Inter-scape
October 26 - 27 2018
inter-scape is a trans-disciplinary socio ecological journey.
This immersive exhibition illuminates the transition of Lansdscape as a genre from a tradition that sought to depict natural scenery and positioned its audience as a passive viewer. This exhibition reflects on how the concept of landscape has evolved into a deeply personal and political concept, a concept best embodied with a direct relationship.
During their time at House Conspiracy artists Helle Cook, Seb Guy and Tamsin Edwards-Francis along with curator Jenny Brown have created an interactive exhibition that provides intimate and ameloriative processes to engage in new ways of thinking ecologically.
The signature processes of each artist have been explored in relation to the site of House Conspiracy to bring an individual interpretation of the concept of Landscape. Through a collective and interdisciplinary approach these artists have created an immersive inter-scape that connects House Conspiracy with various sites and spaces both physical and metaphorical.
The exhibition will continue with real-time interaction with off site locations and events across Brisbane as part of the Rights of Nature Australia 2018 (RONA18) hosted by Australian Earth Laws Alliance is (AELA), a week of events that explore and promote the rights of nature to exist, thrive and evolve. For more about RONA go to: www.earthlaws.org.au/rona18/
On Saturday AELA is holding their People's Tribunal at the Federal Law Courts in Brisbane that is exploring new democratic participatory processes in work that supports the rights of nature. Artists are also responding to these ideas in an exhibition with performances across this week presented by Liquid Architecture at the Spring Hill Reservoirs.
“My curator’s residency explores the theme of INTERSCAPE with artists whose practice engages with environmentalism. The whole-of-venue multi-sensory installation plays with meanings of between, among and together in scenes that provide a tour to learn something about our jumbled and irreconcilable positions within our constrained minds – if only like Alice in Wonderland, we look in the right way. As an approach to exploring our environmental crisis, the work also highlights the linkages between the global economy, features of practice in the law and science fields, Indigenous wisdom and the Earth system, with each embedded in the next.”
SHOWCASE DOCUMENTATION
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Photos by Janni Cox
Photos by Joseph Lynch, Perception Productions
MEET THE ARTISTS!
CURATOR IN RESIDENCE: JENNY BROWN
This residency will provide the opportunity to deepen and extend my thinking around my practice through supporting research and activity in my current role as the earth arts curator for the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA). AELA is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and the Board of Management comprises lawyers from around Australia. AELA was created in early 2012 to carry out research, education, promotional and activist work that furthers the understanding, theoretical development and practical application of Earth Jurisprudence.
Generally, the residency program will enable me to have a base for the work I have been developing over the last ten months for a week long program I have curated at the Spring Hills Reservoir from 22 October. This includes visual arts elements provided by AELA’s earth arts collective, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney and others from regional Queensland and New South Wales. Performance elements are being organised with Liquid Architecture and People+Artist+Place. This work also involves supporting a national footprint of events to be held in October 2018 to coincide with the one-day People’s Tribunal to be held in the Brisbane Federal Law Courts.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: HELLE COOK
Helle Cook uses painting to explore notions of home, liminality and light. Helle’s work has shown in both solo and group exhibitions and in 2017 she undertook an artist residency in Denmark. Helle graduated (BFA) from QCA in 2017. Migrating has increased her awareness and enquiry into the idea of home, light and the liminal space.
GARDEN RESIDENCY ARTIST: SEB GUY
Experiences and interactions over the last three years have been pivotal in realigning my focus toward the world of visual art. Processes witnessed and engaged with during the construction and installation of sculptures around Australia and abroad have left me with a thirst to impart concepts of my own and further refine sculptural techniques.
With my practice I wish to engage with ideas of space and interaction, playing on the human perception with constructed forms, light and texture. Themes of physicality in space, human form represented within scale, and response to environments manmade and natural, interconnect and at times will stand alone. Using materials both natural and synthetic to evoke a thoughtful interplay, I wish to highlight the created forms and environments we collectively inhabit. Unprocessed natural elements play an important role, evocative of a viscerality, which I find often we have become detached from in contemporary life.
PARTNER ARTIST: TAMSIN EDWARDS-FRANCIS
Tamsin Edwards-Francis works across a range of media including collage, drawing, painting, assemblage, photo-media and installation to investigate ideas about landscape, and to understand and describe its unique physical attributes, structures and processes. Through creative practical experiment her work re-interprets the environment through the hand-made qualities of art making.
CREDITS:
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Artist in Residence: Helle Cook
Garden Residency Artist: Seb Guy
Partner Artist: Tamsin Edwards-Francis
Curator in Residence: Jenny Brown
Showcase Writer: Jenny Brown
Creative Director: Ellie-Lea Jansson
Documentation Photography: Janni Cox
Documentation Photography: Joseph Lynch