Speakers and Events
adDressing Space: An Installation by Textile Design Students
What happens when 21 textile design students, armed with pattern, colour and material descend upon an empty and austere industrial site? One could predict that the space will look “permanently surprised by what has happened to it – a glum host won over by a charming guest” (Paton, p.13).
The work on show in adDRESSING SPACE occupies an interesting territory, somewhere between painting, sculpture and the catwalk. Fabric normally associated with the apparel industry finds itself taken off the body to embrace architectural form. The body is still addressed - but it is the body of the spectator. The works on show concentrate on exploring the physicality of viewing, perceiving and experiencing colour, texture and pattern. For one night only, this installation event will reveal how the conversation of concrete and crushed velvet, loading docks and lycra played out.
Paton, J. (2004). Warpspeed. Sara Hughes. Dunedin: University of Otago Image: Erin Cretney
Quarters - Special Screening: Performance Design Project
Quarters is a collaborative film project, devised and directed by four final year Performance Design students. Each of the film's four chapters provides a unique perspective on the notion of ‘home’ and the multiple places we find it.
Devised and directed by: Ian Hammond. Jessica Sanderson, Richard Larsen and Rowan Pierce.
Paul Carter (AUS): Creating Place
Internationally acclaimed writer and artist Paul Carter will discuss the implications, both institutional and methodological, for new ways of thinking about and producing places.
Carter relocates creativity at the heart of debates about sustainability. Creative research involves 'material thinking' - thinking that is situated, opportunistic and evolutionary. As institutions cannot accommodate these attributes, creative research is best conducted outside the academy. The Melbourne-based Centre for Creative Place Research (CPR), currently being established to mediate partnerships between 'end users' and 'research producers', seeks to reinstate creativity's role in placemaking.
This model recognises the creative potential of places to (re-)create themselves beyond the bounds of prescriptive planning discourses, and in the face of change. Places are both biological communities and mythopoetic constructs; change correlates to both bio-systemic realities and human destinies. Creative research documents phenomena that fall between the physical and psychological domains.
Carter's latest book Dark Writing (2008) discusses techniques for applying these phenomena in the field of placemaking. Carter’s lecture will be of interest to all those who are considering the problematic nature of creative research within institutions.
Set Departure: Performance Design Project
This short exhibition features the work of the College’s final cohort of Performance Design students.
They have constructed ten uniquely seductive works for an exhibition which blurs the lines between stage, screen and exhibition. Each component work demonstrates individual approaches to performance and design, turning The Print Factory into a dynamic space of encounter with performance, installation, and audio-visual media.
Performance Design study will remain available at Massey University through Postgraduate study and undergraduate specialisation in performance design through the Spatial Design department.
Featuring: Elizabeth Carpenter Renee Dennison Ian Hammond Ashleigh Kane Rose Kirkup Richard Larsen Rose Morrison Rowan Pierce Emma Ransley Jessica Sanderson