‘What is the most important thing we could be speaking about right now?’
- Bucky
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The Emerging Artist Studio Program
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The program was initiated in 2004 with funding from the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, allowing Firstdraft to make the studio on the ground floor of Firstdraft available to emerging artists as a studio space. Throughout 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 the program has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.
This studio program has been developed to increase the breadth of Firstdraft’s involvement with and support for emerging experimental arts in Australia. The program provides emerging artists with the opportunity to develop their practice and exhibit within a dynamic artistic community in central Sydney.
Firstdraft studio artists are encouraged to utilise the time frame and the studio’s proximity to the exhibition space to create and exhibit work not normally encouraged by the short time frames available for installing work. The program provides an opportunity to work onsite in a dynamic environment with access to a community of peers, encouraging artists to become more involved in an Artist Run Initiative (ARI).
Current Residents:
Rachel Scott
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2009 Residents:
Ella Barclay
Vicki Papageorgopoulos
Jordana Maisie
Jakie Middleton & David Lawrey
2008 Residents:
Leo Coyte
Kirsten Bradely
Will French
Kate Scardifield
Emma White
Anna John
Rachel Fuller
Nicola Hardy & Phil Schöde
August 30, 2009
“ If men didn’t have the faculty, an equal faculty, they would soon become strangers to each other; they would scatter the globe and societies would be dissolved…The exercise of that power is at once the sweetest of our pleasures and the most demanding of our needs.
Joseph Jacotot, from Jacques Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1991)
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Things in the studio are kind of looking like this, but kind of really not…
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August 16, 2009
The loneliness of the project
Posted by Rachel. First blog post… oohh err scary… other people’s words to begin with… Boris Groys’ recent article in the New York Magazine of Contemporary Art and Theory
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August 12, 2009
Why do anything?
When we ask ‘why do anything?’ it seems to highlight the fact that we do do something. Something happens rather than nothing. We use our faculties and our knowledge - which is only ever a product of work, experience and interest - and apply it to a certain thing, an issue, an idea. It’s very easy to do something, it is also easy to do nothing. Somethings are too hard so we don’t do them, other things are too easy so we don’t do them. Doing can become organised (so that many people are doing the same thing or concerned with different aspects of the same thing), or it can remain unorgansied and proceed without plan, vision or strategy. One thing may be for certain: man’s survival is not secured by his intellect (or his procession through history). We cannot feel comfortable in our current context because a favorite thinker has existed. We have things to do, we are restless, but do we know why?
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August 6, 2009
Invitation to Breakfast
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You are invited to a free breakfast every saturday until september. So far guests have consumed porridge served with strawberries and banana (with brown sugar and milk) as well as fresh bread-rolls with soft-boiled eggs and tabasco sauce. Fresh juice and coffee is also available.
This modest undertaking has its roots in the ambitious and successful ‘Free Breakfast for School Children Program’ initiated by the Black Panther Party in 1969.
From 9.00 till late
Firstdraft Gallery Studio
116-118 Chalmers Street
Surry Hills, 2021
Upcoming breakfasts:
Saturday the 7th:
Special guest cuisine: Lupita Di Palma Garcia
Saturday the 15th:
A good alliance: Pancakes and Smoothies
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August 3, 2009
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space…
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship…
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manuel For Spaceship Earth (1963)
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March 19, 2009
Experiment 01
This is a video showing my initial experiment for my most recent interactive installation: ‘Potential Energy’…
Using a 12 volt power supply I send short bursts of current through the Actuator Motor - I wanted to see whether this rapid jolt would be strong enough to force the spring loaded hinge to smack the base of the galvanised chain and create an organic wave movement travelling from the base of the chain to the top/ceiling and then back down again…
Eventually, the burst of current will be triggered by the viewer’s movement passed an infrared (motion detector) sensor.
So have a look!
Cheers,
Jordana
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January 25, 2009
2009
welcome to firstdraft emeging artists studio for 2009
we’d like to welcome:
Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey
Vicki Papageorgopoulos
next round of applications will be due in may. see our website for details
mail@firstdraftgallery.com
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November 26, 2008
Word Cloud Land
I was just checking out Tom Cho’s blog and he had used this cool thing called Wordle to generate a word cloud. So I used it too and I can recommend it to everyone!
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November 24, 2008
Tchuss!
So it is the end of my residency and I’m packing up:
What is Sport? By Roland Barthes, Translated by Richard Howard
David Rathman Exhibition Catalogue from Clementine Gallery, New York
Monocle Issue 16 Volume 2 September 2008
Lots of burnt DVDs with the same thing on them
A box of scrap cardboard left over from the pools
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942
Lots of scribbles and notes
Eleanor Antin By Howard N. Fox
A Downtown By George! poster
The beginnings of a water colour series
ArtistProfile Issue 5 2008
An orange envelope of negs and prints of swimming pools in New York
A side board that needs a little love and some stripping
A tool box
A DVD of the 2005 Swans Premiership
A pack of Polymer Clay (never used)
New ideas on Mary Ann Bugg
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And probably a whole heap of other stuff that I don’t quite know about yet….Rx
