Kate Abon at PICA
Critical Writing Residency
Kate Abon6 July – 6 September 2010
Clock Tower StudioA phenomenological experience of landscape
Kate Abon is a Perth based artist and arts writer who is interested in the way ontological paradigm shifts change the way we interact with the world. During the twentieth-century, the western philosophical treatment of perception was no longer dominated by vision. Knowledge gained from subjective sensorial experience was shown to be as valuable as that gained primarily from sight. The site of perception became located in the body as a whole, not just the mind, and interconnection suggested that the boundaries of the body are porous and ambiguous. This shift is paralleled in the emergence of new types of artworks and art processes; environmental art, land art, body art, sound art, installation art and participatory art all recognise the importance of the expanded sensorial body in making and experiencing art.
Currently, Kate is researching Western Australian artists who are primarily concerned with representing their relationship with/in the land. She is exploring how the broadening of sensorial experience may be influencing our world view to allow for the consideration of land in its own terms, rather than from an anthropocentric position. She plans to use her residency at PICA to identify and interview local artists whose practices reveal a significant interest with the phenomenological experience of the landscape, either in the process of creating art or in the presentation of artworks.
via PICA.
The Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris
the mister potatohead of the bird world
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World Listening at the Round House Sunday 18 July
| July 18, 2010 | ||
| 12:50 pm | to | 1:45 pm |
You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. World Listening Day celebrates the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology.
Come for a sound walk starting at the cannon at 1pm and walking down High Street for as long as you like… probably finishing around 13:30ish. Our mission is to listen (and record if you so feel inclined)!
Where: At the signal cannon at the back of the Round House (facing the sea) in Fremantle
When: Sunday 18 July BE AT THE CANNON (the time gun) NO LATER THAN 12:50 as the cannon goes off at 13:00 sharp
July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. Schafer is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which he directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book Soundscape: The Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.
pelican day
On Monday (8 February) I visited Lake Richmond, Lake Walyungup and Lake Clifton. At each site I saw pelicans in the sky.
What is the shape of ecosystem(s)?
Taken at sunrise at Lake Hayward it represents to me the complexity of ecosystems which I wish to convey in the final work.
Lake Clifton Thrombolites
Central to the sixth shore project is the actual thrombolites themselves. This is taken from the boardwalk.
Art’s Birthday
| January 17, 2010 |
Art’s Birthday was proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. It has since been celebrated on January 17 as an annual exchange-art event by a collection of artists and artist organizations around the world…
greenwash and blackwash?
Wash and Spin Cycle Threats to Tropical Biodiversity by Lian Pin Koh, Jaboury Ghazoul, Rhett A. Butler, William F. Laurance, Navjot S. Sodhi, Javier Mateo-Vega, and Corey J. A. Bradshaw
An article arguing that both sides of the environmental debate can put out gloss, misleading or unsubstantiated claims about tropical deforestation. Greenwash is corporate, but exaggerated claims by green groups are blackwash: “We as scientists have a particular responsibility to evaluate critically and objectively the claims made by both parties, while being mindful of our own personal biases.”
I wish it were that simple.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122681415/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Biotropica Volume 42 Issue 1, Pages 67 – 71 Published Online: 10 Nov 2009
Aesthetics as a Way of Survival
Dutch artist Germaine Kruip filmed satin bowerbirds in her work Aesthetics as a Way of Survival similar to my 2004 video work herethere(hide).
Her film about the bowerbird poses the question relating to the »artificial« and the »natural« in a surprisingly new way, encompassing the whole exhibition with this dichotomy. Guided by visual similarities Kruip establishes a number of connections in the exhibition between her different works. Gigantic slabs of marble with a striking grain reminiscent of ellipse-shaped bowers of the birds seem to explore the boundaries between nature and construct, between appearance and being, as indeed do Kruip’s three-dimensional mobiles that cast unexpected shadows on the wall.
Marble Untitled (2009) by Germaine Kruip is now presented in the Museum Paviljoens — Courtesy The Approach, London. Photo Gert Jan Kocken
Germaine Kruip: Only the Title Remains 21 November 2009 – 11 April 2010 Museum De Paviljoen, The Netherlands
Apparently there is to be a one day Symposium Aesthetics as a Way of Survival 4 March 2010 with Clifford and Dawn Frith in attendance. Too good to be true? (no further details on the internet)
Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010: Postgraduate Conference for the Creative Sonic Arts
Date: Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th June 2010
Location: Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Deadline: Abstracts outlining papers, installations and performances due 1st February 2010
Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts
We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2010, a conference for postgraduate students working in the creative sonic arts, organised by postgraduate students of the Music Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), De Montfort University. The ideals of this event are to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between postgraduate students, across institutional boundaries, leading to new perspectives on current works and research. We encourage submission of papers and creative work, both completed and in-progress, for presentation over the course of the event. This year’s event has the theme “Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts” and aims to investigate this critical topic through all forms of submissions and a roundtable discussion.
Event Topics
We invite paper submissions on topics related to creativity in the sonic arts including, but not restricted to:
- Sound Diffusion
- Multi Channel Approaches to Composition and Sound Projection
- Installations
- Interactivity
- Audio-Visuals and Multimedia
- Electronics and Circuit Bending
- Performance Practice
- Theoretical Implications of the above
more details: http://www.sssp.org.uk/
International Year of Biodiversity
| January 1, 2010 |
2010 — International Year of Biodiversity. Think about it. A lot.
Anatomy in the Gallery – International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
Deadline: April 17, 2009
Exhibition Proposals for 2010
“Anatomy in the Gallery,” a rotating exhibition program at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, showcases medically themed contemporary art within the unique context of the Museum’s historical collections and exhibits. The program was begun in 1998 to help fulfill the Museum’s mission of enriching its visitors’ lives by enhancing their knowledge and understanding of surgery and related sciences. “Anatomy in the Gallery” is currently accepting proposals for its 2010 exhibition calendar.
Exhibition Calendar for 2010
January 29 – April 16, 2010
April 30 – July 16, 2010
July 30 – October 15, 2010
October 29, 2010 – January 14, 2011
Two exhibitions are presented concurrently during every eleven-week exhibition period, one in each of the Museum’s adjacent galleries, for a total of eight exhibition opportunities a year. Please indicate in your submission if you would be unable to show your work during one or more of the specified exhibition periods.
Proposals are accepted at any time, but the deadline to be considered for 2010 is April 17 , 2009. Proposals received after that date will be considered for the next exhibition year.
Further Information & Application
https://www.imss.org/exhopp.htm
If you have any questions, please contact Lindsey Thieman, Program Coordinator, at Lindsey@imss.org
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
fax 312.642.9516
info@imss.org
The Animal Gaze 2010 Symposium & Exhibition
The success of The Animal Gaze encouraged London Met to set up a series of associated events around animals and art today. These will be part of an ongoing programme under the banner of Cass Contemporary Arts (CASSCA)…CASSCA announces another symposium on animal/human studies and contemporary art at Sir John Cass in October 2010 (final dates to be announced). Again, the event will be developed from practice-led university research in fine art. We welcome practising artists in particular, and participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches in general, both scholarly and practice-led. We invite proposals for papers, presentations, dialogues, showings, interventions, performances and workshops in all formats. DEADLINE: March 31st, 2010 (notice of acceptance to be made by May 30th, 2010). Please send proposals and abstracts of no more than 300 words to Rosemarie McGoldrick at London Met.
