It’s the final day of the Lab and time to shift into Festival gear as artists are busy putting the final touches on their performances and setting up their installations… Ecto-Plasm have spent their Lab days in Studio 10 of FraserStudios developing ‘Air City’ and … Read More →
Category Archives: 2010
The Public Lab Day 7 :: 14 July
by Imogen Semmler, Creative Director of Underbelly Arts
GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER: DEE JEFFERSON
Justin Harvey builds a small dark room under the stairs at FraserStudios. He invites the public inside to play Chatroulette. He records the results. What do people do? How do they react? Does it help … Read More →
The Public Lab Day 6 :: 13 July
GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER: LUCY PARAKHINA
Lucy took a tour of the Lab with Underbelly Arts producer Jenn Blake. A typical tour lasts for about an hour and involves meeting or watching the artists at work. Some projects even require your participation (like an audience session with Applespiel). … Read More →
The Public Lab Day 5 :: 12 July
GUEST BLOGGER: EVERYONE ELSE’S BLOG!
A few Underbelly Arts projects are keeping their own blog documenting their creative process during the Lab.
Check them out!
angryPixel http://kodama.angrypixel.org/category/dusk/
Applespiel http://applespiel.blogspot.com/
I Can Draw You A Picture http://icandrawyouapicture.blogspot.com
Reef Knot http://fillinginthecracks.wordpress.com
The Public Lab Day 4 :: 11 July
GUEST BLOGGER: DEE JEFFERSON
Snail Piece gets started. Already feeling sorry for the snail/s, the stage looks barren as a desert.
The argument is posed as a trial, with Simon Binns and Joseph Parro from Applespiel taking opposing sides, and the hammer keeping its own counsel.
We wander … Read More →
The Public Lab Day 3 :: 10 July
LAB SATURDAY
It’s the half way point of the Lab and we celebrated in style with a talks panel and lots of tours!
Thanks to everyone who came down to the Clare Hotel for our talks program and thanks to Jess Cook, Eddie Sharp, Alice Gage and … Read More →
The Public Lab Day 2 :: 9 July
GUEST BLOGGER: RACHEL ROBERTS from Applespiel
Applespiel is a very young performance collective. We try to use this to our advantage when applying for new residencies and talking ourselves up: ‘young, emerging collective’, ‘fresh, young artists’, etc. No matter how young and sexy we are, though, … Read More →
Public Lab Day 1 :: 8 July
GUEST BLOGGER: ALICE GAGE from I Can Draw You A Picture
ICDYAP is a live publishing installation. Public Lab participants come in to the space, lend their hand at one, some or all of the nine art stations, and their work is curated into a magazine … Read More →
The Bump In :: 5 – 8 July
GUEST BLOGGER: ROWAN McDONALD
A Volunteer’s Perspective…
A sense of cultural humidity is palpable down at FraserStudios; a build up for the creative monsoon to come. Performers are arriving, lighting plots developing, preproduction briefings unfolding, artist tours elaborating and excellent people vibing together on the enriching events … Read More →
All The Best
FBI’s ‘All The Best’ presents stories from around Kensington St Chippendale produced especially for this year’s Underbelly Arts. Wander around the site and explore the tales of this city via the wireless where you can map out your own journey and build your own listening … Read More →
angryPixel
PROJECT: DUSK
Dusk looks at the connections that are made between people and technology. Viewers will engage with tiny creatures of light, which respond organically to movement. Using metaphors from the physical world, this project suggests that our comfort and relationship with computers is now so … Read More →
Applespiel
PROJECT: SNAIL PIECE
Since earning their debut accolade “You guys are crazy!” at Short +Sweet 2009 (courtesy of Festival Director Alex Broun), Applespiel have gone on to perform at Monthly Friend, NightTime and the Tiny Stadiums Festival. They host and perform ‘Appleloft’ the recurring suburban performance … Read More →
Ecto-Plasm
PROJECT: AIR CITY
Ecto-Plasm is Tully Arnot, Charles Dennington, Sally Pittman, Chris Petkovic, Jessica Stewart, Alex Chidzey, Stephanie Overs, Taitha Klevier, Xiaofu Wang & Stef Lau.
Air City is a playful, multi-layered sculptural installation developed and built by this collective of inflatable sculpture artists. The audience … Read More →
Hosanna Heinrich, Kenny Feather & Chris Wilson
PROJECT: APACHE STUDIES
‘Apache Studies’ is inspired by the ‘Danse Apache’, a brutal street dance from the early 1900s which hijacks the waltz and Tango, interspersing the dance embrace with acts of brutality such as slapping, strangling and hair pulling. The artists will develop a series … Read More →
I Can Draw You A Picture
ICDYAP is a publishing installation resulting in a magazine which will be available at the Festival event. Before that, it’s a live design and editorial studio. Before that, it’s a data capture stand that photographs and collates material. And before that, right at the beginning, … Read More →
Justin Harvey
PROJECT: 13% PERVERT
A multifaceted exploration of our shifting public and private selves. Part game, part study, ‘13% Pervert’ takes its name from a statistic, being the outcome of research conducted by R.J. Moore on the usage of video chat website www.chatroulette.com
During the Public Lab … Read More →
The Ambisonic Collective
This loose collective of vocally artistic Sydney-siders has been meeting fortnightly with musical maestro Mr Percival at the helm. They will be taking part in Underbelly Arts to work towards their first public performance. Creating improvised audio layers and textures and working on contemporary arrangements, … Read More →
Natalia Ladyko & Ella McInnes
PROJECT: UMBRELLA THEATRE
From the distance, it draws you near
Sense it, feel it, breathe the fear
Blood red velvet to your feet
Heartbeat pulls you from your seat.
A selected few can come discover
What is hidden beneath the cover.
The secrets are waiting to be told
Come and see the … Read More →
The Ordinary Collective
PROJECT: IT JUST LEAVES ME WITH AN EMPTY FEELING
Much digital art can be technically amazing but do nothing for the person experiencing it. Creating a maze of flashing, beeping and flickering gadgets and gizmos, machines and motors, this project seeks to address this unpleasant fact … Read More →
The Festival :: 17 July
At 2pm we closed the street and opened our doors to the public for Underbelly Arts Festival. Along and around Kensington St we featured performances and installations throughout the afternoon and evening.
Inside Studio 12 at FraserStudios The Ordinary Collective had set up their test pattern … Read More →