Sites and Artists.
We had a fantastic response to our 2009 call for entries, which ended on 30 May:
- We have double the entries from last year
- 68 general entry artists are involved this year.
- We are thrilled to have six professional guest projection artists involved this year
- We also have five group projects featured
- We have entries from all over the globe - France, UK, USA, Brazil -
showing the uniqueness of our projection festival as an international
event
To individuals, artists and our community we say - THANK YOU!!
General submissions are curated and placed on the 2009 Projection sites.
Click here to view the list
Download the Projection site map
FEATURE ARTIST
Yandell Walton
Yandell Walton is an accomplished projection installation artist and recent recipient of an
Australia Council sponsored mentorship in New York.
She will be screening her specially curated dreams installation at the Gertrude St Projection Festival.
Yandell combines moving images, three-dimensional spaces and objects in her
projection art.
Her work,Night Walkers on the corner of Gertrude St and George St
explores the over active imagination of the night world. Shadows move
in unfamiliar ways; trees morph, the familiar and the unfamiliar blur in
the unreal night - time world of dreams and illusion.
Night Walkers has been developed with animator Tobias J.(www.defnative.com).
For more information visit www.yandellwalton.com
Yandell is the recipient of the Gertrude Association Feature Artist Prize proudly sponsored by RMIT UNION ARTS.
Yandells' work will be featured at TITLE and DANTE'S FITZROY upstairs gallery, the collaborative work by For Eva More 2009 will be viewed at the laneway beside BIBA.
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TITLE FITZROY
Night Walkers
Yandell Walton
[View @side wall of Tile Fitzroy]
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DANTE'S FITZROY [upstairs gallery].
7 Sisters and work retrospective
" Yandell revisits recent works created on residency at
Laughing waters residency program including documentation of a 4
channel outdoor projection installation and series of photographs
using light and projection techniques. The work is inspired by the
Aboriginal Dreamtime story of The Seven Sisters, among other myths
focusing on the Pleiades star constellation"
7 sisters 2009 - Yandell Walton
[View @ Dante's Fitzroy upstairs gallery ]
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Lane Way beside BIBA
"Ur my drm gr"
by For Eva More 2009
(Yandell Walton, Salote Tawale, Kate McCartney, P.J Fotiades)
[View @ Lane beside Biba Fitzroy]
GUEST ARTISTS
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Ian De Gruchy
Ian is interested in the positioning of art within the broader social fabric
and continues to research into the aesthetic viability of projection to
locate ideas within diverse contexts that impact on the public
imagination.
Ian de Gruchy
[View @ The Gertrude Hotel ]
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Nicholas Azidis - Silent Disco
LEAVE NO TRACE
Light Art, Right from the Heart.
You are here, now!
Moments in life - see - experience, before it’s all gone.
Life / Death - Images, Memories etched into your head.
Nicholas Azidis will create a moment and LEAVE NO TRACE.
Leave no trace - Nick Azidis - silentdisco
[View @ MAYSAR - Melbourne Aboriginal Youth Sports and Recreation ]
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Hugh McSpedden + Maggie Fooke
Projection and lighting artist Hugh McSpedden joins forces with filmmaker and animator Maggie Fooke to make a light-work canvas of iconic Fitzroy dreaming palace “Brooklyn Arts Hotel”.
Hugh's DREAMAGE is light-work projects colour-saturated hands onto the hard surface of the building in a kaleidoscopic illumination. 741 hands – broken visually by prism, juxtapose hand against render. The piece evokes a grappling with time, with history and with substance.
Hugh McSpedden
[View @ Brooklyn Arts Hotel 48-50 George St ]
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Lise Couchet - inxile+ Christy Bryar
Histoires Plastiques: Plastic Stories
Christy Bryar and VJ artist inxile Lise Couchet collaborate to create Plastic Stories.
This is a journey through matter, where different kinds of surfaces, objects and human shapes meet. Where feelings materialise into textures, where stillness meets movement.
Lise projects her lush visual images onto Christy and her dress, an art piece called “Are you my one”. Christy’s dress is patiently woven from recycled plastic bags and together the two works reflect on love and loss
Here, abstraction encounters materiality - Plastic Stories examines the moment when dream and reality meet.
[View @ Gertrudes Brown Couch -Opening Night event ]
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Trewlea Peters
Programmer of Sensory Overload.
I enjoy messing with people’s minds. If I can come up with an idea that shocks people or allows them to explore concepts and environments that they normally wouldn’t, then I'm happy. I have a rather dark sense of humour and this comes through in my work.
I have challenged each VJ/DJ team to create a performance that they believe will trigger a 'sensory overload'. The night has been structured as a build up wit the most intense performances at the end. Hopefully this will ease you into the experience. I will also be creating sensory deprivation intervals (involving hypnosis tracks and minimalist visuals), durung which you can unwind at the bar and clear you mind in time for the next act.
