A West Space Project Curated by Sean Peoples and Veronica Kent from The Telepathy Project with artists from Australia, Brazil, France, Italy and Spain including Ms&Mr, Anastasia Klose and Elizabeth Presa, A Constructed World and Luca Pucci, Lizzy Newman and Justin Clemens, Ross Coulter and Meredith Turnbull, Nicki Wynnychuk and Matthew Shannon, Anna Hess and Christelle Faucoulanche, Simon Pericich, and INRI Cristo and his disciples.
25 November – 17 December 2011 Opening: 6-8pm 24 November 2011 Artist Talk: 5.30-6.30pm 15 December 2011
Mothers, daughters, husbands, wives, lovers, colleagues, disciples, friends; telepathy most certainly works, but does it work best between people that are intimately connected? Telepathy and Love: The Spanish Apartment invites groups of artists in unique relationships to make work together exploring this question. The exhibition premiered in September 2011 in Barcelona and will now tour to West Space for its rebirth and re-imagining. www.thetelepathyproject.com
Sean Peoples and Veronica Kent gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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Pong Ping Paradise Laith McGregor
25 November – 17 December 2011 Opening: 6-8pm 24 November 2011 Artist Talk: 5.30-6.30pm 15 December 2011
Laith McGregor’s new work will be executed over the duration of one year. The drawing installation will include a work-bench/ping pong table to be used as a tableau of thoughts, jokes, concepts and nightmares, and the inner workings of an artist’s mind. The table has been covered in paper, to be used/recorded in conjunction with his regular studio practice. With the following questions in mind: What does one think of while creating a new work of art? What are the peripheral ideas, notes to self, etc? Are these ideas as important as the finished work being produced?
The table will be set up as a functional table tennis table to be played on in the space through the duration of the show. McGregor wants the audience to engage with the work by reading his inner thoughts while playing pong. Ideas, notes, dreams and scribbles shooting back and forth between the audience.
Laith McGregor exhibits a multi-disciplinary practice. His work has been acquired by numerous institutions and collections in Australia and overseas. His recent shows include New Psychedelia at the University of Queensland Art Museum and Physical Video at the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland.
Laith would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria for their support of this project.
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Suburban Memory Polly Stanton and Saskia Moore
25 November – 17 December 2011 Opening: 6-8pm 24 November 2011 Artist Talk: 5.30-6.30pm 15 December 2011
“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home… Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Suburban Memory endeavours to demonstrate the interior as not possessing a static geographical location but, rather, aims to express its transient nature – how it is never as we remember but always in a state of transformation. A collection of memory traces which are not, and perhaps never were, really present.
Polly Stanton is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice utilises the temporal mediums of video and sound to investigate cinema’s power to shape and reflect human experiences of place, environment and memory. She recently graduated from RMIT’s Master of Fine Arts program with distinction.
Saskia Moore is an award winning sound and visual arts graduate from RMIT Masters Fine Arts. She is currently artist in residence with Sound & Music Embedded: Apartment House, London.
