In the context of a lifetime, a day passes by in the twinkle of an eye, often unthought about.
100 Notions From a Nations of Two places the spotlight on each day and the many moods and voices contained within.
A collaboration between two artists, Vic and Sarah McEwan, 100 Notions from a Nation of Two was created during a process whereby for 100 days, Vic McEwan would record a musical piece each morning as a type of "morning portrait of the day through sound". At the end of each day, Sarah McEwan would listen to this piece of music and create visual representations using paint, pencil, ink and all manner of materials.
These were then digitised and edited into a video accompaniment each day.
This immense work is an interactive installation which uses music, drawings, painting and video manipulation. A sound and sight diary of 100 days which features over 800 minutes of music and video, 100 improvised musical scores and 100 video projections created from over 500 drawings.
Presented as an Interactive installation, this work uses technology such as Pure Data to create the presentation backbone but is still a work that relies on more traditional practices such as musical composition, drawing and painting. It is a non traditional portrait, a time lapsed peek into the character of two artists.
This work will be presented in an immersive and interactive new media installation at the Wagga Wagga Art Galley from Feb 3rd until April 1st 2012.
Artist Talk Feb 11th at 11am.
Watch a video, made by Darrin Baker, about the making of this artwork.
Remote Spaces is a series of 4 shows in the remote Austrlian landscape which aims to celebrate the vast expanse of land that make up Australia and the communities that exist within it.
Show 2 is in an abandoned service station in Matong not far from Narrandera in NSW.
Video footage from Remote Space #1 will be online shortly.
Remote Space is a series of 4 shows over 5 months in the remote Australian Landscape.
This series of shows represents a major shift in The Cad Factory's presentation of live music and combines what we have previously done with what we believe is the next frontier in the presentation of music, the interesting re-use of space, on this occasion with a regional focus on the australian landscape.
Held throughout the Riverina, approximately half way between Melbourne and Sydney, these shows are a chance to place music normally played in inner city pubs, out in the vastness of regional Australia.
These shows will be held in a huge sprawling scrapyard, an abandoned service station, an abandoned ballroom and an old remote hall. Check out the flyer below for more details. They will also be vodcast here after each event.
Hot on the heels of Residency #2 comes Residency #3
Bruce Odland is a New York based composer and sound artist who is known for his large scale, public space sound installations which transform city noise into harmony, real- time.
Bruce has exhibited and performed all over the world from The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, to Berlin, Switzerland and America.
In 2004 he and Sam Auinger (O+A) altered the harmonic mix of the World Financial Center Plaza using the moon, tides, harmonic tuning tubes, and cement loudspeakers ("Blue Moon"). Together they have changed the sonic character of many public spaces around the world.
His many collaborations include work with Laurie Anderson, Dan Graham, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Peter Sellars, Joanne Akailitis, Robert Woodruff, Tony Oursler, Peter Erskine, and the Wooster Group.
Bruce will be in Residency at The CadFactory - Old Birrego School between November 1st and November 22nd. He will collaborate with Vic McEwan to create a large scale, interactive sound installation in the ground of the Old Birrego school on November 19th 2011.
Night birds will be the creation of an interative landscape orchestra where audience will be able to play a series of instruments made from found objects including sugar gums, rusted metal, earth, roots, pepper trees and old farm implements. Along with food and a performance.
Performance outcomes announced for Cad Factory Rural Residency Program Residency #2.
To view a Google Maps image with extra performance and location details, click here
The Cad Factory Rural Residency Program announces Residency # 2 in the 2011 program.
Victoria Hunt is a founding member of the Bodyweather ensemble The De Quincey Co with whom she has created over 20 productions and residencies nationally and internationally.
She has worked with New Zealand based group MAU Dance Company and has performed all over the world including a three month intensive research with Min Tanaka in Japan exploring the connections between the body and environment.
The Cad Factory Regional Residency program invites 3 national and one International artist per year to work at the Old Birrego School, a remote, disused, one room school built in 1886.
The project aims to increase opportunities for exposure to high quality artistic programming in regional Australia and allow communities to engage with artistic process during the creation of major site specific artwork(s).
This program affords artists the opportunity to consider their practice within the remote horizons of Australian landscape and its immense panorama of time and space.
Each artist will maintain a blog during their residency, viewable at www.cadresidency.wordpress.com
Mayu Kanamori, the first artist in The Cad Factory Rural Residency Program, conducted her onsite residency in April 2011 which culminated in an exhibition in the old school house which was opened by Judith Blackall from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney on April 15th.
The Exhibition was visited by over 200 people and extended for an extra week due to community requests.
Part of the residency involves each artist writing a blog during their time here. To share in Mayus experience click here
Scroll down to find more details about the project and about Mayu Kanamori.
The Cad Factory Regional Residency program invites 3 national and one International artist per year to work at the Old Birrego School, a remote, disused, one room school built in 1886.
The project aims to increase opportunities for exposure to high quality artistic programming in regional Australia and allow communities to engage with artistic process during the creation of major site specific artwork(s).
This program affords artists the opportunity to consider their practice within the remote horizons of Australian landscape and its immense panorama of time and space.
The first residency starts soon, stay tuned as each artist will maintain a blog during their residency.
To download press release about the first years four artists Click Here
Cad Factory Cadette Sarah McEwan has her recent work, I Hate Big Girls, in the Bruswick Street Gallery from 18 February to 3 March as part of their Works on Paper $10000 Prize and Exhibition, 322 Brunswick St Fitzrory.
The Gallery is open from 10am - 10pm 7 days a week. http://bsgart.com.au/
Cad Factory Cadette Vic McEwan collaborates with Linda Luke in "Thirteen" as part of the Live Works Festival at Performance Space at Carriageworks
Cad Factory Cadette Vic McEwan provides live narration and sound design on this show which follows the emotive journey reflecting on the last 5 years of the project In Repose
This is being presented as part of the Oz-Asia festival in Adelaide.
Sydney's all-female ensemble, Sirens Big Band, lead by double bassist Jessica Dunn and saxophonist Harriet Harding, collaborate with The Cad Factory's Vic McEwan to create a roaming site-specific performance that takes place in Brisbane's city streets.
This performance explores areas of both intimacy and scale. It has elements of reveal, surprise and wonder. Expect lots of large scale improvisation, as the 'Sirens Big Band' wail and jam with the mood of the city which wails and jams back.
