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The Lively Plane (continued).

February 2008 - June 2009
growing and ongoing
and part of:

There Goes the Neighbourhood

Daniel Boyd
Brenda L. Croft
Lisa Kelly
SquatSpace
You Are Here
16beaver
Temporary Services
Michael Rakowitz
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
Evil Brothers
Miklos Erhardt and Little Warsaw
Jakob Jakobsen
Democracia
BijaRi
and a re-enactment of Allan Kaprow’s Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hoffman

curated by Zanny Begg & Keg de Souza
The Performance Space
May-June 2009
Sydney

By June 2009 «The Lively Plane (continued)» will have played out along the leafy length of Wilson Street - plus inner-west & city sidelines - over two summers, two autumns, a winter and a spring. In February 2008 I used a commercially farmed London Plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia) in a work for the exhibition «1.The Lively Plane» at the Institute for Contemporary Art Newtown (ICAN) at 191 Wilson St.

Then and now, my interest is in the strong opinion and emotion that attends plane trees. They are both the most commonly planted street tree in Sydney, other Australian capitals and many world cities, and the most widely disliked for the profuse, fine, allergy-provoking bristles that aid seed dispersal from the flower-heads. They are the trees that everyone hates. While favoured for their tolerance of contemporary urban conditions - bad air, poor light, compacted soil and little water - their detractors are many, from talkback radio callers to prominent Australian scientist Tim Flannery. Flannery has often argued against the planting of London planes in Sydney streets, as both a persistent mimicry of European cities and a failure to explore alternatives from our ample native species that would better foster insect life and biodiversity, which plane trees notably do not. Continue Reading »

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Wild Sown Understorey

Seeding action, project document & climate almanac.

February-April 2009

wBST
West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial
curated by OSW
March-April 2009
Melbourne, Australia

download wBST poster pdf [48KB]

Wild Sown Understorey is a seeding action for the front yard of 135 Union St, West Brunswick. In February green manure crop seeds were cast, and the grass left to grow until the close of the wBST. The potential for a shaggy transformation of suburban ground will lay dormant or flourish according to rainfall, becoming a simultaneous ten-week weather index. Using the methods of natural farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, the project plays out between disturbance to a lawn-scape, land remediation and productivity, the absence of wildness, probable failure and climate change.

Project document & climate almanac.

A6-ish ha-ha foldout with weeks one-ten card series
single colour printing in brown, blue and teal
printed with love on The Rizzeria
edition of 100
copies available ~ contact l kell 88 [at] gmail dot com
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One Day Sculpture
A New Zealand-wide series of temporary artworks.
Symposium and Readings
Wellington
Aeotearoa NZ

woodblock print from Masanobu Fukuoka’s ‘One Straw Revolution’ reaped from Culiblog and used twice without permission

Nothing to give.

catalogue essay

Moon Garden
Mikala Dwyer
Aratoi - Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Masterton, Aotearoa New Zealand
december 08 - february 09

“Natural farming” is a method of land use developed by Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) on his mountainside farm and orchard in southern Japan. Known also as “Do-nothing” farming for Mr. Fukuoka’s recommendation of doing away with unnecessary work, its grounding is in the four principles of no cultivation, no fertilisers, no weeding and no chemicals. His plentiful crops of rice, citrus and vegetables demonstrated that with careful observation and minimal tending, land left to itself will find a natural pattern and balance. Using cooperative systems of green manure cover crops, rice straw mulches and small grazing animals the Fukuoka method shows that even the most depleted soils can be restored, healing the land and maybe even the spiritual wellbeing of the practicing farmer. Continue Reading »

Urban grassland &
inner city seagull sanctuary
Prince Alfred Park pool
Surry Hills
Sydney

Closed for redevelopment and growing over.
Walk around the fenceline and seedball action.
27.11.08

Rainfall:
28/11
29/11
7/12
8/12
10/12
11/12
12/12

Mowed down & whipper-snipped:
17/12

image courtesy of Firstdraft

Notes on a state of conversation

essay commissioned and originally published
Runway
Issue 11: Conversation
edited by Anneke Jaspers
Winter 2008

download pdf of full text here [64KB]

HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE?
On the short term, phones and email can be used
to arrange meetings. But they often fail to provide
the impetus that actually brings people in
dialogue with one another. They act as alibis for
the commitment that may or may not be sufficiently
developed between people. Given the event-led
cultural economy we live in today, communication
after the fact proves to be the weakest link in
our development. One might envisage setting up
an AGENCY FOR AFTERMATH COMMUNICATIONS in
art practice… Face to face contact is precious.

- Clementine Deliss (1)

Over a recent three-week period I was immersed in an incidental but noticeable sequence of visual arts dialogue events and encounters. These seem useful material for a part round-up, part temperature check on how occasions to talk to each other – as artists, audiences, people, peers, and communities – are being generated out of local practices, projects and spaces. On the varying qualities of these occasions, differing approaches to facilitation, and the meaningful potential and effects of thoughtful discursive practice. Continue Reading »

DIY Publishing Course
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre
Darlington Studio
4 weeks of tuesday nights
11 November - 2 December
learning Riso and print Gocco with The Rizzeria

Intro to Permaculture : Sydney
Milkwood Permaculture
Orange Grove Public School
15-16 November 2008
with visit to Glovers Community Garden, Rozelle.

The____Hall 2008
digital print poster, document thread, paper clay, scrap plasterboard, fabric, cloth tape, brackets, hardware.

The (self initiated Artist funded) Second (fourth)
Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& design)

Bianca Hester. Sean Bailey. Simon Taylor. Jon Campbell. Kate Newby. John Nixon. Matt Hinkley. Nick Mangan & Ying Lan Dan. Nick Selenitsch. Kate Smith. Dan Arps. Damon Packard. Ida Ekblad. Daniel du Bern. Alexander Ouchtomsky. Ben Tankard. Liv Barrett. Scott Mitchell. OSW. Animal Charm. Matthew Brown. Jane Caught. Alex Vivian. Masato Takasaka. Helen Johnson. Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples. James Deutsher. Sriwhana Spong. Kain Picken. Rob Mckenzie. Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie. Spiros Panigirakis. Lisa Kelly. Joshua Petherick. Matt Griffin. Geoff Newton. Pat Foster & Jen Berean. Liz Allen. Gregory P Sharp. Justin K Fuller. Ardi Gunawan. Xin Cheng. Hao Guo. Annie Wu. Christopher L G Hill. Janneke Raaphorst. Ruth Buchanan. Tahi Moore.Taree Mackenzie. Simon McGlinn. ffiXXed. Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins. Dylan Statham. ACW. Fiona Connor. and more…..

19th Nov. to 6th Dec. 2008

curated by Christopher L G Hill

TCB art inc.
Melbourne

front.
Fed Square, Melbourne
The Greenhouse
Sustainable architecture project.

back.
Fed Square, Melbourne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Waste goes on…

 
 
 
 
 
 

week 3.

2.
Field
Work

Lisa Kelly
Dennis Tan

4th - 18th October 2008
open & in progress wed-sun 11-5pm

opening event: Friday 3rd October 6-8pm
closing event: Saturday 18th October 2pm til sunset

Chrissie Cotter Gallery
[rear of Camperdown Bowling Club]
Pidcock St Camperdown NSW 2050

room plan [32KB] & room list [80KB] as at opening

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Winter sun. Surry Hills 08.