While the post #ATF2015 reflections find their way into words and onto screen, re-reading Malcolm Whittaker's article on Time_Place_Space: Nomad (TPSnomad) is a good one to sit with. The writing that will follow, you should know, has been brewing for a long while now. TPSnomad gave me new influences, like Graham the farmer; and new… Continue reading Experience to Thought to Word to Deed
At the end of my recent participation in travelling residency, Time_Place_Space: Nomad, the key reflections I came home with centred around: How do we artists think about our financial situations, as well as the cultural narratives around our financial situations? Why do we subscribe to, and perpetuate the “struggling artist” narrative? Why do we cringe… Continue reading The Artist as Entrepreneur
time-place-space: Natures Rhythms : Solar Powered Workshop Through the overlaying and superimposition of various elements, a surprising number of unique and unexpected events can occur. This form of Amorphous Computation, where multiple, unstable, randomly placed but identically designed “cells” react to their environment (and the data/map is logged), is important if we are to understand and… Continue reading
time-place-space: Here are the results from a midnight photo shoot in the middle of a dance party on the last night of Time_Place_Space: NOMAD (recognize the exhibition hall at the Narrandera fairgrounds?). The working title for this experimental installation (performed at 9am October 11th) is “bird fish canoe” and resulted from a collaboration between Jade… Continue reading
time-place-space: how we do what we do In Narrandera, we visited local farmer, Graham and were given a tour of his farm, an introduction to his practices, and an insight into a way of thinking that in my opinion, is extremely commonsensical, far-sighted, and exciting, and ironically not embraced enough. Despite… Perhaps the bulk of… Continue reading
time-place-space: Open Sourcing. Connie Anthes Latai Taumoepeau testing movement inside a fan-powered inflatable moon head made for her by Connie Anthes using her solar-powered overlocker. Rarely do solo practitioners have the chance to test ideas quickly among a peer group prior to the…
time-place-space: Bhenji Ra and Latai Taumoepeau try Platypussy Bogue-ing with Nathan Thompson’s photosensitive FishHackers. video by Connie Anthes.
time-place-space: The found food dinner by Tessa Zettel enabled the TPS artists to gather, forage, bargain and trade with the locals. Latai Taumoepeau and Bhenji Ra danced for bread in the bakery and Lee Wilson and Michael Petchkovsky gathered Kangaroo from the roadside for a slow cooked stew with native ground up peppercorns. Diego Bonetto… Continue reading
time-place-space: Nathan Thompson Sine Twine 9th October 2014 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
time-place-space: Megan Cope taking part in Tessa Zettel’s Found Food project. Tessa invited all TPS artists to collect food to produce an evening meal for 30 people. Megan successfully volunteered two hours of her time at ‘Vinnie’s Fruitz’, a local green grocer in exchange for food. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
