Academy
Kate Newby and Ryan Moore

2-5 April 2008

TCB
Level 1/12 Waratah Place
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
open Wednesday-Saturday 12-6pm

opens 6pm 2 April 2008. Please join us for drinks after the opening at the container bar, Tattersalls Lane, Chinatown.

Academy is pleased to announce a project at TCB, Melbourne.

Academy was formed in October 2007 by Ryan Moore and Kate Newby as a project intended to deal constructively with shared anxieties of material artistic production.

At present, Academy takes the form of a self-defining discursive forum, with contributions from writers and practitioners of a range of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Academy is conceived as something akin to a propositional institution, where the hypotheses for testing are the potential shapes, functions, and capacities of frameworks which could act as forum or facility for practices resistant to the generation of material outcomes.

Under discussion and consideration are the potentials and possibilities of available forms for practices and modes of production that consider form as production employing material properties in realisation, but not finding materialisation in material output. A focus of Academy is to reposit debates around dematerialisation in order to consider the possible materialisation and legitimation of form. The intention is not to reforge object making on a trajectory toward obsolescence, but instead to reconsider the focus of where an object can find itself materialised.

For the show at TCB, Academy is equipped with conventional resources: a gallery space, and a certain amount of time, presenting a situation that forces the participants to deal with some fundamental questions of how a practice can operate. What is a good use of this time? What do we do? What are the expectations, and what do we hope to achieve?

Academy will take up residence at TCB from 2 ? 5 April 2008, during which time it may or may not be open to the public. The venue will be a working space and facility to allow the functions of administration and shared dialogue amongst participants. Under consideration will be the normalising capacities of these kinds of environments, and their impacts upon related modes of practice.

TCB is a project-based artist run gallery initiative established in 1998, presently located in Melbourne’s Chinatown district. This will be Academy’s first public project in a gallery environment.

Where appropriate, some documentation and related material will be available to view online during the course of the show.

For any enquiries or further information please contact Academy direct:

email@academy.org.nz
http://www.academy.org.nz
ph +64 21 980 945
ph +64 21 1828 394
PO Box 68808 Newton, Auckland 1145 New Zealand.