DemoKinisi
1 April – 23 June, 2020
As a global collective we are witnessing events that will alter our current approach to living. Questions around the importance of a physical space will become more prevalent as we merge more into the virtual world of viewing and consuming art.
DemoKinisi is a response to the unexpected environment we are living in, derivative from two Greek words that translates to people in motion.It is a project with the intent on keeping the physical space of the gallery alive and uncontaminated.
DemoKinisi consists of ongoing artwork projections which can only be viewed from the exterior of the gallery space or online.
DemoKinisi is presented as a gesture of witnessing.
During the twelve-week program the artists involved will have the opportunity to present work that explore issues around
co-existence, daily life, the unknown and perceived reality. The questions that remain to be answered are; how will the anticipated changes in social patterns affect the white cube, and how will we feel when we are allowed back into the gallery space.
#peopleinmotion #artinmotion
Joanne Makas
March 2020
1 April – 23 June, 2020
As a global collective we are witnessing events that will alter our current approach to living. Questions around the importance of a physical space will become more prevalent as we merge more into the virtual world of viewing and consuming art.
DemoKinisi is a response to the unexpected environment we are living in, derivative from two Greek words that translates to people in motion.It is a project with the intent on keeping the physical space of the gallery alive and uncontaminated.
DemoKinisi consists of ongoing artwork projections which can only be viewed from the exterior of the gallery space or online.
DemoKinisi is presented as a gesture of witnessing.
During the twelve-week program the artists involved will have the opportunity to present work that explore issues around
co-existence, daily life, the unknown and perceived reality. The questions that remain to be answered are; how will the anticipated changes in social patterns affect the white cube, and how will we feel when we are allowed back into the gallery space.
#peopleinmotion #artinmotion
Joanne Makas
March 2020
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Anthony Hodgkinson
1 – 7 April 2020 "The works I am presenting are a series of 50 images from my archive of photographs, ranging from 2013 to 2020. Indulging in what life once used to be—living through images." Image courtesy of the artist: Untitled (Pantheon), 2014
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Todd Fuller
Billy's Swan (animation /video), 2017 8 – 14 April 2020 In Peter Darling's choreography of the 'Dream Ballet' sequence for the musical Billy Elliot, a young Billy undertakes a Pas de deux with a chair. Set to the dramatic sound track of Tchaikovsky's Swan lake, Darling subverts the safety of the ballet barre replacing it with a mesmerising spinning chair balanced on pointe. Appropriating this choreography, the Artist creates a self portrait animated in charcoal on paper. Through it, Fuller re-enacts childhood experiences as a pseudo 'Billy Elliot' dancing in rural community. In the face of debate arising from a non-binding, same sex marriage postal plebiscite (and with fading technique), his hand drawn solo reflects on the relationship between gender, dance, and place, as well as the ability of the queer community to draw resilience, strength and beauty from the most chaotic of moments. Image courtesy of the artist:
Billy's Swan (animation/video), 2017 chalk and charcoal animation and video - 5:37mins Choreography appropriated Charles Darling, Billy Elliot the Musical. Composition: Paul Smith Courtesy MAY SPACE, Sydney online exhibition, courtesy of MAY SPACE:
https://youtu.be/6TkbEGpxIa0 review of MAY SPACE exhibition
http://www.artmonthly.org.au/blog/billy |
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Sarah Kukathas
And the Earth Falls, 2010-2012 15 – 21 April 2020 Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, mistaking the optically precise rendering of his image reflected on the surface of the water as being real. These four moving image vignettes pulled from my video archives explore gravity, perception, and the disjuncture between appearances and reality. Images courtesy of the artist:
And the Earth Falls, 2010-2012 Duration: 16:43mins |
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Kath Fries
Breathing: forest sky snow, 2015 22 – 28 April 2020 Breathing: forest sky snow, was created during a winter residency in Finland. Walking in the forest, I often paused to look up into the treetops moving gently in the wind and tried to capture the strange mesmerising quality of their gentle sway. A few nights later, I projected this footage through my studio window conjuring ghostly arboreal silhouettes dancing on the snow-covered slope outside. Through distance, closeness, separation and association – from outside to inside and back again – the layers of this work invite reflections on isolation and connection. Breathing: forest sky snow, draws me back into a quiet meditative sensibility, cyclic breathing with the Earth. Image courtesy of the artist:
Breathing: forest sky snow, 2015 silent single channel video Duration: 4:13 loop |
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Daniel O'Toole
Bending Sky 29 April – 5 May 2020 Negotiating the cross over between video and painting. Inspired by the 'Light and space' movement of the 1960s (Los Angeles) the work is positioned in the post-digital context of contemporary Australia. My work embraces the imperfections and low-resolution modes of recording as an aesthetic decision. I make videos of natural phenomena to use as a reference for paintings. These time-based works are a conflation of analogue and digital processes. The video works combined with soundscapes offer a dialogue between sight and sound, to express a personal interpretation of how they can relate to one another. The video component is created with the painting outcome in mind. The result is a kinetic painting intended to be paused at various intervals and consequently mined for imagery. Paintings are framed behind a semi-transparent screen, to alter perception and re-animate the static image. Questioning the ubiquity of the digital screen, the work emphasises 'seeing' as an active engagement rather than a passive receiving. Daniel O'Toole is a Multimedia artist based in Melbourne, Australia
Image courtesy of the artist: Bending Sky HD Video and stereo audio track Duration: 02:23 |
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Stephen Little
