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30/3/2004

Four exhibitions

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts PICA, Perth

Maria Blaisse (Netherlands)
Presented by the Centraal Museum, Utrecht in association with PICA

A 30-year survey of the work of Dutch Textile Designer, Maria Blaisse who has been at forefront of research and education in textiles and flexible design using contemporary materials and processes such as neoprene rubber and foam polyamides. Blaisse has designed costume for theatre and dance resulting in objects that not only change the appearance of the wearer but adapt to their movement, while retaining a sculptural life their own. Presented with the financial support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Netherlands

This exhibition features a selection of works from the 30-year retrospective of Dutch textile designer Maria Blaisse. Curated by the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, featuring works, audiovisuals and photography that illustrate Blaisse's evolution as a designer.

Blaisse has been at forefront of research and education in textiles and flexible design, using contemporary materials and processes, such as neoprene rubber, foam polyamides, vacuum moulding and lamination.

Blaisse creates non-woven forms for the body that are poetic and deceptively simple. Her collaborations with designers such as Issey Miyake and costume designs for theatre and dance companies have resulted in the creation of objects that not only change the appearance of the wearer, but adapt to movements of the human body, while retaining a sculptural life their own. Blaisse's interests lie in the intersections between art and fashion incorporating video, performance and photography, in an exploration of sculptural performance with the body as a critical element in the animation of material form.

Presented with the financial support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Netherlands

Maria Blaisse (Netherlands)
A graduate in textile design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1968, Blaisse has been at forefront of research and education in textiles and flexible design, using contemporary materials and processes, such as neoprene rubber, foam polyamides, fibre engineering, vacuum moulding and lamination.

Blaisse creates non-woven forms for the body that are poetic and deceptively simple. Her collaborations with designers such as Issey Miyake and costume designs for theatre and dance companies have resulted in the creation of objects that not only change the appearance of the wearer, but adapt to movements of the human body, while retaining a sculptural life their own. Blaisse's interests lie in the intersections between art and fashion incorporating video, performance and photography, in an exploration of sculptural performance with the body as a critical element in the animation of material form.

Blaisse has participated in major exhibitions of jewellery and textile design, including Biennales in Lausanne, Museum of Applied Art, Trondheim, Norway; International Textile exhibition, Kyoto, Japan; Techno Textiles 2010 (a travelling exhibition in Europe 1994-96); Display at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2002; and Onda Tube Design, a collection of wearable woollen, knitted and felted tubular forms for the body.

Maria Blaisse has lectured on the development of fashion and design at many symposia and workshops and has been guest lecturer at international academies, including: Ecole des Arts Decoratives, Geneva; California College of Arts and Crafts; Davis University, San Francisco; Kunsthochschule, Berlin,Weissensee; Pentiment + Academy of fine Arts, Hamburg; Gesammthochschule, Kassel; Goldsmith College, London; and the Salzburg Summer Academy.

Opening March 31, 6pm
exhibiting: April 1 – May 9, 2004

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PUNT - Nat Paton (QLD)

Queensland artist Nat Paton draws a parallel between the dieting and gambling industries. Following an expedition to the USA, this punter from small time Bris Vegas became overdrawn in big time Las Vegas - city of excessÅ  Look beyond the glitz and you can see the punters/dieters' desperation and the hopes that fuel both industries, fixating the individual and promising perfection. The problem for the punter, however, lies in the reality that the only slim things are your chances. Do I feel lucky?

This exhibition by Brisbane based artist, Nat Paton, draws a parallel between the dieting and gambling industries. On an expedition to the USA, this punter from small time 'Bris Vegas' became overdrawn in big time Las Vegas. Vegas - city of excess - all-you-can-eat-buffets galore, loose slots and showgirl entertainment entice the patrons into the all day/all night casinos. And for a bit on the side, the chorus line of legal prostitution is always on offer. Fat wallet = Fat times. Outwardly, the city pulses with flash gash and cash.

Questions are raised in relation to the value of women as sexual objects and the commodification of starved women as entertaining encouragement for all that come to recklessly throw their cash into the questionable hands of fate.
(Younger & Jackson, 1998)

Look beyond the glitz and you can see the punters'/dieters' desperation and hope, fuelling both the gambling and dieting industries, fixating the individual and promising perfection. Each is façade glamorous, cash happy and smacking of attainable wealth and pleasure. Just pay the money and you'll be trumps. The problem for the punter, however, lies in the reality that the only slim things are your chances. Do I feel lucky?

