Melbourne Listening | Susannah Williams & Warren Armstrong
Melbourne Listening is an interactive installation to be exhibited at fortyfivedownstairs in August/September 2018. The installation is composed of touch responsive drawings, tapestries and cast objects, that house binaurally recorded sounds of spaces in and around Melbourne, which audience members will hear when they touch the work.
Venue: fortyfivedownstairs
Address: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000
Date: 28/08/2018 - 08/09/2018
Time: Tuesday to Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12pm-4pm
Ticket: Free
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Address: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000
Date: 28/08/2018 - 08/09/2018
Time: Tuesday to Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12pm-4pm
Ticket: Free
Web: https://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/wp2016/event/melbourne-listening/
: www.facebook.com/fortyfivedownstairs
: www.twitter.com/fortyfive_ds
: www.instagram.com/fortyfivedownstairs
EMail: info@fortyfivedownstairs.com
Call: 396629966
The sounds follow an imagined "day in the life" of the City of Melbourne, and will consist of soundscapes collected from a variety of locations in the wider Melbourne metropolitan area, combined with the stories of community members who live, work or play in those locations, or for whom those locations hold special significance.
From the dawn chorus at the Western Treatment Plant to penguins returning for the night at St Kilda; from crowds cheering at the AFLW to people protesting in the city; from the industry of rooftop beehives to the steady laps of night swimmers at a public pool; from a poet reciting her work on the street to a muezzin delivering the call to prayer in a mosque.
For the artists, Susannah Williams and Warren Armstrong, the work is also something of an incomplete document of their first six months in a new city, listening to its spaces and inhabitants.
Accompanying the installation will be a free, publicly available phone app for iPhone and Android. This app will offer those who are unable to attend the show an alternative way of accessing the content.
Details for downloading these apps will be available on the following website prior to the opening http://www.melbournelistening.com/
Susannah Williams is a visual artist who specialises in experimental drawing using mediums as diverse as visual reality, conductive materials, strings, pins, paper collage, tape and weaving. Her works regularly use field recordings and touch technology to explore dimensions of space and sound in drawing. She is currently based in Melbourne working on a Masters at the VCA investigating the Visual Sound of Nature.
Since graduating from the National Art School in 2008, Susannah has contributed numerous installations and wall works for artist run initiatives, festivals and artist residencies across Australia and internationally.
Warren Armstrong is a new media artist and app developer. He has created the virtual reality app for Cigdem Aydemir's Plastic Histories in Bloemfontein, South Africa; was the curator of (Un)seen Sculptures, an exhibition of international 3D augmented reality art that was staged in Sydney, Melbourne, Port Macquarie & Cairns; and collaborated on the performance piece A Galaxy of Suns which has been presented at Dark MOFO, the 2017 Melbourne Festival, and Cementa 17.
Susannah Williams and Warren Armstrong have collaborated and stretched their practice across disciplines of new media, architecture, sculpture, installation and sound. For this work, they were awarded the Casula Powerhouse's Paramor Prize for Art and Innovation 2017, as well as an Arts and Culture Grant from Inner West Council, Sydney.
This exhibition is supported by City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.
From the dawn chorus at the Western Treatment Plant to penguins returning for the night at St Kilda; from crowds cheering at the AFLW to people protesting in the city; from the industry of rooftop beehives to the steady laps of night swimmers at a public pool; from a poet reciting her work on the street to a muezzin delivering the call to prayer in a mosque.
For the artists, Susannah Williams and Warren Armstrong, the work is also something of an incomplete document of their first six months in a new city, listening to its spaces and inhabitants.
Accompanying the installation will be a free, publicly available phone app for iPhone and Android. This app will offer those who are unable to attend the show an alternative way of accessing the content.
Details for downloading these apps will be available on the following website prior to the opening http://www.melbournelistening.com/
Susannah Williams is a visual artist who specialises in experimental drawing using mediums as diverse as visual reality, conductive materials, strings, pins, paper collage, tape and weaving. Her works regularly use field recordings and touch technology to explore dimensions of space and sound in drawing. She is currently based in Melbourne working on a Masters at the VCA investigating the Visual Sound of Nature.
Since graduating from the National Art School in 2008, Susannah has contributed numerous installations and wall works for artist run initiatives, festivals and artist residencies across Australia and internationally.
Warren Armstrong is a new media artist and app developer. He has created the virtual reality app for Cigdem Aydemir's Plastic Histories in Bloemfontein, South Africa; was the curator of (Un)seen Sculptures, an exhibition of international 3D augmented reality art that was staged in Sydney, Melbourne, Port Macquarie & Cairns; and collaborated on the performance piece A Galaxy of Suns which has been presented at Dark MOFO, the 2017 Melbourne Festival, and Cementa 17.
Susannah Williams and Warren Armstrong have collaborated and stretched their practice across disciplines of new media, architecture, sculpture, installation and sound. For this work, they were awarded the Casula Powerhouse's Paramor Prize for Art and Innovation 2017, as well as an Arts and Culture Grant from Inner West Council, Sydney.
This exhibition is supported by City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.