“Gating”
Torben Tilly, Ernie Althoff, Thembi Soddell, Helen Gibbins, Anthony Pateras, Robin Fox, Rainer Linz, Amanda Stewart, Bruce Mowson, Andie Reynolds, Ben Harper, Warren Burt, Martin Ng, Michael Graeve, Greg Kingston, Marco Fusinato, Laresa Kosloff, Esther Buder, Leslie Eastman, Tom Frachtl, Simon Kilvert, Jason Workman, Simone Lanzenstiel, Ruark Lewis, Andrew McCausland, Elissa Sadgrove, Carmen Soraya and Stephen Bram
16 May → 8 June 2002

Gating was a visual and sound exhibition and publication project. Gating is a term derived from professional audio technology where it describes a process of noise reduction. The Gating project, however, was not concerned with a technological procedure. Instead, the project was structured to allow each artist to create exciting new work appropriate to their expertise and response to the framework. Participants were encouraged to engage in compositional, practical, poetic, philosophical or ethical responses to a process whereby fundamental or essential parts of an artwork were emphasised by the deliberate omission of other (quiet, subtle, inessential, superfluous or weak) components.

In the gallery, Gating was an audiovisual exhibition with sounds emanating from different parts of the room from four sets of speakers, overlaying 14 commissioned sound compositions, each containing significant sections of silence. The visual works consisted of paintings, sculptures, installations, digital media, photographs, sound sculptures, prints and publications. The Gating CD includes 14 commissioned compositions and a 24-page full-colour booklet.