PICA Guide November - December 2014

PICA NOV–DEC

2014

TRUE SELF: DAVID ROSETZKY SELECTED WORKS 15 NOV – 21 DEC

True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works is the first major survey of one of Australia’s finest artists.

— David Rosetzky creates intensely beautiful lens-based works exploring identity, subjectivity and relationships and regularly collaborates with professionals from the fields of theatre, dance, film and sound.

Drawing on fifteen years of practice True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works presents early portrait and longer duration videos, photographs, photo-collages and sculptures, revealing the relationships between these aspects of the artist’s practice.

The exhibition allows us not only to see the consistency of Rosetzky's vision, but also to engage with a trajectory in his video that moves from lo-fi, singular portraits that borrow advertising's aura, through to cinematic, longduration work. Included in the show is a major new video work Half Brother, 2013, commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Photography with support from Irene Sutton.

A Centre for Contemporary Photography and NETS Victoria touring exhibition curated by Naomi Cass and Kyla McFarlane.

Left David Rosetzky, Portrait of Cate Blanchett, 2008 (still, detail). Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Commissioned with funds provided by Ian Darling, 2008. Above David Rosetzky, Living together is easy #3 (detail), 2002. Iambda digital print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Edition AP. Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

EXHIBITIONS

15 NOV – 21 DEC

DARRYN ANSTED – GUILLAUME BOULLEY – JULIANNE CLIFFORD JULIAN GODDARD – DANIEL GÖTTIN – JEREMY KIRWAN-WARD ZORA KREUZER – JOHN NIXON – HELEN SMITH – ALEX SPREMBERG

One Place After Another: AC4CA is major exhibition uniting 13 artists from the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA) with all new site-specific large-scale wall paintings. Since its conception in WA in 2002, this international collective has been leading a global conversation with artists across generations and hailing from Perth, Fremantle, Melbourne, Amsterdam, London, Basel and Dijon.

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The driving and uniting concept for the group is to transform outdoor community spaces with striking site-specific, non-representational works painted directly on urban walls, at times with the help of friends and art students. The works are often temporary and are sometimes painted over to make room for new projects by someone else in the group. It’s collegiate, openended and encourages conversations around public art.

This expanded painting show will take place in and around the galleries and spaces of PICA.

DAVID TREMLETT – JAN VAN DER PLOEG – JUREK WYBRANIEC Left Daniel Göttin, WALLPAINTING, CCNOA, Brussels, 2003. Above David Tremlett, AC4CA Project 16, Cantonment St, Fremantle WA, 2010.

EXHIBITIONS

MANY SELVES Saturday 15 November, 3pm Central Galleries | FREE Join a tour through this significant solo exhibition by one of Australia’s leading artists. David Rosetzky and the exhibition’s curator Naomi Cass (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne) will talk through key projects within the show, providing personal insights into the way Rosetzky thinks and creates.

SCALING UP Saturday 15 November, 4pm West End Gallery | FREE Since 2002 the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA) has brought together the most interesting international collective of non-objective painters. In a unique Australian reunion, artists David Tremlett from London; Jan van der Ploeg from Amsterdam; Daniel Göttin from Basel; John Nixon from Melbourne and Guilluame Boulley from France will take part in a discussion with Julian Goddard, academic, artist and founding local member of the AC4CA.

CURATOR LECTURE - ALANA KUSHNIR NEW AGE IP WARS: THE BATTLES OF ART, TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW Tuesday 18 November, 6pm Performance Space | FREE Curator and lawyer, Alana Kushnir, brings her unique experiences in London and Melbourne to bear in this lecture about how legal issues can affect contemporary art practices influenced by the internet.

Kushnir will discuss in-depth case studies of recent net art and post-internet art works that actively engage with the possibilities and limitations of intellectual property law. Including examples by artists such as Rafaël Rozendaal, Jeremy Bailey, Artie Vierkant and Eva and Franco Mattes, Kushnir demonstrates a growing interest in the use of internet technology as a means to challenge the law and encourage reforms.

Top David Rosetzky, Think of Yourself as Plural (still, detail), 2008. Single channel high definition digital video, colour, sound. Edition 3 of 6. Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne. Middle Alex Spremberg, AC4CA Project 9, Henry St, Fremantle WA, 2006. Bottom Eva and Franco Mattes, Agreement n.1 (Internet image search result for “exhausted” printed on various objects by online services), 2014. Right Jan van der Ploeg, WALL PAINTING No.358, MWMW, 2013.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

PAINTING IN THE EXPANDED FIELD Saturday 6 December, 3pm West End Gallery FREE Founding AC4CA members Jurek Wybraniec, Alex Spremberg, Helen Smith, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward & Julianne Clifford, and new recruits Darryn Ansted and Zora Kreuzer talk through their individual large-scale wall paintings in conversation with PICA Curator Leigh Robb.

