A Constructed World 2003
perspex, plastic, silver
10 x 8 x 9 cm
Been there done that. I’ve been to Bali too. 2009
Carved Wood, iPod touch, headphones, plastic mats, blue tarpaulin
dimensions variable
Second Last Second Chance 2009
Installation View
Uplands Gallery, Prahran, Melbourne
Le Feu Scrupuleux 2008
acrylic box, balsa wood, cardboard, spaghetti, ash
10.5 x 47 x 12.5cm
Le Feu Scrupuleux 2008
Plastic skull, dvd
16 x 16 x 16 cm aprox
Second Last Second Chance 2009
Installation detail
Uplands Gallery, Prahran, Melbourne
(Left) Costracted World Plate 2006/07 (Right) Mirror Man 2009 2009
(plates) Melamine, permanent marker pen, glue, 21cm diameter, multiple of 100
(mirror man) color photograph, mirrors, speakers, mp3 player, timber frame, 114.0 x 57.5 cm
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
- Second Last Second Chance, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2008
- Saisons Increase Part. 4: L'art de bien gouverner (The Art of Good Government) the last of a four season year-long project by ACW, CAPC Museum of contemporary art Bordeaux (commissioned by Charlotte Laubard)
- Hobbes Opera Part 1, 7 Nation Army, event with musicians and non-musicians, including Rik Bas Baker, Sébastien Ruiz and Michele Robecchi, CAPC Museum of contemporary art Bordeaux
- An hysterical play about food, Domus-Lab, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, 11th international architecture exhibition (commissioned by Camilla Pignatti Morano)
- Saisons Increase: partie 3 L'hiver en été, l'été en hiver (Summer in Winter, Winter in Summer) the third of a four season year-long project by ACW, CAPC Museum of contemporary art Bordeaux
- Le Feu scrupuleux part 2, Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé (Cneai), Chatou France (commissioned by Sylvie Boulanger)
- Saisons Increase: partie 2 Temps fou (Wild Weather) the second of a four season year-long project by ACW, CAPC Museum of contemporary art Bordeaux
- Explaining contemporary art to live eels, event with 17 speakers including Guadalupe Echevarria, Olivier Bardin, Sébastien Pluot, François Piron, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Fabien Vallos, Jeanne Quéheillard, Superflou, CAPC Museum of contemporary art Bordeaux
- Le Feu scrupuleux,part 1, Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé (Cneai),, Chatou France (commissioned by Sylvie Boulanger)
- Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa & Latitudes - Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna*
- Cone of Silence, ACW workshop at Foundation Sandretto with participants from Turin, Istanbul, London, San Francisco, for the exhibition Greenwashing...
- Saisons Increase: partie 1 Ruisseler à rebours (Flowing Upwards) (the first of a four-season year-long project by ACW) CAPC Museum of contemporary art Bordeaux, curated by Charlotte Laubard
2007
- Increase Your Uncertaintly, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, curated by Juliana Engberg (catalogue)
- Change Forums, a month long series of events, performances and conversations at ACCA, Melbourne. Conversation topics included: Collectivity, Publishing without publishers, The changing audience for contemporary art, Losers and failure, Politics and art in australia
- The Melbourne Choir of Complaints, performance, www.complaintschoir.org
- Truck Dance, performance, various locations around the Melbourne CBD. produced by ACCA Melbourne
- Journée Hospitalités, Cneai= Chatou, presentation of the second edition of the publication erreur mensonge méprise tromperie, edited by ACW and produced with the Cneai=
- Schifanoia, N.O. Gallery, Milan and four private apartments, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa (catalogue)
- 30.1.07 event and screenings of Explaining contemporary art to live eels, dvd 6’40” and Pea & Shell, dvd 3'30", with live sound performance by Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato, in the apartment of Maurizia Vila
- 2.2.07 The Social Contract, event with 91 participants, in the apartment of Giovanna Giannattasio
- 6.2.07 event, installations and screening of Where there’s smoke there’s a smoker, in the apartment of
- Claudio Ades
- 8.2.07 screenings and performance of Leviathan and the Mirror Man, in the apartment of Michela Moro and
- Alan Journo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
- And the difference is…, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (curated by Alexie Glass, Ahmad Bin Mashadi et.al)*
- Explaining contemporary art to live eels, event SOS48 Festival, Murcia, Spain (commissioned by Jota Castro)
2008
- And the difference is…, NUS Museum, Centre for the Arts, Singapore (curated by Alexie Glass, Ahmad Bin Mashadi et.al)
- Module 1, De A à Y, video program by D.C.A. and Module 2 Hospitalitiés 2008, programme vidéo (carte blanche å l’association TRAM) Palais de Tokyo
- Young Old Hot Taking Care of Business for 10 Years TCB art inc, Melbourne
- Black Market Posters Type and Print Shop, Montreal Canada (curated by Joseph del Pesco)
- Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear #1, Avec A Constructed World, Justin Beal, Michael Heizer, Richard Prince, Une exposition de Antoine Marchand, Etienne Bernard, Jean-Marc Ballée, Vitrine de la galerie Frédéric Giroux Paris
