The Change Division of The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins, or The BOO, has its lights on. It feels like things are happening, but are they? Is this a door that can be opened? Or does it just feel that way? What do they do at the Change Division?
An artwork created in collaboration with Ben Sheppard for the Incinerator Art Award 2020, currently showing here: Incinerator Art Award Exhibition
In March, Adele Varcoe and I brought our ‘art speed date’ project DATE–O to the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus, offering hot dates and free donuts to willing punters.
Margaret Lawrence Gallery in collaboration with artists from Deakin University, Monash University, RMIT University and VCA, University of Melbourne invites you to a sale of donated works of art by some of Australia’s leading artists.
Works of art start at $500 with sales opening at 12pm sharp, Thursday 30 January, in gallery and over the phone. An online catalogue of the artwork will be available soon, keep an eye out on Facebook and our website.
Opening: Thursday 30 January, 2020, 6-8pm
Where: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 40 Dodds St, Southbank
100% of the proceeds will go to Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund INC and Wildlife Victoria to support their tireless work during the bushfire disaster.
Image: Need $ For New Death Star, oil on board, 2020
A collaborative work with Princess Pea (New Delhi) exhibited as part of 4A A4, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, October 2019.
Unfinished: Décor, curated by Peter Burke and Robert Mangion, with Damiano Bertoli and David Thomas, opens Friday 4 October 2019 at AirSpace Projects, Marrickville, Sydney and runs until Saturday 19 October. https://www.airspaceprojects.com.au
Image: Unfinished: Décor, Photo: Campbell Henderson.
In addition to their exhibition Unfinished Décor, Robert Mangion and Peter Burke will present the performance lecture Unfinished (...) Talk Talk. More than a curatorial floor talk, it's a live sublimated appraisal, thawing the boundaries between creating, forming and experiencing art, giving way to a manifold of loose associations and Institutional mutations. Listen and follow the artists in and out of the gallery space as they attempt to establish contexts by which the artwork cannot be edified or concluded. Think porous, not staged and certainly not completed. Audience participation encouraged, maybe.
Wednesday 12 June 2019 at 1:30pm at Blindside, Melbourne.
Photo: Roberta Govoni
Today Attaché Case was officially welcomed to its new home at Museum Victoria in Melbourne. Attaché Case is an exhibition of 41 miniature artworks inside a ‘low cost diplomatic bag’ that has been in the making since 2015. Asylum seekers and refugees in Melbourne were invited create artworks that addressed their refugee experience. The artists, some of whom were living in detention centres, come from countries including Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. In their artworks they explored diverse issues about detainment, political policies, optimism and waiting. Many artists wrote messages on the reverse of their artwork. The project [poignantly] captures the personal experience of refugees and gives voice to those who are seldom heard or seen.
Photo: Dr Moya McFadzean, Senior Curator Migration & Cultural Diversity, unlocking Peter Burke’s handcuffs at Museum Victoria.
Attaché Case. Artists include: Mitra Ashanti, Neda Daryabar, Alyana Eau, BHR, Sririhan Ganeshan, Dagmara Gieysztor, Tadros Hanna, Zohreh Izadikia, Mehdi Jaghuri, Carmenza Jimenez Osorio, Azizeh Khademi, Samaneh Malekshahi, Gyorgyi Marek, Margaret Mayhew, Noony, Minh Phan, Anthony Rodriguez, Eghbal Saki, Rayka,.Maryam Sepasi, Honey & Azizeh.
The exhibition UNFINISHED: DÉCOR is running at Blindside ARI in Melbourne until 15 June 2019. Artists include Damiano Bertoli, Peter Burke, Robert Mangion, Elizabeth Newman, David Thomas.
Artwork (above): Peter Burke, Findings (notes), oil on wood panels, 2019.
Artwork: Peter Burke, Findings (notes), Please Don’t Wash Your Dishes, oil on wood panel, 2019.
New artwork Waiting for you (#2), an edition of prints for Artbox Art Club. https://artboxartclub.com
Photographer: Andrew Mc Laughlin.
Vote 1 The Booreaucrats (poster) at BOO, The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins, AAANZ, Melbourne, 2018 (with Ben Sheppard).
Sorting paperclips at BOO (The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins), AAANZ, Melbourne. Someone's gotta do it.
Photo: Samira Ghasempour
Day 1 of What Goes Around Comes Around, a live painting in progress over five days this week at the Biennale of Australian Art in Ballarat, Victoria from 22-28 September 2018.
Stamp. Press. Scrape. Pull. Stretch. Drag. Scratch. Tug. Oscillate. Roll. Unwind. Repeat. What Goes Around Comes Around is a never-ending installation in the making. Its continuous surface is both a palette and a canvas with only one side and only one edge. The inside becomes the outside and the front becomes the back. Visitors are invited to contribute to the live artwork as it expands and unravels over seven days. Not to be missed and never to be repeated.
