Photography by Marina Lamari
A Time-based Exhibition (2015)
Pop-up event, Allpress Studio, Collingwood
I became interested in time after noticing how often I felt bored in exhibitions, despite identifying as a visual artist and curator. I wanted to test whether art could be experienced differently if time itself became the material.
I invited a group of artists to collaborate: Michael Armstrong (painting), James Parkinson (installation), T.R. Carter and Amy-Jo Jory (sound), Torie Nimmervoll (performance), Dani Reynolds (multi-arts) and Beth Sometimes (sculpture). The invitation was to work live in front of an audience for ten minutes, building a visual or performative outcome in real time.
Across the event, actions unfolded simultaneously and overlapped. A canvas was stretched and amplified through microphones, a plush computer became a site of performance, a clown appeared in the gallery, a live soundtrack responded to everything, the Mona Lisa was re-enacted, and a toy dog was walked on a treadmill.
I set a loose framework that allowed each work to bleed into the next, forming a collaborative, time-based environment. The result was a non-repeatable happening, where meaning emerged through collision, interruption and unexpected moments of transformation.