A RAY ARRAY - Screening new video directed by Sarah Rara (of Lucky Dragons).
Monday October 10th, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
$5 suggested donation
A RAY ARRAY examines forms of visual and aural interference: from the failure of a message to be discernable, sudden interruptions, visual disturbance, the interaction of 2 sound signals, instability, and optical effects. Structured like a collection of short stories, the work is composed of 16 video chapters that explore the subject of interference using simple sets, everyday objects, and subtle special effects. A RAY ARRAY features a soundtrack created by Lucky Dragons.
http://sarahrara.com/a-ray-array
Video trailer
Also featuring live music performances by:
NORTHLANDS - solo dream synth and vocal drift by Esther, of the Melbourne duo Superstar.
HOUSE PLANTS - matching synthesizer duo of Sarah Rara & Tim Coster, some kind of exploratory counterpoint & arpeggios.
7pm early start with music first, and then video once it’s dark enough.
At Tape Projects, 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne.
FDAO - Sugar Mountain Festival.
April 2011
FDAO continues on with TAPR’s interest in collaboration, social experimentation and lo-tech theatricality. The event included alchemical interference, bureaucratic occultism, magnetic distortion and accumulative infiltration.
Secret society recruitment, micro-crystolic scanning, vital statistics determination, ag-au-cu.
Tape Projects Portraits – Life Studies from the year 2030.
December 2010
The task was to each create a future portrait of a fellow Tape Projects member in the year 2030. What followed was a series of speculations, divinations and experimentations.
Futuristic portrait creation, astral plane living, unicorn quest, Platform 20th anniversary.
Lazy Slum - Blindside Gallery.
August 2010
Lazy slum was a cross-disciplinary experiment in what happens when you build a society from scratch. Think Lord of the Flies meets Better Homes and Gardens. Dystopian community meets tribal display home.
Over three days a game unfurled where audience and artists alike were governed by the rules and roles of this fleeting micro community. Lazy slum was the result of an exchange program between Tape Projects and Hobart-based initiative Six a.
Micro civilization building, oracle consulting, snuggy wearing pilgrimage, group-dreaming.
100 Proofs The Earth is Not a Globe – Incinerator Arts Complex.
July 2010
Data collection and findings from Tape Projects’ art-science investigation into the edge of understanding.
A unique feature of the 2010 Next Wave Festival, ‘100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe’ was not just a live-art performance, but a travelling road show that spanned 18 months of project development. Presented here were the results of the audience participation that occurred at the many talks, workshops and public appearances Tape Projects made during this time over 2009-2010.
The exhibition included video and audio works from the show, documentation, data collection, surveys, drawings and videos made by local Moonee Valley residents.
100 Proofs The Earth is not a Globe
May 2010
Part science project, part religious intervention, 100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe was a live art installation and guided performance, conducted for the Next Wave Festival 2010.
Pseudo-scientific game playing, data collection, rock exchanging, ritualistic aerobics.
Images of 100 Proofs
Reviews:
The Enthusiast
Kill Your Darlings
Real Time Arts
Desktop Magazine
100 Proofs Talks Series – Tape Projects.
June 2009 - March 2010
The 100 Proofs talks were a monthly series initiated to coincide with 100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe. As part of an ongoing program of debates, experiments and public talks that formed the basis for this cross-disciplinary, performative installation, TAPR invited speakers from diverse academic fields to talk to us and the public in an informal environment to encourage discussion and inquisition. Taking its point of departure from the historical belief in a flat earth, 100 Proofs looks at notions of illusion and truth and the tensions between belief, conformity and fundamentalism.
37 Proofs The Earth is not a Globe – 6a Gallery.
July 2009
In July 2009 Tape Projects visited 6a Gallery (Hobart) with an exhibition of experiments, participatory interventions and disputable evidence that formed part of their research for their 2010 Next Wave interdisciplinary collaboration for ‘100 Proofs the Earth Is Not a Globe’.
Taking its point of departure from the historical belief in a flat earth, 37 Proofs The Earth Is Not A Globe looked at notions of illusion and truth and the tensions between belief, conformity and fundamentalism.
Earth composition debates, science expert consulting, proof generating experiments.
Nic Whyte - 37 Proofs 2009
Found Sound at Tape Projects.
2009
Found Sound held a number of musical and sound art events at Tape Projects Space in 2009. Featuring experimental instruments designed and built by Australian artists and musicians, Found Sound: The Experimental Instrument Project was a series of musical and sound art events curated by Amelia Douglas and Albert Mishriki.
Found Sound
Frame - Platform Contemporary Art Spaces.
February - August 2009
A 7 month residency, FRAME, Platform Melbourne 2009. A series of site-specific installations at the dark end of the subway.
Residency 1: Installation of Flip Lock Publication - Tape Projects.