Acknowledgements: The artist would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Gia Mitchell, Alison Rodd, Clinton Nalder and Chris Doolan in the production of these images. Thanks also to Jeremy Hynes for video assistance. Kiki Katahanas and Mark McCarthy contributed their graphic design expertise. The images were printed and mounted with the generous assistance of F Stop (Brisbane).

Nat Paton (QLD)
Nat Paton is a photographer who creates larger than life tableaux, which wittily engage with stereotypes about body weight. Paton began exhibiting in 1993 and has worked on various scales from the photographic print to the billboard and in formats ranging from installation to performance. Highlights include her first prize appearance as Priscilla Presley in a look-a-like competition at Elvis Week, Southbank, Brisbane. An honours graduate of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (1997), her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australian Centre for Photography, Institute of Modern Art and the Centre for Contemporary Arts, De Montfort University (Leicester). Paton currently lives and works in Brisvegas.

Opening March 31, 6pm
exhibiting: April 1 – May 9, 2004
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Cosplay - Guy Vinciguerra (WA)

Perth photographer Guy Vinciguerra documents the extreme fashion of downtown Tokyo. This teen subculture, involving elaborate dressing up in public spaces, is called 'Cosplay' = costume + play - with attitude, words and actions.

Vinciguerra's most recent photographic exhibition is the result of several trips to Japan. While watching traditional Shinto weddings at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, he came across a gathering of young shop girls, office workers and school girls dressed up as brides, Goths, Gestapo storm troopers and as members of J-pop bands. These girls are definitely not the Japan of the tea ceremony and Zen gardens. They have the energy of modern day Tokyo rushing headlong towards the future and enjoying every moment on offer. All posed willingly and without a fee for any tourists who wanted to photograph them. In Japan this is called 'Cosplay' = costume + play - with attitude, words and actions.

Japanese society organizes itself into groups. There is a famous Japanese proverb, 'a nail that sticks out, must be hammered in”. Paradoxically, however, within this seemingly un-Japanese, anti-conformist 'Cosplay', a contradiction might be discerned, a rigidly defined sense of 'the group'. There are always those on the margins, waiting and aching to be invited in.

Perhaps Japanese traditional dress (as seen at Shinto Weddings for instance) might also be interpreted as 'Cosplay'. A mask is donned, another character emerges and group identity is established. Cosplay transforms people into cultures and subcultures that express how they see themselves or more probably, how they want to be seen... and photographed.

Opening March 31, 6pm
exhibiting: April 1 – May 9, 2004
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Artist in Residence Open Studios
Stuart Clipston, Tatjana Seserko and Josh Webb

Summer Residency Program 2004

By bringing working practices into a public realm, PICA's summer residency program seeks to facilitate an interaction between the gallery-going public and artists during the process of the creation of art. The residency program enables emerging artists to investigate ideas-in-progress in an informal way, within a professional contemporary arts context.

Stuart Clipston's practice to date has alternated between artist and entrepreneurial curator, most recently as the co-devisor of Supermart with Tom Múller.

For Josh Webb, the PICA studio residency will be used to study ideas that are concerned with the act of communicating, where the most effective ideas are those that describe the gap between language and thought within an autobiographical framework.

Tatjana Seserko's work, which engages in methodologies of painting, performance and landscape art investigates notions of migration, disruption, uncertainty and alienation.

Stuart Clipston, Tatjana Seserko and Josh Webb have spent the past 8 weeks working at PICA as part of PICA's ongoing summer residency program. This project allows emerging artists the opportunity to explore their ideas-in-progress in an informal way. Lots of thinking and making and construction have been taking place. For two weeks in April, the studios will be open to visitors to experience and enjoy these works in progress.

Stuart Clipston's practice to date has alternated between artist and entrepreneurial curator, most recently as the co-devisor of Supermart with Tom Múller. In this studio residency Clipston has been making:

a) A Tower of Timber
b) Coffee
c) Post-it note Panoramas
d) Adidas Clogs
e) Invisible Drawings
f) Oversized Watermelon
g) None of the Above
h) All of the Above

Tatjana Seserko's project aims to reconstruct from the fragmentation of mis/communication, aspects of evolving post-totalitarian art from Former Yugoslavia and my current Australian cultural context. The residency at PICA has enabled an array of representational possibilities utilised to create a sense of displacement using blue sand and discarded materials such as floorboards and tissue culture flasks.
thanks to Ionat Zurr

Josh Webb
...and they started to dance without wearing no seatbelt.

PICA Residencies Open Studio

Opening: March 31, 6pm
Exhibiting: April 1 - 11, 2004

gallery hours: 11am - 7pm
(extended to 8pm during Perth Festival)
Tuesday - Sunday (closed Mondays)
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