary<br />
Art, UK (<strong>2011</strong>); Mongin Art Center, Korea (<strong>2011</strong>); Museum<br />
Mac/Val, Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne, France<br />
(<strong>2011</strong>); Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark (<strong>2011</strong>);<br />
Romantic Delusions, Tampa Museum of Art, USA; With Mixed<br />
Emotions, MOCAD, Detroit, USA; Gulbenkian Foundation,<br />
Portugal; The Retrospective of Jesper Just, X Media Forum,<br />
31st Moscow <strong>International</strong> Film <strong>Festival</strong>, MediaArtLab, Moscow,<br />
Russia; Brooklyn Art Museum, New York; ‘Romantic Delusions’<br />
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris; Biennale Liverpool, Liverpool;<br />
’A voyage in Dwelling’, Victoria Miro Gallery, London; La Casa<br />
Encendida, Madrid; U-tum/Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen;<br />
‘S.M.A.K’ Ghent, Belgium; Witte de Witte, Rotterdam, The<br />
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Netherlands; Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany;<br />
Miami Art Museum, Miami; ‘Something to love’, Stedelijk<br />
Museum, Amsterdam; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,<br />
California; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Herning Art Museum,<br />
Denmark; Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York; and Galleri<br />
Christina Wilson, Copenhagen.<br />
GIAN MANIK<br />
Currently completing his Masters degree in Fine Art at Monash<br />
University, Gian Manik continues to develop an experimental<br />
practice that combines elements of performance, sculpture<br />
and painting. His works explore the function of the body as<br />
a performative device, often combining phantasmal video,<br />
evocative sculpture and prodigious painting. Gian graduated<br />
from Curtin University in 2007 with First Class Honours in<br />
<strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>, and has since contributed to numerous exhibitions<br />
including Human Roll (China Heights), The Yellow Vest<br />
Syndrome (Fremantle <strong>Arts</strong> Centre), the 2008 and 2009<br />
Joondalup Invitational Art Prize and two solo exhibitions – HOW<br />
WORKS (<strong>Perth</strong> Town Hall) and The Second Blow (Black & Blue).<br />
In 2009 he was awarded <strong>Arts</strong>ource’s residency at the Gunnery,<br />
Sydney, and he has also completed residencies at CIA Studios<br />
and PICA. For Dialogues with Landscape, Gian is developing a<br />
series of large French-knitted sculptures that will be suspended<br />
from ‘the great tree’ on campus. A cacophony of internal ‘bird<br />
calls’ can be activated by the viewer’s movement.<br />
BENNETT MILLER<br />
A celebrated sculptor and installation artist, Bennett regularly<br />
creates awe-inspiring large-scale installation works, notably the<br />
Golf War series (2003–2007), which retold Iraq war narratives<br />
through nine playable mini-golf courses, and the Dachshund<br />
UN project, first staged at the Next Wave <strong>Festival</strong> in Melbourne<br />
2010 and represented at PICA later that year. In addition to<br />
solo exhibitions at IASKA (2006), Canberra Contemporary<br />
Art Space (2007) and Chalk Horse (2009), Bennett created<br />
a dachshund topiary maze for 2010’s Garden Art Action in<br />
the Stirling Gardens and a dachshund habitat for the popular<br />
Rounds exhibition and publication at PICA, two of his many<br />
group shows. For Dialogues with Landscape Miller takes a brief<br />
reprieve from working with capricious canines to develop a<br />
sculptural deep blue colour field environment within the UWA<br />
grounds. One intention of the artist in developing the work is to<br />
find ways to coax the resident peacocks into the site.<br />
DIOKNO PASILAN<br />
Since immigrating to Australia from the Philippines, Diokno<br />
Pasilan has maintained a practice that encompasses installation,<br />
performance, video, painting, photography and music-making,<br />
sharing his mix of cultural influences with communities through<br />
skills-sharing workshops and collaborative practice. He regularly<br />
undertakes residencies in Palawan (Philippines) that inform<br />
events, actions and exhibitions in <strong>Perth</strong> and beyond. Skilled<br />
in traditional batik techniques and the creation of East-Asian<br />
instruments, Diokno imparts his techniques through community<br />
workshops as well as concerts with a group of peers, who<br />
perform as The Gong Band. For Dialogues with Landscape,<br />
Diokno will create Memory House through a series of workshops<br />
with the Filipino community in an effort to revive the essence<br />
