2011/2012 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
The 2011/2012 Underground Resident Artists are
Roarawar Fertata (Ben Cittadini and Craig Peade),
Michal Teague and Laine Hogarty,
Lauren Brown and
RMIT Public Art Graduate Prize Winner.
ROARAWAR FEARTATA
Benjamin Cittadini and Craig Peade of live performance art based collective ROARAWAR FEARTATA are currently artists-in-residence as part of the AURA Project until June 2011.
Compiling lists, collecting lost and found objects, collating meteorological data and analysing the weather for "projected human traits", conducting unknown-Other language classes, calibrating maps, completing surveys, collaborating with residents, conspiring with uncontrollable unconscious forces and even reading books including philosophical treatise on time aloud; Ben and Craig's presence will become felt present around the Collingwood Housing Estate over the weeks to come until June this year.
ROARAWAR FEARTATA COLLECTIVE as artists recognise, acknowledge and identify with a status as being that which is of a transient visitor, outsider, stranger or foreigners with a certain particular parallel knowledge or understanding to those inhabiting the Collingwood Housing Estate community. So, tell them what you think!
Please note ROARAWAR FEARTATA do not condone the use of flame throwers, confiscation of weather vanes that are not the property of the Department of Housing, the oblation of obligatory token public art such as ritualistic totems deifying persons living and social network acquaintances nor performing goodwill gestures in order to infiltrate restricted splaces. Nor do we provoke, intervene, breach, exceed, exploit, manipulate or transgress the directives of others whom have the authority we so desire and respect.
MICHAL TEAGUE AND LAINE HOGARTY
Michal Teague is based in Abu Dhabi and works largely with car cultures and their vast expanses of urban space. She is also obsessed with starting a mushroom farm.
Laine Hogarty was a Collingwood local for 8 years and has a long history of creating community-based works, especially with women.
Laine Hogarty was a Collingwood local for 8 years and has a long history of creating community-based works, especially with women.
Working together they will be in residence during June, July and August creating a secret tunnel and working with the nature of domestic life on the estate.
LAUREN BROWN
Lauren Brown is based in Melbourne and Berlin and her work is based on sound in the public realm. During her residency in September, October and November, she will be turning the site into a series of instruments and will be developing recorded works based on the sounds from the estate.
The RMIT Public Art Graduate will start 2012 in residence from March until May 2012.
