An Infinity of Traces

A new show entitled "an infintiy of traces" in studio 12 at gertrude contemporary art spaces from the 26th of june.  My studio is just across the hall so come and say hello if you like.

An Infinity of Traces is a fantastic assemblage built on top of a gamelan xylophone. It uses paper rope, various types of wire, styrofoam and xylophone keys smelted in bali and tuned in the Kebyar scale. Its a kind of meditation on the influence of gamelan on westerner's fantasies (my own included). I realize this warrants a lot more writing and I will endeavour to geta round to it soon in the meantime I have included with the show is a zine entitled "kebyar library" which charts the show's influences and resonances. It is published by HMpress and will be released with performance by snawklor during the show details soon. Below are some selections from the zine.

waterslides

gate, monkey forest, Ubud Bali

non indonesian gamelan orchestras

Lamonte Young and Guru Pandit Pran Nath

NW

new work!

SEC 2

Secretion Erosion Conjunction

Nathan Gray and Alex Vivian

Finding a way to work together. First there is a gap. Does a gap need a bridge?. A gap is after all a sort of link because it must be between things whose proximity implies a relationship. There is a knot of ideas here, so maybe not a gap, but a collection of ideas too intertwined to be isolated, proximity issues again. There is something we have in common, lets not dissect it lets elaborate on it.

We have both indulged in weird fantasies for a while, some visceral, sexual, gross and some material, elaborate and palely utopian. In the show we make a link (gap) between the body and geology. There is a melting together here, a merging. A loss of borders between the body and the world. A melding of bodies and minds, not a communion but a nauseating loss of self. A loss of gravity. An insipid optical illusion.

This is collection of objects both startling and crummy. And a collection of gaps (links) between objects. A collection of weak jokes and crap magic tricks. It doesn't matter that you can see through the special effects. We all need shifts in our realities but you're too old for real epiphanies and too smart to trick. Its all an ineffectual effort to blow your mind. We hope you appreciate the effort.

hope you can all make it contact me if you have any questions

Secretion Erosion Conjunction

Alex Vivian and Nathan Gray 

May 1st to 22nd

Rear View Gallery 

(at the rear of) 

244 Smith St. Collingwood

(Discount Chemist Wharehouse)

enter from Stanley st

open wed - sun 12-6pm