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Open Studio Presentation Friday Feb 28/2025 6-8.30 pm |
from La Trobe Art Institute Newsletter February 17/2025
Open Studio: Paul Fletcher6 to 8 pm 28 February
" Please join us to celebrate our artist-in-residence Paul Fletcher's summer residency, with an open studio event from 6 pm on 28 February. On view will the culmination of Fletcher's two and half months of experimentation and research, and light refreshments will be served.
Fletcher is an artist practicing across fields of electronic music, digital art, video art, animation, and permaculture, and the networked intersections of these, who has been working prolifically for over 40 years. During his residency at La Trobe Art Institute, he has been experimenting with bringing his long-existing practice of gardening into dialogue with kinetic sculpture and digital technologies to consider how plants, fungi and animals (including humans) collaborate and communicate in complex networks. Through this experimentation, he questions the Western logic of the 'garden' as a space of control over 'nature', and thinks into reciprocal ways of working with the more-than-human world. "
Open Studio: Paul Fletcher6 to 8 pm 28 February
" Please join us to celebrate our artist-in-residence Paul Fletcher's summer residency, with an open studio event from 6 pm on 28 February. On view will the culmination of Fletcher's two and half months of experimentation and research, and light refreshments will be served.
Fletcher is an artist practicing across fields of electronic music, digital art, video art, animation, and permaculture, and the networked intersections of these, who has been working prolifically for over 40 years. During his residency at La Trobe Art Institute, he has been experimenting with bringing his long-existing practice of gardening into dialogue with kinetic sculpture and digital technologies to consider how plants, fungi and animals (including humans) collaborate and communicate in complex networks. Through this experimentation, he questions the Western logic of the 'garden' as a space of control over 'nature', and thinks into reciprocal ways of working with the more-than-human world. "
Why circles like wreaths made from dried garden vines and tree roots ?
ode to nature under the threat?
Circle of life circular economies
Eggs and the cycles of life. The big egg the Earth!
Cycles of regeneration and renewal.
ode to nature under the threat?
Circle of life circular economies
Eggs and the cycles of life. The big egg the Earth!
Cycles of regeneration and renewal.
Floating Upside down Garden.
Floating in space on a spinning globe. A florist shop gone wrong? A web of strings, representing mycelium networks, fungi and bacteria within between and around us! c Dried flowers, vines and roots hanging upside down from them. All materials were collected from my ‘veggie garden’ and dried over the last two years.
Ironically this set up for me brings into question the whole western concept of a ‘garden’. Is a garden something we, as human animals, wish to control and make as if separate from ‘nature’ , ‘the wild’ or ‘bush’. I try, but cannot always maintain, a reciprocal way of working in our shared environment which Id like to remember as one large, lovely, self organising garden
Floating in space on a spinning globe. A florist shop gone wrong? A web of strings, representing mycelium networks, fungi and bacteria within between and around us! c Dried flowers, vines and roots hanging upside down from them. All materials were collected from my ‘veggie garden’ and dried over the last two years.
Ironically this set up for me brings into question the whole western concept of a ‘garden’. Is a garden something we, as human animals, wish to control and make as if separate from ‘nature’ , ‘the wild’ or ‘bush’. I try, but cannot always maintain, a reciprocal way of working in our shared environment which Id like to remember as one large, lovely, self organising garden
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some sparse phone notes made over the 8 weeks Floating Upside down Garden. Floating in space one a spinning globe. A florist shop gone wrong? A web of strings, representing mycelium networks, fungi and bacteria, connecting and supporting, dried flowers, vines and roots hanging upside down from them. All materials were collected from my ‘veggie garden’ and dried over the last two years. Ironically this set up for me brings into question the whole western concept of a ‘garden’. Is a garden something we, as human animals, wish to control and make as if separate from ‘nature’ , ‘the wild’ or ‘bush’. I try, but cannot always maintain, a reciprocal way of working in our shared environment which Id like to remember as one large, lovely, self organising garden! https://vimeo.com/1045530898/377f14eeeb Create opposite mirror angle to another small log and make triangle of strings then parallel lines with little mobiles hanging off them ? 
Soundtrack above speakers- ‘orchestrated randomness’ patterns that we cannot fully see or understand that are always working away around above below between and within us- started with gentle shaping and editing of random pattern then using subsets and translations of this for orchestrating a few sounds elements together. Sound use celery bones for speaker mobiles Titles:? Above Below Between and Within… Micro macro room sized diorama Multiple perspectives Fractal time and space Imaginings Inspired by fungi and lichen and microscopic ecosystems within and around us Next Need tape down loose speaker cone Glue gun silver wire cutters pliers Black spray paint for plain speaker boxes Duste Box or log to lift up ‘central’ speaker ? More fishing lines? 2or 3more little speakers and silver wires Maybe just have silver wires on sep twig/wires move with fan ? or put cork on loose speaker and have this onto fishing line Put pendants on wires and little log stands-semi kinetic sculptures -bigger creatures in the garden forest system More little clamps for curtain Black out figure line ? 1or 2 More fishing lines and tree base for outside Main speaker in middle or more than one network Lines from speaker to tree little stumps in corners Or big speaker at curtain end ot Wires coming up to logs or rocks near window 2/3 little speakers amongst the lines Main speakers from soundtrack Big movement speaker from usb power block on random timer ?? |
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