CULTURE KITCHEN (WITH GEMBEL & TARING PADI)
RECOVERING LIVES ACROSS BORDERS
Recovering Lives Across Borders 2008
Lino Print on paper, 320cm x 200cm
Courtesy the artists
ALEX MARTINIS ROE
UP AND DOWN
Up and Down 2006
Video projection w/viewing ladder, Variable dimensions
Courtesy the artist
CHEN QUILIN
COLOUR LINES
Color lines 2006
Single channel video: DVD, PAL, 8.08mins, color, sound
Courtesy the artist and Long March Space, Beijing
YANG SHAOBIN
800 METRES UNDER: ABOVEGROUND / UNDERGROUND 2006
Two channel video: DVD, PAL, 7:29mins, color, sound/DVD, PAL, 7:10mins, color, sound
Courtesy the artist and Long March Space, Beijing
JIANG ZHI
THINGS WOULD TURN NAILS ONCE THEY HAPPENED
Things would turn nails once they happened 2008
Single channel video: DVD, PAL, 74mins, colour, sound
Courtesy the artist and Long March Space, Beijing
FREEDOM BURMESE ARTISTS
FREEDOM & FLOATING LIVES OF VOICELESS
Freedom & Floating Lives of Voiceless 2008
Mixed Media, Variable Dimensions
Courtesy of Freedom Burmese Artists
RICHARD BELL
SCRATCH AN AUSSIE, 2008
DVD: Duration 10:00 mins
Director and Editor: Suzanne Howard
Camera: Mark Broadbent
Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
PVI COLLECTIVE
RESIST
Resist, October 2006
Video diptych, Life-size dual video projection, 1 metre white shelf
Commissioned and exhibited by the South Project's 'Transversa' exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Arts Santiago, Chile 2006
HELEN JOHNSON & CHRISTIAN THOMPSON
Detail of image by Moses Gibson
MHUL workshop Outcome, 2007
Mixed media (detail)
Curatorial Statement
Collective Conscience considers the recent shift in contemporary artistic practice away from individual experience towards inter-personal activity and social exchange. The artists in Collective Conscience represent, to varying degrees a re-humanising of artistic practices via an emphasis on participation, dialogue and collaboration. Through a variety of perspectives, approaches and forms, Collective Conscience explores issues of human rights, and the power of collective action.
Arts Co-ordinator / Curator: Romy Sedman
Arts co-curator Andrea Bell
Art & Exhibition Details
The Carlton Studios (upstairs)
193 Bourke St
Melbourne, 3000
12 - 30 November, 2008
Hours: Wed to Sat 12 - 9pm, Sunday 12 - 6pm
Exhibition opening night
Wednesday 12th November,
6pm - 9pm
Speaker: Magdalena Moreno, Director, The South Project.
Patrons
Bryony Nainby - Senior Curator, LaTrobe Regional Gallery. Speaking Melbourne Festival opening night
Magdalena Moreno - Director, The South Project
Artist Talk
2:00-3:30pm Sunday 23 November, 2008. Carlton Studios.
Industry Speaker: Bryony Nainby - Senior Curator, LaTrobe Regional Gallery.
Credits
Participating Artists:
- Alex Martinis Roe, (Australia)
- Culture Kitchen, (Australia), Taring Padi, (Indonesia), Gembel (East Timor)
- Fiona Jack, (New Zealand)
- Freedom Burmese Artists, (Burma)
- MHUL Conversation Program, Christian Thompson, Helen Johnson (Australia)
- Panther, (Australia)
- PVI Collective, (Australia)
- Richard Bell, (Australia)
- The Long March Project: Chen Qiulin, Yang Shaobin, Jiang Zhi (China)
Contributing Writers:
- Anthony Gardner
- Veronica Tello
- Maris Beck
Arts Catalogue Design:
Michael Pham
Arts Volunteers Coordinator:
Nuala Bethell
Feature Image for the Exhibition is:
JIANG Zhi
Things would turn nails once they happened 2008
Photograph, Lightbox
150cm x 200cm
Courtesy of the artist and Long March Space, Beijing