Call for ALUMNI to exhibit

A painter paints pictures on canvas, musicians paint on silence; same difference.


Hello and welcome to ACOUSTOOPTICALDINORATORIO. You may have participated in the first performance and exhibition in the Delmar Gallery and if so welcome back, if you did not, then welcome to a new exhibition/performance and audio experience. The details of which and the essential dates follow herewith …….

ACOUSTOOPTICALDINORATORIO is the inspiration of the Irish artist, Alan Healy who states…“In keeping with our duty as artists to change the inherent form and destiny of any matter we use to express ourselves … in my work, I try to elaborate on parts and sensations of this experience; that is, to bring attention to the materiality of James Joyce’s work and perhaps reveal something of the alchemy that he alone understood.”

ACOUSTOOPTICALDINORATORIO is an exploration of sound and vision set against the backdrop of James Joyce’s monumental literary work Finnegans Wake.

So what is ACOUSTOOPTICALDINORATORIO ? If we break down the title, the music is the ACOUSTO, the OPTICAL are the canvases, the DIN is the cacophony when all of the musicians play their own pieces of music simultaneously and the ORATORIO is the chatter afterwards.

The performance and exhibition features the musical and visual works of around 40 artists. Each artist will play 30 seconds of music, until all have played. This section will be followed by 2 minutes where all the artists play their own piece simultaneously sounded in by the timekeeper. At this time various others join in, conductors, ballet dancers, viewers with movie cameras, and more.

So how will it all sound? Nobody knows yet. How will it look? The artists with musical instruments will be seated in a spiral facing out. The vocalists will form an inner circle facing out. There will be four conductors, at the north, south, east and west aspects of the circle. They will wear earphones and conduct whatever they are listening too and there will be canvases by all of those participating surrounding the performers.

One of the many pleasures of Finnegans Wake is that it still remains poetry and chaos, rather than something analysed and known to be safe, this event and exhibition, with the visual and associations of the visual, sound and the associations of sound may be as meaningful as it may seem meaningless; this remains to be seen and hear this work we listen, participate and wait.

This year it is on again as an event and introduction to the Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE Meadowbank Campus College of Art Alumni at the See Street Gallery.

For further information please contact Nick Vickers at The See Street Gallery 0403 838 309

Performance Wednesday 10th August 6.00pm

Delivery of works Monday 8th August Installation of works by the Meadowbank Museum Practice students Tuesday 9th August

Exhibition hours 12.00 -5.00pm Tuesday – Wednesday 10th August – 18th August

Collect works Friday 19th August, 2011.