Pipilotti Rist Exhibit and Anri Sala

A new art exhibit is showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art here in Sydney so Brooks and I went to go check it out.  Here's the info regarding the artist Pipilotti Rist and her work below.  Again lots of pictures and some video.  Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

"Over the past 30 years, Pipilotti Rist has achieved international acclaim as one of the pioneers of experimental video art and multimedia installations.  Incorporating video and sculpture, her dazzling environments plunge viewers into colorful kaleidoscopic projections which explore the relationship between nature, the body and technology.

Exclusive to Sydney, the exhibition Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean presents the spectrum of Rist's groundbreaking practice, from her early single-channel videos of the 1980s to her large-scale audio-visual installations and recent immersive environments.

This exhibition is the most comprehensive exhibition of her work ever to be staged in Australia.  The exhibition is part of the Sydney International Art Series."

Administrating Eternity (2011)

This next room was hands down my favorite out of them all.  It reminds me of the Fireflies exhibit in the Phoenix Art Museum.  This was called Pixelwald (Pixel Forest), 2016.

Colored screens covering the windows to Circular Quay.

 Changing video on the floor.  This was the world with birthday candles.

This was a little challenging to get photos of since you couldn't use flash.  It was this different sized metal orbs hanging from the ceiling at varying heights.  Some of the orbs then were projecting the images on the wall.  Brooks actually ended up seeing the artist working on them while we were there.  

This help me sign was walking into the hallway for the next room.  I really had no clue what to expect. 

You entered into this massive room.  It was set up similar to a house.  Designated areas for sitting, eating, sleeping, laundry, etc.  There was so much video and lights going on in this room. This room was called "Your Room opposite the Opera" 2017.

Double projected wall that had massive cushions you could lay down on.

Writing desk with projection on the front.  Items on the desk were a little odd.

Looking towards the dining area

Projection on the top of the table that would get larger and change colors.  

Bar cart...the one bottle would change colors and had a video going on the inside.

Living room...no  clue what is in the middle.

Always has to promote own book.

 In my opinion this was the coolest projection in this room.  At first glance it looked like the human heart on the R and maybe the stomach on the L.  It made me think of the projection that was used in "Bones" to recreated the human body so they could look at it from all angles.

This was a picture in the bedroom that actually looked like it was moving water from the projection.

The bed.  You could actually sit/lay down on the bed and become part of the art.

Airing the laundry lol.  So many tightie whities. 

Miniature scaled "room" with the solar system.

The next room you walked into had beds all over the place.  And the screens were projected on the ceiling.  Called "4th Floor to Mindness" 2016.

Had to take the shoes off.

The last room we walked into we were told we could sit on the couches, but no shoes.  Walked into these oversized couches haha.  But actually when I sat up there my feet just came off the edge.  Super comfy couch for me...I need them all to be like this!

Watching the TV which was the artist "singing".  Quite bizarre.

Again like I said, my favorite was the stringing lights that changed colors, but it was a really cool experience.  After this, there was also another art exhibit at the Rotunda at Observatory Hill that we went to go check out.

This exhibit is called "The Last Resort" by Anri Sala.  "It was inspired by the artist's visit to Australia and developed over three years ahead of its world-premiere in Sydney.  Positioned alongside the historic Sydney Observatory where colonial time was measured and maps of the stars sustained the passage of ships moving between the 'old world' and 'the new', Sala invites audiences to step within the historic Observatory Hill Rotunda to experience a gravity-defying installation of sculpture and sound."

Brooks always getting photos of me taking photos....I wonder where Aram gets it from???

"This is an ensemble of 38 custom-built snare drums that have been upturned and suspended from the ceiling.  Within each drum, an orchestral recording is played through hidden speakers, a new variation on Mozart's 1791 Clarinet Concerto in A Major.  The musical track reverberates inside the drums to trigger their kinetic response, creating a dialogue between past and present compositions, live and recorded sound."

Overlooks the Harbor and North Sydney is straight ahead which is the area of town we live in.

"Anri Sala's variation on Mozart's concerto substitutes the original tempo indications for wind conditions described in the diary of James Bell, a settler who voyaged to Australia in 1838.  The composition is opened to the impact of wind and waves, its bars and phrases overtaken by breezes, gales, hurricanes and storms--as if, like a message in a bottle, it had been washed ashore in Sydney after a long voyage at sea."

"The notation of musical composition and tempo provide tools to retain similitude across changing ages.  To capture and seal sounds for their later re-enactment--to be recorded, repeated and replaced.  The Last Resort opens Mozart's Enlightenment masterpiece to corruption and alteration.  Sala's work layers and fragments this composition, looking back at its history, its Enlightenment and colonial context.  Reflecting back on a site with a rich Indigenous heritage, like the scintillating surface of the drums, this work fragments singular perception and uncomplicated, linear histories."

Mirrored snare drums.  

Here is a video the drums in action.

So overall we had a great day of art exhibits and topped it off by having a beer on the rooftop beer garden at "The Glenmore Hotel".

Hope you enjoyed your mini tour of the art exhibits.  I should note Aram hasn't been on these adventures lately because he is finishing up his semester by writing loads of papers and spending lots of time at school.  Hopefully soon we'll be able to go out and explore together.

xoxo,  Ann