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2010
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
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the invited representatives of ‘Practice’
for the P4 (pilot) initiative from Performance
Space and Perth
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Making Time
was a live art project we conducted in PICA’s
Westend Gallery over one week at the beginning of the
Now Right Now! exhibition.
Making Time was an unfolding exercise in redirective
practice, beginning with the craft of pickling, jam-making,
bottling and otherwise preserving food. It took the
form of an open laboratory and series of actions/exchanges,
into which ‘skilled’ participants were invited
to teach the artists (and other interested parties)
how to bottle, preserve and pickle a variety of native
or backyard surplus foods. In exchange, we made ourselves
available for introductory micro-seminars on key ideas
informing our practice such as ‘futuring’,
‘sustainment’, ‘shuttling’,
‘chronophobia’ and ‘designing in time’
– experimenting with translating these ideas to
new audiences in unlikely (and edible) settings. |
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Making Time
2010
Preserving jars, Fowlers Vacola preserving unit, found materials
etc.
Dimensions variable
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project sought to generate agency in relation to food
security and non-institutional learning, investigating
how food preservation techniques may be themselves preserved
and deployed in an impending age of unsettlement and urban
adaptation.
Over the course of the residency we bottled marinated
abalone (plucked fresh that morning on one of only 6 days
of the year it can be legally harvested by license-holders...),
made Country Women’s Association-inspired strawberry
jam, produced pots of gleaned mulberry jam and preserved
whole peaches from a local organic farmer…
Thanks go to the team at PICA and P4(pilot), all who
contributed recipes equipment or know-how, and to our
gallery neighbour Hiromi Tango.
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This work was commissioned by Performance
Space and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2010 as
part of P4, a live art initiative supported by the Australian
Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
and advisory body, and the British Council.
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