STST.ARI hosted a temporary collective including:
Chris Caines, sound
Damian Castaldi, audiovisual percussive installation
WeiZen Ho, concept initiator and performance deviser
Naomi Oliver, digital video, animation, sound and performance
Michael Petchkovsky, electronic media
Alan Schacher, installation and performance/activation
PLUS Laura Altman with guest artists
The exhibition included an Open Studio & Installation Activation, Performance and Action Events.
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Alexandra Spence
Alex White
Megan Alice Clune
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Gundungurra and Darug people. We recognise their continuing connection to land and culture, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This event takes place on stolen land, land that always was, and always will be Aboriginal land.
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Saturday, 8th February from 2pm til 4pm(ish), we'll be having some very informal drinks at the shop to celebrate the first takeover of the old vault. An interactive installation by local artist; Nick Strike. Blind Spot: Money Burns a Hole in my Socket. Nick will be there to answer any questions about the work and we welcome you to spend a lazy rainy afternoon on our new chairs. There may or not be speeches (probably not), but there will be Tea and most likely booze. Look forward to seeing you if you can make it.
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Pouya Ehsaei @pouyaehsaei
Briohny Doyle @briohny.doyle
Arash Akbari @fnekf
Exhibited in the Steep St. Katoomba Window (Then known as STST.Ari)
Dates: 7th-14th May
Frederick Rodrigues is an Australian media artist based in the Netherlands; focused on social adoption of technology and the subsequent feedback to our perception. Frederick’s medium is also technology; writing code, creating electronics and making systems talk. His work is often collaborative and to this end he is interested in methodologies for collaboration across disparate practices. This approach has allowed Frederick to work with many talented artists across a number of fields.
This video is a collection of recordings of work made from the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 until January 2021. The work includes footage from small experiments, previews of larger projects and ongoing research.
Words from the artist:
_Experiments with volumetric video
Since 2018 I have been doing research on creating real time volumetric video. As part of my artist in residency at the De Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunstan, I was able to continue this work. The aim was to create a real time effects system with timeline controls and exposed parameters. The day I started the residency the reports of Covid-19 in Europe began to circulate. These videos were made
on March 13 2020, the next day all Universities were closed and 2 days later the first lockdown started in the Netherlands.
Music by Pouya Ehsaei
GLSL by Arash Akbari
_remote touch
In the first lockdown myself and many others were shocked and scared. One of the things we lost so fast was touch, a hug and kiss hello and goodbye, brushing past each other on the street, packed into nightclubs and venues and a freer intimacy. This experiment was made to convey touch over the internet; as I knew I could not easily reproduce the tactile sensation, I decided to transliterate the experience: it may work better for those with synesthesia.
_synk
synk is a VR installation for two participants/protagonists, that explores the dissonance between our virtual and real existences in the framework of a speculative narrative. Situated in an immersive fictional space, synk is a commentary on the changing definition of the human in relation to the environment and technology.
Text by Briohny Doyle
Music by Pouya Ehsaei
_a_colour
After some months of lockdown and several experiments looking at how to make different kinds of connections I made a_colour. I was interested in the loss of communal experiences and looking for a way to understand the presence of others in virtual space without explicit signifiers. a_colour creates a communal task, it has no hierarchy and is completely anonymous, things that I had identified as being part of the life that was now restricted in bars seeing music or sitting together in a theatre.
Come in today to see the new installation in the Steep St. vault by Tim Willis "Oppressional Comforts"
Artist Statement: "How do our comforts oppress us, how do we untangle the oppression's that move through us onto others? My practice has been taking apart the technologies that act as comforts, I have found incredible richness in their bones, engaged in the process of materialization, screens that mediate our life and give an incredible extension of influence, hold inside their thin slivers, complex systems of life. I become a disavowed consumer engaged in the working of things, as my ancestors have, flesh in the complexity.
I approach this exhibition as an amorphous space constantly adding and subtracting, this is not an end point but apart of my continual practice as objects hemorrhage out of me." On now til start of April (End date tbc).
29th February, 2020
Hour House (Blue Mountains+Port Fairy)
Gail Preist (Blue Mountains)
Peter Blamey (Syd)
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Gundungurra and Darug people. We recognise their continuing connection to land and culture, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This event takes place on stolen land, land that always was, and always will be Aboriginal land.
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Tania Wilds
Broken Chip
Maizy Coombes
Saturday 14th December, 2019
Time: 5pm til 8pm
Location: Steep St. 84 Bathurst Rd, Katoomba
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Tania Wilds is a bit of folk, a bit of pop and a lot of mood. Tania is interested in taking you somewhere, like a garden of memories or a dark hallway with a surface of light someplace, any place but the place you are standing in right now
With a contempt for conventionality and a love for experimentation, Broken Chip creates music that is electronic yet organic, machine yet human. An orchestra of fat wet boots crunching through snow, of dark leaky basements, of wind whispering through winter wastelands. It's a lesson in evoking mood
Maizy Coombes is a Blue Mountains based singer/songwriter/violinist with the capacity to tenderize your soul. Using a loop pedal to support herself, Maizy produces a unique soundscape to the everyday. Cheerful yet melancholic, Maizy's writing style has been influenced by artists such as Regina Spektor, Kate Nash, and Andrew Bird
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InLärm (Blue Mountains)
MP Hopkins (Sydney)
Lint (Blue Mountains)
https://inlarm.bandcamp.com/releases
https://mphopkins.bandcamp.com/
https://lint2.bandcamp.com/releases
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Gundungurra and Darug people. We recognise their continuing connection to land and culture, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This event takes place on stolen land, land that always was, and always will be Aboriginal land.
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