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MEL O'CALLAGHAN PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Artspace is calling for participants to take part in a workshop for Mel O’Callaghan’supcoming solo presentation, Centre of the Centre. This workshop will be led by Sabine Rittner, Associate Researcher and Music Psychotherapist, Institute for Medical Psychology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany. Sabine will give a presentation about her research into breath work and altered states of consciousness followed by a breathing workshop. Open to all – professional, amateur, performers and non-performers alike.
When | Monday 19 August, 10am – 2pm
Where | Artspace, Level 2, Seminar Room
This is a free event
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Mel O’Callaghan is an accomplished artist who in recent times has had substantial exhibitions of her work in institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Serralves Museum, National Gallery of Victoria and Biennale of Sydney. Her work is recognised for a depth of rigour and ambition, and her twenty years of practice demonstrates an intelligent, considered and sophisticated approach to conceiving projects that push the bounds of individual physical and psychological thresholds to provoke transformation. Based in Paris and Sydney, her work has a responsive and site-specific quality that lends itself to exhibition outcomes nationally and internationally.
Sabine Rittner works as a Scientific Associate at the Institute of Medical Psychology of the University Clinic Heidelberg, Germany. Her research topics are on the effects of sound and voice on the human body and soul and on trance / altered states of consciousness. She is an approved psychotherapist, music therapist, breath and voicetherapist and is teaching medical students and doctors in Medical Psychology. Besides having published more then 120 publications she gives seminars and holds lectures all over the world since forty years. She also is an artist in the field of experimental performance and sculpture.
Key works from the NAS Gallery visit that directly use citation and appropriation.
Task:
Team up with someone who didn’t go to the Nation Art School gallery. Explain one work you encountered that directly use citation and appropriation.
After discussing a work. Make a proposal for a work that uses citation or appropriation of another artwork. Exchange your proposal with another group and make an interpretation or the work. (40mins)
Caught Stealing is an exhibition by contemporary Australian artists who mobilise theft as an artistic strategy in their work. A century after the first Dada photomontages, misappropriation continues in the diverse practices of artists demanding social justice, revisions of history, and ecological awareness. Motifs of piracy also signify resistance to the corporate control of the cultural sphere, as well as colonisation and its legacy in Australia.
List of Artist in Caught Stealing:
Hany Armanious, Daniel Boyd, Peter Burgess, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Linda Dement, Fiona Hall, Shane Haseman, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy, Andrew Hurle, Harley Ives, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tom Nicholson, Lillian O’Neil, Louise Paramor, Philjames, Joan Ross, Soda_Jerk and The Avalanches, Marian Tubbs, Gary Warner.
Some Examples (there are many other works if you can’t remember the artist ask Vicky or do some research:
Joan Ross The claiming of things, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlopmJxCiA
Daniel Boyd Decommissioned skull boxes, Natural History Museum, London,
Four teams will go head to head! You will either be on the affirmative or negative team.
Your arguments:
team one and two:
Richard Prince is the prince of appropriation making him the most important contemporary photographer working today.
Untitled (Cowboy) by Richard Prince
Instagrams
Team three and four:
Sam Leach won the Wynne prize in 2010 with his painting Proposal for Landscaped Cosmos. This painting is an Australian landscape masterpiece despite (or indeed because of ) it’s heavy appropriation of 17th-century Dutch master Adam Pynacker painting Boatman Moored on the Side of a Lake.
“In 1989 Oswald released a greatly expanded album version of Plunderphonics with twenty-five tracks.[4] As on the EP, each track used material by just one artist. It reworked material by both popular musicians like The Beatles, and classical works such as Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Like the EP, it was never offered for sale. A central idea behind the record was that the fact that all the sounds were "stolen" should be quite blatant. The packaging listed the sources of all the samples used, but authorization for them to be used on the record was neither sought nor given. All undistributed copies of plunderphonic were destroyed[5]after a threat of legal action from the Canadian Recording Industry Association on behalf of several of their clients (notably Michael Jackson, whose song "Bad" had been chopped into tiny pieces and rearranged as "Dab") who alleged copyright abuses. Various press statements by record industry representatives revealed that a particular item of contention was the album cover art which featured a transformed image of Michael Jackson derived from his Bad cover.[6]”