In Situ
Jude Anderson & Emilie Collyer
Dates and times: 3rd February – 21st Feb
Launch Wed 3rd Feb 6-8pm
Then Wed – Sun 10am – 5pm
Venue: c3 Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford

In-Habit In Situ: Instant Actions
In October 2008 an open invitation went out to over 3,000 artists (via the Melbourne International Arts Festival Card Holder scheme, Regional Arts Victoria and the City of Yarra). The invitation was to attend a tour of the Abbotsford Convent, particularly to buildings that, at the time, were in a state of ‘pre-renovation’ and/or not open to the general public.

After the tours, each artist was invited to return to the Convent during 2009 and undertake an ‘Instant Action’. This could take whatever form the artist chose and would extend for approximately 15 minutes. We asked each artist to document their Instant Action. The documentation is being presented as part of the In-Habit In Situ exhibition at c3 Gallery from 3rd – 21st February 2010.

28 artists elected to perform Instant Actions. Of these, 10 artists carried out their Instant Actions and 8 provided documentation.

Punctum associated artists have also contributed to the Instant Action documentation and exhibition.

In Situ Instant Actions: Artworks and Artists
The laundry - berni m janssen (DVD)
The material and the liminal - Kate Hunter (DVD)
Song cycle for a shadow - Rachael Guy, David Churchill, Andy Jackson (Video & audio recording)
Signs of life/Wish you were here - Amy Tsilemanis (Photographs and Audio recording)
Laundry - Smiljana Glisovic (DVD)
Sacred Heart - Daniel Armstrong (DVD)
koorie~konduit~2010 - Scott Lyon (Print – typography and illustration)
In-Habit: vestiges of research - Artwork by: Jason Maling, Tara Gilbee and
William Head

Once
Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy
Dates and times: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th February
Times: 12pm – 5pm
(time slots every half hour, beginning at 12pm, final slot 4.30pm)
Venue: The Bishop’s Parlor, Main Convent Building

We encounter strangers every day through chance and circumstance. In ONCE Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy explores what happens when two strangers respond to an invitation and choose to meet. The aim of the meeting is not to ‘get to know’ one another, or at least not through words. The aim of the meeting is to encounter a stranger for 10 minutes, in silence, and then to respond to that encounter. Meetings are scheduled once every 30 minutes and participants are invited to record their impressions via written word or voice recording after their meeting with the stranger.

Associate Artists: Suzanne Kersten and Clair Korobacz

Banh Chung
Chi Vu
Dates and times: Wednesday 10th Feb 3pm
The performance is approximately 30 minutes in length and will occur at the following times: 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm, 7.30pm.
Venue: Richmond Library, 415 Church St, Richmond

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the creation and unwrapping of the bánh chu‘ng – a traditional cake made to celebrate Tét. In this durational performance, Chi Vu invites you to join her count down to the New Year through a meditative waiting. Bánh chu‘ng requires over 5 hours to cook properly, so savour the anticipation and experience a culinary narrative that begins in ancient Vietnam and arrives at Melbourne’s slow-food phenomenon.

Associated artists - Naomi Ota, Jacques Soddell, Emma Williamson, Kha Tran, Hoang Nguyen, Amanda Ma.

One Square Metre.
Jude Anderson
Dates and times: Thurs 11th Feb Tours (1 hour): 10am, 12pm
Market open: 1.30pm
Venue: Atherton Community Gardens. Next to oval at 125 Napier Street, Fitzroy

If you’ve ever considered why small is the new green and how each square metre is a viable food patch, you’ll find the Atherton Community Gardens a veritable oasis of delight and a verdant place of cross cultivation. This garden bed tour, that begins with Punctum’s One Square Metre garden bed and finishes with a flourish at the on site market, winds its way among 60 garden beds brimming with culinary and medicinal plants tended by inventive gardeners from across 8 nations. Sun hats and note books are de rigeur for this invitation into a luxuriant land. 12 months of recordings and footage from the gardens have informed another In Habit project – I’m Dreaming of a French Meadow.
One Square Metre draws inspiration from Gilles Clement’s ‘Planetary Garden’.

