STUDIONONSTOP
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items: december 2012
items: july 2011
items: june 2011
items: april 2011 (continued)
items: may 2011
items: april 2011
items: january – december 2010
items: october 2009 | week four
items: october 2009 | week three
items: october 2009 | week two

december 2012
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2012-12-27T08:29:52Z
subject: growing
subject: studio practice
subject: walking
description: ‘There were projects which were not possible because of economic, time, space and technical problems. Some forgotten project will come back to mind when it is needed. I contain my projects in my body, which I find as my studio, and I don’t try to remember or describe them all. My working process is intuitive […]
encoded: ‘There were projects which were not possible because of economic, time, space and technical problems. Some forgotten project will come back to mind when it is needed. I contain my projects in my body, which I find as my studio, and I don’t try to remember or describe them all. My working process is intuitive and I believe its own logic. Being nothing/nothingness and making nothing/nothingness is my goal. It is a long process.’ – Kimsooja from: The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists edited by Mary Anne Jacob & Michelle Grabner University of Chicago Press, 2010. * * * Needless to say, Studiononstop has stopped. In 2010 my studio building in Surry Hills was renovated and the rent tripled. I could no longer afford a studio in Sydney. That year I took a year off art anyway, and these days I do other things. I post occasionally at In the life world and currently on Cutting Edge Permaculture.

july 2011
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2011-09-24T10:55:46Z
subject: growing
subject: ongoing
description: Packing before moving, getting rid of stuff and art. Returning unfired clay casts made for The__Hall back to the ground. After five years of no-dig bed making and soil building – the soil I’ll leave behind… Preparing the garden for seeds I vow with all beings to nurture the soil to be fertile each spring […]
encoded: Packing before moving, getting rid of stuff and art. Returning unfired clay casts made for The__Hall back to the ground. After five years of no-dig bed making and soil building – the soil I’ll leave behind… Preparing the garden for seeds I vow with all beings to nurture the soil to be fertile each spring for the next thousand years – Robert Aitken

june 2011
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2011-07-11T12:14:48Z
subject: learning
subject: looking
subject: travel
description: Train travelling to Brisbane for some winter warmth. Inversions workshop with Jessica Stickler Handstand, forearm balance, headstand & shoulderstand. Jivamukti Yoga, Newtown Winter Mushroom Workshop with Will Borowski Alexandria Park Community Centre Milkwood Permaculture
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april 2011 (continued)
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2011-07-06T22:05:05Z
subject: exhibition
subject: group projects
subject: individual projects
subject: looking
subject: sculpture
description: 7/4/11-24/4/11 ANNA JOHN IAKOVOS AMPERIDIS LISA KELLY SACH CATTS 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville NSW 2204 AU Life Signs 1. Throughway for a lizard On the 2nd of March I made a first visit to 55 Sydenham Rd. We sat in the space and had a long chat about the effort that went into renovating and […]
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may 2011
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2011-05-01T10:37:29Z
subject: growing
subject: learning
subject: looking
subject: reading
subject: walking
description: | Walking in the back streets of Enmore and noticing a mature macadamia tree in a front yard. A nice man coming out of his house says “Want some nuts?” Sharing them with Michelle Margolis when I get to her house for a garden tour as part of National Permaculture Day, May 1st 2011. | […]
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april 2011
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2011-04-28T11:59:10Z
subject: growing
subject: sculpture
description: photo: Lucas Ihlein Moving the steel tree guards made for The Lively Plane (continued) over to the Tending garden for a second life as supports for climbers. photo: Lucas Ihlein Positioning the frames around the three palm trees in the SCA courtyard and noticing surprisingly old initials and dates carved into two of the trunks […]
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january – december 2010
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2010-04-12T01:25:57Z
subject: growing
subject: learning
subject: looking
subject: ongoing
subject: resting
description: One year off. Field left Fallow Some notes on a year off art practice. January – December 2010
encoded: One year off. Field left Fallow Some notes on a year off art practice. January – December 2010

october 2009 | week four
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2010-03-09T01:27:30Z
subject: growing
subject: individual projects
subject: installation
subject: looking
subject: reading
subject: residency
subject: sculpture
subject: studio practice
subject: travel
description: THE LAB Open residency project Ocular Lab West Brunswick WEEK FOUR NOTES. | 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 […]
encoded: THE LAB Open residency project Ocular Lab West Brunswick WEEK FOUR NOTES. | 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. | Making notes on conversations with passers-by, more frequent now as the interior of the space becomes visible to the street. ‘Friendly man with a beer in a stubby holder stops in doorway to ask “What’s it going to become this time?” Says that it used to be a milk bar. I say it’s been an art gallery for a few years and will soon be an artists studio. Ask if he remembers it as a milk bar. “Oh yeah”. He’s lived in Brunswick for 23 years, but misses where he’s from in Port Melbourne. Says again that he was just interested to know what it was going to become, wishes me a good day and walks on.’ ‘African man walking by stops and smiles and asks what I’m making. I say I don’t know…have been working in the space and the main thing I’m doing is taking the paint off the windows. Ask if he’s ever been in here before. He says no, but that he’d wondered why they were making it dark inside. I say I’d wondered that too. He says he wondered if there was a secret gallery in there. I say yes, that’s a good way to put it – it’s a secret gallery. He says “So you are taking the paint off, but it is still a secret gallery?” I laugh and say yes. He asks my name, shakes my hand, says his is Kobiar. Pleased to meet you, pleased to meet you. Ciao.’ | Sending and receiving mail at the Lab. Amending the gallery door note to pop out on the bike looking for a post box, realising my visual cue is the colour red. | After slow, daily progress, completing the window stripping. | Noticing the many milk bars, dead and alive, in the streets around the Lab. | The clover’s progress. | Picking up a broom for the gallery. My mum’s sisters come to visit and it gets put to use. Just after they a…

