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TRANSART
The City of Perth Arts and Culture Policy encourages and fosters creativity, innovation and excellence by providing assistance to local arts and cultural activities through initiatives such as TRANSART.
TRANSART is a series of annual public art commissioning initiatives targeted at professional and established WA artists that aim to integrate temporary, ephemeral, interventionist, performative or audio artwork into the urban fabric of the everyday.
The commission is intended to engage with an extremely broad and constantly shifting audience. The ambition of any artists selected for this commission must be to achieve maximum impact with minimum risk (to the work, surroundings and public).
For further information please contact:
Paola Anselmi
Arts & Cultural Development Coordinator
City of Perth
Tel: 9461 3382
TRANSART 13
6D City 6, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist
6D CITY 6
1-30 June, 2013
6am – 12am
32 King Street, Perth
6D City 6,is a hybrid of a giant hologram and anamorphic projection (a cinematography distortion technique). Depending on the viewer’s position, it appears as an abstract field of floating fragments or from a single perspective it crystallises to form moving portraits of characters that once inhabited Wolf Lane. In addition to a cast of humans, a dog, the labradoodle Ruben, proudly patrols the site - a playful embodiment of the artist’s personal connection to the site. For a number of years Ruben was an inhabitant of the laneway near Hayes’ studio. The work, which Hayes describes as “an expanded cinema artwork”, positions the viewer within the artist’s real and speculative history of Wolf Lane through an expanded cinema artwork.
The work interrogates the nature of memory, investigating how the individual remembers, restructures, embellishes and romanticises the past over time. It uses an elegant tracking algorithm to enable the viewer to both complete and reframe their experience of the artwork, depending on the context of each encounter.
When approaching the site from Hay Street, the viewer may encounter Ruben bounding towards them while later that day when they cross the street to say hi, he may be yawning in preparation for an afternoon nap.
TRANSART TRANSITION
PERTHUME
The public are invited to shape the scents of Perth by participating in Grace Gamage and Olivia O’Donnell’s Perthume project.
Launching 5-6pm on Saturday June 1 with the Bouquet Performance on the corner of Newcastle and Beaufort Street, the artists will then be setting up a temporary distillery in shopfront@central, 149 Beaufort Street from 11am-5pm daily (except Sunday).
From 7-15 June, the public are invited to join daily Harvest with the Artist sessions, foraging for plant matter and materials that will be distilled into scents that represent the unique fragrance of Perth.
Visit the artists at their perfume counter in the Murray Street Mall info booth (William Street end) between 11am-5pm, 21-23 June, to collect limited edition samples of their scents.
AS WE HEAR, THEY SING, WHERE THE FATE CARRIES US
Accessible 24/7 within June 2013
Aberdeen Street and Museum Street // Hay Street Mall
Directly opposite Western Australia, on the other side of the earth are the islands of Bermuda. Artist collective Daphne Major Research Office has sent recordings of one of the rarest parrots in the world, the Western Ground Parrot, to Bermuda where the native Gray Catbirds copied and learnt their calls. The artwork is amplified at locations in Northbridge and Perth, throughout June.
BURNING EMBERS
Accessible 24/7 10 June-July 2013
Roe Street Car Park arcade (entry off James Street)
Sam Gillies’ Burning Embers is the third in a series of sound works for public spaces. The series investigates the transformative power of sound to convert functional and utilitarian spaces into a unique and vibrant sound chamber. Roe Street Car Park arcade features gentle drones and abstract sonic interactions generated by numerous sound-producing modules.
Katie Lenanton
Youth Projects Officer (Monday to Thursday)
Community Services Unit
City of Perth
GPO Box C120
PERTH WA 6849
Tel: +61 8 9461 3181
Fax: +61 8 9461 3086
Email: katie.lenanton@cityofperth.wa.gov.au
Web: http://www.perth.wa.gov.au
Youth Projects Officer (Monday to Thursday)
Community Services Unit
City of Perth
GPO Box C120
PERTH WA 6849
Tel: +61 8 9461 3181
Fax: +61 8 9461 3086
Email: katie.lenanton@cityofperth.wa.gov.au
Web: http://www.perth.wa.gov.au
THE 2012 TRANSARTISTS – PAUL KAPTEIN and GRAEME BURGE
PAUL KAPTEIN (WA)
1– 17 May 2012
The Continental Drifters #20-22; 2012
Stirling Gardens, Perth (cnr Barrack Street & St Georges Terrace)
Paul Kaptein is a Perth-based sculptor with a national practice. Kaptein has an Honours Degree in Fine Arts from Curtin University and a Diploma of Technology in Interactive Multimedia from AMTC TAFE. He has been exhibiting his work since 1999 in solo exhibitions in Western Australia, New Zealand and Queensland. His work was selected for the City in Perth Art Award in 2007, the Bunbury Biennale in the same year and Kaptein has been selected for Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe in 2011 and 2012.
The Continental Drifters #20 – 22 is an interpretation of a Zen garden in which a small, anonymous figure (Gobi) rakes a traditional water pattern into the sand and is apparently unnerved by what transpires. Instead of the traditional placement of rocks, this raked body of water carries the residue of history and is alive with aquatic references a whale’s tail and a shark’s fin, human activity and sinister collateral such as sea mines. As such, the work aims to explore ideas of transformation and connection.
Alongside this work, an identical but empty Zen garden and raking area is set up for public interaction through which the audience may respond to the artwork or simply engage in traditional Zen practice as a counterpoint to their daily experience.
Photography: City of Perth
To download a PDF of the TRANSART postcard click here
GRAEME BURGE (WA)
7– 28 MAY 2012
Capital S; 2012
Murray Street Mall, Perth (cnr Barrack Street & St Georges Terrace)
Graeme Burge is a young Perth-based sculptor. Graeme comes from a trade-based practice in building as a plasterer and the automotive industry. He graduated from Edith Cowan University in 2008 and only two years later was awarded the $12,000 City of Joondalup Art Award in 2008. He has been exhibiting as a professional artist since 2005.
In Capital S the looped movement of lines reflects the changing definitions of street art, graffiti and urbanism. It tackles the balance between the intrinsic and fluid qualities of an urbanist aesthetic and society's conventions and restricitions in relation to it, all of which requires negotiation and compromise.
The monochrome nature of the piece is in stark opposition to the vivid and intense colour of much street art. The finish resembles a cast concrete architectural form, again questioning the nature of uniqueness, impermanence and immediacy versus replication and stability.
Photography: City of Perth
To download a PDF of the TRANSART postcard click here
PREVIOUS TRANSART PROJECTS
TRANSART 2011 – PROJECT 1
Paul Caporn (assisted by Gary Silverton, Pat Miller, Casey Aryes)
Haul Pack 2011
EVA foam, copper rock
Photography: Eva Fernandez
To download a PDF of the TRANSART postcard click here
TRANSART 2011 – PROJECT 1
Olga Cironis (assisted by Liz Cartell)
Skips (Help me be like you) 2011
Skips bins, peppercorn trees, mulch, gold leaf
Photography: Eva Fernandez
To download a PDF of the TRANSART postcard click here