Fabio Ongarato
WORLD
Premiere
21:100:100
Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival
and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
“When we separate music from life we get art.” John Cage
21:100:100 features 100 works by 100 sound artists produced in the
21st century. This exhibition is the first significant survey in Melbourne to
explore and chronicle the extraordinary developments that have occurred
in contemporary sound art. Today, sound art and experimental music
enjoy an infrastructure all of their own, with journals, labels, music festivals
and websites devoted to critical and creative discussion. Sound art and
contemporary art’s origins are both firmly planted in a shared spirit of enquiry
and experimentation, and while the discussion of their relationship is a lively
one, this exhibition will be the first of its kind to present the full breadth of
sound art’s many threads to Melbourne audiences.
21:100:100 was developed by Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
in collaboration with internationally acclaimed Australian artists Oren
Ambarchi and Marco Fusinato. It includes works made in the last eight
years chronicling new directions and innovations in sound art. These works
will be played on headphones suspended within the gallery, designing a
space for the visitor to pick their way through sound art’s many and varied
aural and conceptual evolutions.
music festival context. It is, however, surprising that despite contemporary visual
art and sound art’s many shared theoretical and creative concerns, there have
been few attempts to explore this intersection through the presentation of sound
work within the gallery context. 21:100:100 provides a unique and crucial
opportunity to fully engage with sound art, and to trace its varied thematic
threads and innovative stylistic developments.
Curatorium
Marco Fusinato, Oren Ambarchi,
Alexie Glass & Emily Cormack
Collaborators
Fabio Ongarato, Kristy Edmunds
21:100:100 in Concert
An evening featuring phenomenal sound artists from Melbourne and beyond.
This live performance at BMW Edge is a companion piece to the exhibition of
sound works at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
Curated by internationally acclaimed Australian artists Oren Ambarchi and
Marco Fusinato, this concert takes the concept of 21:100:100 beyond the
gallery walls, beyond the headphones and enables audiences to listen to the
works in a live concert spectacle.
Melbourne has always enjoyed an incredibly lively sound art community and
has been a central site in the investigation and presentation of sound art in a
21:100:100
Gertrude Contemporary
Art Spaces
200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Sat 11 Oct – Sat 8 Nov
Tue – Fri 11am – 5.30pm
Sat 12pm – 5.30pm
Sun 12 & Sun 19 Oct 12pm – 5pm
Opening Sat 11 Oct 6pm – 8.30pm
Free
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Discounts apply. See page 2 for
details.
Sun 19 Oct at 9pm
Ticketmaster 1300 136 166
www.melbournefestival.com.au
1hr no interval
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