c3 PRESENTS 3 NEW FUNDED PROJECTS
Wednesday November 25th at 6 - 8pm
Exhibition runs:
November 25th till December 13th
GALLERY 1
OMFG!
ADAM CRUICKSHANK HIT & MISS ROB McLEISH DELL STEWART KOTOE ISHII
SIMON PERICICH EMILE ZILE
OMFG! is foremost an investigation into the subjective nature of offensiveness, combined with the sometime related aesthetic of doing it yourself. Various meanings, forms and incidences are offensive to some, but not to others. Why, where and what are these subjectivities and how can we possibly hope for everyone to be happy, all of the time? Offence is often related to the, for want of a better word, 'punk' sense of having the perceived arrogance to simply take things on ourselves. In a world where big culture costs trillions, is cynically target-marketed and controlled by bigger economics, the individual artist deciding she or he can brazenly contribute to culture on their own divisive terms is tantamount to revolution.
GALLERY 2
IN DEFENSE OF ONE OR MORE LOST CAUSE
NICKI WYNNYCHUK
Cinder blocks, bamboo, pieces of timber and plywood and other found objects, white paint and handmade ceramic bowls — these are the materials of Nicki Wynnychuk’s In Defence of one or more Lost Cause. This body of work is a motley and unlikely collection of political artworks — ‘unlikely’ because the political character of these assemblages is unapparent, but for the title of the work and its relationship with the balance of the artist’s oeuvre.
Two points of theoretical departure are unmistakable here. The first: Wynnychuk is professedly pursuing a “sustained investigation into the possibility of a sculptural translation of war theorist Herfried Münkler’s concept of a post-heroic society”. The second: Slavoj Žižek’s In Defense of Lost Causes, to which the title of the present body of work unambiguously refers. Common to both of these writers — and, I sense, to Wynnychuk too — is an unmistakable tenacity, an enduring belief in politics, an enduring belief in the importance of critique.
BRAD HAYLOCK
GALLERY 3
THE SAVIOURS
NAT THOMAS AND CONCETTINA INSERRA
Today, the Abbotsford Convent is a thriving Melbourne arts precinct, set in 6.8 hectares of garden and 11 historic buildings. Full of people everyday of the week, it was almost 289 apartments, a seven-storey tower and a putting green. The determined action of the community group Abbotsford Convent Coalition (ACC) saw the alternative option on the site become a wonderful reality.
“Eventually in 2005, the car parking went the way of the ACC too. They had won the lot. They were driving home the game show BMW, with keys provided by the smiling model.
Seven years of lobbying, gathering signatures, Tuesday meetings and pro bono work after work. Seven years”.
Nat Thomas and Concettina Inserra have met and photographed members of the ACC, to have faces to thank for saving a beautiful public space for all of us.
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