ARCHIVED EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

2008


	Untitled 2007 Elizabeth Newman Rubber, dimensions variable Photo: John Brash Courtesy the artist and Neon Parc

THE UNPRECEDENTED DARK LIGHT OF THE NEW LETTERS

Elizabeth Newman

1 - 30 March, 2008

2007


	Mount Marie Jeanne Hoffner Cut plasterboard, plywood sheeting over timber, fluorescent light, adhesive, filler, paint, screws and Minor Works Notification.

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

Marie Jeanne Hoffner, Christine Morrow, James Newitt

February 10 - March 4, 2007

A room with a view, is a collaborative installation by Marie-Jeanne Hoffner (Fr) Christine Morrow (Melb) and James Newitt (Tas). Brought together through their interest in ephemeral site-specific installations this exhibition highlights the city as living sculpture.


	etal. the second of the ordinary practices (installation view) 2006 Institute of Modern Art, Queensland Photo: Richard Stringer

MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL SOLIDARITY

etal.

22 March - 8 April 2007

"Taking a scientistic view, the New Zealand based group etal. are interested in discovering the principles underlying human ritual, just as scientists three centuries or so ago were interested in discovering the source of the rainbow."

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	Image: Marcus Tatton Eucalyptus Amphora Roughed at Bush Camp in South West Tasmania 1995 Courtesy the artist

NOURISH

Futago, Belinda Holloway, Fiona Lee,
Nataša Milenovic, Linda van Niekerk, Anna Phillips, Tricia Swanton, Marcus Tatton,
Toni ten Bensel, Andy Vagg & John Vella

Curator: Zara Stanhope

April 21– May 12, 2007

As part of CAST’s commitment to the inclusion of contemporary craft and design in its exhibitions and events programs, NOURISH sets out to provide information on the breadth of design across the state and considers work by practitioners who are dedicated to working in environmentally friendly ways. In the spirit of the provision of nourishment, the published guide to arts workers and the exhibition that comprise NOURISH will both support and encourage sustainable craft and design and foster a dialogue for future projects and conversations.


	Simon Horsburgh Borrowed Light 2004 Found ocean-worn light globe, acrylic, flourescent light image courtesy of the artist

ROOM

Kathryn Faludi-Ball (TAS), Matt Warren (TAS)
Kylie Stillman (NSW), Catriona Stanton (NT)
Katrina Simmons (SA), Stephen Garrett (VIC)
and Simon Horsburgh (VIC)

Curator: Derek Hart (UK/TAS)

May 26 - June 17, 2007

"From cellar to garret she's swept all clean, and now from the window she's peeping, I ween."

from Fitcher's Bird by the Brothers Grimm

Room parallels the architectural features of the gallery with the interior space of the imagination. Evoking domestic space through the essential features of a room – floor, wall, window etc – the curator, Derek Hart has brought together 7 artists from 5 Australian States (under the auspices of CAST’s Exhibition Development Fund) whose work renders such familiar associations uncanny.


	Andrew Harper A Thousand Pardons still from video courstesy the artist

3 INTO 1

Andrew Harper
Caz Rodwell
Andy Wear

30 June - 22 July , 2007

CAST’s annual three-into-one format is one in which the gallery is divided into three discrete exhibition spaces to allow three emerging artists a chance to present a solo exhibition.

Although independent from one another, the three artist’s work are chosen carefully, giving consideration to complementary themes.

This years’ group consists of artists wryly exploring big, dark concepts.


	Image: Lycette Bros The Modern Compendium of Miniature Automata 2003 Animation detail

INFINITE EMPIRE

Sonia Heap, Lycette Bros.
Aurelien Police, Madeleine Rosca
James Vaughan, Julia de Ville
and Jon Williamson

Curated by Carole Hammond
under the CAST Curatorial Mentorship Program

July 28 - August 26, 2007

Infinite Empire is an exhibition of recent works by artists who inhabit a world of steampunk. Combining variations on futuristic, mechanical and constructivist aesthetics with the loose eclecticism of the Victorian style, the works occupy a zone that is apart from 'official' contemporary art production.


	Samantha Clark Cloud Chamber 2005 Dacron stuffing and nylon thread Installation view from IAAB Basel Photo courtesy the artist

THE SUBTLE ETHER

Samantha Clark

September 8 - 30, 2007

The Subtle Ether was not directly observed by the Enlightenment scientists who described it so eloquently. It was deduced to exist, invented really, because it was needed to explain other observable phenomena. It was presumed to be so fine a substance as to pass undetected through the molecules of entire planets like a breeze through a forest, and yet glutinous enough to plug the gaps in our understanding of physical reality.