of social interaction inherent within the tradition of ‘Bayanihan’.<br />
Derived from a village tradition where the community would<br />
come together to move a house to a new location, it has since<br />
developed to encompass the act of beautifying a house. An<br />
initiative of reflection designed to challenge the surrounding<br />
poverty and imbue the community with pride for their homes<br />
and their environment, the concept of Bayanihan will undergo<br />
another permutation during the <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Perth</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
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TOMAS SARACENO<br />
Tomas Saraceno was born in 1973 in Tucamen, Argentina and<br />
currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. He graduated in<br />
Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires in 1999 and<br />
studied post-graduate Fine <strong>Arts</strong> at the Staatliche Hochschule<br />
fur Bildende Künst in Frankfurt (2001–03). In 2003/04 he held<br />
the Stipendium Hessische Kuturstiftung in Rotterdam. He has<br />
held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and the<br />
USA since 1998 and has participated in many significant group<br />
exhibitions that include Radical Nature: Art and Architecture<br />
for a Changing Planet at the Barbican in London (2009–10),<br />
RETHINK Relations, Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen,<br />
Denmark 2009-10, Making Worlds at the 53rd Venice Biennale<br />
(2009) and Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Centre Minneapolis<br />
(2007). In 2008 he created On Clouds (Air-Port City), a<br />
permanent installation at Towada <strong>Arts</strong> Centre, Japan. In 2009 he<br />
attended the <strong>International</strong> Space Studies <strong>Program</strong> at NASA and<br />
in the same year was awarded the prestigious Calder Prize and<br />
Residency at Atlelier Calder in Sache, France. His commission<br />
for the <strong>Perth</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in <strong>2011</strong> is the first time<br />
Saraceno has presented his work in Australia.
RODERICK SPRIGG<br />
Roderick Sprigg was born in Merredin in 1979 and currently<br />
lives and works between Leonora and Mukinbudin in Western<br />
Australia. He is a multi-disciplinary artist whose process and<br />
community-based art practice is often concerned with the<br />
politics of masculinity in regional communities.<br />
Sprigg received his Bachelor of <strong>Arts</strong> (<strong>Visual</strong> Art) from Curtin<br />
University in 2006, which included an exchange at the Ecole<br />
Nationale Superior d’Art in Dijon, France. Since graduating, the<br />
artist held a solo exhibition, Mechanical Nuisance at the Fremantle<br />
Art Centre (2008), and has also participated in numerous group<br />
exhibitions, including: The now recent past at Heathcote Museum<br />
& Gallery, WA (2010); Family Guy at Lake Macquarie City Art<br />
Gallery, NSW (2009); Occasional Tables, Craft Victoria, Melbourne,<br />
Vic (2008). Sprigg was selected for PRIMAVERA – the survey of<br />
emerging talent at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney<br />
(2009) and was also commissioned for Melbourne’s Next Wave<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> (2008).<br />
Sprigg has been the recipient of residencies at <strong>Perth</strong> Institute<br />
of Contemporary <strong>Arts</strong> (2008), The Cannery, Esperance (2007)<br />
and most recently completed a residency based in Jakarta<br />
developing his new project at the Faculty of Art, Institut<br />
Kesenian Jakarta as part of IASKA’s cultural exchange program<br />
developed in partnership with the Jakarta Biennale.<br />
NIEN SCHWARZ<br />
Born in the Netherlands, raised in Canada and settled in<br />
Australia since 1994, acclaimed artist Dr Nien Schwarz imbues<br />
her practice with a life-long passion for geography, earth<br />
sciences and the environment. Her work can be seen as a<br />
continual reflection of her relationships to the ground beneath<br />
our feet. For Dialogues with Landscape, Nien has developed<br />
Radicle, a multivalent mapping project consisting of sleeping<br />
bags, tents, camping mattresses and backpacks rolled to<br />
form soft-sculptural planters. The vessels support the growth<br />
of native plants to form a temporary arboretum, with each<br />
plant fitted with an identifying tag. The work is designed to<br />
complement UWA’s centenary, its heritage-listed gardens and<br />
its vast chambers of research while provoking consideration of<br />
historical and contemporary relationships to WA flora. Radicle<br />
