Species of Spaces is an exhibition that I have put together which opens at West Space in Melbourne on Thursday (11/6/09). It features myself, Brett Jones, Melissa Laing & The WIRED Lab. I have new work in the show (photos, animation/sculpture) based on the apartment of the architect Le Corbusier. There is also a specially produced 40 page catalog (designed by Sarah Stubbs) for the exhibition which features images and writings by all the artists involved. Hopefully, if you are in Melbourne you can drop by.
WEST SPACE Level 1, 15 - 19 Anthony Street Melbourne 3000
12 June – 4 July 2009. Opening: Thursday 11 June, 6 - 8pm
Ryszard Dabek, Brett Jones, Melissa Laing & The WIRED Lab
Species of Spaces is a project consisting of works by Ryszard Dabek, Brett Jones, Melissa Laing and The WIRED Lab (an audio-based research group initiated by artist Sarah Last that is focused on the pioneering work of Australian sound artist Alan Lamb).
The title of the project is taken from the English translation of the French writer Georges Perec’s 1974 volume Espéces d’espaces. Like Perec’s book the exhibition is concerned with the possibilities inherent in the act of describing space. To this end a range of media and approaches are used that include photography, sound, video, animation and sculptural installation.
For each of the artists included in this project, space is understood as a container and conduit of a multiplicity of relations, operations and forces. This is a model of spatial engagement that is underpinned to a certain degree by the architectural, either overtly as subject or as absent authority.
Image: production still from the animation "you were there with me" 2009
Untitled image from the installation Fader, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, August 2008.
8/5/08:
Some recent (march/april) sound pieces. Both using samples of human voice dredged from the depths of the 20th century. Both recorded direct to hard disc live at Woodbury street.
Untitled photograph, March 2008.
27/7/07:
In an effort to expand the functionality of this site and provide an easy to update environment for writing and quick image posts I have decided to use WordPress to create a blog called Modulation. For the time being the blog will provide with a space for me to post impressions and research related to my residence in Paris and travels to Warsaw during July to October 2007. This section of ryszard.net will continue to function as an archive and space for new work that will be updated as need be.
Modulation can be found at http://ryszard.net/modulation.
Documentaion of sound recording at Le Corbusier's Pavillon Suiss, Cité Universitaire Internationale, Paris August 2007.
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