HAPPY LITTLE ACCIDENTS

SAM LONGLEY, DAMON LOCKWOOD & SEAN WALSH (AUS) 25 November, 9pm | 60mins Verbal dexterity, theatrical spontaneity and unfettered joy- this is a show about saying yes to what life throws at you whether it be love, lemons or llamas.

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DOUBLE-BILL: ROS WARBY SOLOS 27 – 28 November, 6:30pm

MOVEME IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL

DOUBLE BILL: BEAST #3 & NO-ONE WILL TELL US…

COURT DANCE ROS WARBY (AUS)

22 - 30 November PICA Performance Space Presented by STRUT Dance in association with MoveMe and PICA

22 – 24 November, 8pm

40 mins

BEAST #3 JO POLLITT & PAEA LEACH (AUS)

Warby’s newest solo sees her eliminate hierarchy within individual movement and performance languages.

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35 mins

What is it about the performance of improvisation that makes it such a thrill?

The third rendering of an original score created in 2012 as a 'side by side song cycle of movement'.

The MoveMe Improvisation Festival is Perth’s first ever performance improvisation festival, presenting work by some of the world’s best contemporary improvisation artists across dance, music and performance with a riotous medley of performances, concerts and seminars.

NO-ONE WILL TELL US… ROSALIND CRISP (AUS / FRANCE) 55 mins Four performing artists are thrust into an immediate encounter. What happens when their practices collide?

NO TIME TO FLY CHOREOGRAPHY: DEBORAH HAY (USA) ADAPTATION & PERFORMANCE: ROS WARBY (AUS) 25 mins

This choreography creates non-linear reality for the performer and audience alike.

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THE FERRYMEN‬

ANDREW MORRISH & PETER TROTMAN 26 – 28 November, 8:30pm | 60 mins

Two wild-eyed ferrymen dip their oars into dark swirling currents of imagination.

Above Rosalind Crisp & musician (pictured) in No-one will tell us..., 2014. Photo: Jakub Wittchen. Right Michael Schumacher, pictured. Photo: Yana Paskeba.

PERFORMANCE

SONIC IMPRO CONCERT TURA NEW MUSIC 29 November, 6:30pm | 60 mins Improvising musicians from across the festival come together for this one off performance.

Artists include: Rachael Dease, Tristen Parr, Louise Devenish, Alex Waterman, Hansueli Tischhauser, Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey

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IMPROVISATION FORUM 29 November, 5pm | FREE Four festival favourites, Andrew Morrish, Jo Pollitt, Michael Schumacher and Ros Warby, sit down to debate the question: What makes a great improvisation, and what makes improvisation great?

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CLOSING PARTY & STRUT 2015 PROGRAM LAUNCH 29 November, 9:30pm | FREE

Join us as we celebrate the end of Perth’s first Improvisation Festival and the beginning of more exciting times ahead for STRUT in 2015.

Tickets Standard: $30 Concession & Members: $25 Bookings: pica.org.au or 08 9228 6300 Other MoveMe Improvisation Festival events: strutdance.org.au/impfest & moveme.org.au/impfest

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 17 NOV – 21 DEC

ALEX MALKOVIC

JACKSON EATON

In his residency, Alex Malkovic will use the PICA studio space as a platform to explore the discourse and intersections between painting and photography.

Through a series of photographic works, Alex seeks to examine and imitate aesthetic sensibilities supposedly specific to one medium, and transfer them to another.

In considering and creating paintings ‘sans paint’, Alex petitions us to join him in a dialogue surrounding both an expanded definition of painting as well as a more traditional one.

Jackson Eaton researches the shared space between social media, everyday existence and the self-image.

During his studio residency, he plans to investigate the formal and social relations of a gathering that has descended into a YouTube party. Through found video, gestural performances and audience participation, Jackson will question the arbitrary nature of collective linkages and the search for remnants of authenticity.

THE MAPPING PROJECT SERENA CHALKER & EMMA FISHWICK 1 – 21 DECEMBER The Mapping Project is interested in place. How do people remember and experience place? Why do people leave or return to a place? Unfolding in the PICA Performance Space throughout December, The Mapping Project is a creative investigation designed to engage with new audiences, new environments and varying situations. Dancers and Choreographers Emma Fishwick and Serena Chalker are interested in exploring how relationships with spaces/micro-environments are woven in our memories and identities.

