Arts Monday 12 March 2012

Christian Edwardes, Travelling Landscape-Objects: A Ship Aground, 2010-2011. Type C photograph, 50 x 70 cm. Courtesy the artist and Peloton.

ArtiFacts Eastside.

Join me, Jane Raffan, for a program that investigates aspects of Cockatoo Island’s institutional heritage through an in-situ exhibition.

My guest is curator Claire Taylor, who is a director of Peloton, a not-for-profit artist-run organization in Sydney. We’ll be talking about Claire’s latest curatorial project for Peloton, which is an installation of the works of 7 artists on Cockatoo Island called Drawing Lines in the Sand. The site-specific works each address a particulate aspect of our colonial history, including the island’s history as “a condensed site of acquisition, containment and control”.

And the nature of the works? Visitors to the island can explore a lawn inset with colonial montages, a virtual reality simulator, take a walk through a forest of scaffolding, follow a journey descending into a saltmine, hear a ghost of the many machines that once were deafening within the island’s workshops, and perhaps get lost within a giant 3D drawing.

More on the exhibition can be found here: www.peloton.net.au/t/projects.

For transport information visit www.sydneyferries.info/timetables/cockatoo-island.htm.

Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour is open daily to the public and entry is free, visit www.cockatooisland.gov.au for more information.

And taking cues from the exhibition, the program’s music will reference themes and imagery that resonate with some of the historical intersections offered up by Cockatoo Island and the artists’ installations.

As always, I look forward to your company.

Jane

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