Arts Monday: Maren talks PLACE with Peter Nelson and Benjamin Vozzo
In which place will you be tomorrow between 10:30am and 12pm?
Wherever you are, I’ll be filling in for Jane Raffan and Tanya Dombkins hosting Arts Monday on Eastside 89.7FM, and I’ll be talking PLACE with two local artists whose works explore the form of our contemporary urban landscapes in very different ways: Peter Nelson (Extensions of a No-Place) and Benjamin Vozzo (#intheдуьне),
Peter Nelson
sculpture detail of Mountain Drawing (the first time I felt at home), Peter Nelson, 2011
First up I’ll be talking to Peter Nelson, sculptor and new media artist and last year’s winner of the Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award. Peter Nelson is well known for his illuminated perspex sculptures and elaborate architectural sketches. His latest work ‘Extensions of a No-Place’ uses sculpture in conjunction with projections and drawings to encourage the imagination, hinting at futuristic utopias and urban landscape, and drawing influence from chinese literati landscape paintings and real-time strategy computer games.
Extensions of a No-Place, Peter Nelson, 2012
Extensions of a No-Place is currently showing at Flinders St Gallery, Darlinghurst until the 16th June, 2012.
Extensions of a No-Place, Peter Nelson, 2012
Benjamin Vozzo
#intheдуьне by Benjamin Vozzo, 2012
Benjamin Vozzo is a new media artist who uses photography, video and graphic interchange formats (gifs) to explore shape, landscape, form and place. His current work #intheдуьне takes a ‘hybrid-world’ perspective of community housing in Redfern, drawing on Arabic, Chechen and Russian cultures to elucidate or re-present these iconic Sydney structures. Benjamin Vozzo’s work looks at the world, dysopia and diasporas, through contemporary media, using phone cameras, gifs, image editing, sound, video and image sharing websites.
#intheдуьне opens Thursday 14th June at 35 Foster St Surry Hills, and will be open until 18th. Get a taste of it on tumblr or follow BDVZ on twitter or instagram.
#intheдуьне, Benjamin Vozzo, 2012
To hear this show, no matter what place or space you’re in, all you need is my favourite 19th century invention, the radio, tuned to 89.7FM, 10:30am – 12pm Monday 4th June, or you can listen online!
Arts Monday with Jane Raffan and Tanya Dombkins will be back next Monday, and if you’d like to hear more form me, I’m hosting a Sydney Film Festival special of Arts Friday this week with Justine Poon, and my usual show is Something Else 6pm Thursdays.