actingUP: a showcase of performance based and inspired contemporary visual art.
Opening night spectacular: Thursday 15 July 6:00pm - 9:00pm
List of Artists:
Alexandra Unger (UK), Ana Nusdorfer Carter, Cuntstruct (VIC), Goran Tomic, Hayley Hill, Irnin Khan, Jan Cornall, Jeffrey Hamilton, Marya Elimelakh, Michelle Cox, Pineapple Park, SandS through the hourglass (with Sevak Dilanchian), Susannah Williams, The Academy of Emergency Art - Sydney, Tom Isaacs.
actingUP: a showcase of performance based & inspired art
Growingout of the avant-garde and conceptual art of the 1960s, performance in visual art - performance art - now more-than-ever is being utilised by artists in communicating and developing their ideas across a number of mediums, platforms and places.
Performance based and inspired visual art stretches across the gamut of emotions, sensations and affect. From the intimate, to the gestural, the manic to the meditative, it can take place anywhere, anytime - lasting seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and sometimes even years.
From the artist as performer, to the audience as performer, performance based and performance inspired contemporary visual art often challenges audiences to think in new and unconventional ways about art, self, culture and the world around them.
actingUPoffers a diverse smorgasbord of performance treats; from the live to the documentary, the abject to the interactive, the critical to the comedic. Featuring 15 local, interstate and international individual and collaborative artists, the performance based and inspired art of actingUP draws upon such disciplines as sound art, theatre, painting, drawing, video, documentary, photography, and, critical & conceptual discourses.
In
Performing the Wedding Dress - a documentary of photographic prints - London artist, Alexandra Unger, rips her insides out, disrupting perceived feminine purity whilst dressed in a fashioned wedding-dress chosen from a series of idealised drawings created as a child.
Ana Nusdorfer Carter's
Pieces of Me, is an attempt by the artist to procure personal items from the audience on opening night. Using the donated items, Carter, the self-described liberator, creates her own wearable mixed-media self-portrait, pushing the boundaries of possession and ownership.
In
Fish and Milk & Blood - performance based video and photography - Melbourne collaborative duo Cunstruct (Zinzi Kennedy & Gina Clifford), reference and reenact 1960s & 1970s performance art (Valie Export and Carolee Schneeman)to explore corporeality and the abject possibilities of the female body.
Goran Tomic returns to the stage of ATVP with the debut performance of K(no)w Self Here, an epic struggle of the inner and outer, the psychological and the physical. A body trapped within the confines of space and time as webs weave around and through the tactile and the visceral.
Hayley Hill's video Two Young Men on the Threshold of Great Achievementjuxtaposes the contemporary and the historic through the changing notions of masculinity and gender expectations. How do the mythologies and heroism of bushrangers and explorers play-out in the performance of contemporary male Australian culture?
In
You Are A Mimic - a series of tragically comedic performance videos, Irnin Khan explores contemporary pop culture through the lens of the domestically mundane. The artist performs acts of nostalgic-pop-appropriation in a journey of self-reflective suburban discovery.
Jan Cornall's
Take Me To Paradise builds an interactive performance, deconstructing the literary novel of the same title, authored by the artist. Cornall disassembles the novel and invites the audience to piece it back together in any configuration they wish - a collage of improvisation and chance - creating a new shared narrative, which the artist recites and critiques.
Using found objects and a guerrilla sensibility; Jeffrey Hamilton creates abstracted murals referencing site and streetscape. For
actingUPHamilton puts his marks on an ATVP courtyard mural in front of the opening night audience. The audience is provided its own chance to do likewise by adding to Like Share, a text mural penned by
actingUP curator, Brendan Penzer.
Russian born Marya Elimelakh's video, documentation of the performance
Russia 1917-2009, sees the artist stomach a shot of vodka for each and every political regime over the past 90 years. Toasting in mimicry and critical analysis of the perceived blind faith that her native born society celebrates on the occasions of new hegemony ascendency, Elimelakh attains the level of physical sickness matched by that which is personally felt toward such celebrations.
