POP HOSTS THE 4TH BIENNIAL ANIMAL CONFERENCE – ANIMALS, PEOPLE – A SHARED ENVIRONMENT… | POP: Post Graduate + Other Projects Gallery

ANIMALS, PEOPLE – A Shared Environment ; An Exhibition

QCA postgraduate and research dept and the Australian Animal Studies Group are uniting for the 4th Biennial Australian Studies Group Conference, 2011, Griffith University, South bank Campus, Brisbane. Between the 10th -13 July, the animal conference brings together animal theorists and scientists from a broad range of academic disciplines to examine the inter – relationships between human and non human animals. POP and QCA Galleries The Project Gallery and White Box will be exhibiting art with 32 artists.

Plus special guest curators Elizabeth Shaw and Renata Fojtikova from of Jewellery and Small Objects, are curating JSO artists into a cabinet at POP, and the window displays on campus at QCA.

OPENING NIGHT AT POP - Monday the 11th July 2011.

|QUEENSLAND COLLEGE OF ART The Project Gallery - Ground Level – Webb Centre, QCA. While still on the ground level at the Webb Centre adjacent to the automatic doors there is a display window of Jewellery and Small Objects.

1st Floor -Ground Level Webb Centre -outside Library at QCA another glass cabinet display by JSO artists and alumni exhibiting amazing animal pieces in the window box just outside the main doors to the library.

The two hybrid beauties….Left – Zoe Porter and Simone Eisler – both exhibiting at POP

POP is exhibiting artists from QCA Alumni and post graduate artists, national and international artists – all their art practices link to the ANIMAL in some form or another.

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Dr. Perdita Phillips – Now showing at POP . A Frematle, Perth WA based artist exhibiting in the Animal, People, a Shared Environment – An Exhibition

snailmail – In Progress

http://www.perditaphillips.com?/projects_blog/?p=1798To view more of Perdita’s work visit her blog above or her website- www.perditaphillips.com

Perdita has been posting the mail art piece Compose/Decompose to POP for the Animals, People – A Shared Environment – an exhibition as part of the Australian Animal Study Group 2011 conference exhibition exhibiting local, national and international artists at POP and QCA Project Gallery space in Brisbane. There are 20 cards that have been left to snails to write their own mail..At the end of the show, we will be able to read the message from the text that the snails have rendered.

Perdy has also had other works in her Compose/Decompose work. At POP, in the installation room there is a sound installation The World has No Shortage of Things where in one earphone you hear a human voice component and in the other ear is the call of a bower bird.. The expected cacophony isn’t the case, unexpectedly it is an apparent Other language that is strangely annoying but also compelling you to re-listen and evaluate what you are hearing as another language…A contemporary hybrid language.

And also thanks to Perdita there is the mysterious noises of the bower bird call that at times simply sneaks into audio range, with no equipment to be seen and with an element of surprise, the patron, although frontally viewing the bustling Ipswich Road can be taken into the green lush forest to listen to the beautiful sounds of birds in their natural habitat, while we sit in ours. I like to sit with my eyes closed and be transferred into another realm, to a place that i have been longing to go for some time…and that is out of the city to a place where Perdita clearly knows all about.

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Below Two works by JAN HARRISON – NEW YORK BASED ARTIsT-

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