RUTH JARMAN + JOE GERHARDT = SEMICONDUCTOR. That’s a simple equation. And Semiconductor are now part of the 21st Biennale of Sydney. Rather timely. They came together as Semiconductor in 1997, so it’s their 21st too. More timely: their practice parallels the theme of Sydney Biennale 2018: ‘SUPERPOSITION’. It’s as if Biennale Sydney “Superposition” could not … Continue reading
I’m spellbound by Semiconductor’s Where Shapes Come From 2016, their hypnotic Two-channel HD video. Raw seismic data becomes sound controlled animation, combined with narration as a lab tech prepares samples, filmed in a lab at Washington’s Smithsonian It was showing for Biennale of Sydney at The Art Gallery of NSW. It’s possible to watch this 8 minute … Continue reading
Do your daily encounters already deliver a dose of about Sixteen Conversations in Abstraction? If Yes: Then Riet Wijnen’s artworks may be too complex. …… or exactly how your mind is wired. At first sight, Wijnen’s Sculptuur Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction is constructed with elegant simplicity that recalls Modernist architecture, and is quite meditative to … Continue reading
Lost in the layered, labyrinthine story behind Riet Wijnen’s Sculptuur Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction? Let’s attempt to uncode it’s connected concept: a conversation. The conversation’s script is imagined. Fiction. But it’s existence is very real. You’d have discovered this by attending a related event, a Performative Reading at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Performative … Continue reading
Celebrating your 21st birthday and having 45 years experience is something we’d all like…right? Who doesn’t want to be a young, fun, carefree optimist with 45 years of wits? Well, Biennale of Sydney 2018 has just that. The only dilemma: how does one choose the guest list for a 21st soirée, when prior parties have … Continue reading
Framed Or Famed 