2004
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Jason Maling and Torie Nimmervoll, Pic Poc Poe – The Rite of Exit, 2004.
A performance continuing Conical’s relationship with this duo (Splint: Way of the Stump & Strap 2003). Two novices wearing hessian habits and mining headlamps compete to exit a darkened room by laying tracks of leather tiles according to a prescribed set of rules.
Andrew Goodman, Chorus, 2004.
Goodman presents two sequenced DVD projections with sound. One shows an actor repeatedly yawning alternating with the 2nd showing another actor repeatedly sneezing.
Emedio Puglielli, Untitled, 2004.
Showing concurrently with Chorus. Six black and white, large-scale photographs suspended from the ceiling joists. The images are of faintly exposed portraits. An equality is achieved between the image & the materiality of the photograph.
Ben Harper, Rod Cooper, Phil Edwards and James Hullick, Composition as Installation, 2004.
A series of extended musical performances tending toward the gradual & static. Challenging the parameters between performance & installation Harper included works by other composers/artists: Rod Cooper (with his malfunctioning computer hardware) and James Hullick (One Cute Mother: live & pre recorded violinists).
David Murray, The Art of War, 2004.
Plywood is carved & assembled to replicate five horse saddles. Etched into the surface are illustrated scenes from Sun Tzu’s book The Art of War.
Adrien Allen, Kate Fulton, Susan Jacobs, Vin Ryan, David Simpkin,
Combined Operations/Joint Operations (CO/JO), 2004. Detail: Adrien Allen and Kate Fulton.
A group project representing the concerns and
interests of our committee. CoJo attempted to loosen traditional territorial
boundaries evident in many group exhibitions. By subsuming individual
authorship we aimed to undermine the spatial & conceptual boundaries
defining our practices. For eg: Kate Fulton & Adrien Allen’s
enclosure/re-entry piece.
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Kent Bell, Rachel Browne, Sara Givens, Damon McCleod and Reece Sanders, City Psyche, 2004.
Alicia Frankovich, A Kelly-Frankovich Production, 2004.
This former NZ artist works between modes of production & presentation. Frankovich produced the work on-site over a 3 week period resulting in a type of ‘performance of making.’ Frankovichs’ ephemeral, transient attitude literally made its own ad-hoc yet immersive architecture from nothing.
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Adrien Allen, Kate Fulton, Susan Jacobs, Vin Ryan, David Simpkin, Re-verb. Part 1, 2004. A containers project in association with Next Wave Festival.
Showing concurrently with Frankovichs’
residency this off-site project responded to Next Wave’s ARI Container
Project invitation. An empty shipping container was interpreted as an
extension of Conical (i.e.: an architectural & conceptual ‘container’).
Despite all containers being fully powered we installed a generator
as a metaphor for artist-run self-sufficiency. Pt 2: Cate Consandine,
Peter Burke, Ben Harper, Simon Horsburgh, Louise Hubbard, Patrick Pound,
Dominic Redfern. We invited these 7 artists (all past Conical exhibitors)
to respond sequentially to our initial installation. The responses accumulated
upon, erased, evolved & expanded the initial reading. This self-curated
project was an open-ended experiment in group dynamics based on a critical
approach to restrictive curatorial frameworks.
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Raafat Ishak, Organisation for Future Good Steps, 2004.
An on-site text & mural work produced as a component of 10/40 - A Food Project. A performance/dinner party conceived as a sculpture activating the space.
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John Neeson, White Painted Spaces, 2004.
Jan Parker, Sugar Mountain, 2004.
Parker installed two photographic works into the window reveals. The images were taken inside European museum spaces yet remained ambiguous as to specific locations.
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Erin O’Callaghan, Back-Projection Unit – Parasite, 2004. In ‘Phenomena’ as part of ‘Sensoria’, hosted by RMIT School of Architecture and Design.
In association with RMIT’s Sensoria symposium
Conical supported nine emerging artists from architecture/design backgrounds.
All practicing in an inter-disciplinary vein Phenomena brought their
work to a visual art context.
Cate Consandine, One Blue Lapse, 2004. In ‘Thick As’, Cate Consandine, Chantal Faust, Louise Hubbard, Sanja Pahoki.
A group exhibition working on the premise of “brick” – a metaphorical & spatial allusion to
a world absurd, inexplicable & impenetrable.
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Katherine McCleod and Carl Priestly, Sediment, 2004.
A photography & sound collaborative installation that investigated exchanges between artefact & temporality.
Sanne Mestrom, At the Foot of Justice, 2004.
Painted wall texts utilizing 3D techniques, particularly orthographics & stereographics that sought a questioning
of judgement & authority within sites of ‘cultural significance.
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Sean Loughrey, Animal Instincts, 2004.
A video installation exploring the relationship between natural and technological worlds.
Ruth Johnstone, Inside Spaces, 2004.
An installation of architectural models produced over a four year period providing an ongoing documentation of previous exhibitions venues.
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Kate Just, Love is a Rose, 2004.
This solo exhibition consisted of a large-scale knitted boundary hedge spelling out the word: LOVE, along with an accompanying video piece. The work played with the way boundaries are created to contain what we own & cultivate.
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Natasha Johns-Messenger & Leslie Eastman, Pointform, 2004.
A collaboration resulting in a large-scale diagonal wall shrink-wrapped in a mirror-like reflective film. Bi-secting the entire width of the gallery this device traps the viewer within the illusion of the site folding in upon itself.
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Simon Horsburgh, Flying Carpets, 2004.
An installation addressing ideas of interface. Horsburgh seeks open ended, conjectural explorations of the relationships between objects, materials, spaces, techniques & influences.
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