Fragmented Coalesce
A$3,340
of $3,000 targetyrs ago
Successful on 10th Jul 2015 at 8:46AM.
We are very excited that our first collaborative project; Fragmented Coalesce has been accepted into Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10, a uniquely experiential festival of contemporary interdisciplinary art being held in October 2015. We will be exhibiting alongside national and international artists such as Mishka Henner, Domenico de Clario and Jill Orr. ‘Palimpsest’ means a parchment which has been partly erased and re-inscribed; it evokes the marks made by human settlement on the land, the passage of time, presence and absence. The theme of the 2015 festival is ‘everywhere all at once …here’
Fragmented Coalesce builds on experience gained from our participation in a workshop in early 2015 ‘An Ecology of Objects and Actions’ facilitated by Jude Walton & Aleks Danko. The three day master class gave participants the skills to observe and respond to conditions, environments, and materials productively and imaginatively, through a process of experimenting and doing. Here we developed a physical intuition as collaborating artists, and developed ideas on how to approach our project.
Rohan Morris & Rachel Kendrigan, durational performance dissolving lake salt with river water, An Ecology of Objects & Actions workshop, 2015.
Fragmented Coalesce is an unfolding, process based work, dependent on each of the two artists participating in ‘cross residencies’ in June and August 2015. It is essential to the development of this project that the collaboration is physical, the interaction ensures that the final work is a true collaboration developing experimentation of technique, discovering and growing together, and allowing the work to naturally progress.
We will explore themes of identity and relationship to place by selecting sites within our current residing locations- Mildura, Victoria and Hobart, Tasmania, with which we have an embodied spatial connection. Within each chosen site we will invite the other to engage in a ‘performative conversation’ in response to the landscape, materials, space, and each other, playing with the idea of presence, absence and remembering.
Join our facebook event page to keep up to date with the progress of the residencies!
Throughout the duration of both residencies we we shall engage the professional assistance and input of a cameraman to capture the performances via video and stills, which we shall edit into a video work for final exhibit at Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10 in October 2015. The three channel video installation will be a reference to a Palimpsest- an exploration of the modern day parchment through the layering of imagery and the re-writing of experience with new technology. Within the final work we aim to depict the ‘fragmented’ experience of time and space. ‘Coalesce’ means to grow together or into one body; and this will form the discourse for the collaborative element of the project, and connecting the actions of the past with the present moment and space.
Locations for site specific performative responses across Hobart & Mildura
We are currently in negotiation with a gallery space in Hobart to present a preview performance during the Hobart residency, as well as exhibit a rendition of the final work in 2016.. Stay tuned!
Fragmented Coalesce builds on experience gained from our participation in a workshop in early 2015 ‘An Ecology of Objects and Actions’ facilitated by Jude Walton & Aleks Danko. The three day master class gave participants the skills to observe and respond to conditions, environments, and materials productively and imaginatively, through a process of experimenting and doing. Here we developed a physical intuition as collaborating artists, and developed ideas on how to approach our project.
Rohan Morris & Rachel Kendrigan, durational performance dissolving lake salt with river water, An Ecology of Objects & Actions workshop, 2015.
Fragmented Coalesce is an unfolding, process based work, dependent on each of the two artists participating in ‘cross residencies’ in June and August 2015. It is essential to the development of this project that the collaboration is physical, the interaction ensures that the final work is a true collaboration developing experimentation of technique, discovering and growing together, and allowing the work to naturally progress.
We will explore themes of identity and relationship to place by selecting sites within our current residing locations- Mildura, Victoria and Hobart, Tasmania, with which we have an embodied spatial connection. Within each chosen site we will invite the other to engage in a ‘performative conversation’ in response to the landscape, materials, space, and each other, playing with the idea of presence, absence and remembering.
Join our facebook event page to keep up to date with the progress of the residencies!
Throughout the duration of both residencies we we shall engage the professional assistance and input of a cameraman to capture the performances via video and stills, which we shall edit into a video work for final exhibit at Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10 in October 2015. The three channel video installation will be a reference to a Palimpsest- an exploration of the modern day parchment through the layering of imagery and the re-writing of experience with new technology. Within the final work we aim to depict the ‘fragmented’ experience of time and space. ‘Coalesce’ means to grow together or into one body; and this will form the discourse for the collaborative element of the project, and connecting the actions of the past with the present moment and space.
Locations for site specific performative responses across Hobart & Mildura
We are currently in negotiation with a gallery space in Hobart to present a preview performance during the Hobart residency, as well as exhibit a rendition of the final work in 2016.. Stay tuned!
About us
Rachel Kendrigan is an emerging artist born in Mildura and now based in Hobart, Tasmania. Her practice and passion is centred around drawing, and using the notions of drawing as a starting point for exploring the body in space, the body as a drawing tool, and the creation of line through movement in space. Rachel engages in performative actions in spaces and landscapes which she holds a personal connection, her performances involving the body as the active agent within rituals associated with creation, intimacy and personal transformation. Rachel presented her first live performance in 2013 and has gone on to further explore the remediation of her performative practice through video, photography, objects and installation. She recently graduated first class from the Tasmanian College of the Arts Honours Research program.
Rohan Morris initially studied as a Graphic Artist with a love for aesthetics and computer aided design. He is currently undertaking his Masters of Visual Arts via research at La Trobe University, Mildura. Rohan’s practice explores perceived and identified identities through place and time. Working across performance, photography and video – Rohan depicts and explores his identity within various locations, landscapes and scenarios. Rohan participated in Mildura Palimpsest Biennale %239 where he initially started experimenting with performance, by covering the individual identity in an abstracted layer of cloth, allowing the work to hold its minimalistic nature so as to avoid the stereotypical judgment of the male within each domestic role that is depicted.
