PICA Guide | August - December 2017

PICA GUIDE

August – December 2017

Exhibitions Program

Contents 1–2

When the Sky Fell Legacies of the 1967 Referendum 2 July – 20 August

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Goologoolup: NAIDOC Week Celebration in the Perth Cultural Centre 8 July

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August – December Exhibitions Program 11–14

Artists in Residence Elaine Reynolds (IRE) Jarrad Martyn (WA) Rafaela Pandolfini (NSW) Emma Lashmar (WA) Bruno Booth (WA) Bonnie Lane (USA) Ross Hamilton Frew (UK) Sophie Durand (WA)

Energies: Haines & Hinterding David Haines and Joyce Hinterding 2 September – 22 October

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Spark_Lab PICA’s Schools Learning Program

I don’t want to be there when it happens 11 November – 24 December

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Support PICA

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PICA Edition

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Accessibility

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PICA Thanks

Remedial Works 11 November – 24 December

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When the Sky Fell Legacies of the 1967 Referendum –––––––––– 2 July – 20 August Sunday 2 July Exhibition opening 10am – 5pm Opening Celebration followed by Artist & Curator talks 2 – 4pm Artists: Manupa Butler, Nola Campbell Yurnangurnu, Jeanie Daniels, Sharyn Egan, Charmaine Green, Alan Griffiths, Peggy Griffiths, Larry Gundora, Mignonette Jamin, Carol Maanyatja Golding, Lindsay Malay, Patrick Mung Mung, Peter Newry, Gabriel Nodea, Nancy Nyanyarna Jackson, Rusty Peters, Eunice Porter, John Prince Siddon, Shirley Purdie, Kathy Ramsey, Rammey Ramsey, Erica Shorty Ikungka, Mervyn Street, Jimmy Tchooga, Freddie Timms, Judith Yinyika Chambers Curated by Clothilde Bullen

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Federal Referendum, which was considered by many to be a critical turning point for the prevailing movement for political change within Indigenous affairs.

In interrogating and unpacking this moment in Australian history, When the Sky Fell reframes the impact and consequences of the Referendum through the eyes of Indigenous Western Australians who are living now with the effects of this decision.

Featuring a diverse range of media by artists with distinctive and distinguished practices, When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum presents the perspectives of a number of diverse Indigenous artistic communities from across Western Australia who were, in one way or another, affected by the yes vote.

Salon Vernissage When the Sky Fell launches at the PICA Salon Vernissage, the flagship event for PICA’s awardwinning donor program, on Saturday 1 July. Featuring works for sale, special performances and delectable bush foods, this is an event not to miss!

Ticketed event – please contact Development Manager Jo Malone at philanthropy@pica.org.au.

Presented in partnership with Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA All PICA Galleries | FREE 10am – 5pm | Tues – Sun

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John Prince Siddon, Australia (detail), 2016. Image courtesy of the artist & Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency.

Goologoolup NAIDOC Week Celebration in the Perth Cultural Centre

Program Highlights 10.30am – 11am Welcome to Country performed by Walter McGuire and Gya Ngoop Dancers

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11am – 12pm Bush Tucker demonstration with Bindi Bindi Dreaming

Saturday 8 July, 10am – 5pm State Library of WA | WA Museum Discovery Zone Art Gallery of WA | State Theatre Centre of WA Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts | The Blue Room Theatre Celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal culture through the universal languages of art, food and storytelling with a curated program of activities and cultural sharing including Welcome to Country, demonstrations and performances, kids workshops and Noongar Radio live broadcast from WA’s major cultural hub.

12pm – 3pm Live radio broadcast from Noongar Radio 1.30pm – 4pm Woven Fun Forms workshops with artist Sharyn Egan

Deepen your experience with three significant exhibitions on Indigenous history, advocacy and activism: When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum – PICA Right Wrongs – State Library of WA Everyone has a history - Part One: Plain Speak – Art Gallery of WA For more information and to view the full program: pica.org.au

Perth Cultural Centre | FREE 10am – 5pm

NAIDOC 2015. Photo: Greta Carroll

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Goologoolup is a Noongar place name for the area between Perth Train Station and the Perth Cultural Centre meaning “The place children go where the red clay and the Waakul came down”.

