there’s talk of some sort of publication coming from the event, keep an eye or ear out for more communication about it. and copies of the zine printed during the last night are also available – email us if you haven’t got one.

Friday 30th April, 2010, from 7 to 10pm

Serial Space

Recital, 15mins

Evgeny Ukhanov was born in the Ukraine in 1982 and from the age of 11 has given concerts, both solo and with orchestras in Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, France, England, Japan, Germany and the USA. In 1998 Evgeny came to Australia on a music scholarship.

Evgeny has played regularly with orchestras in Australia such as Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Sinfonia Orchestra, Sydney Youth Orchestra, SBS Orchestra and many others. He has also appeared several times on ABC television and ABC FM radio station, including “Rising Stars” programme in 2006 and 2008, on SBS television “Prodigy” in 2001, and 2MBS FM. Evgeny performs regularly in Cairns and annually at the Western Sydney Festival of Piano alongside other high-profile pianists such as Roger Woodward and Leslie Howard.

In 2001 he had an honor of being invited to play at the Governor’s Reception for Australia Day and perform a Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” with an orchestra. Evgeny played for the German Prime Minister in Magdeburg in 2002. In 2004 he performed at the Chinese Australian Forum with a special Guest of Honour, Leader of the Federal Opposition Kim Beasley, in 2005 for the Governor of Queensland – Her Excellency Quentin Bryce at the Parliament House in Brisbane, and recently for Her Excellency the Governor of NSW Professor Marie Bashir at Government House. He has also performed at numerous charity events including Red Cross International.

Evgeny has participated in several Festivals in Australia and abroad including Rachmaninov and Chopin festivals in Sydney. In 1999 he took part in a “Prom” Concert as part of the Festival of Sydney at Sydney Town Hall.

Evgeny has performed a lot of chamber works, and worked with some of the leading violinists and cellists in Sydney, such as Julian Smiles and Dene Olding, members of the Golden String Quartet. In 2003 he was an official accompanist for the “Master Performers of Australia” Competition in Sydney.

His last performance at the Sydney Opera House in 2005 was sold out and received great reviews.

Recently Evgeny has recorded chamber music for ABC Classic FM in Melbourne, and completed a series of recitals for the “Fireside Festival”, Canberra Region, and is planning to record CD of contemporary works.

Serial Space

Ongoing Exhibition, Wednesday 28th – Friday 30th April, 2010

‘Tracking Memory – Canoe Sheets #1 – 5’

Dimensions: 45 x 50 x 245

Materials: Muslin, ochre, volcanic soil, ash, banksia pods

The ‘Canoe Sheets’ are part of the series ‘Tracking Memory’ masters project based in the Tomaree National Park, Port Stephens, New South Wales in 2006. These works are of an ephemeral nature and were made with the same dimensions of the canoes of the Worimi people. Over the period of two years, I placed five sheets of canvas and over two hundred sheets of muslin into different places within the park that successfully recorded their evolution or deterioration, collected stains and residue over time. The absence of my interference created a significant shift in my practice. My powerlessness to control the outcome of the work was an important part of their evolvement.

The purpose of the project was an exploration into the possibility of a work of art as signifier of Place or Space via memory, becoming a reflection or residue of the landscape or the body’s direct response to landscape through the oscillation of marks and colours that formed naturally across the surfaces, becoming in themselves a kind of memory or trace of the cycles of nature. My experiments with works on muslin are, in part an unconscious exploration of movement of the body in space with an investigation of the physicality of the work and its organic nature. I set out to make a body of work that would draw attention to the actual surface of landscape and to create a sense of movement through it.

There’s a printable program of Serial Space events, and more detailed information here.

On Thursday night, we’re having a communal dinner for conference participants (it’ll be Indian vegetarian) in conjunction with the Diversity Dinner installation by Emma Konaris. This will take place prior to the evening’s events, from around 6pm.