Rohan and Rachel studied Visual Arts together at La Trobe University in 2011-2012, and have worked together delivering Festivals and events in the Mildura region. Both artists have a background in various media such as photography, drawing, and installation exploring themes of identity, and have recently began to expand their practices into performance art. We were employed as assistant curators for the 2013 Mildura Palimpsest Biennale %239 as well as separate exhibiting artists. This provided a platform to share ideas, expand our professional practice and engage in conversation for this collaborative work. This new project has presented a much awaited opportunity to actively pursue realising a conceptual project together.
Rohan Morris initially studied as a Graphic Artist with a love for aesthetics and computer aided design. He is currently undertaking his Masters of Visual Arts via research at La Trobe University, Mildura. Rohan’s practice explores perceived and identified identities through place and time. Working across performance, photography and video – Rohan depicts and explores his identity within various locations, landscapes and scenarios. Rohan participated in Mildura Palimpsest Biennale %239 where he initially started experimenting with performance, by covering the individual identity in an abstracted layer of cloth, allowing the work to hold its minimalistic nature so as to avoid the stereotypical judgment of the male within each domestic role that is depicted.
Rohan and Rachel studied Visual Arts together at La Trobe University in 2011-2012, and have worked together delivering Festivals and events in the Mildura region. Both artists have a background in various media such as photography, drawing, and installation exploring themes of identity, and have recently began to expand their practices into performance art. We were employed as assistant curators for the 2013 Mildura Palimpsest Biennale %239 as well as separate exhibiting artists. This provided a platform to share ideas, expand our professional practice and engage in conversation for this collaborative work. This new project has presented a much awaited opportunity to actively pursue realising a conceptual project together.
How The Funds Will Be Used
We are raising funds to cover travel costs so that we can both attend cross-residencies to create work on site, and so that we can both attend the festival for the final installation/presentation. We are seeking your help to ensure we have resources to produce and install the best quality work we can.
As an additional aspect to the project we are creating this campaign so we can produce a limited edition catalogue including images and essays describing the whole project, and to produce a limited series of beautiful stills- one from each site.
Travel between Mildura and Hobart for residencies and attendance of festival: $1350
Cameraman on sites during residencies to capture footage and stills: $1300
Printing of catalogue: $950
installation costs for final presentation at MPB#10: $400
Campaign costs (fees, postage & stills printing) $500
Providing success of reaching our target, we will receive 50% of our funds matched by the lovely Arts Tasmania crew through their Crowbar funding scheme! So that means more bang for your buck.. you donate $50, we get $75, you donate $500, we get $750! You get the math.. all in all it makes your donation worth even more to us and completing this project to the best of our ability.
This project is supported in kind by Mildura Palimpsest Biennale
As an additional aspect to the project we are creating this campaign so we can produce a limited edition catalogue including images and essays describing the whole project, and to produce a limited series of beautiful stills- one from each site.
Travel between Mildura and Hobart for residencies and attendance of festival: $1350
Cameraman on sites during residencies to capture footage and stills: $1300
Printing of catalogue: $950
installation costs for final presentation at MPB#10: $400
Campaign costs (fees, postage & stills printing) $500
Providing success of reaching our target, we will receive 50% of our funds matched by the lovely Arts Tasmania crew through their Crowbar funding scheme! So that means more bang for your buck.. you donate $50, we get $75, you donate $500, we get $750! You get the math.. all in all it makes your donation worth even more to us and completing this project to the best of our ability.
This project is supported in kind by Mildura Palimpsest Biennale
The Challenges
There are many aspects to the project and we have been working hard throughout 2015 to pull them together. Getting to each other to participate in the residencies is an expensive task but vital to ensure that the project is a true collaboration and we have the opportunity to develop together as artists. Another big challenge is ensuring we can have a camera person on site with us, as we could be dealing with adverse weather conditions and remote locations, therefore conducting filming whilst performing alone on site will likely be problematic. Producing the best work possible to match the high standard of artists presenting work at Mildura Palimpsest Biennale %2310 is also of great importance as it is a chance for us to expose our work to a large audience. We want to produce a catalogue so we can document the full scope of the project and have something solid and lasting to offer to summarise the journey of the project and promote our work in future.
Helper
Thank you! Every dollar helps! We will shout out a thank you on social media =)
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Est. delivery is Jul 15
Patron
Congratulations! You are officially a patron of the arts. You will receive a hand written thank you on a Fragmented Coalesce postcard and a social media shout out!
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Est. delivery is Oct 15
Memento
For this you will receive a copy of the limited editioned catalogue! Also, a hand written thank you on a Fragmented Coalesce postcard, and a nice social media shout out.
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Suspend
For those who want something lovely for your wall! A limited editioned print to hang on your wall, a hand written thank you on a Fragmented Coalesce postcard and a social media shout out!
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Preserve
This donation will be special- you will receive a limited editioned copy of the catalogue as well as a limited editioned print for you wall.. and of course a hand written thank you on a Fragmented Coalesce postcard and a social media shout out.
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Dedicate
Now we are getting serious.. for this donation we will include a printed thank you in our catalogue, you will receive your own copy of the limited editioned catalogue, a limited editioned print for your wall, and of course a hand written thank you on a Fragmented Coalesce postcard and a good ol social media shout out!
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Fundamental
This is the biggest and the best for the serious art patron.. your own copy of the video work Fragmented Coalesce, a copy of the limited editioned catalogue, a limited editioned print for your wall, a hand written thank you on a Fragmented Coalesce postcard, and very public thank you via a mention in the catalogue, social media shout outs and our eternal gratitude!
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Est. delivery is Oct 15