Incidental Murmuring, Cementa 15
09 April 2015
Installation main street, Cementa15, April 9 - April 12 2015
Cementa is a contemporary art Biennial in Kandos NSW, including over 60 artists exhibiting work across over 20 venues.
Inside the shop, windows act as membranes, an acoustic diaphragm, or simply a site in plain view, where listening to external sounds of the street is sometimes actually ‘eavesdropping’ on the passing community.
Outside the shop, a shared public path is a place for simple promises of connectedness.
Across the street, inside a car, windows are open or closed, amplifying internal and external sounds that travel and echo making what we think we heard indistinguishable and defined.
What is out loud, allowed? What is that noise - leaves dropping or eaves dropping?
How do we decipher which is public and what is private? Did we really hear someone say that or did we just hear ourselves think that? (Images by Ian Hobbs, Robyn Backen and Sue Pedley)
Nomanslanding Opening
02 April 2015
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Sydney Opening 2 April 2015
Darling Harbour, Sydney
2nd April - 3 May 2015
Merchant City Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
13 July - 2 August 2015
Ruhr Triennial/Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Germany
15 August - 27 September 2015
Opening NML
01 April 2015
Nomanslanding opening Darling Harbour Sydney 1st April 2015
Dome open on the harbour
Walking out onto Nomanslanding with life jackets
View from the blue side facing the red side, dome opened
Nomanslanding creative team L-R: Robyn Backen, Nigel Helyer, Helen Salmon, Michael Cohen, Jenny Turpin, Lorenzo Mele, Graham Eatough, Katja Assmann, Jeremy Sparks, Ben Fink (Andre Dekker absent) Images by Ian Hobbs and SHFA
NML floats!
28 March 2015
After a week of construction at White Bay Nomanslanding was craned onto Sydney Harbour and towed around to Darling Harbour. Thanks to Jeremy Sparks and his great construction team.
NML arriving in Darling Harbour
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NML - White Bay install
19 March 2015
Nigel outside the constructed dome at White Bay
Nigel testing the acoustics and it is amazing.
Emptiness
14 November 2014
14 November 2014 – 23 January 2015
VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIPS: ROBYN BACKEN, LINDY LEE, HILARIE MAIS
Robyn Backen, Lindy Lee and Hilarie Mais were awarded Fellowships for two years to undertake ambitious new projects and develop their artistic careers. Fellowships are only granted once in an artist’s lifetime with substantial support to research, reflect, create work, and expand their practice. Backen, Lee and Mais are all celebrated contemporary artists, working across drawing, projections, sculptural form and installation. The Australia Council has created a Fellowships Focus film to accompany the exhibition which profiles each artist’s practice and their personal tips when applying for funding from The Australia Council.
The installation EMPTINESS is drawn on 2 sides of a floating wall. It is a charcoal drawing made up of a question and and answer.
a question and an answer
How can one perceive the meaning of emptiness in the presence of a whisper?
Emptiness is form…..Form is emptiness