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ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Vic » Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:07 pm

Hi All,

During 2015 I will be the Artist in Residence at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

I started this week and yesterday they took me for a tour of their numerous repositories that hold over 210000 items.

On my travels I came across this ex ABC Television Van all safely packed up inside one of these amazing Carcoons.

Beautiful huh? (both the van and the carcoon).

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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby wez » Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:21 pm

That's one of the most strangely beautiful things I've ever seen.
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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Vic » Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:51 pm

It's stunning isnt' it. And strange too, seeing a room full of buss's, cars and more, all inside their own massive inflated carcoons.
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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby cLoudBase » Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:35 pm

It's a bit like a futuristic Sci Fi props storage vault. \m/
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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Ben M » Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:40 am

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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Djembe » Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:48 am

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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby The Tasmanian » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:31 am

Huge congrats Vic on your Artist in Residence.
Those pics are surreal..... like specimens!
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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Vic » Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:30 am

Thanks Chris,

it's a fantastic and exciting opportunity, to be here all year off and on.
This is my first week, which I am spending getting the lay of the land and understanding the role of the Museum, whilst planning for upcoming experiments :-)

I imagine those carcoons as massive snow domes.

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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Chinagraf » Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:19 pm

They look like massive kids toys in original packaging.
Congrats on the residency Vic, it sounds like an amazing time will be had by you.
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Re: ABC Van in National Museum

Postby Vic » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:11 am

Last year whilst planning my residency with the National Museum, I proposed that I should have a public outcome right at the beginning, to start in a productive way while I settled into longer works later in the year.

I proposed that I create a performance on the PS Enterprise, one of the worlds oldest paddle steamers. I suggested I would put contact microphones on it and play a mesmerising soundscape created entirely on the vessel. I would accompany that with video projections mapped to the very surface of the paddle steamer itself.

I suggested it could be a part of another event. They agreed and so now my next gig will be supporting Katie Noonan, on the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin, playing a soundtrack entirely on a paddle steamer at sunset on February 28th.

http://www.nma.gov.au/whats-on/events/by_the_water_2015

Then, after that I'll get to explore....more....deeply.....

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