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Exhibition: Double Happiness B&B by Slow Art Collective

chaco — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:49:48 +0000

(as a part of Bellowing Echoes Exhibition)

White Nest: Swifts Creek 2012

chaco — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:12:44 +0000

(f) route project

@Swifts Creek Cemetery, Swifts Creek, Victoria, Austrlia
April 3-middle May 2012

www.froute.com.au

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675498699

White Nest : Ballarat 2012

chaco — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:05:03 +0000

A Public Art Perspective exhibition

@ Alfred Deakin Place (behind the Ballarat Art Gallery enter via Camp Street)

Liquid Neurology

chaco — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +0000

@ Chapter House Lane

January 9th – January 27th 2012

photo credit: Andrew Noble

Melpore String Sect

chaco — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:04:32 +0000

@Esplanade in Singapore, October 2011-January 2012
collaboration with Dylan Martorell

Endless Drawing series

chaco — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:41:50 +0000

Making Worlds (group drawing show, curated by Lorrain Webb), Edith Gallery, UCAL, New Zealand, Jun/2011

Degavlas by Slow Art Collective

chaco — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:45:45 +0000

‘Try This at Home’ @ OBJECT GALLERY , Sydney
by Slow Art Collective (Tony Adams, Chaco Kato and Dylan Martorell)

Utilising abandoned objects left by local residents for council pick-up, “Degavlas” fostered the practice of re-using and recycling. From these eclectic collecting trips, SAC created a moving body of work from gleaning and gleaners alike.

Degavlas by Slow Art Collective YouTube

White Nest Series

chaco — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:48:20 +0000

White Nest 2010, ＠ Yering Station, 2009 Oct-Dec, Yering Station Sculpture Show, People’s Choice Award
ホワイトネスト2010,ヤーリングステーション彫刻展、ピープルズチョイスアワード受賞

White Nest: storeroom, @Domain House, 2009May-Jun, Journey To the Surface Exhibition
ホワイトネスト：貯蔵室、ドメインハウスにて、2009年5月

Untitled store room
cotton threads, plants, wire, variable dimension, 2009 " src="http://chacokato.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/awl123-150x150.jpg" alt="White Nest: store room" width="150" height="150" />

White Nest: study 2009, ＠front yard
ホワイトネスト：スタディ,2009、自宅

White Nest :2008 April, @Moreland Sculpture Show
ホワイトネスト：2008年 4月、モアランド彫刻展

This installation creates a spatial illusion with white strings, resulting in a ‘drawing’ in public space. It uses sustainable materials and very simple techniques, as a response to the current period hyper-consumerism The work portrays the simultaneous fragility and strength of life, exploring the unstable relationship between the natural world and humanity.

ホワイトネストシリーズ
ただの紐だけでどこまでなにができるだろう、と考えて始めた作品です。ある場所に行って、現存するものと対話し、その場所を一時借り、全く新しい空間ドローイングを作ります。これらは固体としての彫刻ではありません。確かに形はみえますが、言ってみれば錯覚のように実際は実体のないものです。

日常的な素材と単純なテクニックで作るこの作品のシリーズは、現在の大量消費社会についてに対する私なりの考えを反映しています。そして同時に「自然」と「人間性」の不安定な関係、また、「生きるということのあやうさ」と同時に「たくましさ」を、テーマとしています。

作った後はまたいつもの風景に戻り、紐はまた次のプロジェクトに使われます。制作、保存、所有という固定概念から自由になりたい、という気持ちから生まれたアートでsす。

SHELTER by Slow Art Collective

chaco — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:12:50 +0000

offsite exhibition of Mis-design at Ian Potter Museum of Art

Guest Curator: Grace McQuilten
@ McDonald’s drive-through, underground car-park, corner Smith St and Victoria Pde, Collingwood
Tony Adams, Chaco Kato, Ash Keating and Dylan Martorell are four Melbourne-based artists who collaborate under the umbrella of Slow Art Collective. Their shared concern for environmental issues leads them to develop sustainable art practices that highlight the need for social change.

…Slow Art Collective built and installed a makeshift dwelling, filming the process and streaming it live to the Potter Museum. This temporary human shelter was designed for use in ‘emergency’ conditions. Whether these conditions came about through a natural disaster, such as flood or fire, a man-made event, such as nuclear fall-out, or a more localised—yet no less devastating event—such as the advent of homelessness, is unspecified. Collingwood provides a context where discrepancies in living conditions are transparent.
Bunkering down in a subterranean landscape designed to be a transit zone, one through which customers pass swiftly between ordering and collecting their meals, Slow Art Collective asked customers to pause and consider the contingency of human welfare upon the built environment, the nature of ephemeral dwellings, and the purposes to which design might be used.

more details:

Slow Art Collective blog site
Slow Art Collective Facebook
Ian Potter Museum Website

Shelter by Slow Art Collective on YouTube

Brunswick Project by Slow Art Collective

chaco — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:05:42 +0000

@Counihan Gallery in Brunswick

http://brunswickproject.blogspot.com/
http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/arts-and-festivals/counihan-gallery/about-counihan-gallery.html

This ‘slow art’ project seeked to transform the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick into an active studio or gallery-as-laboratory environment. Presented as a series of emerging site-responsive installations and events lead by the Slow Art Collective (SAC), this project involved the art making process taking place within the gallery setting. This slow art environment developed and unfolded during the exhibition and was primarily about the presentation of ephemeral, evolving and collaborative artworks within a public gallery setting and the practice of responding to the specifics of a location

Brunswick Project catalogue PDF-s3