Locksmith 2010 Exhibition Program
Current Exhibitions
bams & ted
Opening night:
Thursday 3 June 2010
6pm - 9pm
After a successful three months at Gaffa in Sydney city bams & ted will now
pop-up at Locksmith Project Space on Botany Rd. in Alexandria!
After visiting the leading ladies of ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ (Miranda), ‘To Catch a Thief’ (Francie) and ‘Murder She Wrote’ (Jessica) earlier in 2010, bams & ted will now focus upon the super-excessive Sebastian from the Evelyn Waugh classic ‘Brideshead Revisited.’ Not just for the boys, this range of vintage clothing, objects and furnishings will revolve around the androgynous 1920’s where religion hung like a dark cloud but frivolity was the hark of the day.
Please join us on Thursday 3 June from 6 – 9pm for the opening night of Sebastian when Locksmith Project Space will reveal itself as the den of 1920’s English excess – complete with bright, young things!
bams & ted is a vintage store cum dress-up box! With no fixed abode, bams & ted temporarily sets up shop in various locations around Sydney – from 19th century police cells to ex-Locksmith premises on the Redfern/Alexandria border. Each month bams & ted surrounds a different character of conceptual interest with the store transforming itself into an immersive, theatrical space inspired by the film or novel in question.
Opening hours:
3 – 27 June 2010
Wednesday – Sunday
10am – 6pm
Upcoming Exhibitions
Robin Hungerford – I DON’T THINK YOU APPRECIATE THE GRAVITY OF OUR SITUATION July 1 - 10, 2010. Opening night Thursday 1 July 6-8pm.
Robin Hungerford is particularly interested in the way in which technology shapes our perception of the world around us as well as the interior world of our own bodies. He sees his work as providing a space where it is possible to reintroduce a sense of strangeness to aspects of the world which have been perceptually frozen in place through a process of thorough scientific dissemination. Through a combination of child-like craft (cardboard, papier-mâché etc.) and consumer electronics Hungerford playfully subverts the widely accepted, rational, technologically aided understanding of everything.
Vincent O'Connor and Alex Kiers - August 26 - September 4, 2010. Opening night Thursday 26 August 6-8pm.
Frances Barrett - September 16 - 25, 2010. Opening night Thursday 16 September 6-8pm.
Sean Rafferty - October 21 - 30, 2010. Opening night Thursday 21 October 6-8pm.
Bababa International - November 18 - 27, 2010. Opening night Thursday 18 November 6-8pm.
Anna John - December, 2010.
Past Exhibitions
Nils Crompton and Biljana Jancic SafARI - May 5 - 30, 2010. Tuesday - Sunday, 12pm-6pm.
There is no opening night at Locksmith, but we will be hosting the closing party for SafARI on the evening of Saturday 22nd May. For more information on participating artists and galleries, visit the SafARI web site by clicking here.
Bonita Bub – Two-tone, bi-nuclear zone - April 15 - 24, 2010. Opening night Thursday 15 April 6-8pm.
Two-tone, bi-nuclear zone describes the screens that comprise the exhibition but it also refers to acclaimed modernist architect, Marcel Breuer's concept of a bi-nuclear floor plan. According to Breuer's concept, a house can be divided into two distinct zones; public and private. In the case of modernist living, flexible dividers such as curtains or screens often replaced conventional walls so that the space could remain open-plan. Bub is interested in making objects that invite different possibilities for arrangement and interpretation.
The screens or flexible dividers that Bub has developed can be seen as scaffolds, unfolded boxes, triptychs or arguably as minimalist objects. They are intended to direct traffic through the space, block access and or/ interrupt the flow of visitors.
Bonita has always had a fascination with industrial materials (cardboard, plastics, foam, wood, velcro), which she is interested in because of their different surface qualities, properties and use in the construction of houses, furniture and assemblages.
Emma White – While You Wait
March 18 - 27, 2010. Opening night Thursday 18 March 6-8pm.
Some things take a long time.
Brown Council – December 3 - 19, 2009
Brown Council, Big Show production stills, 2009
In their latest body of work, Big Show, Brown Council explore the slippages between art and entertainment. This work aligns and contrasts the 'entertaining' visage between the comedic form and that of performance art through the introduction of endurance performance within variety show routines.
In Big Show each member of Brown Council perform endurance actions as the character of ‘The Dunce’ all set within an artists studio. Traditionally, the figure of the Dunce is resigned to playing the butt of the joke and the idiot. Within Big Show ‘The Dunce’ physicalises both the underdog of comedic performance and the self-made victim of the performance artist. ‘The Dunce’ eats bananas, dances without any pants, attempts to escape from a binding rope and gets slapped in the face all in the effort to entertain.
These actions teeter on the brink between performance art, light entertainment, jokes and humiliation. Each ‘Dunce’ strives to entertain the audience: consistently, persistently and increasingly more violently. Through endurance the comedic inclination to entertain is undermined and counteracted. In their attempts to entertain each ‘Dunce’ goes beyond the natural comedic timing of stage shows and variety shows and enters more towards the realm of performance art, negating where the ‘show’ begins and ends, succeeds and fails, and ultimately deferring any reassuring denouement to the big show.
Click here to read a review of Big Show written by Josephine Skinner for RealTime Arts.
Click here to read an interview with Fran Barret from Brown Council. Written by Angela Bennetts for Alternative Media Group.
Ben Terakes - DUM DUM
September 3 - September 19, 2009
For his solo exhibition, Ben exhibited a series of works on paper depicting "performance stains", as well as a home-made quit "shelter". Click here to read Andrew Newman's exhibition text.
Nick Keys, Astrid L'Orange and Lucas Ihlein - Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hoffman
May 28 - June 11, 2009
A big thanks to Nick Keys, Astrid L'Orange, Lucas Ihlein, Keg De Souza and Zanny Begg for all their hard work in staging the first Australian enactment of Allan Kaprow's Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann.
To visit an archive of the event please click here
Keg de Souza and Nick Keys at the closing party for Push and Pull at Locksmith Project Space, June 11, 2009.
Photo: James Brown
Marley Dawson - Trick Shop
March 5 - March 21, 2009
For this solo exhibition, Marley continued to explore his interest in the crossover between DIY construction projects and contemporary visual arts. Stay tuned for more images!
Click here to listen to a review of Trick Shop which aired on FBi Radio on 19 March 2009.