Associated artists: Tara Gilbee, Cedric Peyronnet, Jacques Soddell

Triangulation
Jason Maling
Dates and times: Mon 15th – Fri 26th Feb
Audit office: 9am – 5pm
Public briefings: 1pm & 5pm each day
Venue: 2nd Floor Landing Lounge West Wing, Main Convent Building, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford

In a world of danger levels, inconclusive data and faulty forecasting it is important to consider what colour you are. Is it a red day? Or are you feeling yellow? Your next door neighbour is green, what does that mean, and will it clash with a fire drill but coordinate with a bomb threat.
Jason Maling and Torie Nimmervoll will conduct a ten day prismatic audit in collaboration with the Abbotsford Convent community. You are invited to assist in a twice daily forum as data from this scientific and sociological investigation is presented and evaluated accompanied by a giant evolving pie chart. Prepare for statistics of defiance, solidarity, rivalry and emotional mood swings as a community attempts to define its new season colours.

The Shirt Off My Back.
Jude Anderson
Dates and times: Fri 19th - Sun 21st Thur 25th – Sat 27th Feb
Opening Fri 19th 5-9pm
Then 12-5pm on all other days
Venue: Off the Kerb gallery & studios, 66B Johnston Street, Collingwood

Imagine walking into a shop to find yourself in a faraway loungeroom surrounded by lush patterns, floor cushions, and Hmong embroiderers skillfully hand stitching their iconic symbols on shirts. Imagine that each symbol and shirt is unique and that whilst sipping a glass of cool lemon glass tea, one of these shirts is especially chosen for you. You slip behind a screen, and emerge in the chosen shirt. A dancer then places your past shirt on her back and dances a silent solo; a one minute memento of your sharing of your shirt. You leave the shop, shirt renewed, and your old shirt is last seen amidst the embroidery being stroked and stitched where it will be chosen for another. The Shirt Off My Back is this shirt exchange shop – a celebration of sharing, Hmong culture and craft. With Megan Beckwith, Sia and Jer Yang, Jude Anderson invites you to a little retail therapy and to indulge in a reflection of self through a selfless connection with others. BYO shirt to exchange.
Fitzroy’s clothing manufacturing industries, Hmong artisan culture, micro economics and gift giving theory have inspired The Shirt Off My Back.

Yarra
Ernesto Rios
Dates and times: Fri 19th - Sun 21st Thur 25th – Sat 27th Feb
Opening Fri 19th 5-9pm Then 12-5pm
Venue: Off the Kerb gallery & studios, 66B Johnston Street, Collingwood

Have you ever been lost and liked the place you ended up more than where you were supposed to be? Do you prefer to drift rather than direct? Choose a wander over a power walk? Then it may be that you have a natural tendency toward the derive. A derive is an act of drifting, often through your every day world but drawn by emotions and curiosity rather than task and end points. Ernesto Rios has invited a number of people from all walks of life to undertake and record their derives through the City of Yarra. The findings, discoveries and navigations of their explorations are mapped and presented in Yarra. For anyone who has ever been lost in their own backyard or looked like Alice for a rabbit hole.

Associate Artists: Philip Samartzis (sound artist), Camilla Hannan (sound artist), Martin kay (sound artist), Amanda Wallace (writer),Jacques Soddell (sound artist), Emilie Collyer (writer) and Penelope Chai (writer)

Tongue-atorium.
berni m janssen
Dates and times:
Tongue-atorium:
Sat 20th & 27th Feb 11am – 4pm Sun 21st & 28th 2pm – 6pm
3pm each day: visiting experts of the tongue
(M)other tongue symposia:
Sat 20th & 27th Feb 4pm – 7pm Sun 21st & 28th 11am – 2pm
Venue: The Scullery (next to c3 gallery), Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford

The tongue-atorium is an invitation to a celebration of all things ‘tongue’. Test your best tongue twisters and dare to get tongue tied. Hear lip licking words spoken in many different tongues. Share in global preparations for the cooking and eating of tongue. Discover whether your tongue’s that of a sweet tooth or a sweet talker. Add your tips for tongue to the tongue–atorium archive. Join the degustation team in a tasting of this tantalising collection of menus, memories, images, words, definitions, uses and abuses of tongue.

