Soft City / Lines of Flight / In a Cheap Excercise Book

19 May 09 – 5 Jun 09

Lines Of Flight – Nina Knezevic

The Deleuzian term lines of flight is part of a vocabulary dedicated to emphasising how things connect rather than how they ‘are’, actions and tendencies that could evolve in creative mutations rather than a ‘reality’ that is an inversion of the past. Since 2002, I’ve repeatedly immigrated between three cities (Belgrade, Wellington and Sydney) and progressively compiled a fascicular autobiographical archive (containing elements like familial photographs, correspondence, travel memorabilia etc). I use site-specificity of each city and the elements of the archive as key mnemonic, experiential sources. I seek to connect the process of making art to the temporality of lived experience.

Lines of flight, presented at Bus Gallery, is a body of work created exclusively while living in Belgrade for six months in 2008.

Soft City – Llawella Lewis

Ecology is the study of the ways in which communities of living organisms interact with on another and with their non-living environment.

Soft City is an installation of an illuminated city, reminiscent of an alien landscape. It comprises many building-like structures ranging from one to two and a half metres in height. Each building is individually lit from within, emanating a warm glow. This internal source of energy pulses slowly, as if to imply the city is a living ecosystem or entity.

In a Cheap Exercise Book – Fernando Ariel Gallardo & Duncan McBride

In a Cheap Excercise Book is a series of pop songs performed as a music/performance art event. The songs performed highlight the writings from a series of exercise books that document the beginning and decline of romantic relationships. The writing ranges from short pieces of poetry, song lyrics and anecdotes. The instruments used are non-traditional and vary from vintage Casio’s to glockespiel and from wines glasses to bubble wrap. Even the sound of Tupperware, plastic buckets and disbanded Ikea furniture are put to use. The music will range From 80’s Prince-Style Funk to a cabaret blues using a Melodica. The work does not ignore any musical genre in order to communicate the journey of the relationship but remains experimental in how it conveys text, voice and sound through genre.