This exhibition will bring together a series of video, installation and graphic works by Scottish artist Sam Clark, which explore the fertile gap between things, and the meanings we project into that space.


	David Hawley Irregularity 2007 Screenprint on Mylar

SOMETHING ELSE

new work by David Hawley

October 13 - November 4, 2007

For this exhibition Hawley is developing new large-scale abstract
silk-screen paintings, initiated from collaborations with the photocopier.

The shimmering optical images that form from this process are a by-product of the layering of spontaneous mechanical traces.


	Lucia Usmiani Come on baby 2006 Matchsticks From the CAST Members Exhibition 2006 Photo: Jan Dallas

2007 CAST Members Exhibition

December 1 - 24, 2007

CAST is a membership based organization and as such enjoys the broad support of the Tasmanian arts community. The Members Exhibition allows us to acknowledge this by inviting all members to submit a small work in any medium or subject matter. It gives us an opportunity to see a large range of work and a chance to appreciate the depth of artistic pursuits in the local community.

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2006


	June Bum Park I Parking, 2002 Still from video image courtesy of the artist

EXPERIMENTA
VANISHING POINT

Ji-Hoon Byan (Korea), Daniel Crooks (Aust), Shelley Eshkar & Paul Kaiser (USA), Julie C. Fortier (France), William Kentridge (South Africa), David MacLeod & Narinda Reeders (Aust), June Bum Park (Korea), Lee Se-Jung (Korea), Momoyo Torimitsu (Japan), Boyd Webb & Philip Haas (NZ) and William Wegman (USA)

Curators: Liz Hughes and Emma McRae

28 January - 26 February 2006

Experimenta Vanishing Point brings to Tasmania a new media take on the familiar themes of illusion, virtual reality and pataphysics. It transforms the familiar reality of our everyday environment to reveal the hidden mysteries, the forgotten realm of the imagination, and opens up a space in which one may discover the extraordinary within the ordinary fabric of our world.

Click here for more information


	Lauren Olney from www.beautifulagony.com image courtesy of the artist

CORRUPTING YOUTH

Melanie Breen, Annika Koops, Tom O’Hern,
Lauren Olney and Jane Tyler

Curator: Tristan Stowards,
under the 2005 CAST Emerging Curator Program

March 4 - April 2, 2006

CAST’s annual Emerging Curator exhibition will this year focus on the psychological ambivalence provoked by the disturbingly beautiful. Such a disconcerting aesthetic points to a yet to be rationalised psychic underbelly lying at its core – a loss of social and sexual innocence.


	Tara Badcock Tea Cosies 2005 Performed here by Tasmanian artists Tara Badcock and Julia Adzuki in their performance piece Iced Teaparty at the Ice Hotel, Jukkasjarvi, Northern Sweden, 11 December 2005.

making relations

Di Allison, Tara Badcock, Mark Bishop, Rebecca Coote, Pippa Dickson, James Dodson, Linda Fredhiem, Lola Greeno, Patrick Hall, Sieglinde Karl, Megan Keating, Sachiko Mardon, Belinda Marquis, Penny Malone, Petra Meer, Kevin Perkins, Peter Prasil, Ben Richardson, Denise Ava Robinson, Richard Skinner, Rynne Tanton and Shaz Williams

Curator: Suzie Attiwill

April 22 – May 21, 2006

making relations is a collection of design and craft objects encountered by the curator on her travels in Tasmania. Arranged within the gallery space like a cabinet of curiosities, the viewer is invited to come up close and wonder at the making of relations and relations of making. The exhibition is the first of two which have received funding from Arts Tasmania to support CAST exhibitions of craft and design with the aim of contributing to and stimulating conversations concerning craft and design practice in Tasmania.


	Derek Hart In the right place atthe right time 1997 still from video image courtesy of the artist

CONTINGENCY PLAN

Jordan Baseman, Mutlu Çerkez,
Marco Fusinato, Derek Hart, David Hawley

Curator: Philip Watkins

May 27 - June 25, 2006

The artists in Contingency Plan pit the rational structures of measured time (the calendar and history) against the unrepeatable contingencies that unfold within it. Recorded time - in works of video, photography and painting - correlate with the mechanical regulation of it. Its measurement becomes synchronized with the ubiquitous digital and photographic technologies that locate a person in space and time more objectively, in real-time, as never before.