was preceded by numerous celebrated exhibitions, including<br />
Promised Land (2001 <strong>Perth</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>), which<br />
saw the artist create 800 hand-made shopping bags from<br />
topographic maps, and Over My Shoulder, a vast wall and floor<br />
work of air reconnaissance photos presented within PICA in<br />
2006. In addition to maintaining her practice, Nien works a<br />
Senior Lecturer in <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> at Edith Cowan University.<br />
ANDREW SHOBEN<br />
Andrew Shoben is the founder of greyworld, a world renowned<br />
artists’ collective based in London that creates art in public<br />
spaces. His work finds expression through the mediums of<br />
installation, sculpture and multiples. His primary objective is to<br />
create public art that involves the human in an urban context.<br />
greyworld has created works in some hugely coveted locations<br />
across the world, and they now have permanent installations<br />
in 12 countries. In 2004 he launched The Source, a permanent<br />
installation for the London Stock Exchange. It was unveiled<br />
by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and is watched by millions<br />
everyday on television around the world as the markets open.<br />
In 2009 Shoben launched Invisible, a large scale and multi-sited<br />
work in Burnley, UK with the support of Channel 4’s Big Art<br />
Project. Working with a large group of children to create the<br />
work, Andrew spent two years mentoring and inspiring the<br />
children to get excited by art. The documentary to accompany<br />
the artwork was aired on Channel 4 in May 2009.<br />
Andrew is a regular contributor to television, radio and print<br />
and lectures extensively around the world. After lecturing at<br />
the Royal College of Art for four years, he became Professor of<br />
Public Art at Goldsmiths University. More information at<br />
www.greyworld.org.<br />
JULIAN STADON<br />
Julian Stadon’s multi-disciplinary practice is grounded within<br />
his engagement with electronic and multimedia art. Often<br />
developing digital outcomes, he is equally comfortable working<br />
within Second Life as he is within a traditional gallery space. For<br />
Dialogues with Landscape, Julian will develop real time tracking<br />
technologies to embed visitors to the exhibition within UWA’s<br />
Second Life environment. Incorporated into this system is a<br />
live cellular community that will enable the artist to juxtapose<br />
similar biological and digital constructions. The work articulates<br />
how collaborative discourse and open source digital networks<br />
deterritorialise and reterritorialise the body under a new<br />
paradigm of post-biological representation. A PhD student, his<br />
research has been informed by residencies with the Interface<br />
Cultures program in Linz; Salford University, Manchester; Human<br />
Interface Technologies Lab, New Zealand (HITLabNZ); and at<br />
The Fogscreen Research Centre, Finland. Julian is the Director<br />
of Dorkbot <strong>Perth</strong> and the organiser of Re:Live: The Third<br />
<strong>International</strong> Conference on Media Art History. He is currently<br />
attending the ninth <strong>International</strong> Symposium on Mixed and<br />
Augmented Reality in Korea.<br />
GENEVIEVE THAUVETTE<br />
Canadian artist Genevieve Thauvette has studied at Studio<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> at Concordia University and received her Diploma in<br />
Photography at Algonquin College in 2007. In October of 2009,<br />
she won the gold medal in photography for Canada at the ‘VIe<br />
Jeux de la Francophonie’ in Beirut, Lebanon. Genevieve was<br />
also present at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games as<br />
both artist in residence and francophone ambassador of the<br />
photographic arts in Canada.<br />
Her series ‘Les quintuplées Dionne’ was exhibited during these<br />
two events. They have also been shown at the Anna Leonowens<br />
Gallery in Halifax, the Gladstone Hotel as part of the Contact<br />
photography festival in Toronto and at the Dale Smith Gallery,<br />
her representative in Ottawa. She has always been drawn to this<br />
medium, as her unusual perspective of life asserts itself with a<br />
surrealist nature on the figurative reality it can present.<br />
www.gthauvette.com<br />
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ARTIST TALKS & PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
All Artist Talks & Public Events are free unless otherwise<br />
indicated.<br />
ART:CITY Keynote Address<br />
Andrew Shoben<br />
The founder of renowned artist collective greyworld presents<br />
