Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Victoria Australia

Linden's Exhibition Program June - December 2000

June 30 - July 23

Opening Saturday 1 July,
1-3 pm Artist Floor Talks Saturday 15 July

2000 Nothink!

All Galleries.

Shirley Angus, Lisa Bellear, Maree Clarke, Gary Donnelly, Gail Harradine, Michelle Hickey, Daniel King, Jennifer Mullett, Christian Thompson, Jennifer Murray Jones.

The 2000 Nothink! exhibition invites Victorian based indigenous artists to explore issues that effect Indigenous people today. Through their work the artists explore issues such as deaths in custody, stolen generations, representation, appropriation and identity. The artists will conduct a floor talk and discuss their work on display as well as issues that effect them as practising Indigenous artists. 2000 Nothink! is curated by internationally renowned photographer, Destiny Deacon, specifically for NAIDOC Week. (National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration).

The exhibition is presented by the Koori Arts Unit of the City of Port Phillip.

July 28 - August 20

Opening Thursday 27 July, 6-8 pm
Artist Floor Talks Saturday 12 August

The Four Horizons of the Page

Gallery 1

"The hand knows its limits, the page does not even conceive of them." Elizabeth Presa "Starting with the moment the hand touches the page, the moment the writer strikes a key, the first letters, words and sentences, unedited and uncorrected, I take hold of the edge of the white page and fold along each line of black ink. I fold, crease, join and rejoin, pierce, stitch, cut and knot the white threads. Like an asphasic deaf and blind to meaning I follow only the tone, the accent, pauses, cadences, the rhythm of the ink, the spaces and margins. I do not disturb, alter, maltreat or harm the written text. My hope is that my language, the language of a sculptor, can shape (fold) this other language there on the page (french, this most beautiful language, this most beautiful accent), into speaking by itself and of in itself in another way. Thus, I construct garments from and for the horizons of the page - east and west, north and south - horizons achieved within a body of language, my language, spoken with my antipodean accent, formed by my antipodean touch."

SKIN II - "Ars Erotica"

Gallery 2. John F Byrne

SKIN II is concerned with the relationship between isolated areas of the skin's surface and it's fetishisation through adornment as well as blemishment and corruption, the work includes the erotic and the sensual.

The Hound of B...

Galleries 3 & 5. Maryanne Coutts

"Conan-Doyle's adventure of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, tells of Holmes' famous and cutting rationalism pitted against the mystery of a supposedly mythical, fire-breathing dog. It highlights tensions between the rational and the supernatural: between logical and intuitive ways of interpreting events. This relationship between so-called fact and dangerous illusion fascinates me. Rather than illustrate or re-tell this story, I have responded to it in a way that projects these themes, reflecting contemporary conflicts. The work contrasts emotive, gothic imagery with twentieth century situations and techniques of imaging."

Relative To This

The Bunker. Megan Evans & Lisa Young

Creating a giant periscope/kaleidoscope, the audience views this installation from outside the Bunker space through a mirrored tunnel. Using mirrors, video and animation, the viewer will see into an infinite space - an ever-evolving doppelganger of growing and collapsing images. This work challenges the illusory perception of time and space, internal and external, encouraging reflection about the digital dilemma of immateriality.

The Bunker is a collaborative project between Experimenta Media Arts And Linden - arts centre & gallery, showcasing the creative abilities of Australian digital media artists. The Bunker Project has been made possible by a grant from the City of Port Phillip Cultural Programs Board through its Cultural Development Fund.

August 25 - September 17

Opening Friday 25 August 6-8 pm
Artist Floor Talks Saturday 9 September

The Retrieved Object

All Galleries. Curated by Elizabeth Gower.

All the works in this exhibition are sourced from or reference the "op shop", acknowledging the history of artists' utilisation of discarded objects and materials and the role of the 'found' object in contemporary art practice. In these works the retrieved and collected object becomes an artefact of the material culture, an icon of the vernacular or a component of systemic installations.

This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

September 22 - October 15

Opening Thursday 21 September
Artist Floor Talks Saturday 7 October

Fluid

Galleries 1 & 2. Wendy Hutchison, Rosie Weiss, Sarah Winfrey, Lia Chia-Chien, Chiu Tzu-Yang, Lin Pei-Ching.

Fluid is a group show from Melbourne and Taipei. There is a connection between the artists in their obsessive fascination with peeling back the layers of the physical / metaphysical world. Ambiguous pictorial space is created to allow the viewer movement between detail and more indeterminate depth. Photography further links the work, used in the process of making the images.

Spill

Gallery 3 Kim Portlock

Spill embodies the fluid nature of desire. In this sequence of Photo-works, the flow between bodies dissolves contours and subverts the distinction between inside and outside. The images are created without the camera in a low-tech approach to photography where the use of raw photographic chemistry eludes to painting.

PAL - 9000

The Bunker. Luke & Cass Wigley

PAL - 9000 is a simulated personality or artificial intelligence. PAL chats with the user in cheeky conversational style, quizzing users about themselves, playing games, telling stories and acting as a guide to the world of cyberspace. In the age of cyborgs, intelligent machines, and networked realities, PAL is a timely and ambitious project that explores the changing relationship between humans and non-humans.

Made with assistance from the Australian Film Commission.

October 18 - November 12

Opening Thursday 26 October
Artist Floor Talks Saturday 4 November

Pragmatics of Inscription: Wall Drawings

All Galleries. Curated by Bernhard Sachs.

Damiano Bertoli, Terry Bird, Louisa Bufardeci, Janet Burchill, Colin Duncan, Anna Finlayson, Katherine Huang, Peter Kennedy, Alex Rizkalla, Bernhard Sachs, Andrea Tu.

The idea of the inscribed and rearticulated wall as an artwork has an extensive provenance, from classical fresco through to the Berlin Wall. In this exhibition variations on the notion of wall drawings are interrogated in relation to the chain of associations that extend from the wall as a site of public and private address and the various aesthetic and political discourses that this registers as a trace. The works are necessarily site specific and temporal. This exhibition begins and ends with an empty space and the works can be observed under construction and under erasure.

This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

November 17 - December 10

Opening Thursday 16 November
Artist Floor Talks Saturday 2 December

Paintings Are Ace

All Galleries. Curated by Clare Firth-Smith.

Hayley Arjona, Damiano Bertoli, Ingrid Braun, Nadine Christensen, Anna Finlayson, Clare Firth-Smith, Rauli Flemington, Sharon Goodwin, Julia Gorman, Michael Graeve, Matthew Griffin, David Harley, Julian Holcroft & Barnard McIntyre, Raafat Ishak, Karoly Keseru, Kerri Klump, Richard Lewer, James Lynch, Andrew McQualter, Sean Meliak, Claire Mitchell, Johnathon Nichols, Daniel Noonan, David Noonan, Nick Selenitsch, Jordan Spedding, Masato Takasaka, Blair Trethowan, Parekohai Wakahmoe.

This exhibition is a broad examination of the state of painting in contemporary emerging art. It will consider such occurances as installation, usage of different and new materials, the influence of computers and photography and the context of painting as a visual language or sign.