MOP
2/39 Abercrombie St
Chippendale

Group Work
1-17 December, 2011

Group Work explores the collective identity and possible intertwined histories of the four members of Brown Council. The exhibition will consist of wall-sized blackboards mounted in the exhibition space, which will each bear the residue of a list of people or things who have influenced or effected our lives, written out in white chalk. Each list, which will vary in scope from previous lovers to significant deaths, will be written and performed prior to the exhibition opening, without an audience. Over the duration of each performance each handwritten name on the blackboard will become layered over the top of one another, making them indistinguishable from each other. This act of proclamation and subsequent erasure then becomes a type of makeshift ritual to memory where each experience is given equal meaning and significance, whilst inevitably making them all meaningless; the more layers there are, the less you can see.

ARTSPACE
43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo

Opening Thursday 24 November, 6pm
Exhibition Dates: 25 November to 22 December

Featuring Matthew Bradley, Lauren Brincat, Brown Council, Paul Donald, Will French, Yiorgos Zafiriou.

We have made a new work for the show: ‘Performance Histories: Remembering Barbara Cleveland’, a performance installation that focuses on the practice of the late Australian performance artist, Barbara Cleveland. Through remembering Barbara Cleveland, we will question who is written in and who is written out of history, and how narratives are constructed and re-presented.

We will undertake a live work at Artspace on opening night as well as on 4 and 18 December at 2pm.