	Scientific diagram of electron flow as current passes through metal.

CONDUCT

Ben Booth and Trudi Brinkman

July 1 - 30, 2006

Conduct is a collaborative installation work, constructing an environment within the gallery that exposes the workings of various energy transfer systems existing in the natural and urban environments of Tasmania. It offers a sensory experience that explores the harnessing and transfer of energy sources.

	3 INTO 1
August 5 – September 3, 2006

CAST’s annual three into one format is one in which the gallery is divided into three discrete exhibition spaces in order to give three emerging artists the chance to develop a small solo exhibition. Although independent from one another the three artist’s work are chosen carefully, giving consideration to thematic links. This years’ will focus on less picturesque observations of the Tasmanian landscape.


	Damien Baumgartner Untitled#5 2005 Oil on canvas image courtesy of the artist

ROAD RIVER ZONE AFTERMATHS Damien Baumgartner


	Marcus Tatton Clearfellsacpe 1 2006 Digital photgraph image courtesy of the artist

THE WREAKAGE PRINCIPLE Marcus Tatton


	John Voss Meadstone Falls 2005 Digital print image courtesy of the artist

THE ANTI-SUBLIME: WILDERNESS, PORTRAITURE AND THE GROTESQUE J.J. Voss


	Beatrix Bae Bouwman It's All Just A Set Up 2006 mixed media image: Jan Dallas

Peripheral Village

Ruth Bennetto, Beatrix Bae Bouwman, Meg Cowell, Jessica Davidson, Aaron Horsley, Sarah Jones, Fiona Richardson, Jack Robins, Amanda Shone, Fred Showell, Carolyn Wigston

September 16 - October 15, 2006

	Moving in a space that is somewhere between ghetto and the real world, the student artist creates in a bubble, sheltered from the outside by the safety net of the institution. Building upon the base of theory taught in these institutions, the 'pre-emerging' artist is faced with the dilemma of where their work fits in relation to an historical notion of art making, while also considering how it becomes the art of the future. As disparate art forms merge, established structures shift in a constant flux and form new spaces in which to create. Questions arise as to what has come before, the world in which we live and the technologies we have at our disposal.


	Fred Fisher Coil, 2006 MDF and acrylic 204 x 32cm

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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

September 1 - November 26, 2006

	Matt Calvert, Amanda Davies, Fred Fisher, Lisa Garland, David Martin, Petra Meer, Mish Meijers, Michael Muruste, Denise Ava Robinson and Catherine Woo Co-curated by Craig Judd and Michael Edwards, this partnership project is intended to leverage opportunities for Tasmanian artists to present contemporary works in the State's premier arts institution.


	Adam Cuthbert Warporn (detail) 2006 Inkjet print on archival paper image courtesy of the artist

WARPORN

October 28 - November 26, 2006

Adam Cuthbert

Adam Cuthbert will present digital prints and videos of constructed dioramas that depict contemporary and historical battle scenes. Meticulously assembled, using plasticine, moss, miniature trees and plants, the destruction of these scenes through a process of ‘dirt bombing’ make up the mise en scene for the work. Such childish endeavours serve as a platform for a critique of the violence and hysteria present in our contemporary age of terror.


	Yvette Watt Study for 'Domestic Animals' series # 6 2006 Inkjet print, ink, watercolour and pencil on Arches paper From the 2006 CAST Members Exhibition
	image: Courtesy the artist

2006 CAST Members Exhibition

December 2 - 22, 2006

2005


all images: Peter Whyte	Hermie Cornelisse Buffer Zone: interactive layer between form and space (detail) 2005 Tracing paper	Mish Meijers the tending of inanimate objects (installation detail) 2005 Mixed media on wall and inkjet prints on foamcore	Amanda Davies sick (detail) 2005 Enamel on plastic

3 INTO 1

Hermie Cornelisse, Amanda Davies, Mish Meijers

February 5 - March 6, 2005

Solo exhibitions by Hermie Cornelisse (LOOP), Amanda Davies (sick) and Mish Meijers (the tending of inanimate objects) that explore aspects of the domestic.

Cornelisse exhibits ceramics that create riddles between function, form and pattern. Davies presents large-scale paintings on plastic that depict the domestic environments she inhabits. Meijers explores the anthropomorphic identification that develops with objects in the home environment.


