BOARDING GATE 3:
ART + DESIGN RESEARCH FORUM
WHEN:
Wednesday 10th November, 2010, 1-3pm
WHERE:
WE240
WE Building
School of Art + Design
AUT University
Wellesley Campus
Auckland City
PRESENTERS:
Sally Mannall, RMIT University, Melbourne
Dr Sam Spurr, UTS, Sydney
Julieanna Preston, Massey University, Wellington
Wade Marynowsky, Sydney
Boarding Gate 3 will mark an important moment in the postgraduate year
between the completion of the postgraduate examinations and the launch
of the AD10 festival where the exhibitions will be made public. To aid
this process and to encourage the postgraduates to pursue and sustain
their creative practices the School of Art + Design have invited four
guest researchers from other parts of New Zealand and Australia to
signal possible futures (flights) ahead.
The Art + Design Postgraduate Department, ST PAUL St Gallery and CoLab
warmly invite all postgraduate students, staff and general public to
attend.
BOARDING GATE 3: PRESENTERS’ ABSTRACTS + BIOS:
SALLY MANNALL EXHIBITIONS, DIALOGUE AND DINNERS. OCULAR LAB INC FORMS
OF HOSTING.
Sally Mannall is a founding member of Ocular Lab Inc. one of
Melbourne’s leading artist-run projects based in a disused dairy in a
suburban street in West Brunswick. Between 2004 and 2010 Ocular Lab
hosted over 100 local, national and international artists and
curators. The hosting included a range of activities including
exhibitions, artists’ talks, off-site projects, exchanges and dinners.
Sally will discuss the framework of Ocular Lab, based on hosting,
dialogue and collective processes and elaborate on a number of
projects including the dinners that became one of the most sort after
dinner invitation in the Melbourne art scene. This lecture is for
graduates interested in artists run initiatives and other forms of
collective activites that can support practice and expand
opportunities, networks and dialogue in the art scene.
Sally Mannall’s studio based practice investigates the psychological
state of anticipation, in the perception and imagining of the future
framed by ideas of fear, disquiet and the banality of the everyday.
She works in the mediums of video, photography, and creates works that
are responsive to site and context. She is currently the Acting
Coordinator of the MFA Program at RMIT University and is undertaking
her PhD at Monash University. In recent years her work has been shown
nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions including
The Engine Room, Massey University Wellington; Project Space RMIT; ST
Paul St Galley Auckland and the National Gallery of Victoria.
DR SAM SPURR TRANSLATIONS FROM DANCE TO DESIGN
Definitions of body, space and image tend to be understood through
disciplinary constraints and objectives – dance by its performance,
architecture in its structural capability and film through
spectatorship. The fields of dance, film and architecture initially
appear in direct opposition – dedicated to either motion or to stasis,
the actual or the virtual, absence or presence. Instead of these
binary conventions, theories of duration, sensation and emergence may
allow for a more nuanced exploration of their connections. These
approaches preference hybrid arrangements and interstitial sites over
the absolutist doctrines of disciplines. The contemporary
preoccupation of theorists working in the seams between bodies and
built environments centre on dynamism and technology. In contrast to
the static body of the Vitruvian Man splayed
across the ground plan, these bodies are moving, transformational and
ampflied. The focus is on potentiality, process over outcome. This
presentation examines processes of translation in the design of
spatial environments. A recent exhibition titled ‘Diagramming the Body-
Geometric or So You Think You Can Dance’ is the testing ground for
exploring the opportunities that performative practices lend to the
creation of architecture. Here the unfolding relationships of bodies,
spaces and the images that expose them, propose alternative strategies
for engaging with experience and form.
Dr Sam Spurr is currently Director of Interior and Spatial Design at
the University of Technology Sydney. Sam has practiced in the firm
4Site Architecture since 2000 and has taught full time in the School
of Architecture UTS since 2007. After completing her doctorate titled
‘Performative Architecture’ at UNSW (2000), she was co-convener for
the international SEAM Symposium 2009 on dance, film and architecture.
Sam practices as a designer, theorist, and journalist, whose current
research focuses on importing performative strategies from dance and
theatre into architecture.
JULIEANNA PRESTON IN THE SURFACE OF “SHEAR: SWELL”
SHEAR: SWELL (2009) is a pair of art works that examines industrial
sheet good materials typical to interior environments: gypsum wall
board and medium density fibreboard. This work critiques the manner in
which these materials promulgate uniformity, modularity and generic
installation, and subsequently, discipline interior living and
workplace environments. In the process of re-doing and un-doing each
type of sheet good, I am seeking to draw out a latent potentiality
within each material in order to over-ride a social and cultural
construction signaled by smoothness and homogeneity. I believe these
traits are linked to an unspoken, unarticulated and unacknowledged
condition of gender in many contemporary interiors. This presentation
will introduce this creative practice research and elaborate upon its
context and the process of its making.
Julieanna Preston is an Associate Professor at Massey College of
Creative Arts and Director of Research and Postgraduate Study in the
Institute of Design for Industry and Environment. Her recent
publications include INTIMUS: Interior Design Theory Reader (Wiley
2006 co-edited with Mark Taylor), Interior Atmospheres (Wiley 2008)
and numerous book chapters and journal articles such as “Soft Stuff”
in The Sensuous Intellect (RMIT 2006), “Sewing Architectural
Fragments” in Architectural Design Research (2005) and “Writing
through design, an active practice” in Journal of Writing and Creative
Practice (co-authored with Aukje Thomassen 2010). Julieanna is best
known for her contributions to creative practice as research within
the national and international scene. Her current research explores
interior linings as sites for feminists agency in the context of
exhibitions, site-specific installations, sculpture and visual essays.
WADE MARYNOWSKY THE UNCANNY AUTOMATON
Wade will present his previous and current research into robotic art
which explores concepts surrounding the uncanny automaton. He will
talk through the processes of developing his robotic work through the
development of prototypes to finished exhibitions. Wade Marynowsky is
in Auckland for a month based in the CoLab Interactive Suite
developing work for the exhibition Bricolage Disco at ST PAUL St
Gallery Two 26 November - 23 December, 2010. The work Bricolage Disco
is activated by an opposing movement towards accumulation. Collecting
obsolete technology, Marynowksy will create a choreography of
machines, sound and light through the intervention of robotic
technology. Marynowsky’s work straddles both theatre and 'live art' or
'performative media', causing technology to perform within a set
system that allows the work to unfold and evolve.
Since 1998 Marynowsky has exhibited and performed extensively in
Australia and internationally. In 2010 he has performed live at Super
de...@artspace, Sydney, as part of the Biennale of Sydney, presented
his work at the Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland and in the Premier
of Queensland's National New Media Art Award 2010, Gallery of Modern
Art, Brisbane. On his return to Australia he will be taking part in
The Ghost Show, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney. His exhibition
Bricolage Disco is supported by the NSW Government, Australia through
Arts NSW.
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