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Tomorrow afternoon (Sunday July 25th) we’re doing an artist talk at Firstdraft. Starts at 4pm, Luke Thurgate and Bronwyn Carter will be doing their thing too, and it’s your last chance to see all the work before it closes for good at 6pm.
Also this coming week we’re taking part in the HotHouse symposium at Sydney Opera House. Lots of exciting speakers and ideas will be floating around, including Hou Hanru, Tony Fry and Michaela Crimmin of the RSA Arts & Ecology project. It runs Tues 27th – Wed 28th July, and we’re speaking on Tuesday afternoon.
‘HotHouse brings together artists, designers, curators and creative thinkers in a quest to develop models for sustainable environmental change. This “collective experiment†calls upon art and design to offer practical means of transforming spaces, environments, and even cities in ways that are enduring and energising, and that, most importantly, engage all sectors of the community.’
Image credit: Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe, Colony Collapse, 2010, photograph by Makeshift
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Read a cute little write-up on Colony Collapse by Rachel Fuller at Concrete Playground.
And for those who’ve been meaning to visit, there’s only one week left! Quicksticks… (it looks something like this)
The bees live in their hive, inside the orange meat safe. In theory they can fly in and out of the gallery whenever they like, through a pipe leading outside, however Sydney’s still-cold winter has kept them pretty much tucked up in bed. If it’s sunny you might spot them hanging out next to their hive or amongst the blueberries and ‘Happy Wanderer’. Come and talk to them, they’re super sweet!
 
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We have an exhibition opening at Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney in 2 days time. It’s called Colony Collapse and concludes our studio residency at the new Firstdraft Depot. There will be a hive of native stingless bees, amongst other things (drawings, constructions etc.) relating to the development of our forthcoming project for the Museum of Contemporary Art‘s In the Balance exhibition. Also opening at the same time are shows by Bronwyn Carter, Luke Thurgate and Baden Pailthorpe.
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Colony Collapse
Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe
Colony Collapse continues Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe’s ongoing collaborative project to micro-farm pockets of the city, cannibalising leftover building materials (and other devices of protection/preservation) in the construction of makeshift experiments in urban self-sufficiency. At Firstdraft the artists investigate the possibilities for small-scale mobile honey production in the gallery and beyond, as they prepare to build a hybrid native beehive-food cart destined for Sydney Cove. With food crisis, suburban sprawl and the colony’s precarious histories (and futures) on their minds, Zettel & Khoe invite audiences in to smell the flowers and talk to the bees.
As part of the Firstdraft Emerging Artists Studio Program supported by Australia Council for the Arts
Exhibition opens: Wednesday 7 July 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 25 July 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 25 July 2010 at 4pm
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