Disappearance

Presented at ‘Paper String Plastic’ for the  2012 Adelaide Fringe Festival, DISAPPEARANCE, an exhibition curated by Madeline Reece and Adele Sliuzas. Through the exploration of nothingness in local contemporary art practices, DISAPPEARANCE showcases the work of artists Brad Lay, Riley O’Keeffe, Julia McInerney, Alanna Lorenzon and Sarah Buckley. The works presented within this exhibition display the positive and engaging properties of absence.

Alone, Together. In Conversation and Thought.

Our society is becoming increasingly good at sharing our triumphs, however miniscule, with an ever widening audience, but perhaps the sound of our success is getting a little too loud.

Alone, Together. In Conversation and Thought is an attempt by artists Edward Gould and Alanna Lorenzon to amplify the other end of the emotional spectrum.

For more information visit: www.alonetogetherinconversationandthought.com

GOOD JOB TEAM!

Format Collective

 

Flux, You and Me

 

Mantle

Exhibition with Lucy Berglund April 2011 at TCB gallery Melbourne.

Click here to read the * ZINE  * Lucy and I created for this exhibition.

 

Unclassified

Unclassified was a group show at Diane Tanzer Gallery Melbourne, curated by Rachel Feery and Gillian Brown.

DARK GLOBE DRAWINGS

Seven Years of Bad Luck

was a solo exhibition by Olle Holmberg at TCB gallery Melbourne, i was one of several writers invited to submit a short piece about Olle’s work that would become eternally regenerated ‘poly-subjective’ essay. this is what I wrote:

 

Dear Olle,

Looking at your work I feel that maybe you think the world is strange, which it is; Strange and surprising with lots of things in. That’s why no one should ever be ashamed of being gullible, if someone tells you something incredible why shouldn’t you believe them? It’s much more gratifying not to presume to know all that is possible. It’s possible to see the world as a coherent pattern and it’s possible to see the world as a pile of junk. Maybe in your case you see it as a continuously reworked cut and paste. I had to pause in writing this out because I was trying to eat a piece of chocolate at the same time and the sensation became so overwhelming that I was completely unable to focus my eyes on the words. Brains get so addicted to pleasure, in ‘The Brain That Changes Itself’ the author describes how the best way to train a brain out of obsessive compulsive thinking is to force yourself to think a pleasurable thought instead of the recurrent obsessive one, eventually (ostensibly) you can rewire it to be a pleasure loving brain. In the movie ‘The Cove’ there is a story about a dolphin named Cathy who commits suicide by choosing not to take another breath. She shuts her blowhole and sinks down to the bottom of her swimming pool. In this way the film equates dolphin intelligence with human intelligence by the fact that we both have the autonomy to end our own lives. A.J Ayer writes: “A work of art is not necessarily the worse for the fact that all the propositions comprising it are literally false…If the author writes nonsense, it is because he considers it most suitable for bringing about the effects for which his writing is designed.”

—Alanna Lorenzon

The poly-subjective essay can be found here:

http://www.olleholmberg.com/essay/

Drawings 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Structural Integrity

West Space pavilion as part of ‘Structural Integrity’ for NEXT WAVE 2010 at the Meatmarket Melbourne.

Mercy Street

Group Show curated by Anusha Kenny as part of the NEXT WAVE festival 2010 at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Melbourne.