The Object As Score
OPENING CELEBRATION: 5 MAR, 5.30–7.30 PM
Sean Baxter, Matthew Day, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Laresa Kosloff, Igor Krenz,
Dylan Martorell, Stuart Sherman, Charlie Sofo, Torben Tilly, Danae Valenza with
performances by Ernie Altoff, Sean Baxter, Arini Byng, Matt Day, Helen Grogan,
Shelley Lasica and Katie Lee, Joel Stern. Curated by Nathan Gray.
Identifying a strand of thought in local and international interdisciplinary art
making, The Object as Score presents works that recognise the potential objects
might hold for action and interaction. The Fluxus artists, as students of John
Cage, utilised the simple written score that he had developed with 4’33” –
his silent work, which consists of the musical term ‘tacet’ (to wait) as the
sole instruction for each movement. The Fluxus 'event score' was a direct
development of the written notation of 4’33”that used the brevity and
potentiality of language as a compact method of transmitting
ideas for performance. It was the multivalence of language that
allowed these performances to be open,indeterminate or even
impossible. Using the object as a score in sculpture, contemporary
improvised music and performance at large, this exhibition does not
explore language as a medium for the transmission of open performance
works, rather it employs the object as stand-in for the written score,
recognising it as a provocation for action.
Events and performances
Friday 6 March, 12.30 pmSean Baxter – Schmelzwerk
Torben Tilly – artist floor talk
Saturday 7 March, 2:30 pm Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)
Ernie Althoff
Helen Grogan – CONCRETE ROOM (2005-) and LIGHT (2003)
Saturday 14 March, 2:30 pm Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)
Saturday 21 March, 2:30 pm Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)
Arini Byng - Ready for the House
Joel Stern
Shelley Lasica and Katie Lee – Possibility of Performance
Saturday 28 March, 2:30pm Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)
Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Saturday
12pm - 5pm
Tuesday - Saturday
12pm - 5pm
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