Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Exhibitions January 12 - 29 2011
Workers' Window: Heather Erinn Lighton - Clusterfuck
Project Space: Josh Daniel - Remnants of an Archive of Lost Places
Remnants of an Archive of Lost Places
Daniel’s exhibition for Seventh features the documentation of the San Lorenzo Archive of Lost Places made in 1983 by anthropologist Felix Hoenikker. An ambitious but little known research collection founded by the late president of San Lorenzo, Hoenikker stumbled across it while completing a research paper on sites of natural or cultural import that had been destroyed during military conflicts and human caused disasters. The Archives themselves did not have such a specific focus in its collection policies, and held documents representative of a wide variety of places that were, for whatever reason, now unobtainable or ‘lost’. Ironically Hoenikker’s amateur photographs and slides of parts of the collection that he considered appealing or relevant to his research are now the only remaining parts of the collection extant, due to a cataclysmic cyclone that laid waste to much of San Lorenzo in the summer of 1984. Hoenikker’s collection came into the possession of the artist at a garage sale in Vermont following the former’s passing and the dissolution of his estate by relatives. Daniel has subsequently been researching Hoenikker’s academic writings and personal papers held in the Library of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Daniel graduated from Fine Art at RMIT in 2003 and did Honours at Monash University in 2004. Originally trained in printmaking, his work has evolved into site specific installation with a contextual research focus. Daniel has exhibited and participated in projects for, amongst others, Next Wave, Spacement, Clubs, the ICA London and most recently, Gallery Sogool, Seoul. In 2011 he is beginning an MFA at Monash.
Daniel’s exhibition for Seventh features the documentation of the San Lorenzo Archive of Lost Places made in 1983 by anthropologist Felix Hoenikker. An ambitious but little known research collection founded by the late president of San Lorenzo, Hoenikker stumbled across it while completing a research paper on sites of natural or cultural import that had been destroyed during military conflicts and human caused disasters. The Archives themselves did not have such a specific focus in its collection policies, and held documents representative of a wide variety of places that were, for whatever reason, now unobtainable or ‘lost’. Ironically Hoenikker’s amateur photographs and slides of parts of the collection that he considered appealing or relevant to his research are now the only remaining parts of the collection extant, due to a cataclysmic cyclone that laid waste to much of San Lorenzo in the summer of 1984. Hoenikker’s collection came into the possession of the artist at a garage sale in Vermont following the former’s passing and the dissolution of his estate by relatives. Daniel has subsequently been researching Hoenikker’s academic writings and personal papers held in the Library of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Daniel graduated from Fine Art at RMIT in 2003 and did Honours at Monash University in 2004. Originally trained in printmaking, his work has evolved into site specific installation with a contextual research focus. Daniel has exhibited and participated in projects for, amongst others, Next Wave, Spacement, Clubs, the ICA London and most recently, Gallery Sogool, Seoul. In 2011 he is beginning an MFA at Monash.
Gallery 1: Amanda Airs and Hayley Scilini – Colour Shift
Brooke Williams in Gallery 2: All the Dimension of Space
click on text below for essay by Laura Jardine accompanying Linda Tegg's work on the Night Screen - changeroom
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Sumer Artist Residency Program
Summer Artist Residency Program
Seventh Gallery is very VERY excited about a visit from
TAKURO KOTAKA
International Artist in Residence 2010/11
28 December 2010 – 10 January 2011
Based in Tokyo, Japan, Kotaka is a cross-disciplinary artist concerned with the everyday experiences of people he encounters on his travels. Working with performance, installation and video Kotaka addresses questions of cultural communication, otherness, history and narrative.
In 2010, after hearing a rumour that ‘there are no potatoes in Egypt’ Kotaka bought a potato in South Africa and traveled across the African continent for seven months to Egypt, visiting 14 countries along the way. The resultant work Traveling Africa with a Potato takes the form of documentation and a video installation and records Kotaka’s encounters with the people he met on the journey.
For his Melbourne residency Kotaka will continue his exploration of community and shared experience. He will seek to create a utopian New Years Eve celebration with locals;
I heard that people in Melbourne watch big fireworks to celebrate a New Year. When I heard the story, I imagined that it would be great if I could watch the New Year’s fireworks with 1000 people on the top of a small hill, and drinking beer. I then become interested in actually searching for such an ideal place to participate the special event that I imagined.
As with his previous works, it is that search that will drive Kotaka’s project and create unexpected encounters and outcomes.
At the end of Kotaka’s residency the project will be exhibited on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th January, 12-6pm, with a closing event on Friday 7th January, 6 – 8pm.
Takuro Kotaka has exhibited in Japan and internationally since 2004. Recent exhibitions include Future Vision - The APT Global Art Collection, Li-Space, Beijing, 2010; 56th International movie festival Oberhauzen, Oberhauzen, Germany, 2010; /+\=X serialworks, Cape town, South Africa, 2010; Jakarta biennale 2009, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, 2009; Istanbul international film festival, Istanbul, 2007; Artist as Activist, Plan B, Tokyo, Japan, 2007;SF TOKYO @ 667Shotwell at Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco, 2006.
Seventh Gallery is very VERY excited about a visit from
TAKURO KOTAKA
International Artist in Residence 2010/11
28 December 2010 – 10 January 2011
Based in Tokyo, Japan, Kotaka is a cross-disciplinary artist concerned with the everyday experiences of people he encounters on his travels. Working with performance, installation and video Kotaka addresses questions of cultural communication, otherness, history and narrative.
In 2010, after hearing a rumour that ‘there are no potatoes in Egypt’ Kotaka bought a potato in South Africa and traveled across the African continent for seven months to Egypt, visiting 14 countries along the way. The resultant work Traveling Africa with a Potato takes the form of documentation and a video installation and records Kotaka’s encounters with the people he met on the journey.
For his Melbourne residency Kotaka will continue his exploration of community and shared experience. He will seek to create a utopian New Years Eve celebration with locals;
I heard that people in Melbourne watch big fireworks to celebrate a New Year. When I heard the story, I imagined that it would be great if I could watch the New Year’s fireworks with 1000 people on the top of a small hill, and drinking beer. I then become interested in actually searching for such an ideal place to participate the special event that I imagined.
As with his previous works, it is that search that will drive Kotaka’s project and create unexpected encounters and outcomes.
At the end of Kotaka’s residency the project will be exhibited on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th January, 12-6pm, with a closing event on Friday 7th January, 6 – 8pm.
Takuro Kotaka has exhibited in Japan and internationally since 2004. Recent exhibitions include Future Vision - The APT Global Art Collection, Li-Space, Beijing, 2010; 56th International movie festival Oberhauzen, Oberhauzen, Germany, 2010; /+\=X serialworks, Cape town, South Africa, 2010; Jakarta biennale 2009, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, 2009; Istanbul international film festival, Istanbul, 2007; Artist as Activist, Plan B, Tokyo, Japan, 2007;SF TOKYO @ 667Shotwell at Tokyo-San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco, 2006.
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