Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece Part 0

Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece is an installation which creates a situation for performance. It encourages small groups of people to study, exercise and play music at the same time. The different activities form accompaniments to one another. The installation guides the performers by its layout and the types of equipment supplied. It subtly creates prescriptions for the type of piece which might be created.

I think of this installation as similar to one of the experimental scores commonly used in avant-garde composition. Rather than a work by itself, it is a blueprint for a work which is performed by the audience. I've drawn direct inspiration from Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra here and their strategies for increasing the autonomy of the performer particularly their Scratch Pieces .

The physical structure of the work is based on practices of contingency common in Indonesia; the home-made, the bootleg, and the portable. They are strategies for coping with a lack of resources, money or access and are usually considered incomplete or imperfect but serve the same function as more permanent, expensive or authentic forms. Various relevant images to this work and my continuing research into making in general are at www.inspirilog.blogspot.com

This installation and its accompanying fleeting performances celebrate the continuing processes of exercise, study and practice.

I would like to thank: Julie Burleigh, Esther Kokmeijer, Leonardiansyah Allenda, Febrian (Yayan) Mulyono, Rizki (Kiki) Lumaela, Woto Wibowo, Taring Padi, Lintang, Tim O'Donoghue, Ican Harem, Prihatmoko Moki, Krishna and Dinah and Everyone at Kunci

and especially

Everyone at Cemeti Art House

AsiaLink, Arts Victoria and the Australia Indonesia Institute.

Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece Pt 1

This is a collection of DIY instruments made or rehoused for the show chosen for their ease of operation. They are largely Gamelan parts salvaged and roughly rehoused but also features an analogue synthesiser and cardboard amplifier, photos feature Prihatmoko Moki, Krishna and Lintang who conducted the analogue synthesiser workshop.

Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece Pt 2

Inspired by home gyms found all throughout the world photos feature Ida and Wowok. A more refined version of this sort of equipment is featured in my crypto-aerobics post.

Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece Pt 3

A small sci-fi, survival, music and art themed library based on the Indonesian practise of bootlegging books. In Indonesia this is largely due to excessive import taxes, but it has an interesting quality as if a file sharing had escaped the digital realm. Here's a link to another blog post about the Kunci cultural studies library in Jogja whcih was a source of inspiration as were the stripped back, imperfect style of the books themselves. Mbak Dinah of Kunci is guest reader.

Moire studies Numbers Four to Nine

make being here enough

Moire Studies No.s 10 - 13

THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
someonehastodosomethiningbeforeanybodycandoanything

Thursday 16 June Until 11 July 2011
with Louisa Bufardeci, Starlie Geikie & Helen Walter, Nathan Gray, Alasdair McLuckie and Francesca Rendle-Short.
Curated by Martina Copley.

Perception Vibration Threshold

For New Psychedelia - University of Queensland Art Gallery Curated by Sebastian Moody

ACCA ART#2

All the Performances from ACCA's ART#2 inluding the above along with an interview about the project are documented online here

From the Bottom of a Long Black Tube

Help To Keep Time

Some outcomes of my workshop/study group with the Slow Art Collective on Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Music book. The book (pictured at top) provides a framework for collaboration in the workshop. We attempted to apply it to sculptural and performative outcomes.