Failspace

Fail space is a project space that aims to initiate a critical discourse and presentation of contemporary craft and labour intensive art through a series of experimental and participatory exhibitions.

FAILSPACE IN MAY


LOST


by Twotinkabout



May 3 – 16


Exhibition opening Thursday, May 3 from 6-8pm

Given the increasing awareness of the potential impacts of climate change and resource stress, future cities will face the challenge of survival. As in the past, humans will simply adapt out of necessity and move to where there are more abundant resources. But how will the ways in which we live change? How will the places in which we live alter? Will cities, as we currently know them, still exist? “LOST” is a typographic experiment that explores the ontological relationships between the function of language, the human body as the relational object and possible modes of urban wayfinding in this impending ‘age of unsettlement’.

Baron Chau & Nancy Liang operate together as Twotinkabout on a scope of cross-disciplinary art and design projects that propose possible, parallel, fictional, or even undesirable future systems of acting and being with the world in crisis. Their shared practice explores drawing, writing, teaching, installation, graphic design, environments, textiles, and participatory art that conjure real or imag- ined tales of viable future forms through critical dialogue and site-responsive interventions that shift the social, cultural, geo-political and other acting forces.


EXPERIMENT


by Shan Shan & Helen Mok

May 18 – 29


Exhibition opening Thursday, May 18 from 6-8pm

The sweet sister group Shan Shan & Helen Mok will indulge your visual senses with their highly delicate jewellery pieces, filling the entire floor of Failspace gallery. Plenty of visual impacts. Shan Shan and Helen Mok they are sister both passionate about jewellery making. They graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) degree majoring in Object Art and Design from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.

Even though the sister group grow up in similar environment, the way they approach to their concept and technique in jewellery and object making are very difference. Shan Shan explores the materiality of rubber and plastic while Helen explores the concept of kinetic jewellery using precious metal. The exhibition will showcase Shan Shan and Helen most recent collaboration.

Initiative of Failspace; Curated by Iris SiYi Shen

Failspace presents: Surface Tension by Simon Wilde Exhibition opening: 19 April 6pm - 8pmExhibition runs from 19 April - 2 MayFailspace Gaffa281 Clarence Street, Sydney CBD, NSW 2000Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm Sat 11am - 5pmThis is an exhibition about the patterns which arise when steel meets ink and other water based media. The canvasses are sheets of industrial grade, milled steel. Instead of gesso, The use an angle grinder and drill-mounted wire brush to prepare the ground for ink and paint. Steel is dynamic. It starts to change as soon as it is exposed to the air. When participant apply water based media to it, the changes occur rapidly - sometimes while they are watching. Steel is non-porous, which means you can pour pigments directly onto it and mix them in situ. While the finished works arising out of this process are often stunning, there are also interesting things happening during their creation. Patterns arise of great beauty which unfortunately quickly dissolve. In this highly interactive exhibition, steel sheets will be laid out and the materials will be at hand for the audience to experiment. This way the audience will get the chance to see not only the finished pieces but also the chemical reactions and associated patterns which arise and pass away in the course of the process of creation.

Failspace presents: Surface Tension by Simon Wilde

Exhibition opening: 19 April 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition runs from 19 April - 2 May
Failspace Gaffa

281 Clarence Street, Sydney CBD, NSW 2000

Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm Sat 11am - 5pm



This is an exhibition about the patterns which arise when steel meets ink and other water based media. The canvasses are sheets of industrial grade, milled steel. Instead of gesso, The use an angle grinder and drill-mounted wire brush to prepare the ground for ink and paint. Steel is dynamic. It starts to change as soon as it is exposed to the air. When participant apply water based media to it, the changes occur rapidly - sometimes while they are watching. Steel is non-porous, which means you can pour pigments directly onto it and mix them in situ. While the finished works arising out of this process are often stunning, there are also interesting things happening during their creation. Patterns arise of great beauty which unfortunately quickly dissolve. In this highly interactive exhibition, steel sheets will be laid out and the materials will be at hand for the audience to experiment. This way the audience will get the chance to see not only the finished pieces but also the chemical reactions and associated patterns which arise and pass away in the course of the process of creation.

MAKE AGAIN GROUP SHOWFAILSPACE PROJECT SPACE, GAFFA GALLERYThe Failspace Project is now accepting proposals for a group show based on the theme of cross-displinary in art. MAKE explores the intersection between different art practices with four specific focuses: fine art, craft, design and conceptual art. Part one of the project sucessfully showcasing four artists during Art Month 2012 in March, each artist producing a work categorised in these four arenas and each occupying a public gallery space for one week. Continue this format in MAKE Again, Failspace is asking innovative artists to produce a site-specific installations that emphasise the artists’ making processes, with a particular focus on the related links between practice, practitioner and the public. The exhibiting artists will take up the entire gallery space for one week each, starts on the Wed 1st May and runs until the 29th May 2012. The exhibition fee is $330 get inclusive for the week.This pricing includes: • Staffing of the gallery • Inclusion on the gallery website • Design and printing of printed invitations • organisation of opening night • Advertising in the Art Almanac, the Art Gallery Guide• Email of invitations to Gaffa and Failspace”s mailing list• Handling of sales (no commission taken) Gaffa is situated at the heart of Sydney CBD with a buzzing cafe and designer shops downstairs. The gallery is open 11am to 6pm, Monday – Friday and 10 am - 5pm Saturday. It provides a great opportunity for budding artists to display their talents to a wide and diverse audience at this hard to come by location. For more information or to send proposals with images of your work, contact Iris on 0432017050 or failspaceproject@gmail.comFollow our work on Facebook/failspacegalleryor failspace.tumblr.com@failspaceGaffa gallery 281 Clarence St Sydney 2000

