TIME MACHINE Launch & Exhibition Opening

The TIME MACHINE festival and exhibition launches with one off performances by Lachlan Anthony, Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan & Ella Barclay.

All welcome!

Date: 18.07.12
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Serial 002

FULL TIME MACHINE PROGRAM

6-9pm:
Ella Barclay
The Woozy Jacuzzi (an empty bliss beyond this)
Participatory Light Installation

The Woozy Jacuzzi (and empty bliss beyond this),  is a participatory light installation  comprising a series of strong cocktails, served in science beakers containing an LED light and a dry ice swizzle stick, distributed through a crowd. “In my work I try to engage with our desire to see and create things that seem extraordinary and/or impossible,” notes Barclay, “one could say the woozy jacuzzi converts a crowd of revellers into trusted transporters of a billowing, powerful lunar elixir, or perhaps just a sea of sad suckers on another underwhelming drink.”

Ella Barclay is a Sydney-based artist concerned with the transfixing, impulsive and intuitive behaviours brought about by new technologies. In 2006 she obtained an MSc. in Digital Media with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh, courtesy of the British Council Scotland Scholarship and subsequently graduated with the John Lansdowne Media Art Award. In 2007 she was an active member of the international collective FutureAcademy StudioLab, who conducted performances, exhibitions and experiments in Edinburgh, Tokyo, Akiyoshidai and for the Documenta 12 Magazines project in Kassel. In 2013 she will exhibit a major work at The International Symposium of Electronic Art.

7-9pm:
Andrew McLellan, Michael Candy & Lachlan Anthony
Age of Ease
Performance Installation / Participatory Event

Age of Ease
is an open, participatory environment of auto-destructive architecture. Andrew McLellan, Michael Candy and Lachlan Anthony will award several machinations to break the embedded restraints experienced under happy duress, creating an alternative ideal: an alternative Age of Ease. TVs, fluorescent light tubes and ceramic tiles will be brought under the affirmative freedom of mechanical hammers, mouths and turbines.

Michael Candy is a Brisbane-based new media/kinetic artist with a specific interest in mimesis, technological archetypes and the discourse that exists within these contemporary parallels.

Andrew McLellan is a Brisbane-based artist who spends his quality time on Cured Pink: a project that works within self-built instrumentation, ludic robotocism, crowd dissuasion, apolitical public intervention and audio engineering.

Lachlan Anthony is a Melbourne-based sculpture and installation artist. His practice maps the values of social culture in consumer lifestyles within zones such as the home, the office, the mall and most recently, the franchise gym.

Image Credit: Ella Barclay, The Woozy Jacuzzi, Production Image, 2012