10 October – 1 November 2008, opening Thursday 9 October, 6 – 8pm
Artist Talk Thursday 30 October, 12.30 – 1.30pm
Gallery 1
Timothy Kendall Edser’s art practice is based predominantly on a continuing series of performance installations entitled Tension.
The Tension series centres around the artist’s body, its
mass and the way in which it interacts within the environment in which
it is placed. The series of performances become a scientific discovery
in which Edser tests the limits of the body and creates new hypotheses
about movement and endurance.
10 October – 1 November 2008, opening Thursday 9 October, 6 – 8pm
Artist Talk Thursday 30 October, 12.30 – 1.30pm
Gallery 2
We hate the city. We want to drown its incessant clamour with a noise
of our own. We want to feed its horror back to it until it decays into
a high-pitched squeal. How can we paint the perverse iconography needed
to decry the city’s ever-shifting allegiances? How can we pen a protest
anthem when the beat of the city is too frenetic to dance to, yet too
slow for mortal perception? We have to seed our protest into the
vernacular of future generations so they can continue our work after we
have disbanded. What is needed is a medium with which we can
unblinkingly catalogue the revulsion that chokes us as we scramble from
the din of urban life.
10 October – 1 November 2008, opening Thursday 9 October, 6 – 8pm
Artist Talk Thursday 30 October, 12.30 – 1.30pm
Gallery 3
Looking is part of an ongoing investigation into representations
of vision. Two films have been produced, one on a contemporary camera
and the other on an antique 8mm camera; a kind of visual time machine.
While the contemporary narrative is installed almost as an obstruction
within the space, the more romantic narrative, created with the antique
apparatus, will require an exchange.
Next application deadline for August – December 2009 exhibition program
WEST SPACE invites artists, collectives and curators to submit proposals to exhibit between August and December 2009. For detailed information about how to apply please visit the Program > Applications section.
Please note that galleries one and two have been recently reconfigured
into an exciting new design. Please check the downloadable floor plan
if this will affect your application.
Proposals must be received on or before 5pm, Friday 7 November 2008 (received not postmarked!).
New Director at West Space!
West Space is pleased to announce Phip Murray as the new Director of West Space.
Phip can be contacted at
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Level 1, 15 - 19 Anthony Street
Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
+61 3 9328 8712
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