Michelle Cox appropriates herself and illustrations from the 1970's book
The Woman’s Own Book of Modern Homemaking via animation in
House of Valium. The artist creates veritable robotically inspired phantom limbs to enact the repetitive actions of domestic house cleaning in an environment of kitsch, with a twist.
In
Sine, collaborative duo - Pinapple Park (Adrian Clement and James Gatt) - subvert and deconstruct elements and experience of sound art and performance. The pair - of all things yellow - strip the musical act down to its skeletal form as they subject themselves to an enduring 350Hz sine wave in an exploration of aural phenomenology.
SandS through the hourglass, one of Sydney's most terrorisingly exciting duo improvisation acts, introduce a site and context specific performance for
actingUP and its audience. Utilising notions of dream, the invisible and the visible, whilst straddling the sublime and the sadistic, the collaborators interrogate notions of the spectator in an opening night spectacle. Photography by Sevak Dilanchian.
Susannah Williams takes the art and techniques of drawing to the nth degree with site specific installations constructed live onto gallery walls. Using string and LED lighting, the artist creates large-scale drawings that are three-dimensional and visually arresting, laying bare the processes of a unique drawing practice.
actingUPintroduces
The Academy of Emergency Art Sydney (represented by Nicole Dennis and Saha-Mayousha Jones), the Australian collective of the growing worldwide phenomenon of Thierry Geoffroy's (Denmark) Emergency Rooms. Microemergency presents video documentation of previous
Critical Run actions, the perpetual
Emergency Dictionary, and, the Australian debut of
Slow Dance, an audience interactive dance of live critical discussion generated by the topics of the newspaper of the day.
Last, but certainly not least, Tom Isaacs interrogates the boundaries between performance and painting. Inquiring into the phenomenon of change and influenced by Serra’s verb list, abstract expressionism and Viennese actionists, Isaacs presents a live performance, and subsequent installation, through chiseling off the surface of a series of six black paintings.
Brendan Penzer -
actingUP
List of previous ATVP SoS Exhibitions below:
BIOdiverseCITY artists engage in the webs and the intertwinement of the quality and quantity of life in our urban worlds
9 - 25 April 2010
Opening launch Friday 9 April 6-9pm
Biodiversity: the diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
2010: The United Nations International Year of BIODIVERSITY.
BIOdiverseCity: a group exhibition of contemporary art featuring artistic explorations of the biodiversity, and issues of biodiversity, in the environments that we traverse in the routines of our daily lives. From the parks and waterways, streets and laneways, to the backyards and neighbourhoods, no stone will be left unturned (figuratively speaking) as artists engage in the webs and the intertwinement of life in our urban worlds.
List of Artists:
Adam Hill, Amanda Hills, Anne Kwasner, Blair Meagre, Brendan Penzer, Caitlin Wood, David Wong, Gary Smith, Gilbert Grace, Goran Tomic, Jackie Cavallaro, Jade Herriman, KA’a, Kirsten Smith, Lou Steer, Mick Bales, Patricia Mado, Peter Fyfe, Peter McGuiness, Shane Brazier, Sophie Verrecchia, Sue Smalkowski.
The ATVP Summer '09/10 SOS 28 January - 14 February
Rockin' the Boat:
contributing to the debate on
refugees, asylum seekers and fear politics in the age of terror and climate
change
The ATVP Summer'10 Show of
the Season
Opening Launch Friday 29 January 2010 6-9pm
Featuring:
Adam Hill, Adrian Clement, Alex Wisser, Ana Carter, Brendan Penzer,
Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Rankin, Georgie Pollard, Gilbert Grace, Helen
Maher, Jane Lush, Justin Cooper, Lilly Tallula, Morganics, Peter Fyfe,
Peter McGuiness, Ro Murray, Shokufeh Kavani, Tom Loveday, Zainab Mourab.
