12 February – 6 March 2010

FRONT GALLERY
Objecthood : Study B
Artist: Torie Nimmervoll

MIDDLE GALLERY
five, plus and minus
Artists: Natalie McQuade

SIDE GALLERY
In Conversation With
Artist: Alpha& Omega (Allison Juchnevicius and Katren Wood)

ARTIST FLOOR TALK
Saturday 13th February, 4pm

Torie Nimmervoll

Objecthood : Study B is Torie Nimmervoll’s second work in a series of three. Objecthood, the series, explores di erent household environments, and this exhibition focuses on objects located in the home. Prior to the exhibition Nimmervoll surveyed people about certain objects they possess in their home and of these objects the quantity and colour. Each grouping of objects presented in the space at Kings ARI represent an individual’s survey result. This exhibition presents representational objects of uniform nish, and includes items such as a table cloth, a matchbox, a polaroid photograph, passport, a party hat, soap, a chessboard, a knitting needle, a guitar pick, a handkerchief, butter, birthday candles, books including Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, and albums such as Back in Black by AC/DC.

Download Helen Walters essay The illusion of control: Torie Nimmervoll’s Objecthood.

Bio

Torie Nimmervoll’s work is concept based and explores the physical and poetic experience of space. Her practice covers multiple mediums including drawing, sculpture, installation, durational process and performance. Working as an industry artist making props and sets informs and extends the materials and techniques used in her art practice.

Natalie McQuade

Natalie McQuade continues her interest in questions of perception in five, plus and minus.

This audio-visual installation premieres her use of dummy-head sound, where sounds recorded or fed through a dummy head and then played back via ear-phones, may be perceived outside a person’s head space. Both spatial and temporal sensations come into play through the absence of bodily reception.

McQuade’s work intersects sculpture, sound and installation in a site-responsive, site- inspired practice. She explores the possibilities for deconstructing sensory phenomena – suspending the audience experience on the cusps between sensory engagement and cognitive perception, recognition and unfamiliarity, knowing and not knowing.

Bio

Natalie McQuade Graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT University in 2008 and has since exhibited in both solo and group shows. She was awarded a Support Stipend by Can Serrat International Artist Centre in Spain, where she will be undertaking a residency in 2010.

Alpha & Omega
(Alison Juchnevicius and Katren Wood)

In Conversation With presents to us an adaptation of James Whale’s lm Frankenstein (1931) by collaborative interdisciplinary duo Alpha & Omega: Allison Juchnevicius and Katren Wood.

“He’s just resting, waiting for a new life to come” – Henry Frankenstein

Nothing that disappears ceases to exist;

Nothing is born from nothing;

The sum total of all things was always such as it is now, and such as it will ever remain;

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be adapted, transformed and converted into another form of being.

In this exhibition, two collections of facing surround sound speakers play alternate audio loops created through the compression and deconstruction of the original Frankenstein soundtrack.

Dr. Michael Vale’s essay on Alpha & Omega’s work is available for download here

Bio

Allison Juchnevicius and Katren Wood who, since meeting at art school two years ago, have worked together adapting found texts to explore the process of communication and the instability of interpretation. In 2008, both participated in international exchange programs, with Katren going to the Monash Prato Centre in Italy, and Allison to the Glasgow School of Art, UK. Both graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009.