The Rest is Silence

"The Rest Is Silence"
DEATH BE KIND
Opening: 8th of November 2011
Until 11th of December
Above Image: Exhibition Invitation

"The rest is silence" exhibition has been conceived to create a mass object of skulls as an experiential installation where the gallery space becomes a catacomb or a funerial skull cave if you will. The exhibitions title "The rest is silence”, are the dramatic last words uttered by Hamlet in the final act of Shakespeare’s celebrated play, and perchance apropos for DEATH BE KIND’s concluding show to an eighteen month program of curated exhibitions about death by Claire Lambe and Elvis Richardson.

Death Be Kind:
Upstairs @
THE ALDERMAN
134 Lygon Street
Brunswick VIC 3056
Saturday + Sunday 2-6pm






Above Skull, digital video still found on You Tube, posted by Joe Elipo.

Framed at Level ARI, Brisbane, curated by Simone Hine.

Image: (Framed Catalogue) Rebecca Adams, Pucker Up, Video Still 2011.
Framed
Level ARI, Brisbane
REBECCA ADAMS, CANDICE CRANMER and KELLIE WELLS
Curated by SIMONE HINE





Framed presents a series of performative video works in which three female artists test their body through a simple action. These works draw upon the history of feminist performance art in order to present what is essentially a performance recorded on video. The change of medium replicates a shift in the subject of these performances. Where seminal performance works from the 1960s and 1970s focused on immediacy, Rebecca Adams, Candice Cranmer and Kellie Wells use video to distance the viewer from the artist and the action.

This project is an exchange between Level and Screen Space and has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.





Documentation images and Framed exhibition catalogue by Simone Hine

Fail Harder

FAIL HARDER delves into the notion that experimentation and failure are key elements to a well rounded studio practice. Often the biggest failures lead to the best unanticipated outcomes. Featuring our nine resident studio artists, the risk of failure is confronted head-on as they spend three days and nights together in the gallery participating in an intensive making frenzy. The community of a shared studio is amplified while innovation and insight into process are highlighted in this year’s annual KINGS ARI studio exhibition.
Artists: Candice Cranmer, Bianca Durrant, Ben Millar, Andy Wear, C J Conway, Lucy Farmer, Fiona Williams, Rebecca Adams, Emma Van Leest





Above: Fail Harder Installation 1, mixed media.





Above: Fail Harder Installation 2, plint, bucket, water pump, orange paint.


All 'Fail Harder' Installation Documentation by Christian Capurro

Better Than Art, curated by Amy Marjoram

Better Than Art Documentation



Video Still: The Shape of Things to Come.

Mailbox 141

'I Steal from Work and I steal from You Tube'
Now: Sally Tape and Candice Cranmer
5 APRIL – 6 MAY 2011
OPENING Tuesday 5 April 5.30pm
Mailbox 141
141 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.


Invitation image (above)




Documentation Image (above)

Shelved at Dear Patti Smith

open march 3, 4 + 5, 12-6pm
opening function thursday march 3, 6 - 8pm

It’s on the shelf in the studio. Occasionally it catches the eye from its place in the corner.
Its an object of intrigue that never grew or one of those dead-end tangents.
Perhaps it was part of the process or didn’t make the exhibition cut.

...yet it lingers...

‘Shelved’ is a collection of these works.
Anonymous and untitled - these works sit beside their fellow misfits
and beautiful dead-ends. Collectively they allude to aspects of the artist process
and experience ordinarily undeserving of exhibition.





For the above image and more documentation: Shelved @ Dear Patti Smith