Week 3 - visit to GOMA

Week 3 – GOMA Visit

Information obtained from the Goma website

http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/trace

In Week 3 we visited Goma as a class … I find it exhilarating going to Goma …. Knowing that I am going to leave with new perspectives and ideas for my own practice …. Trace was no exception …. I lifted the following from the Goma website as an overview but also to make visible the upcoming artist talks and events on 10 May which appear an amazing opportunity to interact with some of the artists and once again learn …. The emerging artist interaction towards the end of the day seeming particularly valuable for this interface.

Trace: Performance and its Documents

22 February -  27 July 2014
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
Free Admission

Opening Hours
Daily: 10.00am – 5.00pm

It seems obvious when talking about performance that ‘you really have to be there’, to get the story right. While the experience of ‘being there’ adds something particular, it is still possible to experience the work at a remove, whether via a screen, photographic documentation, or even a third-hand retelling of the action. ‘Trace’ draws out relationships between performance and its documents, bringing together new commissions with historical and contemporary works from across the Gallery’s Collection. The exhibition includes works by John Baldessari; Brown Council; Rebecca Horn; Bruce Nauman, Mike Parr; Campbell Patterson; Qin Ga; Carolee Schneemann; Sriwhana Spong; Song Dong; Ai Weiwei; Gosia Wlodarczak; Erwin Wurm; Zhang Huan, and more.

Spanning an array of cultural contexts and varying sorts of performativity – feats of endurance, repetitive actions, shamanistic rituals, vaudevillian acts – the works also range wildly in tone: from sublime to icky to out and out funny. Whether images, texts or objects, ‘Trace’ gives presence to the residues that stop performance disappearing altogether. Alongside the works, this testifies to the continuing relevance of discussions around ephemeral work in the Gallery: it appears, disappears, then reappears in various guises.

Read more about 'Trace' on our blog | Trace: Performance and its Documents

Programs and Events

Special Event

International artist talk
Tehching Hsieh in conversation with Russell Storer
6.00pm Friday 2 May | GOMA Cinema
Join eminent New York-based performance artist Tehching Hsieh at GOMA in conversation with Russell Storer, Curatorial Manager, Asian Art, QAGOMA. Hsieh’s visit coincides with the display of the artist’s seminal One Year Performance 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece) at Carriageworks, Sydney. Hseih will discuss this and other projects at this special event. Free, no bookings required.

Best known for a series of five year-long performances he undertook in New York in the 1980s, Tehching Hsieh makes work about time, life and being. His works are notable for their conceptual purity and physical extremity. Born in 1950 in Taiwan, Hsieh’s contribution to performance art has been widely recognised through major exhibitions at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013), São Paulo Biennial (2012), Liverpool Biennale (2010), Gwangju Biennale (2010), Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009).

TRACE LIVE

SATURDAY 10 MAY | GOMA
A day devoted to performance, with a range of events and talks taking place in and around GOMA, featuring Australian artists who explore site-specific, performative and ephemeral practices. All events are free, no bookings required.

TALKS

•   10.00am | Artist talk | Seminar Room
Join Agatha Gothe-Snape for an introduction to the history of visual scores, and the intersections between dance and visual art, with particular reference to her work Three Ways to Enter and Exit.


•   11.00am | Keynote artist talk | Cinema A
Australian artist Mike Parr reflects on his long history of making performance works since the 1970s. Parr will also present an excerpt of a new performance during the event.


•   1.00pm | Curator’s tour | Exhibition space
Join Bree Richards, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Australian Art, for a discussion of key works and ideas in the 'Trace: Performance and its Documents' exhibition.


•   1.30pm | Artist talk | Maiwar Green
Hear Kerrie Poliness speak about the large-scale drawing Field Drawing #1.


•   2.30pm | Artist talk | Exhibition space
Join members of Brown Council as they reflect on the life and work of fictional Australian performance artist Barbara Cleveland.

PERFORMANCES

•   All day | Kerrie Poliness | Maiwar Green
Over the weekend Kerrie Poliness will use sports field marker to make Field Drawing #1, a large scale drawing on the Maiwar Green outside GOMA.


•   12.30 – 4.30pm | Michaela Gleave | Cinema B and online
Streamed live from her studio in New York throughout the day, Michaela Gleave will undertake a simple endurance action.


•   3.00pm |Agatha Gothe-Snape | exhibition space
Agatha Gothe-Snape will collaborate with QUT dance students to create a one-off dance piece, Other Ways to Enter and Exit.

SPECIAL EVENT

•   3.30pm | Emerging Creatives networking | GOMA Lounge
Are you an emerging arts practitioner? Join us at this exclusive event offering an opportunity to meet ‘Trace Live’ artists in the surrounds of the ‘Trace Live’ pop up cash bar

Students receive a 10% discount at the Gallery’s food and beverage venues during ‘Trace Live’ on Saturday 10 May*.
* Valid student ID card required