EDACC Project, 2017. The Kiosk, Blue Mountains
A residency based on the theme of Energy, Data, Abstraction and Cognitive Capitalism (EDACC)- 6-week residency.
Jacqueline Drinkall, WeiZen Ho, Ian Milliss, Naomi Oliver, Rebecca Waterstone, and Gianni Wise.
Curatorial development through 3 sources of advice: Tony Bond (ex-head curator AGNSW) who shared skills in poetic and philosophical reflection and the failure of transcendentalism in art (e.g. Pollock and Anselm Kiefer), consciousness, cognition, memory, trauma and the real; Sabrina Roesner (Regional gallery exhibitions manager) focused on insights into the values of soft curating and as sounding board and assistant to artists; and Lizzy Marshall who advocated a harder curatorial formula.
The major work tiled Defenestration, in some sense, played with issues of data retention and increasing technologies of paranoia and fear. This work involved the staging of actually ramming of a tree through the window of the exhibition space, with a tree truck intersecting with tree base and root system inverted. Data cables are imagery props — making it something akin to “a precog log full of predictive knowledge about future eco-cides and climate deforestations. The log yields lumps of coal as well as internet cables, with coal ancient fossilised wood buried like dark sun and photosynthetic memories within the earth. Dead wood takes on a post-human re-evaluation similar to the way wood becomes a semi-precious substance within Bladerunner metaphysics.”
Exhibition residency catalogue
Interview on public digital service
Funded: NSW Government through Create NSW.
Defenestration, found logs and associated root systems, Steel wire cable, Ethernet cables, coal, mp3 looped audio played on portable device with headphones, 210 x 82 x 73cm
Gianni Wise, This is not that, that is not this, industrially engraved aluminium panel, 30cm x 30cm, 2016
a Gianni Wise, This bubbling passivity flows through that, image on photographic matte stock, 30cm x 30cm, 2017
Gianni Wise, Huile de Humain Brain Drain, plastic brains in sink, bathtub and toilet
Gianni Wise, plastic brains in sink, bathtub and toilet
Jacquelene Drinkall and Gianni Wise, Coal Stack, coal from Clarence Colliery, bathroom shelving, base of bathtub
Gianni Wise, Durisimo, framed work on paper, 29.5cm x 24.5cm, 2015
J. Drinkall, Lines of Light and Spheres of Data, oil on board, 21 x 27cm; Gianni Wise, array, blank books, DIMENSIONS, each, 2016
Naomi Oliver, ‘Feed-hand Pixel Drawing 1’ 2015, permanent marker on canvas, 25cm x 21 cm.
Digital radio recording. Interview with Drinkall, Milliss and Wise