Ryk: "Goodness! Is that the time?"
Mike: "Time is an abstract concept, that's a wristwatch"
There is something Important to be said...
So when things are happening to you, for you, by you and with you, that are positive in some way, the speed in which you perceive them to be happening can be quite fast. A blink of an eye. If life has bought with it unfortunate or negative circumstances, 2 months in a funk may feel like 2 years. Yet these coexist in a real duration. We feel them differently. Sometimes the sense of an impending deadline will feel like an increasing portent minute to minute.
I began my current degree in February 2006. Just prior to that I spent a slow sometimes difficult month on a residency. Whilst on that residency I began work on a daily ritual of 'blind drawing' a self portrait. At the end of 2006 I ended up with 365 drawings. Yet when I animated them frame by frame the duration was about 14 seconds. During the past three years many good and bad things have happened, sometimes at the same time. So that in itself confuses your own sense, your own perception of when things have happened, or rather, how long they took to happen.
Through the whole three years I was undertaking research for my degree. Of course it's hard to ascertain when research ends and life begins, it's too intertwined with what I do. But certainly out of the portents of the last month, the main one that's been like an ever brightening beacon has been the conclusion of the PhD. I start setting up the works and hand in the paper on February 10 for about a week and then there is the examination period. Then it's open to the public for 2 and half days.
Suspension of Disbelief – the representation of poetic faith through time-based media
A PhD submission by Matt Warren
"In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria. Vol 2. Chapter XIV. 1847.
The outcome of this research project is a submission made up of a body of work and supporting exegesis in which I have investigated how one may best represent the concept of “poetic faith” using time-based media. Open to the public from: 5:30pm - Friday Feb 20, 2009 Open - 12:00-5:00pm Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February, 2009 Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts. Hunter Street, Hobart. Tasmania.
Works:
'Cantus 35' - surround sound installation (re-interpretation of work from 'Port Arthur Project' 2007)
'In Haunted Attics' - surround and video installation (2007/2008)
'Portal Lux Aeterna (after Ligeti)' - surround and video installation (2007/2008)
'Run Out Groove (communiqué)' - sound and text on perspex (2006) (Images by Colin Langridge)
'Until We Sleep' - video and sound installation (2007/2008)
'Whitepinkblack Noise' - video and surround sound installation (2007/2008)
'Stimmung Ton' - collection of 9 sound works (2006-2008) - listening stations.
Even though this has been my main area of concentration, a couple of other things are due to happen just prior to this:
Limbic (see previous blog) in Sydney opens on February 5th at MOP Projects, Sydney.
In Stereo (where available) a solo exhibition by Sally Rees, opens on February 6 at the Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie Tasmania. Why am I mentioning it here? Well in case you don't know, I'm lucky enough to be Ms Rees' partner and think y'all should see it.
So it's now official and has been for a while; Damo Suzuki is returning to Tasmania for a show at Hobart's Brisbane Hotel on Thursday February 26, with the kick off around 8:00pm.
His sound carriers will be Scot Cotterell (electronics), Leigh Hobba (sax), Tim Panaretos (bouzouki), Lisa Rime (bass), Julian Teakle (guitar) and myself; Matt Warren (drums).
Special guests will be
Brian Ritchie-Shakuhachi
Paint Your Golden Face.
$15.00.
Come one, come all, should be great evening of instant composition.
The TRIAD tour is coming along. As more spots get confirmed I will post them here or on the myspace space (see links). Thus far we are doing the follow (with some TBCs included):
TRIAD- Australian Tour 2009.
April 23 - Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport TAS www.devonportgallery.com
April 24 - Inflight ARI, Hobart TAS www.inflightart.com.au
April 28 - Make It Up Club, Bar Open, Fitzroy, Melbourne, VIC www.makeitupclub.com.au
April 29 - Stutter, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne, VIC www.myspace.com/stuttermelb
May 1 - Sedition, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW Phone: (02) 93318832 Address: 275 Victoria St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
May 2 - Don't Look Gallery, Sydney, NSW www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery
May 4 - TURA New Music Festival, Perth, WA - TBC www.tura.com.au
May 7 - Ric's Bar, Brisbane, QLD - TBC www.ricsbar.com.au
May 9 - Overambition #4, Brisbane, QLD - TBC
May 10 - Sonic Boom #3, New Farm, Brisbane, QLD www.tomhall.com.au
This project is supported by Sound Travellers, an initiative from the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body.
. Okay that's it for now. Look after each other.
