Artist Performances and Participatory Projects ArtISt PErforMANCES ANd PArtICIPAtorY ProJECtS
PARTICIPATE IN THE MENDING PROJECT Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Daily 10 am–5 pm, Thursdays 10 am–9 pm FREE Lee Mingwei’s The Mending Project (2009) invites the visitor to participate in the creation of the artwork. Bring along a garment or object that requires mending and experience a conversation and connection you will never have encountered before with the artist or his assistant while your piece is repaired. Participants are asked to leave their mended items in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
lee Mingwei, The Mending Project, 2009 (installation view). Courtesy the artist and lombard-freid Projects, New York. Photograph: Anita Kan
PARTICIPATE IN KNOCK ON THE SKy LISTEN TO THE SOUND From Tuesday, 7 August until chimes run out FREE Pier 2/3 to Cockatoo Island bos18.com
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Pick up a chime from Tiffany Singh’s installation in Pier 2/3 from 7 August, take it home and decorate it as you like, then return it to a special location on Cockatoo Island. left: tiffany Singh, Knock On The Sky Listen To The Sound, 2011 (detail). Courtesy the artist and the dowse Art Museum, lower Hutt. Photograph: tom teutenberg
PERFORMANCES BY SAChIKO ABE Wednesdays–Sundays 11 am–12.30 pm, 1–2.30 pm and 3–4.30 pm FREE Building 101, Lower Island, Cockatoo Island Cut Papers #13 is an ongoing performance and installation by Sachiko Abe that runs for the duration of the exhibition. right: Sachiko Abe, Cut Papers #11, 2010. Courtesy the artist and A foundation, liverpool Biennial, 2010, liverpool. Photograph: Julia waugh
PARTICIPATE IN STITCHING TIME FREE Building 6, Upper Island, Cockatoo Island
Erin Manning, Slow Clothes, Haus der Kulturen der welt, 2008 (detail). Photograph: Brian Massumi
Stitching Time is a relational architecture, a textile proposition, a sewing circle, a tea party, an environment for emergent collectivity. Join us to design a garment, craft an environment, take a nap, sew a button, have a conversation. Come make time with Erin Manning and her collaborators.