- Group Group Show, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery Melbourne, curated by DAMP
- Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery Melbourne
2007
- Labyrinth, Art and Knowledge Space, Chaoyang District, Beijing, curated by Dong Bingfeng
- hotel room, Hotel La Louisiane rue de Seine, Paris, curated by Olivier Robert, Judicael Lavrador, Ami Barak et.el
- Blow-Up, Pingyao International Festival, China, curated by Dong Bingfeng
Publications
2009
- pamphlets, on the subjects of Negativity, Not-knowing, Crisis, Nationalism and Stupid, including Sébastien Pluot, Mathieu Copland, Marie Muracciole, Justin Clemens, Pelin Uran, Aaron Schuster and more, produced for Royal Garden une revue virtuelle, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac
2008
- Reader’s Reader: Explaining contemporary art to live eels, A4 photocopy, colour and b&w, contributors include Sébastien Pluot, Superflou, Guadalupe Echevarria, Jean-Charles Zebo, François Piron, Justin Clemens, Simon Barney, Veronica Kent & Sean Peoples and Anthony Gardner, produced with CAPC Bordeaux
- Not-knowing as a shared space, part 11, 2008, A4 photocopy, b&w, with Superflou and Darian Leader. produced with CAPC Bordeaux
- erreur mensonge méprise tromperie #3 (melbourne guangzhou paris) edited by ACW, published with Cneai Chatou. isbn 9782912483607
- erreur mensonge méprise tromperie #2, edited by Costracted World, published with Cneai Chatou,
- Readers Choice Reader: Increase your uncertainty, A4 photocopy, b&w, produced with ACCA, Melbourne
2006
- errors deceits mistakes #1, edited by Costracted World, published with Cneai Chatou, isbn 2-912483-50-6
2005-extant
- SPEECH web magazine, reviews, comments, interviews, texts, published by ACW, Melbourne/Paris, Melb editor Rosemary Forde
- Art Crew published by ACW with Artist Space, New York
- Wild Kingdom published by ACW with the West Collection, Oaks Pennsylvania
- ACW 001 published by ACW
1997
- vedovamazzei, catalogue, published by ACW & Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1993-
- Artfan magazine, issues #1-9 published by ACW, Melbourne, issue #10 published with the Serpentine Gallery, London
Bibliography
2009
- Natalie King, ‘Second Last Second Chance’, Flash Art, March April, Milan
- Justin Clemens, ‘Myth, abjection, otherness: Contemporary Australian Art’, in Meanjin, Volume 68, Number 2, Melbourne
- Natalie King, ‘Second Last Second Chance’, Art Asia Pacific,#62, NY
- Stuart Koop, ‘A Constructed World’ in Crackle. Contemporary art from the middle of nowhere, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008
- Pelin Uran, ‘Man Knows Himself Only In Man’, APTInsight, Vol.4 Fall
- Per Hüttner, ‘A Constructed World “Saisons Increase”’, Konsten.net http://www.konsten.net/narbild/hobbes.html
- Cécile Broqua & Cyril Vergès ‘Désorienter le regard’Spirit No39, April, Bordeaux
- Ilaria Bonacossa ‘A Constructed World’ in Greenwashing: Environment, Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa & Latitudes (catalogue)
2007
- Natalie King ‘Increase Your Uncertainty’ A Constructed World’ Art Monthly issue 205 November, Australia
- Dylan Rainforth ‘A Constructed World’ Artlink vol 27 no3, SA
- François Piron ‘Op(timistic) Art, A World Under Construction’ (french & english)
- Sylvie Boulanger ‘One was made by email, the other in conversation’ (interview french & english)
- Jen Budney ‘Not beyond recognition, but beyond redemption’ (interview)
- Juliana Engberg ‘We can change the world, re-arrange the world...’
- Pelin Uran ‘lifelike art of a constructed world’
- Judicaël Lavrador ‘Caméra cassée’
- Elizabeth Newman ‘Everybody Knows’
- all of the above in ‘Increase Your Uncertainty’ ACCA, Melbourne (catalogue)
- Natalie King ‘Increase Your Uncertainty: A Constructed World’ Flash Art International #256 October, Italy
- Anthony Gardner & Huw Hallam ‘Conversing with A Constructed World’ Broadsheet vol 36 no 2, South Australia (interview)
- Daniele Balit ‘M.M.M.’ Art & Australia Vol 44 No 4 Winter
- Rosemary Forde ‘Crisis What Crisis’ Broadsheet Vol 36 no 1, South Australia
- Ilaria Bonacossa 'Capitalismo e Schifanoia', N.O. Gallery, published by ACW, Milan (catalogue) (italian & english)
2006
- Rosemary Forde ‘How low river rose’ Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne, 2006 (exhibition brochure)
- Judicaël Lavrador 'Cliffhanger' (french & english) Zéro deux#36 Nantes
2005
- Diane Singer 'Sweetness and Light', Eyeline, #58 QLD,
- Sue Cramer 'Unconditional Regard', Natural Selection, issue 5, New Zealand
2004
- Charlotte Laubard 'Another day in a constructed world' (french & english) Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition brochure)
- Robert McKenzie 'Big Dirty Love, A Constructed World', unMagazine, #2, Melbourne
- Darian Leader 'Destination ACW', Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (exhibition brochure)
- Charlotte Laubard 'A Constructed World’ in ‘On Air: video in onda dall'Italia’, published by Galleria Comunale d'arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone (catalogue)
Awards and Prizes
2008
- Couvent des Récollets, Paris, Mairie de Paris award
2005
- Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Australia Council for the Arts award
2002
- The Serpentine Gallery, London, inaugural artists in residence
2000
- ISCP New York 2000, Australia Council for the Arts award