an illustrated excursion through some of his group’s significant<br />
and influential urban arts projects.<br />
Thur 17 Feb, 6pm<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Concert Hall<br />
Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City<br />
Artist Tomas Saraceno in conversation with Margaret Moore.<br />
Sat 19 Feb, 2pm<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Concert Hall<br />
John Gerrard, PICA<br />
Artist John Gerrard presents a public lecture.<br />
Sat 5 March, 6pm<br />
PICA<br />
Bookings required www.pica.org.au or 08 9228 6300<br />
Maschi Fontana: Rising Lotus, Fremantle Art Centre<br />
Artist Tom Muller participates in the Open Studios event, which<br />
also features artists in residence and studio artists currently<br />
working at Fremantle Art Centre.<br />
Thur 24 Feb, 6.30pm<br />
Fremantle Art Centre<br />
Jesper Just, John Curtin Art Gallery<br />
Artist Jesper Just in discussion with Curator and Gallery<br />
Director Chris Malcolm.<br />
Sun 13 Feb, 2pm<br />
Bankwest Lecture Theatre, Curtin University, Bentley<br />
Bookings essential Gallery@Curtin.edu.au or 9266 4155<br />
Margaret Moore<br />
Margaret Moore (<strong>Perth</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>Program</strong> Manager: <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>)<br />
responds to works by Jesper Just.<br />
Wed 23 Feb, 12.30pm<br />
John Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University, Bentley<br />
Bookings essential Gallery@Curtin.edu.au or 9266 4155<br />
Dr Cat Hope<br />
Dr Cat Hope discusses the music and musicality in<br />
Jesper Just’s films.<br />
Wed 16 March, 12.30pm<br />
John Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University, Bentley<br />
Bookings essential Gallery@Curtin.edu.au or 9266 4155<br />
DIALOGUES WITH LANDSCAPE<br />
PUBLIC PROGRAM<br />
Bang the Gong Workshop with Diokno Pasilan<br />
Bring a picnic and create music inside Memory House<br />
(kid friendly).<br />
Wed 16 Feb, 5.30–7pm<br />
Sat 19 & Sat 26 Feb, Sat 5 March, 3–5pm<br />
Sun 20 & Sun 27 Feb, Sat 6 March, 3–5pm<br />
Tropical Grove<br />
Bennett Miller<br />
Watch Bennett Miller feed the University’s peacocks in a<br />
custom-designed environment (kid friendly).<br />
Wed 16, Fri 18 Wed 23, Fri 25, Sun 27 Feb, 6pm<br />
Wed 2, Fri 4, Sun 6 March, 6pm<br />
Outside New Fortune Theatre, UWA<br />
The Stalactite Love Review by George Egerton-Warburton<br />
A series of performances seek to explore perceptible ley lines<br />
within the UWA campus. Groups of five will take an artist-driven<br />
buggy ride around campus. (maximum 5 participants)<br />
Wed 16 & Sat 26 Feb, Wed 2 & Sun 6 March, 6pm for<br />
6.15pm start<br />
Sat 19, Sun 20, Sat 26, Sun 27 Feb & Sat 5 March, 4pm for<br />
4.15pm start<br />
Reid Library Lawn, UWA<br />
Nien Schwarz<br />
Nien Schwarz speaks about Radicle (L. radix, root), her<br />
installation of 100 native plants.<br />
Sun 20 Feb & Sun 6 March, 2pm<br />
Reid Library Lawn, UWA<br />
Julian Stadon ‘Social Symphony’<br />
Converge, flash-mob style, to participate in a ‘social symphony’<br />
with Julian Stadon (kid friendly).<br />
Fri Feb 25, 4pm & Sun 6 March, 12.30pm<br />
Outside Somerville Theatre, UWA<br />
Julian Stadon<br />
Bring laptops and converge, flash-mob style, within Second Life<br />
with Julian Stadon. Second Life newbies will receive tutorship<br />
from Julian.<br />
Fri Feb 25, 4.30pm & Sun 6 March, 1pm<br />
Outside Somerville Theatre, UWA<br />
Rachael Dease<br />
Rachael Dease discusses 4 Part History, her quadraphonic<br />
sound installation created for Winthrop Hall Foyer.<br />
Sun 27 Feb, 2pm<br />
Winthrop Hall Foyer, UWA<br />
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Wesfarmers <strong>Arts</strong> is proud to present<br />
Art:City — a unique visual arts program<br />
as part of the <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Perth</strong> international<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> that will challenge perceptions<br />
and capture your imagination with works by:<br />
• tomas Saraceno (ArG)<br />
‘Cloud City’ — a giant poetic structure<br />
that will float in the city exploring visions<br />
of a better world.<br />
• John Gerrard (irE) / roderick Sprigg (AU)<br />
re-visioning the rural landscape and our<br />
experience and perception of it.<br />
• Dialogues with Landscape (AU)<br />
Local artists re-imagining the UWA grounds.<br />
• Greyworld (UK)<br />
Greyworld is changing the face of public<br />
art by redefining dreary urban spaces<br />
into places of wonder, play and interaction.<br />
Founder Andrew Shoben gives the <strong>2011</strong><br />
Art:City Keynote Address.