Sheltering from the heat yesterday afternoon between engagements (it only got to 36.5 degrees in the end but that was hot enough), I went and had another look at the bits of Melbourne Now housed in the Fed Square building. Only a few really stood out:
* The installations in the foyer by the 'Hotham Street Ladies', pitch perfect recreations of inner north living in icing and cake - somehow barely kitsch at all, and instead just pleasingly, piquantly familiar.
* Clare Rae's photos of herself (I think) in various behind-the-scenes NGV spaces.
* Phuong Ngo - "Look past". A lightbox table with hundreds of 35mm colour slides to explore.
* Slave Pianos - "Gamelan sisters". A musical structure designed as an abstraction of an 18th century double grand piano, complete with central gong and various other percussion, playing compositions with titles like "Pointless vanishing point".
* David Jolly's paintings, photo-realistic in their detail, translucently on glass panels.
(previously)
* The installations in the foyer by the 'Hotham Street Ladies', pitch perfect recreations of inner north living in icing and cake - somehow barely kitsch at all, and instead just pleasingly, piquantly familiar.
* Clare Rae's photos of herself (I think) in various behind-the-scenes NGV spaces.
* Phuong Ngo - "Look past". A lightbox table with hundreds of 35mm colour slides to explore.
* Slave Pianos - "Gamelan sisters". A musical structure designed as an abstraction of an 18th century double grand piano, complete with central gong and various other percussion, playing compositions with titles like "Pointless vanishing point".
* David Jolly's paintings, photo-realistic in their detail, translucently on glass panels.
(previously)
