it’s a new day

It’s a new day : project feedback sessions

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The Wild Boys
read project outline here

saturday 16th december 2006, 11am
Artspace, Sydney

participants: Loma Bridge, Sarah Goffman, Catriona Moore, Jo Holder, Louise Curham, Maxxi May, Anne Kay, Ruark Lewis, Nobu Ishihara, Jane Polkinghorne, Josie Cavallaro (description), Lucas Ihlein, Lisa Kelly, Richard Gurney and Trevor Fry

[…32:00 mins]

JP: I think it’s interesting that there’s kind of like an endless array of images. Like you could be in this space, you could come in repeatedly and feel like you’d never seen the end of it, in a sense. You get an idea that it’s just this gigantic thing that you’ve stepped into a portion of. That it’s only a fragment of whatever this project is, that you see in the space.

AK: And also you’re not only seeing the end product of getting dressed up and getting made-up and stuff. It’s lots of imagery of the process of getting there as well. As well as other people extraneously walking in when they’re doing stuff, like just some of us are in there, other people involved in the show. Or visitors.

SG: It’s inclusive. Continue Reading »

Or rather the complex weave of relations and interactions that It’s a new day built up in situ from October has come to the end of its projected lifetime…

Last weekend saw a flurry of final activities, including the monumentally scaled Grotesque Dinner and Fanfare staged in the galleries by Sarah Goffman, Carla Cescon & Lisa Andrew and the last in the successful series of project feedback sessions. From here it will be interesting to observe if and how the lines of research and communication germinated by It’s a new day will be fostered by Artspace and its immediate communities.

Many thanks to the many people who have contributed to making the project such an engaging and enjoyable one - from the extended cast of project collaborators, the feedback session participants, our fellow Gunnery studio artists in residence, Artspace staff, Sally Breen, visitors, viewers and the weblog readers and commentators.

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It’s a new day : project feedback sessions

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And Now Sim City Sarah Goffman
read project outline here

monday 11th december 2006, 2pm
Artspace, Sydney

participants: Margaret Roberts, Caz Haswell, Simon Cavanough, Maria Cruz, Sue Pedley, Catriona Moore, Jo Holder, Anne Kay, Josie Cavallaro, Nobuhiro Ishihara, Lucas Ihlein (faciliatator), Lisa Kelly, Sarah Goffman

[…35:50 MINS]

LI: Can we talk about how it feels to be in here?

NI: Can I say something?

LK: Of course!

NI: I am from Tokyo, Japan. So maybe I have a pretty different opinion. So first of all, I came here - anyway, I really love her work. I’m very interested in the city and the different layers. So I just feel firstly that she has been watching the city from a completely different angle. And she is expressing atmospheres of different layers. That’s just my first opinion… Continue Reading »

Pics by Josie Cavallaro
Last saturday Josie and I took a group of around 10 people to visit the John Passmore Museum. We organised the tour following a call from Elinor Wrobel, the trustee for John Passmore’s work and director of the museum. She rang in response to our Who needs artists flyer. She said that she had contacted peopple at the Gunnery when the museum opened but no one showed any interest in coming along.

Wandering back to the Gunnery after the Flicks at the Loo event on Sunday night we enjoyed another screening by Deborah Vaughan from her studio windows. Standing in the adjacent public throughway we watched while a series of disembodied eyes winked and blinked their gazes down on the street…

Thanks very much to Natalie Woodlock for running the Cake as Art workshop on Nov 29th for the after school care kids from Juanita Nielsen Centre. All of Artspace smelled of sugary icing, it made me very happy!

Apologies to Natalie for the fact that The SMH, Metro did not credit the use of her image or the fact that the cake as art workshop is her initiative. I’m wondering if the way we wrote the entry for the event on our calendar in the gallery had something to do with the omission. Or if it was sloppy journalism. Either way, she needs to be credited.

It’s a new day : project feedback sessions

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Who needs artists? Josie Cavallaro & Anne Kay
read project outline here