“Liquid Architecture 14: Sonic City”
Darrin Verhagen and Matthew Sleeth
29 Aug → 14 Sept 2013

LIquid Architecture 14: Sonic City involves a site-determined series of artistic interventions throughout the city of Melbourne focused on mobile, temporal and improvised encounters. The program features new works by established and emerging artists and artist groups responding to the dynamics and variables of site and space.

West Space will host the launch of Liquid Architecture 14: Sonic City on Thursday 29 August, from 6pm.

The two exhibition projects at West Space feature work that includes a range of sonic and visual performance/installation presentations focused on transport, mobility and unfamiliar spaces in the built environment.

Darrin Verhagen presents The Audiokinetic Jukebox, with music for 2DOF motion simulators by Robin Fox, Adam Hunt, Darrin Verhagen and Chris Vik. Each of the four compositions presented here take this embodied experience of the city – its inherent relationship between sound, vibration and movement – as their starting point. Some explore these ideas with literal referents, others as aesthetic abstractions of these multimodal templates.

Matthew Sleeth presents the work The Last Car Park, a self generating sculptural installation that populates itself over the exhibition period by way of prototype 3D printers. It is part kinetic sculpture, part robot, part performance and finally, a durational installation. As a work of kinetic sculpture, a printer uses coloured filament to continuously build small sculptures of cars, with one completed approximately every hour. Gallery visitors are invited to take them from the printer’s build platform and place them in an empty car park. The Last Car Park is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.

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More Talk, Less Action
Saturday 31 August 2013 (1pm) – FREE ENTRY
The Sonic City: activating the city through incursion.
(co-presented with Liquid Architecture)
This talk features Camilla Hannan, Haco, Toshiya Tsunoda and Darrin Verhagen and will be moderated by Philip Samartzis, Co-Curator of Sonic City.

Critical discourse on sound art, cutting edge music and related artistic theory is a virtual taboo in the Australian scene. Whilst performance of these music/art forms in Melbourne and Australia is burgeoning, there is a distinct lack of discourse about what is often very conceptual and theory-oriented art forms.More Talk, Less Action aims to encourage both critical discourse and open discussion amongst practitioners and audiences alike, in a serious yet friendly and entertaining environment.

Touring and Australian sound artists from the Liquid Architecture festival discuss their work in the context of the urban sound environment.

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