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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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116-118 Chalmers St.
Surry Hills NSW 2010
t: +61 (0)2 9698 3665
open: Wed to Sat, 12-6pm
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A nice little article on the Garden (by Lucy Fokkema) on the Throw Shapes blog – read it here.
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Saturday’s workshop saw home-made pumpkin scones with rosella jam & Western Sydney backyard rosellas, lots of tea (lemongrass from the garden and jasmine flowers from China), and various drawings of people’s next-door neighbour’s gardens/architectural plans for what we could do in the gallery. … And the beginnings of a seed exchange, which will continue to take shape over the next week.
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Our new solo exhibition at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art opens this Thursday. It will be evolving for the next six weeks, so please do drop by later and see where it ends up travelling to – more details below:
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TESSA ZETTEL & KARL KHOE
MAKE-DO GARDEN CITY
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
181 – 187 Hay St. Sydney
26 March – 8 May 2010 / Open Tues – Sat, 11am – 6pm
Opening Thursday 25 March, 6 – 8pm
4A’s ground floor turns into Make-do Garden City, a place where fictional Chinese gardens of the seventeenth century meet with the personal histories and potential sustainable futures of Sydney’s Chinatown. Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe will be conducting a six-week program of talking, making and growing that explores new ways of remembering and recreating the city around us.
Members of the local community are invited in to contribute stories of gardens – real, past or imagined – in exchange for edible plants grown by the artists. As conversations unfold throughout the exhibition, the artists will produce a series of experimental domestic micro-farms that respond to the places and ideas being discussed. This timely project investigates what it means to live in this city in the context of urban expansion, climate change and food crisis.
Visit Make-do Garden City for a chance to catch the artists tending their installation, or join them for one of two informal workshops involving seed-swapping, drawing, tea and conversation.
Public Programs:
Saturday, 10th April, 11am – 1pm
& Saturday, 8th May, 11am – 1pm (Closing event)
www.4a.com.au
www.makeshift.com.au
Make-do Garden City has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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Some little things we made during a recent 3-week residency at Bundanon can be seen for the next few days only at Gallery 4A. It’s part of the 2009 Annual Members’ Exhibition, which runs until Thursday, December 24. More pictures of these (and other) works to come soon.
IMAGE CREDIT:
Tessa Rapaport & Karl Logge
The small worlds that keep us, 2009
oil on cycad seeds, bone, branch, mushroom. lichen
(… in the studio at Bundanon)
photo by Tessa Rapaport & Karl Logge
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2 pieces of makeshift news this week:
1. We’re the current resident artists at the Lock-Up in Newcastle, and will be living and working here until Tuesday the 22nd of Sept, so please drop by if you’re in the area.
2. We’re also part of a group show called Breathing Space happening at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, which opens on Friday the 18th of Sept. It runs until the 25th of October.
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