West Space invites you to an upcoming performance of Yakumo Honjin, presented by Aphids.
Yakumo Honjin is a music installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harp inspired by a 280 year old Samurai Hotel located on Lake Shinji.
Yakumo Honjin is presented in association with Aphids (Australia) and Sphere (Japan).
Developed in a remote Samurai Hotel in far West Japan in 2007, the work was premiered at Matsue Castle in 2009 and this year will make its first Australian tour to West Space (Melbourne), Elizabeth Bay House as part of the New Music Network Concert Series (Sydney), and up to tropical Far North Queensland as part of On Edge Festival (Cairns).
Yakumo Honjin explores the concept of ‘oku’ – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional architecture, garden design and music.
Featuring artwork by: Greatest Hits, Veronica Kent, Alanna Lorenzon, Rowan McNaught, Scott Mitchell + the Brunswick Secondary College Science-Art Club, Safari Team, Ben Sheppard, Nick Waddell, Jordan Wood and Nicki Wynnychuk.
Pavilion: Kelly Fliedner, Veronica Kent, Phip Murray and Ben Sheppard.
Opening: Thursday 13 May 6-9pm Open daily: Friday 14 May – Sunday 29 May 12-8pm at Arts House Meat Market, 5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne
Structural Integrity is a monumental and melancholic World’s Fair-styled exhibition and residency initiative that is a keynote project for this Next Wave festival. Exploring independent arts cultures from across Australia and Asia, Structural Integrity includes the work of six Australian and five Asian Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) including West Space.
The High Life is a series of rooftop art projects curated by West Space that will be a feature of this year’s Melbourne Food + Wine Festival. The Festival invited West Space to work with contemporary artists to present artworks that reflect upon themes initiated in this year’s festival keynote project ‘The Metlink Edible Garden’. West Space has commissioned eight artists to make new work that responds to ideas around plants and gardens, food sustainability, urban landscapes and environmental concerns more broadly.
Working across some of Melbourne’s best-loved rooftops for the duration of the festival, the artists have also responded to the unique flavour of each establishment. How will artists interpret the hunter/gatherer ethos at Sarti Bar and Restaurant, or the flamboyant cheekiness of Madam Brussels? How will they respond to the understated but oh-so-Melbourne elegance of the Order of Melbourne, or the cool as a cucumber and high as a kite atmosphere of Rooftop Bar?
Artists:
Sarti Restaurant & Bar: Hotham Street Ladies + Natasha Frisch Rooftop Bar and Cinema: Dell Stewart + Adam Cruickshank The Order of Melbourne: Andy Hutson + Kirsten Bradley Madame Brussels: Tai Snaith + Carl Scrase
Closing Night Event: Tuesday 23rd March
On the closing night, come join us on a walking tour across all four sites: 5.30–6.00pm: Sarti Restaurant & Bar. Enjoy champagne on arrival to toast the artists and the festival’s closing night. 6.15–6.45pm: Rooftop Bar and Cinema 7.00–7.30pm: The Order of Melbourne 7.45–8.15pm: Madame Brussels. As the grand finale, artist Carl Scrase will perform his flower shooting artwork.
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