Moonah Arts Centre Jan - Feb 2023 Program

DAVO IS SHAZAM 01.02.19-01.02.22

STAN BARNES

Friday, February 1, 2019, artist Stan Barnes went to the pub with some friends. Burgers were eaten, a song was ‘Shazamed’ and a daily occurrence began. Stan heard a song playing in the pub that he liked. He didn’t have the Shazam phone app so couldn’t find out what the song was. Someone Shazamed it for him and someone set a notification in Stan’s phone to repeat every morning at 9am.

Every day since, Stan has taken a screen shot of the phone notification when it pops up, then texts it to his friend Davo.

Davo Is Shazam Today Winnie

Stan Barnes, Davo Is Shazam Notification 2, 2022, digital image. Courtesy of artist.

INTERPRETED JONNY SCHOLES

Interpreted uses new and old storytelling technologies to record the world’s history each month.

The exhibition presents twelve machine-woven tapestries, which depict a version of the events that took place in 2022, directed entirely by automated processes. Together they form part of a library which illustrates how contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems view the world.

Jonny Scholes, 06/21 (AP), 2022, tapestry. Image: courtesy of artist.

Image: courtesy of artist.

DEEP SURFACE INDIA KENNING

Deep Surface explores the fragility and impermanence of the natural landscape of lutruwita/Tasmania. Through study of local material elements sourced from significant sites around the island, the artist experiments with formulating natural pigments and colour. This process-based experimentation is translated onto raw fabrics that endure processes of staining, weathering and bleaching in the sun to form an ambiguous sense of place. The works are constructed as assemblages of materials; raw elements of the earth reacting and complimenting with one another, exposing the artist’s intimate encounter with nature.

STYX LAMENT

How do we practice the rites and rights of nature? Can touch sense the sentience of trees? Does the fallen forest still resonate?

Styx Lament took place in an area of clear felled old-growth forest in the Styx Valley in November 2019, as a collaborative and embodied approach to environmental grief. A performance ritual exploring listening and lament as acts of sonic activism, rendering the senses receptive to place, exploring relations of care at a site of destruction.

SYMBIOLAB

The process began with a song, calling ancestors together with Ruth Langford at LongHouse. Followed by plant mediations, Skinner Releasing (somatic movement) and Deep Listening practices with SymbioLab. A group of 17 people joined in a twoday ritual of movement, meditation, listening and sharing stories in the Styx Valley, between tall trees and logging coups. Carrying the body of a felled tree; slow walking to the end of the road; and sitting in a circle on the stump of a sentinel. There was grief and an immanent sense that the forest still holds us.

Julia Adzuki, Patrick Dallard and Tomas Björkdal in collaboration with Amy Barrows, Tresa Briscoe-hough, Luke John Campbell, Pema Choo, Rodrigo Diaz-Icasuriaga, Lisa Flack, Warwick Lloyd Mauger ‘daynu’, Amalia Patourakis, Clare Pitt, Raku Pitt, Katrina Schlunke, Sara Wright, Sue Stack and Anna Wylie.

SymbioLab, Styx Lament, 2019, video still. Image: Tomas Björkdal

Proudly supported by Moonah Arts Centre. With support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Viriditas Foundation.

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WELCOME TO MAC

Moonah Arts Centre (MAC) acknowledges we are on Muwinina country. We recognise the value of continuing Aboriginal knowledge and cultural practice and acknowledge the contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal community who continue to maintain their Indigenous rights, identity, and their ancient and irreplaceable culture.

MAC is full of a warm, welcoming spaces for artists, audiences and visitors. Meet, connect and engage with your community at MAC.

We support regional arts and cultural development by providing a platform for artists and local communities to own, express and share their stories.

Our exhibitions change regularly and entry to the galleries is free.

ARE YOU AN ARTIST UNDER THE AGE OF 25?

Exhibit at MAC this April. Apply now via www.moonahartscentre.org.au/opportunities. Applications close 28 February.

OPENING HOURS:

Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 5pm Saturday: 10am to 2pm

FIND US: www.moonahartscentre.org.au 23-27 Albert Rd Moonah Tas 7009

CONTACT US: 03 6216 6316 mac@gcc.tas.gov.au @MoonahArtsCentre

Cover Image: India Kenning, ‘Night Painting’ , 2022. Image: courtesy of artist.