Energies: Haines & Hinterding –––––––––– 2 September – 22 October Opening: Friday 1 September, 6.30pm Curated by Anna Davis David Haines’ and Joyce Hinterding’s solo show is a comprehensive survey of their multi-sensory artistic practices, featuring collaborative projects and solo works by both artists.

The artists have been working together for over fifteen years. Using a wide range of media and custom-built devices, they engage in an artistic dialogue with science. Aesthetic and philosophical concerns are equally important to their practice. They are captivated by the unseen energies that surround us – including very low frequency (VLF) radio waves, television signals, paranormal events, satellite transmissions and psychic forces – and seek to reveal them to audiences through work that draws upon aspects of science, the occult and philosophy.

The exhibition spans experimental, digital, electronic and traditional media and brings together: interactive cinema, installation, virtual reality, sound, video, sculpture, aroma, photography and drawing.

Exhibition organised and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

All PICA Galleries | FREE 10am – 5pm | Tues – Sun

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David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Starlight Driver: Cloudbuster Number Four: Orgone Energy Cloud Engineering Device, 2011–12. Image courtesy the artists and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney © the artists.

Photo: Jamie North

I don’t want to be there when it happens –––––––––– 11 November – 24 December Opening: Friday 10 November, 6.30pm Artists include: Reena Kallat, Raj Kumar, Chesworth & Leber, Adeela Suleman and Abdullah M. I. Syed Curated by Mikala Tai, Rebecca Warren, and Eugenio Viola This exhibition brings together artists who explore the psychology of contemporary trauma and who face the larger socio-political realities of Pakistan in the era of contemporary warfare.

Through a wide range of media including video and installation, I don’t want to be there when it happens highlights the individual’s inability to comprehend the expansive uncertainty of war, and the impossibilities of representing the disturbance of conflict. A multiplicity of perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in Pakistan and its region are acknowledged and presented; perspectives which are all too easily overlooked or obscured by Western media and political interests.

Presented in partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

PICA Central Galleries | FREE 10am – 5pm | Tues – Sun

Abdullah M. I. Syed, Flying Rug of Drones (Circle)(detail), 2015-17. Image courtesy the artist.

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Remedial Works –––––––––– 11 November – 24 December Opening: Friday 10 November, 6.30pm Artists include: Clare Milledge, Sophie Cassar and Jessica Tan Curated by Andrew Varano Remedial Works is an exhibition that groups an international set of artists working to understand the novel and specific materials of contemporary global societies, and how these materials and their embedded meanings can affect human bodies and relationships. Human bodies are now placed within a unique environment of surfaces and substances – from rare earth metals and the ingredients of modern food science to pheromones, hormones, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals - equally palliative and poisonous and all connected to capital.

Recognising the maxim ‘the dose makes the poison’, Remedial Works looks at the fine line between a material’s capacity to repair or pollute both bodies and land. While recognising that most of us are situated within systems of industrial production and consumption, Remedial Works asks, in light of this, what role can art making perform towards remediation and healing?

PICA Westend Gallery | FREE 10am – 5pm | Tues – Sun

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Jessica Tan, stay in bed 4eva, 2016-17. Plastimake, crayons, wax, glitter, coral, shells, oil diffuser, water and ‘sweet dreams’ aromatherapy oil. Image courtesy of artist.

Artists In Residence –––––––––– 4 July – 18 August Elaine Reynolds (IRE)

Jarrad Martyn (WA)

Elaine Reynolds makes installations that bring together filmic, sculptural and photographic elements, often beginning research with a defined geography or social setting. Recent works look at cycles of migration from Ireland to Western Australia and the impact of the extractive industries in the region.

Jarrad Martyn’s practice explores how moments in Australian history have been framed. Through painting Martyn creates a more conversational meaning of the history being explored, encouraging the audience to consider how complicit they are prepared to be in that framing.

