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West Space Program
West Space is proud to present our 2012 artistic program, which is listed below. We encourage you to check our website regularly for up-to-date and extensive information about our program. Click here to download our current program poster.
Current
Curated by Next Wave, featuring Applespiel, Tully Arnot & Charles Dennington, Claire Finneran & Hossein Ghaemi, Lucky PDF and Tape Projects.
Wake up and wait for the sun to rise, 500 methods for a new beginning
Wake Up… explores diverse forms of contemporary collaborative practice. It is also the keynote project for the 2012 Next Wave Festival, The space between us wants to sing. Five young and emerging artist collectives will develop a variety of new artist-driven social spaces that encourage us to imagine new possibilities for being...
19 May 2012 - 27 May 2012Upcoming
Front Space
Just. Say. Yes.
A collaboration between Bec Reid and Ben Cisterne.
Just. Say. Yes. is a participatory experience for one. Inspired by the lounge room feeling like Wembley Stadium and an undeniable need to connect with one another, this wee world is fiercely...
31 May 2012 - 21 Jun 2012Reading Room
Woman Vs Wild
Tai Snaith
Woman Vs Wild is a site-specific installation of new collage and drawings on found books and paper. Installed among the books in the West Space reading room the work responds to the site as a home ...
1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012Gallery 2
I tell you most solemnly
Kieran Boland
What year did Jesus think it was? – George Carlin
If the medium is at least partly the message, a public preacher’s invariable lack of success in reaching anyone at all suggests that he needs to...
1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012Gallery 3
A bright clear shape gathered behind his eyes
Craig Burgess
Anticipating that first breath, his body repositioned itself in his mouth, up against his teeth. Surfacing, a bright clear shape gathered behind his eyes. Craig Burgess’s photographic and...
1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012Gallery 1
Tyger! Tyger!
Constanze Zikos + Juan Davila
For the fourth iteration of Tyger! Tyger!, Constanze Zikos has invited Juan Davila to work with him on an exciting new collaborative project.
The Tyger! Tyger! project comprises six projects...
1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012Front Space
THE LADY AND THE TIGER
Tristan Meecham and Olivia Ilic
West Space and Aphids presents THE LADY AND THE TIGER
A Ridiculous Performance by Tristan Meecham and Olivia Ilic.
Would you rather be water or cheese? Would you rather sit on a pineapple or a...
6:00pm - 11:00pm, 8 Jun 2012Back Space
Luke George
Luke George
I am interested in inhabiting strange spaces in...
11 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012West Space
Liquid Architecture Festival-The Antarctic Convergence
Curated By Philip Samartzis with artists Chris Watson, Douglas Quin, Andrea Juan, David Burrows, Lawrence English, Werner Dafeldecker, Scott Morrison and Phil Dadson.
The Antarctic Convergence is a specially curated exhibition by Philip Samartzis to accompany Liquid Architecture 13 that draws on a range of artists who have had firsthand encounters with the...
29 Jun 2012 - 14 Jul 2012Gallery 1
Denimism
Tony Garifalakis & Tully Moore
Denimism is a collaborative project by Tony Garifalakis a...
27 Jul 2012 - 18 Aug 2012Gallery 2
Operation Margarine
Michael Ciavarella and Corinna Berndt
Operation Margarine explores the poetics and...
27 Jul 2012 - 18 Aug 2012Gallery 3
Tide
Martine Corompt
Standing at the shoreline, gazing out at the vast limitless expanse of ocean, what do we expect to see? Our future? Possible impending doom? The tides of cultural change? Clichés, like visual...
27 Jul 2012 - 18 Aug 2012Gallery 2
Untitled
Max Creasey
Max Creasey’s carefully constructed photographs question our interpretation of photographic reality. They play between illusion and representation invites doubt about the process of photography...
24 Aug 2012 - 15 Sep 2012Gallery 3
Waking of the Insects
Eamon Sprod
Exploring location through sound, Waking of the Insects is a multi-channel sound installation comprising of 100 small high frequency speakers spread over the floor, walls and ceiling to create the ...
24 Aug 2012 - 15 Sep 2012Back Space
A Dinner Party: setting the table
Caroline Phillips and Victoria Duckett
A Dinner Party: setting the table, is a collaborative project curated by Caroline Phillips and Victoria Duckett. It is a cross- media workshop and forum that brings a range of feminist artists...
3 Sep 2012 - 16 Sep 2012Front Space
No Reasonable Offer Refused
curated by Liang Luscombe & Patrice Sharkey, featuring Kelly Doley, George Egerton-Warburton, Agatha Gothe-Snape, and Juliet Rowe and Christopher Sciuto.
Drawing upon current social shifts which recognise that the consumer system is quite broken, No Reasonable Offer Refused brings together object-based and performance projects that will explore if, ...
21 Sep 2012 - 13 Oct 2012Gallery 1
Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece
Nathan Gray
As part of a continuing interest in extending the processes of music into visual and spatial composition, Nathan Gray presents a set of works created during a Asialink residency in Yogyakarta...
21 Sep 2012 - 12 Oct 2012Gallery 2
Untitled
Brett Jones
In an exhibition of pairings of objects with related images, Brett Jones will focus on the reliability of signs in the ‘documentation’ of visual texts.The gap between an image of the object and...
21 Sep 2012 - 13 Oct 2012Gallery 3
Untitled
Sam Songailo
The aim of this work is to create an artificial environment or a perceived idea of an artificial environment (seen in science fiction movies, film clips, computer graphics) in a real world space...
21 Sep 2012 - 13 Oct 2012Back Space
Untitled
Dell Stewart
Presented in West Space’s back-space, this project is...
21 Sep 2012 - 13 Oct 2012Gallery 1
The Bell Curve
Sanné Mestrom
The Bell Curve is a partial ‘summary’ of great moments in High Modern sculpture, reinterpreted through accumulations of found and cast objects and materials.Each work is a form of...
19 Oct 2012 - 10 Nov 2012Gallery 2
Untitled
Kez Hughes
Time for another spotlight on recent art history as Kez Hughes repaints a selection of Australian Artists exhibitions. Selected through influence and bias, Hughes repaints still lives of familiar ...
19 Oct 2012 - 10 Nov 2012Gallery 3
When this baby hits eighty-eight…
Christopher Dolman
When this baby hits eighty-eight… is an exhibition of unique-state print works that incorporate etching, woodblock, collagraph and décollage techniques along with neon and other sculptural...
19 Oct 2012 - 10 Nov 2012Front Space
TWINSHIPS
Michael Munson, Rose Connors Dance & Deanne Butterworth
In TWINSHIPS, Michael Munson, Rose Connors Dance and Deanne Butterworth present a re-treatment of a solo dance performance work dealing with the exploration of different worlds. Through the...
2 Nov 2012 - 24 Nov 2012Back Space
Space, Pieces of:
Bridie Lunney
This project literally and conceptually links West Space ...
2 Nov 2012 - 24 Nov 2012Gallery 1
The Edible Woman
Meredith Turnbull
Focusing on the potential and practical implications of the subject areas of sculpture and craft, Meredith Turnbull’s installation explores notions such as excess, embellishment, adornment and...
16 Nov 2012 - 8 Dec 2012Gallery 3
Black Noise
Marcia Jane
Video projectors play back images of the full moon as recorded through a video camera, from a moving minibus on a country road in New South Wales, Australia on July 16 2011. The projectors are...
16 Nov 2012 - 8 Dec 2012Gallery 2
Untitled
Amy Joy Watson
This installation features a series of lightweight...
16 Nov 2012 - 8 Dec 2012
