Erskineville Stories / Star Viewing / Weed Experiments
Three projects currently in Sydney:
Annie Kennedy from Erskineville has made a documentary about people and life in her own suburb. It will be shown in a park in Erskineville. The screening event itself is just as much a part of the artwork as the contents of the film.
Kirsten Bradley from Cicada is doing a beautiful experiment with cardboard and open space called About, Above:
Three cardboard planetariums, installed throughout the Sydney CBD. You are welcome to duck inside, and to stand for a moment (or as long as you like) inside a solar-powered simulation of the night sky.
These cardboard universes, created with pinholes, contain a starchart accurate to 12 Midnight on Friday 22nd Feb, 2008. A solar-powered simulation of what is hidden, about and above, on a nightly basis…
Read more about her project here.
Nobody, the Sydney artist crazy about weeds, has extended his practice in a more controlled direction. His latest project at First Draft sounds like it could be a conceptual artwork from the early 1970s - set up a fixed-boundary situation and see what might happen:
1. A planter was filled with sterile potting mix and left in the garden for 4 months, allowing environmental seeds to colonize it.
2. A cabinet got filled with dirt from the garden itself and left to develop for 3 months, the species sprouting are the one present in the soil already.
Read more here.
