Monday, March 16, 2015

the object as score - margaret lawrence gallery VCA

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)


40 Dodds Street
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