“Territory Time” is happening!

15 May - 29 May 2010, Opening at 8pm on Saturday 15 May 2010

Gee! Finally “Territory Time” has got its home.  Still wish with finger cross for a successful opening on 15 May (Opening)

Venue:
Headquarters
55 High St
Northcote, VIC

Artists:
Catherine McAvoy
Joshua Bonson
Kris Keogh
Rebecca Arbon
Siying Zhou (artist/curator)

Consisting of artworks by five Darwin sound and visual artists, Territory Time attempts to insert a “true” sense of the Territory, into the Melbourne arts hub. There is neither glamorous photographs of landscape, nor aboriginal paintings geared to the tourist market. Territory Time forms a unique time zone in which a nostalgia for objects, expressive painting, a spiritual sound scape and an anonymous voice feature in an adventure for whoever dares to step inside.

Using materials that are easily found and produced in the Territory, Arbon, Bonson, Keogh, McAvoy and Zhou expose an unpolished Territory of untold stories about their lives in Territory Time.

Keogh brings the most tropical element to the exhibition. Performing a ten-hour live durational performance on opening night, from dust till dawn, Keogh will be incorporating the sounds that he live-recorded in Darwin. The performed music will be recorded and continue to play for the duration of the exhibition. His abstraction of sounds found in nature suggests a beautiful wet and rich land where people may explore in dream. Territory Time also sets a different time for visitors. McAvoy’s “Reminiscence act II” immerses the audience into a sweet and “worry-free” childhood, experienced through her pink dress installation. However, danger lurks under the surface. Bonson, tries to transmit the power and strength of the most dangerous animal in the Territory, the saltwater crocodile, into his expressive painting Skin.  Zhou’s Who’s There?, implies an unstable, violent and isolated society of the Territory via her daily news readings of NT News headlines. Arbon expresses a psychological attachment to Darwin through her work Peregrination. Using copper telephonic wires, Arbon weaves routes she has taken from Darwin across the world, “journeys where I have always returned back Darwin.” Territory Time depicts a quirky and sometimes absurd relationship between its dwellers and a place.

Territory Time intends to introduce a wild, beautiful, ironic and risky Territory to those who dare to know. In this time zone, you may go ‘troppo’, feel nostalgia, or transform violence into a meditation. Come and immerse yourself into this Territory urban zone.

Curated by Siying Zhou

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