At the end of August, Level will be leaving it’s current location at 11 Stratton St to relocate to a new space which will be launched early next year. To mark the end of our time at Stratton St we are having a final exhibition of our studio artists from the past year. We would like to say thank you to everyone who has encouraged and supported us over the past 16 months as well as all of the artists who have been involved in our studio and exhibition program. Come and help us farewell Stratton St with our final show and closing party on Saturday the 27th of August.
Split
Closing Party: Saturday 27 August 6 – 9pm
Exhibition Dates: 24 – 27 August 2011
Chantal Fraser
Anita Holtsclaw
Dhana Merritt
Judy Ann Moule
Rachael Parsons
Kat Sawyer
Danielle Woolbank
OPENING Friday 29 July 6-8pm
EXHIBITION DATES 30 July – 19 August 2011
Artist Talks Friday 29 July 5.30 pm
Join us before the opening on Friday night for artist talks by Erika Scott and Hannah Gatland where they will discuss their new solo exhibitions “Pulverised Signs” and “Several Shots of Cosmos” and their studio residencies at LEVEL.
Gallery 1 – Pulverised Signs
ERIKA SCOTT
LEVEL Artist-in-Residence
Erika Scott Sharing Contact Lenses (juggling frontality with planarity) 2011. Image courtesy the artist.
About the exhibition
Pulverised signs is a multi-layered installation work by Erika Scott that provides an outcome for durational studio exercises documented via collaborative forms of dialogue and bodily interaction performed against experimental ‘back-drop’ settings. This project attempted to explore the potential of ‘action’ within forms of installation to further explore meaningful instabilities between material, site and viewer.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and supported by MAAP.
Gallery 2 – Several Shots of Cosmos
HANNAH GATLAND
LEVEL Artist-in-Residence
Hannah Gatland Soda Pop Pop (detail), 2011. Image courtesy the artist.
About the exhibition
It takes a period of time to familiarise oneself with the frantic energy that is a vital makeup of any newly encountered large city. In time one is able to derive that the city is composed of numerous micro cities and boroughs within its self. These singled out microorganisms are small-scale neighbourhoods that can be diverse buzzing mini metropolises for sub-cultures to create and thrive within. Nature itself has complex sub universes and systems of it’s own making. A tiny fragile snowflake is so perfect in it’s unique symmetric pattern. The natural occurring pattern that makes up the flake is never repeated making every snowflake its own individual cosmos. When this snowflake is combined with a whole cloud of other flakes it has the ability to wreak havoc by shutting down international airports and cities. It is this act of distinguishing small sections from the chaos and unpredictably of our macro universe to create personal microscopic sanctuaries that is curious to me.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Gallery 3 – Object Relations
Curated by Rachael Haynes
CAMLAB
SIMONE EISLER
CHANTAL FRASER
MICHELLE KNOWLES
ALICE LANG
CamLab Studies for durational performances (Coyote Mountain), 2009. Image courtesy the artists.
About the exhibition
Taking as a starting point Lygia Clark’s conceptualisation of Relational Objects and Ann Hamilton’s ‘Body Objects’, this exhibition explores the transformative potential of the subject’s engagement with objects. The exhibition explores a range of approaches to subject-object relations; including the artist’s body in relation to constructed objects and the space between bodies that is activated in collaborative performances. In the exhibition these engagements are presented through the modality of the photographic image – both as documentation of performances and as staged photographs.