February 2009
Residency 2: Ooomong: Building Tunnels and Pondering Infinity - Zoe Scoglio and Unchalee Anantawat.
March 2009
Lee and Zoe’s third collaboration is a site-specific installation, which sees the dark, subterranean Frame window below Flinders Street transformed into an intergalactic porthole. Utilizing sounds, structures and video,Ooomong playfully explores the fine lines between the infinite and infinitesimal, the wise and the whimsical, and the eternal and ephemeral. Adapted from the Thai word for ‘tunnel’, Ooomong creates stepping stones between the physical world and that which is unfathomable.
Residency 3: Loose Lips Sink Ships - Nic Whyte and Eugina Lim.
April 2009
A journey to the ends of the earth collaboration between Nic Whyte and Eugenia Lim. Loose Lips Sink Ships combines weird optics, tricks of light and shade and Whyte and Lim’s current obsession with re-imagining geography, science and common sense
Residency 4: The Hunt - Louise A. Dibbe.
May 2009
Regarding cheap special effects and the codex of body language as the most refined communication devices available, Louise Dibben makes video installations that re-position cultural and sexual power struggles through simple actions that are recontextualised.
Residency 5: Degraves Street Subway - Tanja Milbourne.
June 2009
This project, specifically designed for the Frame Residency at Platform, takes the existing site as the subject for enquiry. Investigating the conceptual and formal properties of photographic documentation, Degraves Street Subway extends into the temporal realm. The transitory nature of the passageway is evidenced by the fragments and traces of people moving through the subway. The surrounding space is unfolded both architecturally and temporally, implicating the viewer in the act of seeing and inviting questions about the nature of perception.
Residency 6: Gravity Pleasure Switchback - Jessie Scott.
July 2009
Shot on a blustery, bleak mid-May Saturday afternoon, the powerful magnetism of memory and place is revealed in this shaky, handy cam footage of a barely-there Coney Island. R&B and the booming of touts steamroll over the emptiness, deliberately and insistently evading the issue of absence. Seagulls circle on the fog engulfed shore, and on the boardwalk, people are dancing.
Even in its vastly reduced state, with assumptions of its closure rife, there is enough magic dust mixed in with the sand and cigarette butts to draw people, in the most unlikely circumstances, into spontaneous and public reverie here. Surprising, awkward, slightly daggy and incredibly awesome at the same time, the Coney Island Dancers revive the simultaneously naive and seamy public space of the boardwalk.
Residency 7: Chronox - Michael Prior and Lachlan Conn.
August 2009
Chronox is an ongoing investigation of time, space and perception, incorporating installation, performance and publications in a variety of media.
Video of Chronox from Frame 2009
Flip Lock - Publication.
TAPR06/07 contains more than 60 ten-second locked groove tracks. Each track is designed, to provide a soundtrack to a series of 18 flip books.
12”LP
Barbara Schroeder, Clare Cooper & Chris Abrahams, Michael Prior, Antuong Nguyen & Blase Roccisano, Ross Manning, Anthony Magen, Ding Dong, Bonnie Clarke, Boorges, Ernie althoff, Clayton Thomas, Mu Child, Joel Stern, Rat Creeps, Sumugan Sivanesan, Michaela Davies, Que Nguyen, Jim Knox, Markham Wightman, Buffalo Jump Band, 12 Dog Cycle, Harry Williamson, Zoe Scoglio, Monica Brooks, Dan West, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Kristi Monfries, Moffarfarrah, Thembi Soddell, Thee Monumental, Matthew Davis, Nat, Dylan Martorell, Horse Hospital, Anthony Magen, Lawrence English, Rosalind Hall, Tarab, Echo Khalida. It’s Is, Malakat, Emma Jean Gilmour, Anthea Caddy, Werner Hoeck, Philip Samartzis, Jacques Soddell, Robert Curgenven, Severed Heads, Ben Byrne, Dave Phillips, Paul Rodgers, Dean Linguey, Samuel Acres, I=it, Der Kosmonaut, Toecutter, Emile Zile, DJ YSL, DJ Rainbow Ejaculation.
18 FLIP BOOKS
Dom Czapla, Lucy Dyson, Benjamin Ducroz, Cherie Green, Madeline Griffith, James Hancock & Sumu Sivanesan, Anna Helme & Robbie Mckewan, Matthew Hopkins, Isobel Knowles, Antuong Nguyen, Kirsty porter, Paul Rodgers, Soda_jerk & Sam Smith, Salote Tawale, Aarlene Textaqueen + 3 diy blanks.
Artist talks - Forepaw
Emile Zile, David Shea, Kristi Monfries, Gang Festival, Lucy Dyson, Rachael Hough, Marcia Jane, Paul Rogers, Salote Tawale, Sam Smith, Soda Jerk, Eamon Sprod/TARAB, Dan West, Marcus Westbury, Callum Cooper.
