Back Cube Project with Ali Bramwell for “Instructional Models”

Blue Oyster Gallery, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (Dunedin, NZ)2008

Digital prints, cardboard, wire

50cm x50cm x50cm

Instructional Models is a propositional exhibition instigated by Terri Bird and Julie Davies, in association with the artist-run initiatives Ocular Lab and Clubsproject Inc. in Melbourne, and facilitated by Neil Emmerson Head of Print Studio at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.

For Instructional Models a group of Dunedin based artists have been invited to create works based on their interpretation of instructions or parameters sent to them by artists in Melbourne. The proposals are purposefully open to interpretation, with the potential for re-orientation, re-ordering or rejection; and involve everything from tennis ball machines to collections of botanical data. The accumulated results of these interpretations, exchanges and responses will be shown at the Blue Oyster in Instructional Models . The exhibition is timed to coincide with the Aotearoa New Zealand Arts Educators Conference, hosted by the Dunedin School of Art.

Melbourne artists: Terri Bird, Julie Davies, Raafat Ishak, Sean Loughrey, Jonathan Luker, Sally Mannall, Tom Nicholson, Nikos Pantazis, Spiros Panigirakis, Alex Rizkalla, Fleur Summers and the Open Spatial Workshop.

Dunedin artists: Clare Fleming, Rohana Weaver, Ali Bramwell, Lars Preisser, Sophie Black, Peter Gorman, Miranda Bellamy, Christine Keller, Bibiana Guevara-Hunter, Karen Taiaroa-Smithies, Alex Lovell-Smith, Anna Muirhead, Victoria Bell, Lee Houlihan, Max Oettli and Inge Flint