STUDIO OPEN NIGHT

Tuesday 16 December, 6pm | PICA Studios Join us in an expanded dialogue with resident artists Jackson Eaton, Alex Malkovic, Serena Chalker & Emma Fishwick about the strange, marvellous and autobiographical projects they have been creating behind their studio doors.

Left Jackson Eaton, Melfies, 2013. Above Serena Chalker and Emma Fishwick, The Mapping Project, 2014.

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

SPARK_LAB FOR STUDENTS SPARK_LAB EDUCATION TOURS Tuesday 25 November – Friday 12 December 45 – 60 Minutes PICA Galleries | FREE Spark_Lab offers students and teachers the opportunity to engage in free interactive tours of the One Place After Another: AC4CA and True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works exhibitions. Examining a selection of artworks, students will discuss the use of minimalism in painting, both in the gallery and in urban spaces. Students will also explore contemporary portraiture and themes of identity, looking at David Rosetzky’s use of videography and collage.

Tours are also available to tertiary institutions and other community groups.

CURRICULUM LINKS Critical & creative thinking; Visual Art; Design and technology; Identity and belonging; Place, space and environment; Time and space, rhythm and line; Size, scale, shape, pattern, proportion and orientation.

PORTRAIT WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS Tuesday 25 November – Friday 12 December Times negotiable when booking 2.5 hours at PICA Maximum 24 participants per group $10 per student In response to True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works local artist Rebecca Orchard will lead students through contemporary ideas of identity, subjectivity and relationships. Participants will develop a series of composed self-portraits using personal photographs and photo/magazine collage techniques, as well as drawing media including watercolour, felt tip marker, biro and pencil. These artworks will emphasise design principles through appropriation, arrangement, cropping and re-photographing.

SPARK_LAB Spark_Lab is PICA's ground breaking learning program aimed at fostering innovation skills in young people.

It brings students and teachers up close and personal with contemporary artists, dancers, theatre makers, musicians and other innovators across a wide range of disciplines through an exciting program of residencies, workshops, tours, special projects, professional learning events and on-line resources.

Spark_Lab activities are shaped around PICA's dynamic artistic program. They are bespoke, student-led, linked to curriculum outcomes and designed to cultivate innovation skills and attitudes such as creativity, self-efficicay, energy, riskpropensity and leadership.

Tour & Workshop Bookings education@pica.org.au or (08) 9228 6316

Find out more: pica.org.au or 08 9228 6300 Left and top Spark_Lab Tours, 2014. Photo: Toni Wilkinson. Above David Rosetzky, Kiah, 2008. Type C digital print collage, Edition 6 of 6. Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

LEARNING

SPECIAL SCHOOLWEEKEND HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS

COLLABORATIVE WALL PAINTING

CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE

Saturday 22 November 10am - 5pm Ages 12 - Adult

Saturday 29 November 10am - 5pm Ages 12 - Adult

Always wanted to have your art on the walls at PICA? Bring along your favourite painting overalls and be a part of the semi-permanent transformation of our Education Studio! Join AC4CA artist and Curtin University Coordinator of Painting Dr Darryn Ansted, as he guides you through the principles of minimalism and the concrete art movement.

In response to True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works this workshop will explore contemporary ideas surrounding identity and relationships as participants develop a series of composed self-portraits. First up explore dynamic portrait photography methods with local photographer Steve Lobo, then experiment with photo/magazine collage and drawing techniques led by artist Rebecca Orchard.

Explore colour, paint and shape to create a bold large-scale wall painting at PICA. The workshop will include a brief tour of the exhibition One Place After Another.

Weekend Workshop Bookings $50 per participant pica.org.au or phone 08 9228 6300

Above Jurek Wybraniec, AC4CA Project 12, 2009. Photo: Acorn Photography. Right Sarah Elson, Phalaenopsis Therapy, 2014. Photo: Toni Wilkinson.

LEARNING

THANK YOU

PERTH INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS — PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE, 51 JAMES ST, NORTHBRIDGE — TUE–SUN 10AM–5PM TEL +61 8 9228 6300 INFO@PICA.ORG.AU PICA.ORG.AU

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PICA’s ongoing programs are primarily supported by an investment from the State of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts in association with Lotterywest, assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. PICA is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Cover: David Rosetzky, Commune (detail), 2003. Type C photographs mounted on composition board, flex­ilight. Collection of Dr. Dick Quan, Sydney.

All images courtesy and © the artists unless otherwise stated.