MAKE, LISTEN, DANSE | GOOD NIGHT
MAKE
6.30-8.30pm, Thursday 27 July | $15+bf
In this two-hour facilitated drawing workshop, you’re invited to creatively explore your responses and inspirations arising from the work.
Facilitator: Dr Bruce Mutard PhD MDes BFA.
LISTEN
6.30-9.30pm, Friday 15 September | $15+bf
Taking its cue from the haunting lullaby of GOOD NIGHT, this three-hour event presents local composers and producers performing experimental musical responses to the work and the Perth city skyline it looks out onto.
Listen line-up
6.30pm Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh
7.30pm Lia T
8.30pm Rok Riley
Dr Bruce Mutard
PhD MDes BFA
Drawing Workshop Facilitator
Dr. Bruce Mutard is a comics maker, publisher and researcher. His graphic novels include The Sacrifice, The Silence, A Mind of Love, The Bunker and Post Traumatic. His latest graphic novel Bully Me, was published as Souffre Douleur in France in 2019. He completed his PhD at Edith Cowan University with his thesis The Erotics of Comics, and likes to make scholarship as comics. He has been director of the Comic Arts Awards of Australia and editor/publisher of the Australian Comic Annual. He is a founding organizing committee member of the Perth Comic Arts Festival since 2018.
About the exhibition
Working across video, sound, performance, and installation, Özgür Kar’s cross-disciplinary practice is an exploration of contemporary existentialism with a particular focus on the interconnectivity of digital media and the body. Kar’s installations feature black and white minimally animated characters trapped within television screens. Taking inspiration from Ottoman and Persian folklore, experimental theatre, early animation and 1990s MTV cartoons, his works are devised as theatrical scenes with each character playing its part within a non-linear script. Often working with voice actors and instrumentalists, Kar layers his source materials to create deceptively simple looping part soundscapes that become increasingly fraught and profound with repeated viewing.
In GOOD NIGHT 2021 an almost eight-metre-long animated skeleton lies confined within the edges of television screens as they sing a haunting lullaby. This monumental yet cramped figure of Death gazes apathetically towards a murky city skyline. Their melancholic song expanding outwards beyond the visual confines of its digital coffin as the lullaby gently drifts, drones, and grows still, reverberating its sorrowful tune into the listener’s body.
