Futile Gesture No. 10

Futile Gesture No. 10

Screen Space
Opening: Thursday 3rd October, 6-8pm
Exhibition: 4th October - 26th October

With catalogue essay by Stephen Palmer.

Goings - on

Candice Cranmer, Adam Knight, Sanja Pahoki, Ben Raynor.
Curated by A. A. Crosse

What is going on? Goings-on take place in backyards, small rooms with closed doors, cul de sacs, away from open stares. Activities that are a bit weird, a bit sus, not ominous though. What is Goings-on? It consists of four artists, engaged in a range of provisional activities, locally and abroad. It’s an exhibition set in Stephen’s shed.

Goings-on is the first event under the banner of The Task, a series of events taking place in unexpected places.


Exhibition runs 2-3 of March, 10-6
Opening event Saturday 2nd of March 3-5pm.
12 Etnam street, Preston 3072.

Installation Images : Clare Rae and Stephen Palmer.

                                                     


Futile Gesture No. 9

Exhibition Opening: Project Space, Seventh Gallery.

12th September 2012, 6-8pm

Seventh: 155 Gertrude Street Fitzroy VIC 3065 Australia.

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6pm, Night Screen 6pm-12am


Examining slapstick visual tropes as seen in cinema, Funniest Home Videos and DIY You Tube postings, Futile Gesture No. 9 will explore creation via failure in the studio.

Image: Untitled, 2012

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

Studio

Above: Fail Harder, paint puddle, 2012

Futile Gesture No.6 at 07. Berliner Kunstsalon with TAKT

07. berliner kunstsalon

05. - 10. Oktober 2010
a-station, Landsberger Allee, Berlin-Friedrichshain

Point Now at Kings ARI

Now at Kings ARI
Now begins Sally Tape Now Point Now Candice Cranmer End.
3-25 September 2010.
An installation considering the nature of a collaborative unit Now (pseudonym for artists) and the type of time that pertains to the present Point (exhibition title).





Images : Installation documentation, Now, at Kings ARI

Futile Gesture No. 6 at TCB art inc.

TCB invitation image






Installation images: Futile Gesture No. 6, digital video, 5.21 mins, 2010.

View Futile Gesture No 6. on Vimeo

Takt Residency Group Exhibition at the Alte Feuerwache, Friedrichschain, Berlin, Germany.

Exhibition documentation : Takt

Silent Nights: Film Screening at Light Projects

Light Projects 176 High St Northcote.




Image: Clare Rae

Hamburg

Takt Artist Residency : Open Studio

Above: installation image : Futile Gesture No.5, single channel digital video, tripod, burnt matches, 2009.



Above: digital video still: Futile Gesture No. 5

Takt Residency, Gubener strasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin. 09.

Drill at Seventh Gallery

Above image: digital video still from Drill


Drill is a spacial intervention, a ridiculous one at that. Formally and aesthetically, it is concerned with surface and the tension of its rhythmic, and deliberate destruction.

Conceptually, this video is an exploration of architectural interventions and feminist concerns. It is a seemingly simple narrative pertaining to entropy as ‘a measure of the disorder that exists in a system’.





Installation images : Drill, Night Screen, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.

Fatal Attraction at Shifted

invitation image

Shifted: Level 1 Albert St, Richmond, Melbourne.
Opening hours Wed-Sat 11-5.
3-20 September.






Above: 3 video stills from: The Look Of (Fatal Attraction)



Above: installation image: The Look Of (Fatal Attraction), at Shifted Gallery, Melbourne