The Harbinger Suite, 2019 6 – 12 May 2020 The Harbinger Suite: SIREN revisits older systems of belief and incorporates the esoteric, mythology, superstition, magic, symbolism, ritual and catharsis to address a dystopian world populated by predators, victims and scavengers. The work presents the viewer with a fractured world - a collaged zone of conflicted realities where different worlds, temporal and filmic visions, aesthetics, romantic and mythical values, emotive resonances and pictorial and psycho-spatial sensibilities co-exist. Image courtesy of the artist: Stephen Little The Harbinger Suite: SIREN, 2019 Single Channel Video Duration: 12:35 mins Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeswvnYDI4U Courtesy the artist and Kronenberg Mais Wright |
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Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
Play Something Else Cowboy 13 – 20 May 2020 Play Something Else Cowboy at STACKS PROJECTS is a live feed of a bar in the artists' living room while they self-isolate in Sydney. Providing a “place to go” within the home to connect with friends, artists, and colleagues. The work features Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier making and receiving phone calls at the bar, having conversations over a drink. Phone calls are welcome. The bar as an institution is a familiar and accepted locus of communal activity and participation. In this sense it is deployed as a simple vehicle to invite interaction, while performing as an artwork that is enacted by and for individuals in conversation. Links to the live feed will be updated daily @joeandchanelle Link: https://youtu.be/IKUV9fUbbqM Image courtesy of the artists: Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier Play Something Else Cowboy, 2020 cowhide and timber home cocktail bar, Telstra Touchtone hand printed solvent transfer on deconstructed vintage French tent canvas, found vintage stools, found ceramic pots, stolen philodendron bippinatifidum, glasses, tequila, ash; 300 x 200 x 200cm Photographed by Robin Hearfield |
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Robin Hearfield
NBA2K16Reboot/SportVsArt/GoatVsRabbit 20 – 26 May 2020 The health and survival of humans is being tested, spaces re-utilised, public areas abandoned, private enclaves encroached upon. Home is work and work places have shutdown. Rhythms, rituals and habitual behaviours have been discarded. An earthquake has hit the economic landscape, essential and necessity are keywords in a financial system that relies on a variety of activities that are anything but. Does society value inane pursuits that allow humans to examine themselves on their own terms? For every individual these practices and collections of vary significantly. To do something seemingly pointless, to refuse to uphold or serve any current social construct, to work outside of an imposed regime either self or societal, is to break the algorithms of the panoptic petri-dish in a digitally observed and mediated society. Cut through, play, have fun. NBA2K16Reboot/SportVsArt/GoatVsRabbit New Video works and Screenshots 2020 Courtesy the Artist |
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Oliver Wagner
Watercolour, 2018 27 May – 2 June 2020 The video Watercolour (2018) was filmed by chance with a smart phone. Often condemned for luring us into mediated spaces far from the “real” world, the smartphone has become an indispensible tool that can do the opposite: it can bring us closer to the world. The presented clip draws on the idea of painting in plein air, where a specific moment in time has been observed and instantly recorded with a means of technical innovation. Image courtesy of the artist Oliver Wagner Watercolour, 2018 Single channel video, 32 seconds Courtesy Sarah Cottier Gallery |
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Favour Economy
Favour Economy STACKS Projects, 2020 3 – 9 June 2020 Favour Economy Stacks Projects, is a video projection of responsive texts shared by participants listening to the project archive. This work shares the listener's response of reciprocated messages, gathered on International Women's Day, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Sydney 2020, curated by Aileen Robalino, and MCA ARTBAR Things We Do Together, curated by Lara Merrett 2019. This video projection aims to energise the Stacks Projects gallery and street during the Covid-19 Sydney pandemic in Australia 2020. About Favour Economy Favour Economy is an ongoing collaborative art project developed by Claire Field, Alexandra Pedley and Bronwyn Treacy in 2015; the project has continued its evolution with Stella Chen, Claire Field and Tonié Field holding the space from 2017. Favour Economy is a collection of audio recordings shared by womxn who work in the arts. The project operates as an online platform for contributors to voice their experiences, insights, and skills. The audio recordings shared to Favour Economy are termed ‘favours' because they have been produced with the intention of being of value for other womxn working in the arts to hear— highlighting the femxle experience of working in the arts. The project is inclusive of audio favours shared by those at various stages of their career, and who occupy a variety of creative and professional arts roles. Favour Economy operates as an audio gift economy, where each contributor has determined the content and value of their recording based on their own experience. This is received by the audience according to their current situation and need. Favour Economy Volume 5. 2019 - 2020 will be published on the project website www.favoureconomy.com12am 1 July 2020. www.instagram.com/favoureconomy/?hl=en *Terms womxn and femxle are used to support identity to move beyond being defined in relation to a male norm and is inclusive of transgender and non-binary identities. Image courtesy of Favour Economy FavourEconomy, STACKS Projects, 2020 Video projection, 04:59:29 |
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Annelies Jahn
Yellow: Walk #4074, 2018 10 – 16 June 2020 "Walk. Do this without thought, without effort. Walk as if your feet were lungs serving their unconscious purpose." Sonia Overall, The Art of Walking, 2015 Yellow: Walk #4074, is part of an ongoing practice of random recordings of my act of walking through places. They occur within the everyday purpose of simply moving from one place to another – from here to there. Filmed with a smart phone they are evidence of the negotiation of space through time. Paced out to my own rhythm and ambient sound, this pedestrian mapping brings about an embodied knowledge separate to, but layered over the collective memory of others. Images courtesy of the artist Annelies Jahn Yellow: Walk #4074 – screen shot video test, 2018 Single channel video, 1:00 minutes looped instagram: @anneliesjahn |
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STACKS Projects
2016 - 2020 17 – 23 June 2020 2016 – 2020, is a visual history of exhibitions and projects that have taken place at the gallery. It closes the DemoKinisi series undertaken as a response to this time of immense global change. Images of exhibitions and projects courtesy of Document Photography |
