The valley mall in Brisbane is a bit of an eyesore, tired and stubborn engulfed in an island of traffic it is a spot for passing through except on weekends when you can browse the markets. Being the den of all things questionable (in Brisbane) much of the edges of decay are eased as the night encloses it. Night becomes it; you use other senses and all is well again.
Being there in the day however and you look but dont look at the people; a ramshackle collective that is mixed with the everpresent pigeon's and a few police vehicles. Why do they park there? do they expect a riot to break out at any moment?
I hate the frock shops i wish there was a book store again and a decent coffee shop that actually has ceramic cups! Mollinos is ok but like the valley tired and out for the count. I expect the whole place will be bulldozed as soon as the developers get crafty but we will see..
Yesterday we (felix & i) walked to the valley to search for opshop treasures in between purchasing fruit & veg. We didnt find any treats but decided to go to the IMA thats the institute of modern art to see if there was any exhibitions on..and yes a very interesting and according to Felix a bootiful one. He would know as the works on display look alot like things he'd put together and thats not denigrating the artist at all.
There is a time in the immersion of art making/doing/thinking when you have to be pre constructed...ahh before growing into the worlds rules.. Anyway the exhibition of works were quite good & not as annoying as some of the shows they have there... If an alien really wanted to probe human beings to know what humans are like they would go to a contemporary art exhibition; upon which they would go away very far very fast never to return to earth. Read about Mkala Dwyer & also below from IMA site. I love her work do you?
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In the 1990s, Sydney artist Mikala Dwyer became famous for creating playful installations that provocatively conflated pedigreed modern art with the amateur, the infantile, and the feminine. Since her 2000 retrospective at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, her works have moved off in a new direction, increasingly mining the irrational, the paranormal, the occult. Dwyer has convened circles of anthropomorphic, totemic objects, suggesting seances and covens; has toyed with black-arts paraphernalia, including candles and Ouija boards; has employed palm readers and clairvoyants to serve gallerygoers; has made art professionals dress up as crystals; and has collaborated with neodadaist Justene Williams to channel spirits of female convicts of yesteryear. For Dwyer, it is always about the return-of-the-repressed. As much as formalism seeks to drive out the amateur, the infantile, the feminine, and the irrational, in her work they always come back to haunt it. Dwyer is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington; and Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin.
Being there in the day however and you look but dont look at the people; a ramshackle collective that is mixed with the everpresent pigeon's and a few police vehicles. Why do they park there? do they expect a riot to break out at any moment?
I hate the frock shops i wish there was a book store again and a decent coffee shop that actually has ceramic cups! Mollinos is ok but like the valley tired and out for the count. I expect the whole place will be bulldozed as soon as the developers get crafty but we will see..
Yesterday we (felix & i) walked to the valley to search for opshop treasures in between purchasing fruit & veg. We didnt find any treats but decided to go to the IMA thats the institute of modern art to see if there was any exhibitions on..and yes a very interesting and according to Felix a bootiful one. He would know as the works on display look alot like things he'd put together and thats not denigrating the artist at all.
There is a time in the immersion of art making/doing/thinking when you have to be pre constructed...ahh before growing into the worlds rules.. Anyway the exhibition of works were quite good & not as annoying as some of the shows they have there... If an alien really wanted to probe human beings to know what humans are like they would go to a contemporary art exhibition; upon which they would go away very far very fast never to return to earth. Read about Mkala Dwyer & also below from IMA site. I love her work do you?
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In the 1990s, Sydney artist Mikala Dwyer became famous for creating playful installations that provocatively conflated pedigreed modern art with the amateur, the infantile, and the feminine. Since her 2000 retrospective at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, her works have moved off in a new direction, increasingly mining the irrational, the paranormal, the occult. Dwyer has convened circles of anthropomorphic, totemic objects, suggesting seances and covens; has toyed with black-arts paraphernalia, including candles and Ouija boards; has employed palm readers and clairvoyants to serve gallerygoers; has made art professionals dress up as crystals; and has collaborated with neodadaist Justene Williams to channel spirits of female convicts of yesteryear. For Dwyer, it is always about the return-of-the-repressed. As much as formalism seeks to drive out the amateur, the infantile, the feminine, and the irrational, in her work they always come back to haunt it. Dwyer is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington; and Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin.