october 2009 | week three
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2009-11-22T13:44:43Z
subject: exhibition
subject: growing
subject: individual projects
subject: installation
subject: looking
subject: reading
subject: residency
subject: sculpture
subject: studio practice
subject: travel
subject: writing
description: THE LAB Open residency project Ocular Lab West Brunswick WEEK THREE NOTES. | 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. | […]
encoded: THE LAB Open residency project Ocular Lab West Brunswick WEEK THREE NOTES. | 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. | Leafing through the collection of publications and files on the shelf in the passage outside the kitchen. Paying attention to Ocular Lab’s self-description statements (from publications in 2005 & 2007), and noticing the shifts in inflection from writer to writer. Thinking of peripheral details – that the shopfront was formerly a milk bar, run by Mrs Vignoli, who still lives in the house adjoining. That the room was used as a private artists studio, before it shifted back to a public space as a gallery. That Ocular Lab is nearing its end and will return to being a private studio after March next year. From 2003-2006 a record of projects at the Lab was kept in file folders, including exhibition details, images and statements. In the back catalogue I notice an image of the rectangle stripped in the paint by Julie Davies to show a small screen in the Pearson St window. And an image showing the former gallery signage and street number on the glass over the doorway. | Continuing to strip the paint from the windows, this week using a fragrant citrus based product. Noticing the traces of the former Lab window interventions I’ve been told about – the 5cm frame cut all around the edge of each pane by Bill Seeto, a 20 cent coin sized periscope hole by Sean Loughrey and the rectangle to reveal a screen by Julie Davies. Finding layers of colour beneath the white, including red and black used in previous shows by Alex Rizkalla. Steadily obliterating this material record. | Picking some of the bottle-brushes that were in a blaze all along Pearson and Albert St’s. Aware that the colour red has been waving at me like a flag here – red blankets, a red rose, red rubber glo…

october 2009 | week two
type: item
creator: LK
date: 2009-10-28T00:15:24Z
subject: dialogue
subject: group projects
subject: growing
subject: individual projects
subject: installation
subject: looking
subject: reading
subject: residency
subject: sculpture
subject: studio practice
subject: travel
description: THE LAB Open residency project Ocular Lab West Brunswick WEEK TWO NOTES. | Clover seeds pushing up through soil and sprouting. | The red rose Bianca brought on my first day, opening and changing. READING: The Mind of Clover Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics Robert Aitken North Point Press, 1984 ‘You and I come forth […]
encoded: THE LAB Open residency project Ocular Lab West Brunswick WEEK TWO NOTES. | Clover seeds pushing up through soil and sprouting. | The red rose Bianca brought on my first day, opening and changing. READING: The Mind of Clover Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics Robert Aitken North Point Press, 1984 ‘You and I come forth as possibilities of essential nature, alone and independent as stars, yet reflecting and being reflected by all things. My life and yours are the unfolding realization of total aloneness and total intimacy. The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.’ p.13 | Finishing the curtain for the humanure loo, offering a breezy nod to modesty and a counterpoint to the boxy confines of the flushing toilet. The organic waste from week one at the Lab combined with bucket contents and biked back to the heap site. | Handmade signs on Union St and a great example of computer-free font making, which I’d been thinking about. | This week was extraordinarily cold, with frequent heavy downpours. The roof started leaking in correspondence with the stains and shapes on the floor. Observing where water enters the room under heavy rain, catching the two major drips in glasses. This proved useful when the builder who’s been engaged to repair the ceiling wandered in to sight the job, asking where the main leaks were. Water drawing on the floor as it finds the lowest level. READING: The Humanure Handbook: a guide to composting human manure Joseph Jenkins 2005, 3rd edition ‘Feces and urine are examples of natural, beneficial, organic materials excreted by the bodies of animals after completing their digestive processes. They are only “waste” when we discard them. When recycled, they are resources, and are often referred to as manures, but never as waste, by the people who do the recycling. We do not recycle waste. It’s a common semantic error to say that waste is, can be, or should be recycled. Resource materials are recycled, but waste is nev…