ROCKIN THE BOAT is a diverse exhibition contributing to the debate on
refugees, asylum seekers & fear politics in the age of terror and
climate change.
The exhibition represents the responses of artists from across the
social, cultural and geographical spectrum of Australian society,
working in mediums as disparate as video, installation, painting and
sculpture - all with the single purpose of grappling with issues
surrounding Australia's treatment of, and opinions about, refugees -
those who seek a better life, fleeing to Australia, by boat.
Rockin the Boat delves into the experience of artists whose lives have
been directly affected by the experience of fleeing one's home to the
social and political considerations of Australia’s approach to the
issues of refugees in relation to Australian identity, in an age where
the incidences provoking refugee situation are increasing.
The ATVP Spring '09 SOS
Mental Health
curated by Luisa Velasco
12-29 November 2009 Katy Brownless, Kate Christianon, Simon
Cook, Mark Dally, Jay Early, Gilbert Grace, Alyx Guidi, Camilo Heley, Caroline
Huf, Zara Humphreys, Lizzie Kruse,
Natalia Ladyko, Cheung Ha Lim, Annette
"Blanka" Maguire, Sarah McEwan, La Colectiva De Los Locos Sin
Nombre,
Tina Plenty, Sally Shuk
Man Poon, Kate Riley, Ebony Secombe, Reuben Shipp, Goran Tomic, Jo Tracy,The Unknown Artists’
Collective, Jason Steven George White, Craig Weir.
The ATVP Winter '09 Show of the Season
REALITY CHEQUE ATVPs Winter '09 Show of the Season
19 June - 5 July 2009
Opening Launch Friday 19 June 6-9pm
Reality Cheque artists:
Bec Young, Charles Dennington, Catherine Cloran, Danielle
Bluff, Gilbert Grace, Jack Breukelaar, Jeffrey Hamilton, Jemima
Aitchison, Jesse Rasmussen, Kurt Sorensen, Maiara Rocha
Skarheim & Benny B Sutton, Mark Dahl (CAN), The Unknown Artist's
Collective, Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana, Paula Perugini,
Peter Fyfe, Shane Brazier, Stephanie Bray, Tom Loveday.
The ATVP Autumn '09 Show of the Season
Opening Launch - Thursday 11 December 6-9pm23 October - 2 November
ATVP Spring '08 Show of the Season
-Tech-niche-in Gallery- celebrating the contribution of artists in the
behind-the-scenes operation of Sydney's art spaces. Opening launch Thursday 23 October 6.00pm - 8.00pm
List of Artists:
Gustavo
Boke, Diego Bonetto & Mark Brown, Cash Brown, Ana Carter, Timothy Dale, Adam
Hill, Robert Howe, Marius Jastkowiak, Tia McIntyre, Kenzee Patterson, Tom Polo,
Innocenza Toritto.
Tech-Niche-In-Gallery
is an initiative of At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art and has
been supported generously by; Blacktown Arts Centre, Boomalli
Aboriginal Artists Co-operative,
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts
Centre, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery &
Community Centre, Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney, and, Parramatta
Artists Studios.
The ATVP Winter '08 Show of the Season
Ambiguousity
The art of writing one's art
26 June - 6 July 2008
Opening Launch, Readings and Artist
Statement Silent Auction
Thursday 26th June 6.00pm - 9.00pm
List of Artists:
Melissa Angius-Salvatore, Shane Brazier, Pamela Lee
Brenner & Johannes Muljana, Meghan Brewster, Thomas
Chung, Kath Fries, Peter Fyfe, Thomas Guichard (FRA) with Alexander
McIver (SCT) & Fraser McDonald (SCT), Alyx Guidi, Amanda Hills, Jessica
Hodgkinson, Dee Johnson, Mitra Jovanovic, Danielle Leonello, Tomas Liebetag,
Donna Page, Elizabeth Rankin, Jacqueline Salvatore, Diana
Sedlarevic, Lou Steer, Lilly Tallula and a williams.
