The High Life is a series of rooftop art projects curated by West Space that will be a feature of this year’s Melbourne Food + Wine Festival. The Festival invited West Space to work with contemporary artists to present artworks that reflect upon themes initiated in this year’s festival keynote project ‘The Metlink Edible Garden’. West Space has commissioned eight artists to make new work that responds to ideas around plants and gardens, food sustainability, urban landscapes and environmental concerns more broadly.
Working across some of Melbourne’s best-loved rooftops for the duration of the festival, the artists have also responded to the unique flavour of each establishment. How will artists interpret the hunter/gatherer ethos at Sarti Bar and Restaurant, or the flamboyant cheekiness of Madam Brussels? How will they respond to the understated but oh-so-Melbourne elegance of the Order of Melbourne, or the cool as a cucumber and high as a kite atmosphere of Rooftop Bar?
Artists:
Sarti Restaurant & Bar: Hotham Street Ladies + Natasha Frisch Rooftop Bar and Cinema: Dell Stewart + Adam Cruickshank The Order of Melbourne: Andy Hutson + Kirsten Bradley Madame Brussels: Tai Snaith + Carl Scrase
Closing Night Event: Tuesday 23rd March
On the closing night, come join us on a walking tour across all four sites: 5.30–6.00pm: Sarti Restaurant & Bar. Enjoy champagne on arrival to toast the artists and the festival’s closing night. 6.15–6.45pm: Rooftop Bar and Cinema 7.00–7.30pm: The Order of Melbourne 7.45–8.15pm: Madame Brussels. As the grand finale, artist Carl Scrase will perform his flower shooting artwork.
Call for proposals – The West Wing at Melbourne Central
In 2010 West Space will present an off-site project space within Melbourne Central, a large retail multiplex within Melbourne’s CBD. This is a joint initiative between Melbourne Central and West Space, and we are excited about the different possibilities that might arise through presenting an artistic program in this unique location. The satellite space, which has the current working title the ‘West Wing’, will be programmed for an initial 6-months and the space is being offered free of charge to artists. The space, which is currently vacant retail space, is around 50m2 and will relatively easily support different cross-artform practices.
Located deep in the Java Sea, the long lost island of Tana Swiwi has caused great curiosity over the past few centuries. In the Museum of Lost Worlds’ latest uncovering, this mystical realm is visited through reconstructed artefacts and ritual.
Objecthood; Study C is the final part of a three-part series of works interested in objects located in the home and exploring different household environments.
Slow Dance examines the tragic comedy of the human condition. Appearing familiar and amusing at first, the project explores the suppression experienced when a personality is radically altered through the manipulation of their environment. A clown motif – drained of its usual high colour and its joyous free dance restricted – flails about in a futile attempt to fulfill its intended purpose. Stuck in endless repetition, Slow Dance confronts, in an absurd manner, the existential vacuum.
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