5 September - 22 October Rafaela Pandolfini (NSW)

Emma Lashmar (WA)

Rafaela Pandolfini is a photographer and artist based in Sydney and is interested in the potential of expressing emotion as form. Rafaela exhibits her work regularly in independent spaces and is currently working on a project that pivots on notions of abjection through the works of 18 national and international artists.

Emma Lashmar works primarily with the medium of molten glass, crafting blown transparent objects and combining multiples into scenarios with other media, including sound, lighting and mechanical systems, to produce room-sized immersive sculptural installations.

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Jarrad Martyn, The Rare Albino Land Shark (Detail), 2016, oil on canvas, 128 x 144 cm

Artists In Residence –––––––––– 5 September - 22 October

14 November – 24 December

Bruno Booth (WA)

Bonnie Lane (USA)

Bruno Booth creates large, unapologetically bold paintings using an airbrush, shaped canvas and sweat. Broader themes that drive his practice include social networks and the unprecedented change in how we communicate and disseminate information since the rise of the Internet. Bruno’s electric colour schemes and irregular shaped canvases display a friendly and welcoming exterior.

Through an act of performative autobiography, Australian-born, New York based Bonnie Lane exposes private experiences that subvert prescribed gender roles. In a practice that spans video, photography, installation, sculpture, sound, collage, short stories; and virtual, IRL, and secret performance, Lane reveals the uncertainty of sexual identity in the digital age.

14 November – 24 December Ross Hamilton Frew (UK)

Sophie Durand (WA)

Ross Hamilton Frew’s practice is rooted in mark making and concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines and surfaces. Be it through drawing, collage, print or assemblage, his work always adheres to a series of predetermined or self imposed rules and structures.

Sophie Durand is a multimedia artist from Perth whose complex and immersive works combine installation, film and performance. Her research is theoretically and formally underpinned by ideas of place in relation to exhibition and installation practice.

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Ross Hamilton Frew, Just Gone Eleven, Nine Glasses of Tap Water, The March of Progress, archival ink on hand made paper, 2015

Spark_Lab Learning Program –––––––––– About Spark_Lab Spark_Lab brings students, teachers and the community up close and personal with contemporary artists, dancers, theatre makers, musicians and other innovators across a wide range of disciplines through an exciting program of events, activities and online resources.

PICA is committed to presenting a program of art and ideas that engages, excites and educates through its specially tailored Spark_Lab program that features guided exhibition tours, artist-led workshops and online resources. Spark_Lab provides carefully designed, accessible and rewarding programs which complement PICA’s artistic programs and provide expanded approaches to school curricula.

With a dedicated Education Studio located in PICA’s historic building in the Perth Cultural Centre, Spark_Lab introduces new ways for primary, secondary and tertiary students and teachers to think creatively and develop innovation and leadership skills through multi-disciplinary activities that encourage risk-taking, problem solving and collaboration.

PICA’s August – December program explores The Arts in areas that comprise media, photography, painting and installation as well as key curricula priorities and areas such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories & Cultures (ATSIHC), Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia (AAEA), Sustainability (SUST), History, Humanities & Social Sciences (Geography and Earth & the Environment), and Science and Technologies (digital and communication).

PICA can offer specially tailored tours and workshops for primary, secondary and tertiary visual arts, dance, theatre and music students as well as those in the curriculum areas listed above.

Bookings are essential for all education programs.

For more details see pica.org.au/learn, email info@pica.org.au, or call (08) 9228 6300.

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Photo: Jacqueline Warrick

Support ––––––––––

Donate now We invite you to explore contemporary art with PICA in radical new ways. Join us at bespoke after hours events where you will meet artists and like-minded arts lovers.

Donate to PICA and make a significant difference to our cultural landscape.

Donor Programs include: ART1000 $1,200 Art Ambassador $2,500 Director’s Circle $5,500 Commissioner $10,000

Art Pledge Minimise the impact on your budget and maximise the impact on contemporary art by making a monthly or fortnightly pledge to one of PICA’s exciting new donor programs.

Every dollar makes a difference - all donations over $5 are tax deductible.

For more information about how to become a PICA donor please contact Development Manager Jo Malone at philanthropy@pica.org.au or 08 9228 6300.

