3 – 25 September 2010

FRONT GALLERY
Point Now
Now (Sally Tape and Candice Cramner)

MIDDLE GALLERY
Tender Clay
Anna John with FLAG

SIDE GALLERY
A Mime Routine of A Horny Octopus
Making Soup on A Jumping Castle
Timothy P Kerr

ARTIST FLOOR TALK
Dates TBC.

Sally Tape & Candice Cranmer

Now begins Sally Tape Now Point Now Candice Cranmer End.

An installation considering the nature of a collaborative unit Now (pseudonym for artists) and the type of time that pertains to the present Point (exhibition title).

Anna John with FLAG

Tender Clay is a re-staging of an exercise that took place at the Yvonne and Arthur Boyd Trust at Bundanon, under the guidance of myself and the Future Local Association Group (FLAG). The task presented at Kings is an extension of a particular aspect of my sculptural work of the recent past exploring the potential themes of art capital and production in the contemporary context. The small clay ‘chips’ – as they have come to be known – were initially inspired by physical representations of tender. As we sit in the space and turn clay into smaller, non-representational, gestural pieces of clay, the artists and audience might both have the opportunity to reflect on what art making really is, where it leads to, art capital and its relationship to other areas of social context etc. In the spirit of FLAG we have distributed letters to many members of the Melbourne creative community in the hopes that they will join us in work and conversation. However it should be noted: if one enters the gallery and wants to participate, they can.

Bios

FLAG was initiated by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Jess Olivieri and Kenzie Larsen in 2009 with the intention to build both a stronger sense of community and a more robust culture of critical dialogue within this community – through a series of events and projects. The first major project for FLAG was the aforementioned residency at Bundanon with 19-odd other creative persons – each of which were asked to bring an ‘offering’ to the group, some kind of activity that would bring the participants together and focus on the task at hand. This is how Anna’s involvement with FLAG began, as is the case with most of the FLAG artists participating in the Kings show. These are Agatha Gothe-Snape, Brian Fuata, Emma Ramsay, Eugenia Lim (Melbourne), Jess Olivieri, Mitch Cairns, Sarah Rodigari (Melbourne) and Stuart Bailey.

Anna John works predominantly in sculpture and sound. Her work contends with themes of process, chance and perception. Her studio work is an ongoing investigation in material and its association with the body and the wider world. Anna plays music regularly in the collaborations Holy Balm and Knitted Abyss. Her work will be included in the group show Friends at TCB and has an upcoming solo show at Locksmith Gallery (Sydney) in December.

Timothy P Kerr

Over the last 20 years scientific advances have proven that Youtube addiction is a chronic, debilitating, and often relapsing disease. Long-term addiction causes a variety of health problems, the effects of which are irreversible and can include various eye diseases, bruising on the brain, shadowing on the lungs, and appendicitis. As with many other problematic addictions there are financial, behavioral, social and political components that affect the wider community as well. However there is a range of effective treatments. Proven to be the most beneficial thus far is the re-introduction of dial-up Internet. This video work specifically addresses the issues that Youtube addiction can and has caused within our society.