1. Kay Abude
A NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 2012 PROJECT
19 → 29 MAY
19 → 29 MAY
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'Work Clothes (Costumes), 2012'
Kay Abude's performance piece 'Work Clothes (Costumes), 2012' takes place during office hours at Craft Victoria. Following a period of consultation and collaboration, the artist has designed and constructed a set of clothing to be worn by staff members for the duration of the festival.
Kay Abude's performance piece 'Work Clothes (Costumes), 2012' takes place during office hours at Craft Victoria. Following a period of consultation and collaboration, the artist has designed and constructed a set of clothing to be worn by staff members for the duration of the festival.
2. Artist Statement
Project word list ('Work Clothes'), March 2012
1. art
2. work
3. life
4. process
5. collaboration
6. labour
7. manufacture
8. utopian
9. clothes/costume/uniform
10. kit
11. shirt/dress shirt
12. overcoat
13. neck piece
14. shape
15. form
16. colour
17. theatrical
18. exaggeration
19. highly-aesthetic
20. hyper-realistic
1. art
2. work
3. life
4. process
5. collaboration
6. labour
7. manufacture
8. utopian
9. clothes/costume/uniform
10. kit
11. shirt/dress shirt
12. overcoat
13. neck piece
14. shape
15. form
16. colour
17. theatrical
18. exaggeration
19. highly-aesthetic
20. hyper-realistic
3. Bio
Kay Abude is a sculptor living and working in Melbourne. She completed a Master of Fine Art (by Research) at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music in 2010. Her art practice is a hybrid of drawing, object making, photography, film, installation, costume and performance.
Recent exhibitions in 2011 include Kerameikou 32 presented by BUS Projects as part of ReMap3 in Athens, curated by Melody Ellis and Nella Themelios and the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Scholarship at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
With an early exposure to the working processes of the factory, Abude’s recent Masters project examined the factory as a production based model within a labour intensive art practice. Central themes include repetition, time and endurance that run parallel to the triad of art, life and work. Abude takes a task-orientated approach to acts of making, staging highly aestheticized installations within durational performance.
Website
Recent exhibitions in 2011 include Kerameikou 32 presented by BUS Projects as part of ReMap3 in Athens, curated by Melody Ellis and Nella Themelios and the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Scholarship at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
With an early exposure to the working processes of the factory, Abude’s recent Masters project examined the factory as a production based model within a labour intensive art practice. Central themes include repetition, time and endurance that run parallel to the triad of art, life and work. Abude takes a task-orientated approach to acts of making, staging highly aestheticized installations within durational performance.
Website
