We warmly invite you to a special one-night-only improvised performance by esteemed composer and world-leading performing artist Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 in connection with the final weeks of Ouyang Yu & Jessye Wdowin-McGregor residency project ‘Ekphrasis’.
Guest entry via the front gallery entrance from 3:00 pm. to explore the latest exhibition by the resident artists. The improvisation will commence promptly at 3:30 p.m. and will run for approx. 30 minutes.
Bookings are essential for access to the performance space from 3:00-4:00 p.m. General access will re-open via the front gallery when the performance has ended, and we’d love you to join us then if preferred. Formal proceedings will conclude at 5 p.m. Guests are welcome to explore the exhibit and enjoy a drink together until 6 p.m.
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A limited number of free tickets for the performance are offered. General access after the performance is free and does not require registration.
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Location: correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, 39 Sydney Road Brunswick, VIC, 3056 Australia.
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Additional information:
—Late arrivals may not be permitted after 3:15pm.
—Refreshments will be available - our house sake, shochu, umeshu or yuzu soda. Drinks (alcohol) will end at 6 pm.
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Précis
Ekphrasis is a collaborative residency project exploring the time-honoured correlations between text and image. It features the words of poet, writer and editor Ouyang Yu and the images of visual artist Jessye Wdowin-McGregor.
Since July, Ouyang has been working with Jessye to capture a short film exploring his ‘tree-writing project’ - a filmic representation of the poet’s daily practice of writing poems on the trunks and leaves of trees in Bundoora Park, Kingsbury, a site of great inspiration he has returned to again and again for almost thirty years.
The film is a reflection upon ecology and time, the artists’ mutual love of nature and belief in the spontaneity of the creative act and vitality of the poetic image in the search for a sense of spirit and place.
At the heart of the project is the idea of 'found poetry', a search that drives both artists – Ouyang through his bilingual words of poetry and Jessye through her search with the camera and body.
For this one-night-only special event, we celebrate the launch of the artists’ film. We have invited internationally-acclaimed composer/performing artist Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 to feature as a guest artist making a live improvised music response to this idea of found poetry.
It is envisaged as an extension of the visual and written field into the sonic realm, drawing inspiration from the text, sounds and images of the film, which will be playing on repeat in the exhibition space.