'Material formations and body movements' artist talk @ Boxcopy (Part 4)

Material formations and body movements
New work by Ardi Gunawan
6 March 3 April 2010

'Material formations and body movements' is an evolving performative sculptural-installation by Melbourne artist, Ardi Gunawan. For his new work, Gunawan reconsiders Allan Kaprows Yard (1961), which involved a load of car tires piled into the courtyard of Martha Jackson Gallery and included the instructions rearrange the tires, encouraging visitor participation with the work. These instructions did not specify or graphically indicate to visitors where, why, or how to go about in rearranging the tires, leaving no clear indication as to what forms these body movements might end up producing in the resulting material order.

'Material formations and body movements' is neither a reenactment nor reinvention, but a re-using of Kaprows ideas in Gunawans own terms, for his own sculptural purposes. Gunawan invites Boxcopy committee members to enact various scored activities, such as to throw, to pile or to move the material or junk found on site over the duration of the exhibition. The material configuration, as a result, is formed by a variety of chance events. This project continues Gunawans experimentation with materials as they are being encountered by methods involving provisional gestures: piling, throwing, and etc, and where other coordinate: entropy, matter, energy, and chance is encountered.

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