the art of aesthlethics
WELL
practices
the art of
aesthlethics
=
ethics
aesthetics
athletics
each Well work
shares these traits
in equal proportion or else
we will not make it
this term is the essential
curatorial that flows through
all our projects
what happens from there is
up to the time, context, people
and processes unique to each endeavour.
for now, our prime curatorial code is:
scale
+
intimacy
Well's 2011 program: recreating public out soon.
WELL's flagship multi-platform public space interactive installation... currently post producingr Mexico 2010's Libro de Revoluciones and preparing for Book of Risings, Korea May 2011
Take off Your Skin (TOYS)
Large scale collaborative dance installation and locative media work. An elaboration of the multiplying project KURONOZ, by Yasuko Kurono. Link opens to external site.
one eye the sun one eye the moon - Dec 2 '09, August '10
Domenico de Clario, Paula Lay, impresarioed by Dario Vacirca. De Clario and Lay met for the first and only time after their 2 hour dance and piano performance in blind-fold. Audience were provided with soup and poetry, taking in the theatre of one of Australia's most enchanting city views. The second installment of this 3-part work occurred in the CBD and included further provocations - deaf-reading, shortwave radio and remote viewing platforms. Aug 25 2010.
after 2009-
Intimate and explosive public space dance installatiion. Commissioned by Streets of Melbourne Festival, subsequently performed as AGAIN at Anytime Speakeasy. After will see its next manifestation/s in a series of dance explosion episodes - repeated through many film genres - public dance and multi-episodic video installation.
literalising metaphor - the murakami trilogy 2008-2011
The trilogy looks at key concepts and images from the novels of Haruki Murakami. The challenge and process is to 'recreate' / consruct ideas that have only ever been imagined in the mind of a reader. Provoking audiences to engage with presence, flow, reality, mind and choice. The latest in the trilogy DOWN asks the audience to engage their own ideas and experience of freedom, fear, isolation and interconnectedness.
The three projects cross mediums under broad banners -
1. performance art 2. interactive installation 3. sculpture
Sculptural performance for one person at a time. Outcome of Vacirca's 'Nomadic Structures' residency at Le Bains, Belgium. Exploring: soul transmigration and psycho-therapy through sitting with sheep. Part 1 of the 'Literalising Metaphor'- a response to the premise of 'Wild Sheep Chase'
2. DOWN (in development for 2011)
A new interactive installation in public space for one person at a time. Part 2 of 'Literalising Metaphor'- evoking the main character's experience down a well in 'Wind Up Bird Chronicles'
motherofgod (!) 2009-2013
A multi-stage artwork regarding belief, proposition, cargo-culture, heavy metal, new music and documentary.
MUGSHOT :: a bankrupt's ball 2009
melbourne's arts community rallied to save the great wall of books. Featuring a 3 course and silent dinner, performances, bands, dj's, auction and mugshot art. see the credit list and outcome here
one night in the well 2003
Three cross artform performances and dinner each night at La Mama's Carlton Courthouse Theatre - showing the formic depth of the Well and exploring: solitary confinement and imagination, disturbed childhood and contemporary mythology
q:4 a dog 2001
Experimental media musical transposing a previous well work- Cu-Ball - with Mikhael Bulgakov's In the Heart of Dog
a session in the ground on the air 2004
Environmental sculpture, interactive and performance. First commissioned for Opoeia Festival and subsequently St Kilda Writer's Festival
strategies for migration 2006
Multi-part performance work designed through a classical architectural system
Temporary Lobe Asphyxia 2006
Multi-part performance and installation, commissioned by Space3 Gallery
progress party 2005
Hilarious durational street theatre working with ROARAWAR COLLECTIVE, celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Progress Party - a political movement lobbying for the single land tax