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c3 contemporary art space

Locality: Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9416 4300

Address: 1 St Heliers St. Abbotsford 3067 Abbotsford, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.c3artspace.com.au

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20.01.2022 Some interesting projects coming out of isolation. Chronus Art Center(Shanghai) and Rhizome of the New Museum (New York) have co-commissioned ten new works that you can view online featuring artists Raphaël Bastide, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, JODI, LI Weiyi, Evan Roth, Slime Engine, Helmut Smits, XU Wenkai (aka aaajiao), Yangachi and YE Funa. "Rather than an explicit outcry against the current public health crisis, this online project addresses a general state of humanity tha...t is under pressing peril of natural and social disruptions and precariousness, demonstratively manifested in the coronavirus outbreak, which is partially the cause of the magnitude of the virus itself and partially beholden to a failure of governance." You can check out the work through the link in our bio. @chronus_art_center @rhizomedotorg @ Chronus Art CenterCAC

19.01.2022 We may be closed, but we want to celebrate the work of our current exhibiting artists. Over the coming days we will be sharing images of this month’s six exhibitions. Pictured is Cameron Gill and Julia Stewart’s Seen. Julia Stewart and Cameron Gill are interested in the challenges and subtleties that emerge in painting ‘from life’. While photography can act as an excellent aid to painters, there are pitfalls. In painting from photos, an artist can readily get caugh...t up in merely reproducing all, or parts of, the image as it appears in the photograph. Stewart and Gill would like to explore the capacity for a painting to signify space, in order to transport the viewer into the intimate, subjective space that a painter creates when making an image. For for the Abbotford Convent’s COVID-19 updates please see the link in our bio. @abbotsfordconvent @juliarstewart @camwillgill : @burnt_chrome @ Abbotsford Convent See more

18.01.2022 Images from Ella Dunn’s exhibition Seen. ‘I began making this body of work after moving to a new area in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne. Although similar in many ways to the neighbouring suburb I moved from, I quickly began to notice distinct local nuances and experiences as I viewed my environment with fresh eyes. Lemon trees abundant with fruit hanging low over fences, a proud cat gang strutting down the street, and riding my bike through the silent streets, arms outstretched in the balmy night air. These stories keep us awake and keep us in the present.’ @abbotsfordconvent @ellardunn : @burnt_chrome @ Abbotsford Convent

16.01.2022 Also finally, Qiq gallery are working in the digital sphere to showcase people's practices, apply below:

16.01.2022 Pictured are images from Lewis Doherty’s current exhibition Cognitive AI Juice Bar. This exhibition is an enquiry into the nature of human-computer interaction: from the benign to the more overtly disruptive elements of the tech industry. The often semi-abstract images and installations that make up the show look to force the viewer to question how they use technology and the language they use to account for it. In doing this, the work provokes us into a more creative yet q...uizzical interpretation of what we consider to be commonplace features of communication, labour or entertainment and asks that we consider our relationship to objects as we would our relationships to other people. The exhibitions takes its title from a Microsoft Azure activation that attempted to assign the ideal juice to conference delegates based on their reaction to a series of images. @abbotsfordconvent @lewisstepsandrew : @burnt_chrome @ Abbotsford Convent See more

14.01.2022 A message from our CEO Collette Brennan regarding precautionary exhibition and event postponements at the Convent. We have made the difficult decision to temporarily close c3 contemporary art space to ensure the health and wellbeing of our staff, volunteers, artists and visitors. Many meetings, workshops and regular events at the Convent will be postponed or will proceed only with a reduced attendance cap. Currently the broader Convent precinct remains open, including our cafes, restaurants and gardens. We will provide further updates as the public health situation evolves over the coming weeks. Thank you for your support and understanding at this difficult time. bit.ly/COVID-19-Convent-Update

13.01.2022 Thanks to those who raised questions for Nick Modzrewski’s WRITING & CONCEPTS lecture There’s Law in Your Mouth. You can watch the full video online now (link in our bio), or you can skip to 24.24 for the Q&A segment. @nickmodrzewski @writingandconcepts @abbotsfordconvent

12.01.2022 Whilst we are currently closed we are so pleased to be hosting Nick Modrzewski’s @writingandconcepts lecture There’s Law in Your Mouth. You can watch the first segment of his presentation on Vimeo now through the link in our bio. During the coming week you can post and questions or comments about about the talk on social media or through email. We will then be publishing a follow-up Q&A video. ----------------------------------------------------------- Modrzeski examines h...ow Law is a shared fiction that writes the world into existence. The story of law has taken thousands of years to tell, shifting forms as it moves across cultures. It is an incantation. It is a ghost. It is karaoke with consequences. Slipping into our bodies it speaks through us about selfhood, morality and justice. ----------------------------------------------------------- Email or DM us with questions for the Q&A before Monday 18 May ----------------------------------------------------------- NICK MODRZEWSKI is an artist, writer and barrister. He works across sculpture, film, performance and text to examine the absurdities of social engagements, with a focus on law and other shared fictions. As a barrister, he practices mainly in commercial and criminal law and publishes in the area of arts law. ----------------------------------------------------------- Image courtesy of Nick Modrzewski @ c3 contemporary art space See more

11.01.2022 Pictured is a video still from Penny Walker- Keefe and Lewis O’ Brian’s exhibition Collision. We will be open 10-5 today and over the weekend. : @burnt_chrome @pennyw_k

09.01.2022 This is a great read on an endurance work by artist Sha Sarwari that can be watched each morning on Facebook live from 7-9am.

07.01.2022 You can fill out National Association for the Visual Arts's survey to help them put together data on COVID-19's impact on the arts ecology. Link below:

04.01.2022 Images from Isabella Darcey’s Reworked. Reworked by Melbourne-based artist Isabella Darcy is an on-going project and investigation into the material processes of twenty-first century shopping. The project explores the connections between material culture, art and fashion. Mainly working with found and discarded objects and clothing, particularly denim, Darcy acknowledges the pre-existing lives of materials. The works in Reworked take on different art-making methods with mat...erials such as cutting, bleaching, sewing and photographic screen-printing. Each work of Darcy’s gestural and handmade aesthetics is a comment on the nature of process and production in fashion, mixed-media and art-making. Darcy’s exploration of relational aspects of clothing and value production draws attention to the methods and modes of production in fashion products and fashion-based media. Darcy’s unification of narration and cultural symbolism within Reworked ultimately reflects and responds to people’s connections to clothing and material. For the Abbotsford Convent’s COVID-19 updates please see the link in our bio. @abbotsfordconvent @plasticchair : @burnt_chrome @ Abbotsford Convent

01.01.2022 Images from another one of our exhibitions, Futile Devices by Maddy Anderson and Jack Martinich. The exhibition Futile Devices acts as a platform to unravel different communication methods, including that between humans and machines. The project presents a drawing machine which uses technologies to create hand drawn notes into fleeting sketches of light. A magic trick, a sleight of hand: the machine will act as a ghostly translator, revealing a journal full of incomplete pr...ojects and unattempted ideas. Communicative methods can be futile, particularly when more than just language acts as a barrier. I find myself constantly whispering sweet nothings to futile devices, 3D printers that refuse to understand me. Just tell me what you want from me? I askexhausted, unable to communicate: nothing other than gestures, gyration and G-code between us. Futile Devices is a partnership between an artist and an engineer, allowing machines to whisper back @abbotsfordconvent @madzgrace @jack_martinich : @burnt_chrome @ Abbotsford Convent

01.01.2022 Also, Neptune Archive are making space for thinking through our current situation through practice: