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THE LAB

Open residency project
Ocular Lab
West Brunswick

WEEK FOUR

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Adding the post-dinner loo bucket full of wet sawdust and wee to the growing heap. Seeing my regular route through the weeds now visible as a pathway at the compost site. Replacing the toilet bucket, topping up sawdust and cleaning the loo.

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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

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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

We Pollute – working notes, Milano 2003

1. Banner (polvere) 2003
remnant fabric, thread, timber, wire
2. Sign 2003
found timber & plastic, cable ties, fabric, thread, sand, hardware
3. Untitled 1 & 2 2003
found plastics & timber, dowel, cement
4. Lock 2003
chain, padlock, fabric, thread

Australia Council Milan studio residency, Viafarini
december 2002 – february 2003

Three months in Milan at a time the city was announced the most polluted in western Europe. Compulsory car-free days and homemade banners declaring NO ALLO SMOG slung out of palazzo windows. Works improvised from rubbish and remnants, placed and abandoned as additions to the shifting body of flotsam.

Attention seekers__________drawings with invisible objects

open studio
thursday 16th august

Asialink visual artist in residence
june-august 2007

p-10
Singapore

download room notes as pdf [44KB]

Asialink visual artist residency

p-10
Singapore
june-august 2007

reading:

Press Kit
Singapore at 51st Venice Biennale 2005
Lim Tzay Chuen
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