MAKE AGAIN GROUP SHOW
FAILSPACE PROJECT SPACE, GAFFA GALLERY

The Failspace Project is now accepting proposals for a group show based on the theme of cross-displinary in art. MAKE explores the intersection between different art practices with four specific focuses: fine art, craft, design and conceptual art. 

Part one of the project sucessfully showcasing four artists during Art Month 2012 in March, each artist producing a work categorised in these four arenas and each occupying a public gallery space for one week. 

Continue this format in MAKE Again, Failspace is asking innovative artists to produce a site-specific installations that emphasise the artists’ making processes, with a particular focus on the related links between practice, practitioner and the public. 


The exhibiting artists will take up the entire gallery space for one week each, starts on the Wed 1st May and runs until the 29th May 2012. The exhibition fee is $330 get inclusive for the week.

This pricing includes: 
• Staffing of the gallery 
• Inclusion on the gallery website 
• Design and printing of printed invitations 
• organisation of opening night 
• Advertising in the Art Almanac, the Art Gallery Guide
• Email of invitations to Gaffa and Failspace”s mailing list
• Handling of sales (no commission taken) 

Gaffa is situated at the heart of Sydney CBD with a buzzing cafe and designer shops downstairs. The gallery is open 11am to 6pm, Monday – Friday and 10 am - 5pm Saturday. It provides a great opportunity for budding artists to display their talents to a wide and diverse audience at this hard to come by location. For more information or to send proposals with images of your work, contact Iris on 0432017050 or failspaceproject@gmail.com

Follow our work on 
Facebook/failspacegallery
or failspace.tumblr.com
@failspace

Gaffa gallery 281 Clarence St Sydney 2000

Failspace presents:

brat pack

by OK YEAH COOL GREAT Artist Collective

Exhibition opens on Thursday 5 April 6-8pm at Failspace Gaffa Gallery

Exhibition runs from Thursday 5 to Tuesday 17 April 

In brat pack, OK YEAH COOL GREAT explores the effect of geometric blocks of colour and translucent overlays as they are applied to film stills.  

Extending upon past ‘ready made’ work, OK YEAH COOL GREAT have appropriated the aesthetics from an era of film that was defined by a homogenised visual landscape and a recurring collective of actors.  Using stills from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), Less Than Zero (1987), St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), and The Breakfast Club (1985), they aim to claim this aesthetic as their own. 

Interested in exploring the limits of the photographic and cinematic referent, OK YEAH COOL GREAT apply interruptions on the surface of these images as a way of shifting the control within the photographic frame from the index to the aesthetic ether.  More specifically, in brat pack, these aesthetic interruptions occur on the physical image, rather than within the digital space, as in previous works.  This physicality creates an exchange with the viewer as the image space extends into the third dimension.

MAKE PROJECT // Neil Brandhorst // 8 - 13 March

The terms fine art, craft, design and concept are so often used when referring to specific practices in the arts, it has almost become customary to frame a practice within these umbrella terms. MAKE is a project that explores the intersection between different art practices with four specific focuses: fine art, craft, design and conceptual art. Part one of the project incorporates four artists, each artist producing a work categorised in these four arenas and each occupying a public gallery space for one week. Their work will be site-specific installations that emphasise the artists’ making processes, with a particular focus on the related links between practice, practitioner and the public. The participating artists will be discussing their artworks at the end of the exhibition.

Neil Brandhorst - 8 - 13 March

Suddenly is an exploration of the threshold of awareness. By introducing the element of time through an artwork that impinges itself upon the viewer Neil introduces an introspective and collective event that interrupts the contextualized process of viewing art. 

 

MAKE PROJECT // Emily Morandini // 15 - 20 March

Emily Morandini - 15 - 20 March

Emily Morandini has performed and exhibited as a sound-based artist over the last seven years. Traversing live, improvised, compositional, and installation works, her practice incorporates handmade elements into audio production processes.

Creations include fillet-lace embedded circuits, handmade magnetic tape, live razor blade audio mixes, and bobbin-lace ground-loop microphone cable.

Emily’s current work focuses on basic elements of conduction and insulation to explore pattern in signal, motif in transmission. By intersecting lacemaking techniques with audio electronics, hidden lines are revealed, shielded elements are exposed, and oscillation combines with structure to create a delicate, audible fabric.