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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

Luke George

I am interested in inhabiting strange spaces in...

20 Feb 2012 - 24 Feb 2012

Upcoming

The Knight Series #2

Kellie Wells

‘I am knight’, ‘I am angel’, ‘I am devil’ and ‘I am...

24 Feb 2012 - 17 Mar 2012

The Human Remains

Alesh Macak

In the 13th century a ‘World Machine’ was used as an illustrative example of how the earth navigated through the universe. Alesh Macak is interested in momentary ‘truths’ like this. Where an idea f...

24 Feb 2012 - 17 Mar 2012

Atrophia

Jordan Wood

Using materials and sounds that are simultaneously from natural and artificial origins, Jordan Wood will build a claustrophobic space, channeling the precarious relationship between an urban...

24 Feb 2012 - 17 Mar 2012

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Sounds of Weather

Sounds of Weather is part of an intercultural collaborative project curated by Philip Samartzis (RMIT University, Melbourne) and Christophe Charles (Musashino Art University, Tokyo) titled...

29 Feb 2012, 7:30pm

So You Say

Curated by Dominic Redfern and Anabelle Lacroix and featuring work by Hans Rosenström, Jessica McElhinney, Katie Collins, Miriam Bäckström, Pål Sommelius, Will Box, ZBR Production (Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Christina Bergendahl and Rut Karin Zettergren) and Dominic Redfern.

So You Say features video artists who engage with self-representation by occupying the role of the protagonist in their work. The artists are drawn from communities of practice in Stockholm and...

23 Mar 2012 - 14 Apr 2012

Stay Home Sakoku: The Hikikomori Project (Today Your Love Project)

Eugenia Lim, Dan West, Yumi Umiumare and David Wolf

Stay Home Sakoku: The Hikikomori Project is an introverted performance/installation exploring the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori or ‘shut in’ syndrome. Over one week, Lim will live in a...

23 Mar 2012 - 14 Apr 2012

Rainbow Eaters

Group exhibition featuring Nick Selenitsch, Kirra Jamison, Paul Yore & Valentina Palonen. Curated by Mitchel Brannan.

Rainbow Eaters brings together the work of four...

20 Apr 2012 - 12 May 2012

Re-make/Re-model

Danielle Hakim and Lyndal Walker

Danielle Hakim and Lyndal Walker will explore ‘the...

20 Apr 2012 - 12 May 2012

life sux then you die

Toby Pola

Toby Pola channels the folk art of the whittler. His painted balsa wood figurative carvings evoke the charm of the forgotten craftsman by updating tradition through the use of contemporary subject ...

20 Apr 2012 - 12 May 2012

De facto Standard (Today Your Love Project)

Greatest Hits

In the mid 2000s, a format war took place between the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD optical disc standards for storing high definition video and audio. The Conflict resembled the earlier videotape...

20 Apr 2012 - 12 May 2012

David Chesworth + collaborator

David Chesworth’s practice involves several diverse areas of music and installation art. He is well known for his early work with seminal post-punk experimental group Essendon Airport and his 1978 ...

20 Apr 2012, 12:00pm - 12 May 2012, 5:00pm

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, Snaith is responding to the site as...

1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012

Raisin+Wells (Today Your Love Project)

Hannah Raisin and Kellie Wells

A Today Your Love Project

Raisin+Wells (made up of Hannah Raisin and Kellie Wells) are an installation and performance video collaborative duo based in Melbourne. Their work examines cultural...

1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012

I tell you most solemnly

Kieran Boland

In a three channel video installation we witness two preachers experiencing problems with their audio equipment as they take turns reading out bible passages in public featuring the phrase “I tell ...

1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012

Overtones

Marcia Jane

Overtones is a video and light installation comprising multiple video projections in an enclosed space. Narrow vertical bars of light vibrate to different frequencies. Experienced in the gallery...

1 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012

Denimism

Tony Garifalakis & Tully Moore

Denimism is a collaborative exhibition consisting of paintings and mixed media works on denim and canvas in the form of banners. Although all of the works appear to be made from denim, in reality o...

27 Jul 2012 - 18 Aug 2012

Operation Margarine

Michael Ciavarella and Corinna Berndt

Operation Margarine explores the poetics and...

27 Jul 2012 - 18 Aug 2012

Tide

Martine Corompt

Tide is a mixed media installation combining drawing, animation and audio. The exhibition brings together ideas of stylised graphics, visual perception, allegory, and representation of landscape...

27 Jul 2012 - 18 Aug 2012

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 2012

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 2012

Small Change

curated by Liang Luscombe & Patrice Sharkey, featuring Kelly Doley, George Egerton-Warburton, Marcin Wojcik, Juliet Rowe and Chris Scuito

Small Change offers a way to reinvigorate acts of commerce by extending, challenging and re-inventing the systems of exchange that underpin consumer culture. Small Change will take the form of...

21 Sep 2012 - 13 Oct 2012