Serial Space

As part of the TIME MACHINE EXHIBITION Serial Space presents a series of performances by local and interstate artists including: Lachlan Anthony, Michael Candy & Andrew McLellan; Bruce Green; Brian Fuata; Shane Haseman; Zoe Robertson & Sarah Rodigari.

18.07.12

Lachlan Anthony, Michael Candy & Andrew McLellan
Age of Ease
Performance Installation
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Serial 002

Age of Ease is an open, participatory environment of auto-destructive architecture. Brisbane artists 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.

19.07.12

Shane Haseman
I,II,VI,IX
Performance Installation
Time: 6-7pm
Location: Serial 002

I,II,VI,IXis a performance that responds to the temporal aspect implied by the festival’s title. In this sense, it will involve producing a real time performance that uses ‘actors’ – or, at least, individuals to perform an action or series of actions based on pre-set directives. The performance will respond to the formal and textual aspects specific to the site, while also dealing with themes common to Haseman’s practice – repetition, the reanimation of the archive of arts modernism, and the complex recuperation of the historical avant-garde into the syntax of contemporary cultural discourse.

Working across painting, sculpture, performance and installation environments, Shane Haseman is interested in the visual languages of early 20th-century avant-garde and how these have been assimilated and essentially negated by late 20th-century interior design styles. In drawing this connection, Haseman’s work recalls historical avant-garde’s attendant accounts of the end of art and explores the ways in which these continue, or might continue, to be contemporary.

I, II, VI, IX performed by Lizzie Thompson and Brian Fuata.

Bruce Green
In-Game Amateur Theatre Society presents Waiting for Godot
Performance
Time: 7-11pm
Location: Serial 001

Nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful…
Presented within the free-to-play MMO ‘Glitch’, Samuel Bruce and Daniel Green will stage an amateur theatre production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting For Godot” in real time, viewable online and IRL. As the play is performed in tandem with the endless grinding that players endure in-game to accrue virtual currency for more virtual goods, Bruce Green’s action serves not only as a public intervention within the game’s space, but a critique of the paradigm of ‘social’ gaming whilst simultaneously reminding viewers that none of this matters.

Samuel Bruce is a Sydney-based artist whose practice encompasses generative audiovisual abstraction, handmade electronics, a catalogue of garage sale signs and endurance karaoke. He performs crypto-occult sonic ritual as Black Math and shambolic circuit-bent techno as Knife Crimes: recordings are available through Crypt Designers Guild.

Daniel Green is Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist. His work involves investigating mass-produced entertainment mediums and figuring out why we spend so much money on them. He was also Townsville’s second-best air guitarist in 2006.

Bruce Green is Samuel Bruce and Daniel Green.

20.07.12

Sarah Rodigari
A Filibuster of Dreams
Performance
Time: 1-5am
Location: FBi 94.5FM (broadcast throughout Sydney)

A Filibuster of Dreamsis a live radio broadcast toasting the people of Sydney in the dead of night. Starting with the letter A Sarah Rodigari will make her way through the entire White Pages filling the airwaves of FBI’s graveyard shift with hopes, aspirations and unfulfilled desires. To make a request that will be sent into the night for yourself or others you can send an email, text, tweet or phone in.

Sarah Rodigari works across mediums to create participatory projects through encounters and exchange. These projects, ranging from intimate to large scale are presented in contexts including galleries, performance venues and the public sphere. Sarah collaborates with the collective Field Theory, Mimic Mass and is part of the duo Panther.

Music Programmer: Kate Jinx

Bruce Green
We Love Katamari
Performance
Time: 6-7pm
Location: Serial 001

We Love Katamari is a live performance piece utilising a custom-made interface for a Playstation 2 videogame console, allowing the system to be driven by the artist’s voices. Through this interface, the videogame We Love Katamari becomes a readymade score that dictates Samuel Bruce and Daniel Green’s performance, requiring the use of unique vocal patterns to navigate the game’s courses. This playful intervention takes the singular experience of gaming and turns it into an anachronistic meditation on the act of collaboration.

[Bruce Green's bio is above]

21.07.12

Zoe Robertson
Monument to a Deserter (after Paul Thek)
Performance Installation
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Serial 002

Paul Thek famously made a life-sized sculpture of his own corpse that he called The Tomb, and everyone else called Death of a Hippy. He died of AIDs in poverty in New York in the 1990s, thus finally proving that abjection knows no end, even as “the death of the author” would have had done with it, with greater agency to be found in self-denial. As tribute to the semantic absurdity of sustainability, Zoe will build a monument to a deserter, carving a life-sized self-portrait out of soap made from used fryer oil, rattle off history as imagery, abuse language for pleasure, through tales of self-abuse in the name of the free.

Zoe M. Robertson is a Sydney-based poet, performer, sound artist, sculptor, prop-builder, installer and video maker. For time immemorial Zoe has been adulterating form in order to promote her void. This year Zoe is completing Honours in Painting at Sydney College of the Arts and has exhibited work at Alaska Projects and MOP Projects.

22.07.12

Brian Fuata
The Sarraute Conduit (after Fraser Studios)
Performance
Time: 6-7pm
Location: Serial 002

There are specters in this house; there is a bed without sheets; there is free-speak speaking; there is a smoke machine.

There are feelings to be felt; there is text and the texting; there are kids all knowing; there is a time machine.

Brian Fuata is a writer and performance maker who presents himself. These presentations are responsive to the immediate physical and emotional context he finds himself in and are generally grounded in a foundation of text and narrative.  Making works for theatre and gallery spaces, these presentational narratives often deal with himself as a public and private persona, incorporating meta narratives of the cultural contexts these performances take place in.

Image Credit: Brian Fuata