EXHIBITION DATES:Saturday, 13 November 2010 - Sunday, 12 December 2010
OPENING:Opening 6pm Friday 12 November
ARTISTS:Matthew Gardiner,Wanda Gillespie,Laura Woodward,William Mackrell , Clare Peake & Tanya Shultz,
Movement, space and science all feature in the last of the Innovators exhibition for 2010.
Gallery I (front) With its own internalised logic, Laura Woodward's Underwing strains distinctions between cause, movement and effect, remaining familiar yet ambiguous. When confronted by unknown, moving entities, our minds begin to fill in the 'gaps', both visually and psychologically, in order to make sense of what we see.
Gallery 1 (rear) 1,000 Candles by William Mackrell challenges the physicality of an object within an explored time frame. This new video work constantly evolves over the course of filming. Once the attempt has been made to light all candles, they are left to blow themselves out through their collective heat, proximity and unpredictable draft until total darkness is reached.
Gallery 2 Abandoned ski equipment, said to have belonged to a lost people, was all that was found atop a mountain. With their religious yearning for flight and transcendence of the earthly realm, it would appear this end was achieved. Scholars debate the significance of their findings, is this merely a cult ritual that ends in voluntary suicide or something unexplained? In Escape Into The Void, Wanda Gillespie explores the occasionally thin membranes separating the real and imagined.
Gallery 3 & 5 Oribotics is the outcome of Matthew Gardiner's six month artistic residency at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Oribotics is a field of research that combines the aesthetic, biomechanic, morphic nature of origami and robotics. An object approaches, the oribot blossom opens, causing 1050 folds to actuate in the bot. Macro interactions occur via the network and software; each micro interaction is broadcast to every other oribot in the installation, causing the sympathetic movements of over 50,000 folds across the entire installation, creating a stunningly complex moving image.
Gallery 4 Part-time collaborators Tanya Schultz & Clare Peake transform the gallery into a laboratory space, testing ideas and revealing the potential of ordinary things. The Problem of Explaining the Beginning of Time is a series of sculptural and hybrid forms, objects, experiments and two and three-dimensional drawings that create an ever-expanding field of linked fragments that continue to be in a state of flux, temporary and transitory.
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