Two exhibitions that play with the possibilities of materials, one in relationship to the body and one with materials ability to undergo an alchemic change or be effected by great forces.
Zoë Bastin
Unknowing
Seventh Gallery
10th May – 24th May 2018
Written by Zoë
Unknowing is part of an ongoing performance project, exploring how choreography that uses sculptural materials creates a sense of estrangement from one’s own body. Choreography is informed by a confrontation with material, an abstracted fleshy mass the same weight as the performers own body. The exhibition of sculptures, choreographic processes and artefacts will draw from the unfamiliarity of an estranged body, creating a sense of humility and inadequacy in the process of unknowing what a body is.
Bastin works in-between sculpture and dance creating choreography, objects, videos, photos and performances. Exploring the materiality of bodies and objects, her practice re-imagines her body and its connection to spatial, material and social contexts. Sculpture approximates the body through material while dance re-creates experiences using the body itself.
Vittoria Di Stefano
Deep Time Receiver
Bus Projects
9 May - 2 June 2018
Materials in a state of transition.
Materials that are personal, lipstick, soap presented in their transformed state.
An installation where magnet attract and arrange iron filings into poetic, organic organisms. Crystals seep and expand, beginning to cover and consume all surfaces.
Written by Vittoria
Vittoria Di Stefano’s research centres on material investigation as a method for examining notions of liminality - or transformative in-betweenness - in sculptural practice. She employs temporal, marginal and contingent processes to investigate a range of materials as a means to explore the alchemical and transformational properties of the sculptural object. busprojects.org.au/program/deep-time-receiver