Donate online at pica.org.au/support 17–18

Photo: OK Media

PICA Edition Iftar Abdul-Rahman Abdullah –––––––––– PICA is proud to launch the second PICA Edition. Iftar is a specially commissioned artwork by renowned WA artist AbdulRahman Abdullah. It is a sculptural work that explores how a handful of almonds can carry a weight of cultural significance.

Working primarily in sculpture, Abdullah explores the different ways that memory can inhabit and emerge from familial space. He draws on passages of personal history, articulating formative experiences of individual identity within the broader scope of family.

Iftar refers to the breaking of the fast at sunset during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. It represents the most celebratory event of each day, when the whole family comes together to eat something and pray the Maghrib (sunset) prayer. Traditionally, the fast is broken with almonds or dates and a glass of water before the larger evening meal.

Iftar aims to metaphorically explore how a handful of almonds can carry a weight of cultural significance. The traditional almond bowl is cast in a concrete cubic shape that references the Ka’aba (cube) in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam and the direction in which Muslims all over the world face when praying. Embedding the bowl of almonds within the cube creates a tangible relationship between the individual and the shared experiences of the Ummah (global Islamic community).

For more information about how to become a PICA donor and purchase the PICA Edition please contact Development Manager Jo Malone at philanthropy@pica.org.au or 08 9228 6300.

Donate online at pica.org.au/support 19–20

Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Iftar, 2017. Photo: Alessandro Bianchetti

Accessibility –––––––––– Wheelchair Access All gallery spaces are wheelchair accessible.

Wheelchair bookings can be made for all PICA performances.

Please book over the phone or in person at PICA so that Front of House can make note of your requirements.

Wheelchair accessible toilets are available.

ACROD Parking General & ACROD car parking is available within the Perth Cultural Centre precinct. The closest ACROD accessible car parks with lift access to the Cultural Centre are the Cultural Centre and State Library car parks.

Companion Card The Companion Card admits carers to shows as complimentary guests. Holders of this card are welcome to attend any performance presented by PICA. All companion card bookings must be made over the phone or in person at PICA. Large print texts Large print versions of texts accompanying exhibitions and performances are available from Front of House upon request.

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Photo: Toni Wilkinson

Getting Here

PICA Thanks Government Partners

PICA is easily accessed via public transport and by car.

Principal Education Partner

Major Partner

Automotive Partner

Supporting Partners

Major Exhibition Partner

Exhibition Partner

Freight Partner

Beverage Partners

There is a pedestrian overpass from the Perth train station and PICA is a two minute walk away. Transperth’s free Blue CAT buses also provide the closest pick-up and drop-off points for PICA located on Beaufort St. General & ACROD car parking is available within the Perth Cultural Centre precinct.

For more information visit the PICA website or Transperth website.

Presenting Partners

–––––––––– PICA Salon Vernissage Partners

Free Entry Gallery & Box Office Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm Box Office opens one hour before performances When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum has been funded by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts.

Goologoolup NAIDOC Week Celebration and Community Day are a collaboration between Department of Culture and Arts, Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA, Art Gallery of WA, The WA Museum, State Library of WA, State Records Office, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Blue Room Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA, Screenwest and the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority.

We wish to acknowledge the custodians of this land, the Whadjuk (Perth region) people of the Noongar nation and their Elders past and present. PICA acknowledges and respects their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.

Perth Cultural Centre, 51 James St, Northbridge +61 8 9228 6300 info@pica.org.au pica.org.au

Front Cover: David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Purple Rain, 2004, installation view, (in)visible sounds, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, 2007. Image courtesy the artists and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney © the artists. Photo: David Haines

Inside Cover: Adeela Suleman, I don’t want to be there when it happens (installation view, detail), 2017. Image courtesy the artist and Aicon Gallery, New York Sharyn Egan, The Nullians, 2017. Grasstree ( Xanthorrhoea preissi). Photo: Alessandro Bianchetti

About PICA PICA is both a producing and presenting institution that delivers an annual program of curated exhibitions, seasons of contemporary performance, studio residencies and creative developments. Its groundbreaking schools learning program Spark_Lab focuses on fostering innovation skills in young people through engagement with contemporary art.

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