Summer Studio
Ben Johnson & Nick Herzog
Agnes So & Jason Chau
11 Jan - 14 Jan 2012
4 DAYS ONLY
Gallery One and Two
Rather then leave the gallery empty over the holiday season this year, two collaboratives - Ben Johnson & Nick Herzog and Agnes So & Jason Chau - were given the keys to Blindside and, starting from scratch, asked to have an exhibition ready in four and a half weeks, a duration far exceeding the usual two-day installation time. The public are invited to view the results that both highlight and fracture the boundaries between idea inception, exploration, creation and presentation.
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Ben Johnson & Nick Hertzog
Johnson & Hertzog's work at BLINDSIDE explores the complex relationship between place and context in the studio. The studio echoes the logic of spatial peripheries - it is a complex and organic whole. To remove a garbage bag is just as incongrous an action as removing a painting. The work will be indelibly linked to the edifice of the studio. Johnson and Hertzog's assembleges cohere into a sort of DIY post apocalyptic desert island, where accumulation and entropy have become implicit in the studio space.
Agnes So & Janson Chau
New Zealand artist So and designer Chau have colaborated within BLINDSIDE over the studio period. So engages with a number of minimalist materials to create investigations between the viewer and the viewed, where engagement between the two occurs through a heightening of one's awareness towards the everyday. Meanwhile, Chau has documented So's progress with a number of catalog projects, exploring both traditional and more ephemeral print medias.
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BLINDSIDE's projects have been assisted by the Australian Government
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