A photo taken on Wadjemup/Rottnest Island in Western Australia for a new series of images created with Ben Sheppard for the BOOreaucrats.
Another investigation in progress by the Bureaucrats on Wadjemup (Rottnest Island, Western Australia), in collaboration with Ben Sheppard, December 2017.
Unfinished – Search for the Miraculous draws from a subject critical to art practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. In this project, the unfinished is explored in cross-disciplinary ways, blurring the distinction between making and un-making, and extending the boundaries between beginnings and endings.
Opening night: Wed 20 Sept 6-9pm
Five Walls Projects
Level 1/119 Hopkins St, Footscray
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm
Exhibition runs until Sat 7 Oct 2017
EXIT (2017), enamel and acrylic on board. An artwork for the VCA's '9x5 NOW!' exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/small-pictures-big-legacy-the-9-by-5-exhibition-then-and-now
Coming soon! Air Cabinet in Bloemfontein, South Africa as part of the Vrystaat Arts Festival 2017.
http://www.vrystaatkunstefees.co.za/events.aspx?EventID=1172
Update
on 2017-07-10 20:48 by [Your Name Here]
Take, give a breath at festival
Taking a breath is the first thing humans do at birth and the last thing they do before they die. On average, a person takes about 16 breaths per minute, 960 breaths per hour and 23, 040 breaths a day. It is so natural that we do not think much about this action that keeps us alive.
Peter Burke, an Australian artist, will bring Air Cabinet to the Vrystaat Arts Festival. This very unique Public Art Project (PAP) is a “community service” intended to generate discussion around the value of the breath.
“Air Cabinet features a public stall where individual samples of the human breath will be collected in test tubes. The samples will form an archive dedicated to the breath and people may take a free breath sample home to give to someone special or to keep,” Peter explains.
The project forms part of Peter’s ongoing exploration of how art can engage with people in public spaces and create lively, off-the-cuff discussions about the value we attribute to things.
He developed Air Cabinet especially for the Vrystaat Arts Festival and says he is keen to discover the different types of breath that can be found in Bloemfontein – deep breaths, shallow breaths, anxious breaths, morning breaths and fresh breaths.
“I expect Air Cabinet will bring an unexpected smile to those who encounter it and people may be surprised to learn how reveiling their breath can be.”
Anyone can take part in Air Cabinet, but as the number of collected breaths are limited, Peter urges people to get in early so they do not miss out.
Air Cabinet will be at Hoffman Square from 18 to 20 July, from 09:30 to 16:00, as well as at the Kovsie campus near the vrynge (near the badominton hall) on 21 and 22 July.
http://www.netwerk24.com/ZA/Bloemnuus/Nuus/take-give-a-breath-at-festival-20170705-2
TheBureau for theOrganisation ofOrigins (BOO) explores the national preoccupation with identity by examining Australia’s cultural self-evaluation leading up to, and ‘celebrated’ on, Australia Day.
ARTISTS | Rushdi Anwar, Peter Burke + Adele Varcoe, Linda Choi, Dale Collier, Peter Drew, Jaye Early, Megan Evans, Carly Fischer, Raafat Ishak + Tom Nicholson, Sean Lowry, Mayatili Marika, Wandjuk Marika OBE (c.1930–1987), Ramon Martinez-Mendoza, Performprint (Joel Gailer + Jenny Hall), Benjamin Sheppard, Nick Waddell, Elmedin Žunić
The ‘BOO’ is a collaborative and interdisciplinary visual arts project that converts the BLINDSIDE Artist run space into a working ‘bureau’ to comment on Australian identity on and around Australia day 2017. As a bureau, the project embodies the idea that the nation state essentially operates an administrative bureaucracy. The format supports the themes while providing a space to discuss and debate various issues regarding Australian identity as revealed through a range of artistic gestures and discursive events. The exhibition incorporates panel discussions, workshops and publications along with a range of carefully curated interdisciplinary art works. The ‘bureau’ context prompts dialogue around issues of heritage, place and belonging and the organisational systems that end up affecting everyday experience.
The exhibition will be regularly activated by BOO artists and invited contributors during opening hours across the exhibition period. Benjamin Sheppard will be basing his drawing research in the Bureau for the entire exhibition period. Peter Burke + Adele Varcoe will be intermittently engaging with the gallery and surrounds and guest Artists will be invited to engage with the Bureau across the exhibition period. Elmedin Zunic will stage a performance of his Archaic Typewriter work at the opening on the 26thof January.
Artist/Curator | Benjamin Sheppard
Opening Night | Thursday 26 January, 6pm–8pm
Panel Discussion | Thursday 2 February, 6pm–8pm
Exhibition Dates | 26 January to 11 February 2017