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THE LAB

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK FOUR

THE LAB

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK THREE

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Riding week two’s collected toilet and organic material back to the compost site on Thea’s bike as honey-wagon. Weeding the overgrown house garden and feeding it to the heap, enjoying time in the sun and air outside in this grassy meadow.

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THE LAB

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK TWO

NOTES.

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Clover seeds pushing up through soil and sprouting.

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The red rose Bianca brought on my first day, opening and changing.

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THE LAB

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK ONE

NOTES.

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For the first week it felt right to observe things as they were in the Lab. The given conditions, the objects in the room when I arrived - a plinth, a ladder, a trestle table, an amplifier and some foam - and the movement of light and air into and through the space. It was surprising how much was going on in and at the edges of an empty room. I felt no need to remove the objects, figuring I’d wait to see who had left them and what they might be useful for. For the first few days I was strongly mindful of the practices of Thea Rechner and John Borley, as I paid attention to air and light and sat on the front step with the doors open making eye contact with passing drivers.

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THE LAB

For the month of October Lisa Kelly will be developing an open residency project at Ocular Lab, Brunswick West, Melbourne. Less an exhibition than a set of actions, processes, reading and renewal, THE LAB will draw on the Lab’s past use as a private artists studio and observe its shift to a public gallery. Combining the dual purposes of work and presentation space while being attentive to the specific conditions of the site, Kelly will engage in simple process cycles that annex the basic functions of a public venue. Areas of exploration will include onsite waste, streetfront visibility and natural lighting.

This project for Ocular Lab continues the artist’s practice of using critical frameworks to investigate the institutions her work is hosted by. In 2008 her project THE__HALL explored the re-purposing of a community hall into an art gallery by a local council.

Ocular Lab
31 Pearson Street
Brunswick West
VIC

Open & in progress:
Wednesday to Sunday 1pm-5pm
10th October to 1st November.

Closing gathering:
Saturday 31st October 3-5pm

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

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…

 
 

Things seen between.
Criss-crossing the city venues in the first week of Revolutions - Forms That Turn 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
1. fallen Dragon’s Blood 2. coir thing 3. bound tree (electrical tape & bamboo)

 
 
 

Cockatoo Island
Biennale of Sydney 2008
1. sign 2. Turbine Hall 3. buildings & winter sky 4. lights on the last ferry.