For full information, please download 'Tounge-atorium As Research' (pdf) here

Associated artists: Gunther Wilhelm

City of Voices.
Carl Pannuzzo
Sun 21st Feb 8pm - 9pm Collingwood underground carpark Harmsworth St
(B/n Wellington and Hoddle St)

Where is our voice sited when we play with space? What is sound without words, voice without language? What sounds evoke emotional response and how do we make meaning of what we hear? Carl Pannuzzo’s choral composition was informed by a research project comprising many voices from the city of Yarra. People who were asked to play and explore their responses to space, sound, self and each other in an unorthodox method and setting. Into which you are now also invited to witness this richly rare performance. City of Voices invites you to step out of the shower and come to the car park to discover the possibilities of vocalscape and place.

I’m Dreaming of a French Meadow.
Jude Anderson
Dates and times:
Installation: Thur 25th – Sun 28th Feb, 12pm – 5pm
Live performance: Fri 26th Feb 8.30pm Cedric Peyronnet & Jacques Soddell
Venue: Dormitory Two, Rosina Building, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford

At the Abbotsford Convent there’s a place called the French Meadow where plants run free. From the Convent dormitories where girls once slept in disciplined rows between the strict folds of white cotton sheets, you catch glimpses of the French Meadow. It’s a tempting, gay abandon in this place of precise sleep patterns. In I’m Dreaming of a French Meadow, Jude Anderson in collaboration with photomedia artist Tara Gilbee invites you to a field of reverie; a dormitory now filled with secret gardens where the field recordings of sound artist Jacques Soddell and those of French sound artist Cedric Peyronnet float from each bed and weave through the shifting sleep patterns of an imagined cosmos. A waft of the wild in the girls’ dorm.

I’m Dreaming of a French Meadow combines an installation with a live performance that brings Peyronnet and Soddell together for a combined field recordings concert.

The installation draws inspiration from the French notion of ‘le jardin secret’ - an undisclosed place of desire or escape, along with the garden beds and secrets of the Abbotsford Convent, and the garden beds tended by the immigrant and refugee gardeners of the Atherton Community Gardens.

Associated artists: Tara Gilbee, Cedric Peyronnet, Katie Sfetkidis, Jacques Soddell.

Living Culture
Murrenda yurrong wandamba (alive, go on, proceed, renew)
Mandy Nicholson
Dates and times: Sun 28th Feb 8pm – 9pm
Venue: Outdoor twilight performance Abbotsford Convent garden in front of Bishop’s Parlour

In Murrenda yurrong wandamba Mandy Nicholson has researched important sites of the living South Central Victorian Indigenous culture. Photographing these sites, she has created 3D sculptures. Mandy has also been working with young indigenous people to connect them with traditional notions of ‘paint up’ and ceremonial dance – and then to create a new dance that connects these traditions with the lives, meaning and personalities of the young people today. She invites you to experience both the sculptures and the dance performance as part of her Living Culture project.

Participants: Damien Nicholson, Willy Nicholson, Phoebe Watson, Jessie Wilson, Dharna Bux, Sha nee Nicholson-Brown, Jindarra Christian-Smith, Yawan Thomas, Ky-ya Ward and Nanjeera Pender.

Associates artists and elders: Jamie Thomas, Shannon Nicholson, Peter Schipeheine, Bill Nicholson jnr, Aunty Vicki Nicholson-Brown and Shane Nicholson.