Thursday, 29th April

6pm for 6.30pm start, vegetarian Indian buffet meal included with registration.

This sound installation is an extension of a performance that occurred at last year’s TINA festival. DIVERSITY DINNERS was launched last year as a continuous and ephemeral artwork that focused on the celebration, diversity, and ritual of sharing a meal. All attendees were required to bring a plate to share – the food that they brought had a special significance to them and their personal stories were recorded. The proceedings of the night were also recorded.

The purpose of recording this intimate event was to bring the Dinner back to life within a different space.

The installation of Diversity Dinners at Open Fields uses both sound and object.
The recording of the Dinner – music, the hum of chatter, eating, laughing – is played in the exhibition space where a table is set for a meal. The audience will also have the opportunity to listen to the personal stories through earphones, setting a more intimate atmosphere.

This is an experimental artwork, as it expands the boundaries of traditional art. This work is abstract, non-pretentious, and simply seeks new ways to activate thought on space, community, and food.

Installation

Emma Konnaris is a young artist operating out of a too-small studio. Her artmaking practise has been seduced by painting, installation and food. This affair will probably continue, much to her pleasure.

Serial Space Gallery, Chippendale

Exhibition

Shiga Plateau Olympics

The pasted-on breasts in Martha Rosler’s Body Beautiful or Beauty Knows No Pain series, 1966-1972 and a collage from Eduardo Paolozzi’s Psychological Atlas, 1949, which transforms, with great economy an elephant into a monster are works that make me feel that I am seeing. A common link in my reference projects is the experience of wonder which occurs in their encounter. Guy Sherwin’s Man Holding a Mirror, as performed in Melbourne in 2008; and spaces with internal spatial mystery are also in this category.

Shiga Plateau Olympics is a series of simple collages on a subject of obscure personal interest. It proved useful in isolating specific functional, transformative techniques of this medium.

Dianne Peacock is an architect based in Melbourne, where her Ph.D. entitled Spatial Mystery and Parallel Works is undertaken by project at RMIT. Her practice has produced exhibitions, installations and zines in addition to built and unbuilt work. She teaches architectural design studio and at RMIT developed Paper, Scissors, Blur, a course in collage and mixed media in architecture. In 2009 Dianne established Subplot, a Melbourne based architectural practice.

Thursday 29th April, 2010, 3.30-5.30pm

Bon Marche Studio (UTS Bldg. 3, Lvl. 1, Rm. 105)

Presentation, 20m.

Here I take a look at various episodes in the prose fiction of W. G. Sebald where prothesis and practice contribute to perspective. This is part of a broader philosophical argument about what determines a perspective, and how things relate. I make use of the metaphysics of A. N. Whitehead and his “second-coming” in the work of contemporary philosophers of science, and by those in the field of science studies (Bruno Latour, and Isabelle Stengers, most notably).

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Friday 30th April, 2010, 3.30-5.30pm

Bon Marche Studio (UTS Bldg. 3, Lvl. 1, Rm. 105)

Presentation, 20mins.

Roisin Murphy: A Preoccupation and Costume

This paper will explain the materialisation of fanatical feelings into a costume worn by the presenter in tribute to the pop-icon Roisin Murphy.

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Thursday 29th April, 2010

From 3.30 – 5.30pm

Bon Marche Studio (UTS, Bldg. 3, Lvl. 1, Rm. 105)

Performance: 30mins

Headwater is a live AV performance by The Field (Chris Caines, Shannon O’Neill & Jes Tyrrell). Building on the performance done as part of Liquid Architecture 09 and Memory Flows at CarriageWorks where The Field used material from Memory Flows artists (via the ABC Pool website) and custom generated sound and vision, the new work in development to be presented in progress at Open Fields will then be presented at the Armoury Olympic Park in mid May. The piece responds to the natural history of that location. Audio and video field recordings of the site and the Parramatta river environs and wider environmental sources combine to provide the source material for a live performance of the sound and image of the landscape itself.