Surface Tension was a mobile projection art program presented by the Adelaide City Council and the Australian Network for Art and Technology that screened throughout the Adelaide CBD from November 2005 to March 2006.
PlatosCave_Crowd
Sebastian Carboncini, Shoot, Tallstoreez Productionz and Plato’s Cave were the four Adelaide artists/artists groups commissioned to produce projection works for the screenings. The artists did a series of nightly excursions around the City of Adelaide that took art to unsuspecting new audiences, using a mobile projection van to present a portable array of guerrilla-style projections and performances in unusual city locations.
Surface Tension takes art to unsuspecting new audiences using a mobile projection van to present a portable array of guerrilla style projections and performances in unusual city locations. These temporary public artworks were presented as a series of nightly excursions around the City of Adelaide from November 2005 to March 2006.
Successful artists also participated in an intensive workshop in late October facilitated by one of Australia’s most engaging new media artists, Kirsten Bradley of Cicada. Cicada is a creative partnership between Kirsten, Nick Ritar, and Ben Frost, working primarily with projection, video, interactive media and sound. Workshops were also undertaken with six students from Helpmann Academy partner schools, providing a unique and exciting professional development opportunity to work with one of Australia’s leading artist’s in the field.
Plato’s Cave is a mobile shadow-theatre company, comprised of artists Tamara Baillie, Samara Mitchell and Vic Waclawik. They combine traditional silhouette-puppetry techniques, animation and moving images in order to create contemporary interpretations of mythology and fables. They have performed in the 2004 Adelaide Fringe, The Adelaide Festival Theatre’s 2005 Big Backyard Program and the 2005 SALA Moving Image Festival.
Shoot_Railway Station
Sebastian Carboncini is a performance artist who has graced the stages locally, nationally and internationally for the last eleven years in many formations. He has played at two Adelaide Big Day Out Festivals, performed at four Adelaide Fringes and one Adelaide Cabaret Festival and is about to have his ninth solo photographic art exhibition.
SHOOT artists’ collective, with artists Edward James, Matthew Lewczak, Ryan Sims and Danielle Walpole working on this project, value collaborative exploration of new-media and development of alternate ways to present photo-digital and new-media artworks. Exhibiting both locally and nationally, Shoot’s art exhibition events include ‘Metrospective’, part of the Adelaide City Council ‘Luminosity’ public art program 2004, and ‘Projector’, presented as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2004 at the South Australian Museum.
tallstoreez productionz, a new media/performance team, are award winning documentary filmmakers Jennifer Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell. They work across hybrid art forms including multimedia installations, interactive performances, interventionist art, social impact filmmaking and youth arts/education. Their mission is to re-vision the purpose of buildings, artificial landscapes and crowds by turning them into spontaneous, living theatre sets, as a powerful reclaiming of spaces for and by the people who inhabit them.
Dreamcatchers, Copyright Tallstoreez Productions, 2006.
The four artists groups first participated in an intensive workshop facilitated by one of Australia’s most engaging new media artists, Kirsten Bradley of Cicada. Cicada is a creative partnership between Kirsten, Nick Ritar, and Ben Frost, working primarily with projection, video, interactive media and sound. Workshops were also undertaken with six students from Helpmann Academy partner schools, providing a unique and exciting professional development opportunity to work with one of Australia’s leading artists in the field.
Surface Tension has been made possible through Adelaide City Councils Public Art program and was delivered in negotiation with Council by the Australian Network for Art & Technology.
http://www.surfacetension.anat.org.au
http://www.tallstoreez.com/category/art#dreamcatcher
Tags: guerrilla projections, mobile projection art, moving image, urban interventions