	Kristian Haggblom View (Mt. Fuji) 2004 image: courtesy of the artist

Paper Bridges

Takahiro Ando (Jap), Merric Brettle (Aus), Warren Fithie (Aus), Tomoki Imai (Jap), Tsuneyoshi Nobata (Jap) and Kristian Haggblom (Aus).

March 11 - April 10, 2005

This is an exhibition of recent works by Japanese and Australian artists. Paper Bridges - A conference of folding spaces addresses themes relating to the shaping of the Asia Pacific region. The subtitle of this project - a conference of folding spaces, metaphorically refers to origami, the art or process of folding paper into new representational shapes and forms.

This exhibition will coincide with the 10 Days on the Island festival.
Paper Bridges is supported by the Nomura Cultural Foundation.

Enquiries regarding the Nomura Foundation can be directed to Ms. Minamiyama at
po-ncf@ninus.ocn.ne.jp or see http://www.nomuraholdings.com/jp/bunka-zaidan/


	Joybelle Frasson The Enchanted Blossom Bower (detail) 2005 Mixed media image: courtesy of the artist

Acidophilus:
live culture colonised at the TMAG

Trudi Brinkman, Joybelle Frasson, Fiona Lee, Kevin Leong, Anne Mestitz, Brigita Ozolins

Curator: John Vella

March 18 – May 1, 2005

This is an off-site project developed by CAST in partnership with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) and Ten Days on the Island for presentation at the TMAG as part of the Ten Days on the Island festival. Six Tasmanian artists have been commissioned to produce new works in response to selected objects from the TMAG’s C20th collection. Acidophilus provides living artists with an opportunity to create a dialogue with collections that reach across history, across intellectual disciplines and across architecture.


	Yasmin Holm The year so far 2003 Still from video image: courtesy of the artist

Surface

Andrew Harper, Kevin Leong, Emile Zile, Yasmin Holm,
Nancy Mauro-Flude and Matt Warren

Curator: Scot Cotterell, under the 2005 CAST Emerging Curator Program

April 16 - May 15, 2005

The CAST Emerging Curator Program is a professional development opportunity for an aspiring Tasmanian curator to develop their skills under the guidance and mentorship of CAST.

The 2005 exhibition will be screen-based, with a range of work deliberately chosen to reflect the ubiquity of such media in our lives, producing a cross-fertilizing network of styles and functions.


	Ian Haig Human Aquatic Breeding Centre 2003 Mixed media and website image: Peter Robinson

Bimbo Laboratory

Ian Haig

May 28 - June 26, 2005

Bimbo Laboratory explores the theme of sex and technology, and is made up of three works which aim to critique notions of the human body, technology and human evolution.


	Foreground: Anne Mestitz Heresay (detail) 2005 Aluminium cable, paint, car detailing tape Background: Conductor Audio / Video drawing performance. CAST Gallery, 1 July 2005 2005 Graphite, paper, sound, video projection image: Peter Robinson

Vehicle

Curator: Felix Ratcliff

July 2 – July 31, 2005

	Vehicle will map the diversity in contemporary art practice which aligns with historical understandings of ‘drawing’, i.e. artworks developed using either ‘direct’ means and a reliance on material properties, or artworks which reference traditional drawing technologies.


	Simon Cuthbert Downtown Houston from Fannin and Francis 2004 type C print image: courtesy of the artist

Downtown

Simon Cuthbert

August 13 - September 11, 2005

	A solo exhibition of photo-media work by prominent Tasmanian artist, Simon Cuthbert, exploring issues relating to the ‘city’ and cultural authenticity.


		John Vella Studio Wall (works not in public or private collections) (installation view) 1999 - 2005 Mixed Media image: Peter Robinson
LETITIA STREET STUDIOS Plimsoll Gallery Tasmanian School of Art August 20 – September 11, 2005
	This exhibition is an offsite project, developed in partnership with the Plimsoll Gallery (Tasmanian School of Art) and celebrating the achievements of 28 artists who were associated with the now disbanded Letitia Street Studios (1998-2004) in North Hobart.


	Laresa Kosloff Deep & Shallow 2004 Still from video image: courtesy of the artist

Fellow Anthropoid

September 17 - October 16, 2005

Mira Gojak, Laresa Kosloff, Belinda Marquis,
Peter Prasil and Tristan Stowards

Curator: Philip Watkins

Ranging from video to furniture design, the artists in Fellow Anthropoid manipulate inter-personal space. Exploiting the human tendency to anthropomorphise and give personal traits to the inanimate, this selection of works lends a contextual layering to our perception of identity.


