KelleRadioActive ~ IASKA (October ~ December 2005).
The history of broadcast media and communications technology have developed at an alarming pace over the last century and it is easy to forget the central role that radio has played in rural Australian communities, both as a form of entertainment and as a vital link.
The residency at The International Art Space Kellerberrin (Western Australia) developed a sound-sculpture project that investigates...
Monsanto may have stolen the Native Medicines
Novalis may own your cell-line
and Microsoft may have locked up all the picture archives.
But we’ve got your number!
Between June 2004 and February 2005 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut, one of Switzerland’s largest research laboratories. The Following is extracted from the Institut publication ‘Aktuell’.
How might an Artist approach the Paul Scherrer Institut, which by any standards, is a complex intellectual and social organism? My strategy, simplistic though it may seem, has been to imagine PSI as eco-system, or more specifically,...
Year : 1992
Exhibited. As part of the Working in Public project, John Barrett-Lennard and ArtSpace, Sydney, 1992.
Materials. Steel Bell, Performer, Radiophonic Broadcast.
Dimensions. 25m x 12m overall installation ~ performance space with Nationwide live broadcast at Midnight for 21 days.
Notes. The Story so far…Catalogue text for Working in Public.
Field Notes from An UnRequited Space.
I found a small transistor…sometimes I get batteries as...
Exhibited
W.I.N.D.O.W. Gallery, Sydney as part of SoundCulture 1991.
Materials.
Form ply exterior, Zinc speaker cone with audio system and x2 channel audio loop, Viewing ports with x5 military models and video screen.
Dimensions
Entire gallery interior, frontage access only.
A marine sound installation for the Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK, and accompanying radio broadcasts.
Exhibited.
Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK as part of ISEA 1998.
Materials.
Marine Buoy + audio/electronics.
Dimensions.
Buoy 3m x 2m diameter.
Sonic footprint variable.
Soundtext x2 Audio Cd in random shuffle loop mode + Broadcast.
Radio Broadcast; x12 broadcasts of x5 minutes duration, stereo for bbc radio.
Notes.
A project proposal ~ Ship to Shore seeks to raise...
Exhibited.
Nine Dragon Head Festival, Lake Teachong, Korea 2001.
Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Melbourne 2002.
Materials.
Aluminium, Audio and Solar electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable, each unit 0.5 m dia. x 3.5 m.
Notes.
Meta-Diva is an environmental Sound Sculpture, designed for installation in a wetlands site. The work consists of a grouping of thirty individual units, each incorporating a solar powered digital audio ‘voice’ which...
Exhibited.
Everything`s nice with American rice” was installed in Matsudai, Japan as part of the Echigo-Tsumari Trienniale 2003.
Materials.
Fermentation Laboratory, Agricultural equipment, Rice.
Dimensions.
Laboratory ~10m x 6m x 3m.
Notes.
Rice and art have a strong bond in common, both are essential to our well being, both sustain and nourish us in different ways!
The title of this project, ‘Everything’s Nice with American Rice’ is an...
Exhibited.
A Public Sculpture Project, Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, December 1999.
Materials.
Steel, Timber, Solar and Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
7m x 20m x 7m.
Notes
The environs, of Woolloomooloo Bay, are formed by the pro-active natural history interests, vested in the Domain and Botanic Gardens on one flank and by the military/industrial interests of the Federal state on the other. In essence the waters of the bay span a duality of nature and industry.
Again -...
Exhibited.
Element #1: - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia 1989/1990.
Element #2: - Big Bell (ghost) town, Western Australia 1989/1990.
Materials.
Element #1: - Big Bell structure; Structural Plywood, Sound cone, voice sound-text.
Element #1: - Drawings; Wax and Pigment on both paper and timber panels.
Element #2: - Big Bell Audio Installation; Derelict hotel, Voice synthesis units.
Dimensions.
Element #1: - Structure; 6m (dia) x 8m.
Element #1: -...