[View @ Workers Club ] -Sensory Overload event
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Zoe Scoglio
Zoë Scoglio is a media artist who creates video and sounds, mostly for
site-specific and performative outcomes. Her current work involves
spontaneous collaborations and explorations into transformation and
ritual. Zoë is a founding member of Melbourne based artist run
initiative, Tape Projects.
Zoe Scoglio – tape projects1
[View @ Rose Chong's Costume Shop ]
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Kit Webster
Kit Webster investigates the
emergence of art, design and technology in order to develop works that engage the observer in new and interesting ways.
His new media installation entitled 'Dataflux 0.1' exhibited at RMIT in
Melbourne has received significant worldwide attention and he will be creating an immersive, interactive installation at
Bus Gallery in September. More
information about his work can be found at www.kitwebster.com.au
View @ The Builders Arms Hotel
GROUP PROJECTS
We are pleased to announce 5 Group project entries this year:
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Visionary Images Next Young Leaders (VINYL)
Some of Us
Visionary Images Next Young Leaders (VINYL) presents a series of artworks that reveal our dream of a world where people bring the best of others to the surface.
VINYL is a project of Visionary Images, an art studio where young people collaborate with artists and designers.
[View at laneway beside Caffettino]
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City of Yarra – UNESCO APCaRD – “Dream of a World Without Racism”
The City of Yarra has endorsed the UNESCO Asia Pacific Coalition against Racism and Discrimination adopting a 10 Point Anti-Discrimination Commitment. To celebrate we are going to ‘Dream of a World Without Racism’ during the Gertrude St Projection Festival.
Artful Dodgers and Visionary Images Next Young Leaders project have worked hard to help us visualise the dream.
[View @ Turning Point ' Kennys window ' ]
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Cottage Industry
Cull
A tongue in cheek hunting expedition through woods over-populated with a proliferation of cute critters...
Even the cutest of bunnies and the doiest-eyed deer aren't safe in these here woods. It's time for a cull.
Dell Stewart is a Melbourne based artist working with print, drawing, animation and installation. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking) and Post Graduate Animation and Interactive Media (RMIT). She has organized and participated in numerous solo and collaborative exhibitions and collaborated on various film and animation projects.
Pene Durston is a designer specialising in textile based work utilising traditional crafts. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Textile Design, teaches at RMIT, designs and manufactures all her products in Melbourne, wholesales and runs a small retail shop called Cottage Industry. She occasionally decorates trees with doilies.
[View @ Cottage Industry ]
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Pontao de Cultura Digital, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
6 Stop motion animations created by Brazilian students aged between 10 – 50 at workshops run by Angela Barnett, Experimenta Artist.
Sonho Encantado/ Beautiful Dream
Cidade Papel /The invasion of the paper city
Homer’s Nightmare
Loja de Choco/Choc Shop
Sonhos de Leonardo/Leonardo's Dream
Zinho/ Zinho- Brazil House Mascot
Brazil
[View @ Gertrudes Brown Couch ]
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ERIN SMITH
Rapid eye movement
Digital animation, 30 seconds (looped)
Skeletal pigeons take flight from the heart in Erin Smith’s animation
exploring the R.E.M stage of sleep, while The Directory collectively
confronts the presence of desire, fear and escapism in dreaming.
Rapid Eye Movement is an animated piece created in response to the activities that occur during the R.E.M stage of sleep, where our most vividly recalled dreams take place. Here this transpires in the form of skeletal pigeons, and their ability to find a way home.
During R.E.M our heart and breathing rates are increased and irregular, and involuntary muscle jerks occur. The fast twitching nature of the animation is symbolic of the erratic and overactive brainwaves that are produced throughout this state.
[view@ Southpaw front window ]
View Inside Southpaw: THE DIRECTORY
(Matthew Mulcahy and Timmon Owler, with Joanna Short)
Dreaming of Somewhere Else
Digital video, 2 min (looped)
The Unconscious Interpretation of Your Needs (More Drinks)
Slide carousel and photographic slides, 2 min (looped)
We Dream of the Past to Enjoy the Present while Pondering the Future
Delayed broadcast
A Short History of Projection (Dream Interpretation)
4 interactive installations:
• In the Light of a Nightmare
Where:Gobo
• Technicolour Dreaming
Where:Overhead projector, water and coloured dyes
• Dream Date (Identi-kit)
Where:Lightbox and acetate transparencies
• The Language of Symbols
Where: Slide projector and photographic slides
Erin Smith: Heartbeat
[view@ Southpaw inside instalation]
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Menagerie
Jeffrey Philips
Produced by Arts Access Victoria
The work has been assisted by Rob Delves, Rick Doyer, Berni Daly and Rhian Hinkle.
Art Day South is a visual and performing arts project for artists with an intellectual disability. The
program, coordinated by Arts Access Victoria for over 10 years, employs
professional artists to work with members of the group to sustain both
individual and collaborative art practices.
[View @ Northside Records/ Birdman Eating Collaboration]
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