	Axiom Ex 1, 2005 Blackheart sassafrass veneer, stainless stee image: Peter Robinson

Home Again

an exhibition of Tasmanian craft and design

Curator: Peter Hughes

Artists:
Evan Adams, Axiom, Peter Battaglene, Lisa Boyter,
Hermie Cornelisse, Stuart Houghton, Till Julien,
Penny Malone, Brendan Sharpe, Richard Skinner

October 22 - November 20, 2005

For this exhibition, Peter Hughes will present a diverse range of contemporary Tasmanian craft and design, which all have function as an important consideration in the conception, design and making of the work.

To download the curators essay, click here.


	Tristan Stowards Waste Oil 2005 Steel. wire, gravel, plastic image: Peter Robinson

2005 CAST Members Exhibition

December 3 - 23, 2005

Work by:
Judith Abell . Anna Adams . Ali Aedy . Dianne Allison . James Barker
Allison Bender . Christl Berg . Eve Beecroft . Alicja Boyd . Penny Burnett Claire Chatfield . Dean Chatwin . E.M. Christensen . Hermie Cornellisse
Scot Cotterell . Christopher Cowles . Joel Crosswell . Raymond Dean
Helena Demczuk . Susan Dickson . Noel Doepel . Tom. S. Egg
Duncan Ewington . Linda Fredheim . Maz Gill-Harper . Carol Glass
Belinda Holloway . Peter Hughes . Patrick Hall . Neil Haddon . Derek Hart
Ada Henskens. John Ingleton . Sarah Jones . Andrea Jane Jordan
Belinda Justo . Di Klaosen . Georgie Lee . Meg Leg . Anne MacDonald
Jules McCue . Di McPherson . Carey Merton . Anne Mestitz . Milan Milojevic Aldona Nunez . Dawn Oakford . Hilton Owen . Brigita Ozolins . Geoff Parr
Mary Pridmore . Grietje van Randen . Diana Reale . Ruth Rees
Fiona Richardson . Indigo-Khai Rivers . Cath Robinson . Peter Angus Robinson
Denise Ava Robinson . John Robinson . Nicole Robson . Caz Rodwell
Luisa Romeo . Eleanor Ruddle . Michael Schlitz . Mohd Fauzi Sedon
Margaret Skowronski . Ron Spiers . Desmond Smith . Tristan Stowards
Catherine Stringer . Tricia Swanton . Marcus Tatton . Lillian Taylor
Bec Tudor . Elizabeth Turnbull . Suzi Tyson. Jane Tyler . Lucia Usmiani
John Vella . David Walker . Yvette Watt . Deane Williams . Emily Windon . Dianne Woods . Loris Yaxley

Representing emerging artists as well as some of the State’s more established practitioners, works ranging from hand-made paper to video (and everything in between) will be on show. This year’s exhibition contains over 80 entries, so come and enjoy an extensive range of work and a chance to appreciate the breadth of creative pursuits from artists across Tasmania.

2004

Christl Berg
finds (detail) 2003

Rosemary O'Rourke
Phials for Bernadette (detail) 2002

Ron Spiers
Square 2001

3 INTO 1

	Artists:	Christl Berg, Rosemary O'Rourke, Ron Spiers
		February 7 - 29, 2004

For this exhibition the CAST Gallery was divided into three separate exhibition spaces featuring the work of Tasmanian artists Christl Berg (finds), Rosemary O’Rourke (Objects of Vertu) and Ron Spiers (Shadow Boxing).

Christl Berg uses photography as a means of interpreting her experience of being in the land. The exhibition finds comprises a collection of 180 photographs of objects found on the ground at Maria Island and accompanying text. Berg proposes that the grouping of these fragments suggest the whole, and in this exhibition she refers specifically to Maria Island.

Rosemary O’Rourke presents a suite of artworks that employ materials such as thread, fabric, glass beads and salt. Objects of Vertu, is a term used to describe a wide variety of ornamental objects, often collectors’ items or museum pieces, which are considered of value due to the virtuosity of the way in which they have been crafted. The term also offers a play on words, suggesting the idea that the objects themselves might be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ or pertain to virtue.

Shadow Boxing is an exhibition of wall-based, low relief sculptures by Ron Spiers. Spiers is surrounded by an enormous quantity of art on a daily basis. He is the preferred handler of artworks in Tasmania by Australia’s major art institutions. The ‘hands-on’ and obsessively technical nature of his profession acts as a backdrop to his art practice. His wall-based sculptures are also informed by his interest in geometry and numbers, and in this exhibition, specifically to the concept of the Golden Mean.

