Entrance of the Virtual Gallery Wing where you will find information relating to the machine sculpture "2 Antipodeans Marking out their Territory".
First shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the exhibition Arthur Wicks "Machina:Persona" 1994.
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Construction and Testing 1990 - 1991
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Electric speed controller controlling the speed of the humanoids. | Title: 2 Antipodeans Marking out their Territory
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Controller inserted into one of the 2 pods attached to each of the humanoids. | ||
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Testing in the studio showing the pods attached to the main humanoid structure. |
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The Maquette
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Bo-Peep and Friends visiting Melbourne | maquette for work to be installed in Flinders St station, 1990 Australian Sculpture Triennial,
Melbourne, Sculpture in City Spaces, 1990 |
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2 Antipodeans Markng out their Territory
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a slide show of 10 images
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one of 4 machine sculptures in: Media reviews can be accessed via the Library button above.
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Early state
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Title: 2 Antipodeans Marking out their Territory 1991/2003
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3 images from the work shown in the Lempriere Sculpture Exhibition,
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Extract fom statement for the Lempriere exhibition at Werribee.
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Next 5 images photos taken by Ian Hobbs on empty building block behind studio, Wagga Wagga, 1991. A reworked version exhibited at Werribee Park for the Lempriere Sculpture Prize & Exhibition, 2002 (awarded honourable mention) |
Solidly re-worked; using 24v Programmable Logical Controller (PLC), track with locking system. No chance of the objects coming off the rails; the only problem being the loss of power along the track needed by the motors driving the pods. |
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The TRILOGY Satellite event for Sydney Biennale 1992 |
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Between sections 1 and 2 there is an Intermission which, while being a social relaxation, the spirit of the work continues in its own fashion. |
Each section is constructed as a cartoon sequence of events and images, which reflect and at times distort events and thinking from the twentieth century. The 'hero', the Solstice Voyeur is like an 'everyman', unwittingly and unwillingly caught in a web of misunderstandings, communication breakdowns, absurd accusations and denials, information and media overload. The Solstice Voyeur becomes like anyone who projects outwards their hopes and fears as we approach the end of the second millenium, and is caught looking at their own image 'through a glass darkly'. We become witnesses to the events, as fragments of our knowledge and memories fly past us in a sense-defying dance. But we can make sense of it. WE MUST!! The Trilogy is basically performance theatre , with a group of performance artists who work intuitively within such a framework. Full text of the Sydney Biennale satellite events click HERE |
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An opportunity missed in 2006 but still in the realm of possibility. |
The Junee Railway Yard. A
functioning turntable; proposed site to install the "2 Antipodeans
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