Ancher, Ball,
Reinmuth Blythe
Balmforth Terroir
Sheddings #1 and 2 2003

SHAREDRENOVATION

	Artists:	Simon Ancher, Jessica Ball, Reinmuth Blythe Balmforth Terroir
		March 6 - 28, 2004

SHAREDRENOVATION is a collaborative project between an architectural firm (Terroir), a furniture designer (Simon Ancher) and an artist (Jessica Ball). Together they explore the built form of the pre-fabricated shed, unpacking its basic elements to offer up an alternative series of structures that raise questions about pre-packaged ‘off the shelf’ design and contemporary urban and suburban architecture.

The shed has a special place in Australian culture. It is significant as a readily accessible destination for retreat and reflection, imagination and invention. The shed is a space for private thinking; a place out-back-of everyday worries, a space beyond the world.

In the past, the built form of the shed was as individual, as idiosyncratic, as the life it contained. Today, the shed is most often purchased ‘off the shelf’ and ready to assemble. Designed predominately for cost-effectiveness, it comes delivered to the back yard pre-fabricated, pre-painted and pre-imagined.

SHAREDRENOVATION is presented at the CAST Gallery during the 2004 Tasmanian Young Designers Month.

Lucia Usmiani
Something Fishy 2003 (detail)

GROUP MATERIAL

The Queen's Warehouse Gallery
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

	Artists:	Ben Booth, Neil Haddon, Anthony Johnson, Anna Phillipd, Lucia Usmiani & Kit Wise
		March 18 - May 2, 2004

In Group Material, CAST presents the works of six contemporary artists who all utilise mundane objects or familiar substances in their art-making practices. They draw on a long legacy of art derived from the stuff of everyday life.

The origins of the strategy of ‘cutting’ from life and ‘pasting’ into art is traceable to particular scandalous moments of early twentieth century art; the beginnings of what has now come to be known as appropriation art. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Georges Braque (1882–1963) augmented their cubist paintings with collaged fragments, grafting snippets of printed cloth and patches of printed text onto their canvases. Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) presented familiar objects - he called them ‘readymades’ - in galleries, such as his infamous Fountain, a white vitreous urinal. The Surrealists browsed Parisian flea markets, selecting the city’s cast-off objects as revelatory symbols of their own passions and desires.

These early exemplars of appropriation played with fusing together different levels of reality: they posed questions about the relationship between painted illusion and reality, and about the distinction between categories of ‘low’ and ‘high’ culture; they cast doubt onto the very notions of artistic originality and creative invention. In particular, they began a dialogue between the art world and the emerging consumer culture.

Decade by decade, successive generations of artists have engaged with appropriation strategies, assaulting and reinventing the traditional premises of art making in the face of ever-increasing mass production and consumerism. The Pop artists of the sixties and seventies made deadpan pictures that mimicked advertising. The junk sculpture of the same period mimed the life and language of the street. In turn, these works, which aped the strategies of advertising and ‘display’, became the iconic masterpieces of their time. Similarly, the Minimalist art of the late twentieth century no longer stood apart – on a plinth – like previous sculpture, but was repositioned amongst objects and redefined as part and parcel of real places.

Appropriation art has become something of an institution, not because today’s artists are merely repeating the moves of last century, but because they are still engaged with abiding questions about the logic of art making in a highly industrialized, consumerist society.

Experimenta House of Tomorrow

	Artists:	Sally Blenheim, Marco Bresciani + Sam De Silva, Marcus Lyall, Scott Snibbe, Elizabeth Vander Zaag.
	Curators:	Liz Hughes, Shiralee Saul, Helen Stuckey (Experimenta, Melbourne)
		April 8 - May 2, 2004

“EXPERIMENTA HOUSE OF TOMORROW is the ultimate futuristic domestic fantasy – a ground breaking interactive media arts exhibition featuring a mind-boggling array of must-have ‘inventions’ for the house of the future. This is art you can touch, stroke, dance on, play with, ride on and circumnavigate. Art like you've never seen it before.

Inspired by domestic fantasies explored in The Jetsons and the high-tech ‘smart house’ of the 60s devised by electronics companies, Experimenta House of Tomorrow is the first major exhibition to bring together visions of the future home as seen through the eyes of digital media artists, filmmakers, architects, scientists and designers.

The project is the largest media art exhibition to ever tour Australia. The