Cleaning up the SLOT archive today, came across this note. Happy that we are still making an impact ten years on!

CURRENT EXHIBITION

DEBORAH REDWOOD
16 June - 13 July 
Crossings

Illawarra artist Deborah Redwood lived in Japan for five years. For SLOT she has created a Zen garden and Haiku.

The base of the sculpture here in Deborah's garden is the pattern for an unfolded Japanese fan. The unfolded fan also approximates the shape of many ancient bridges in Asia. It is across this bridge that two palm fronds shells unite in a movement reminiscent of yoga and tai chi, suggestive of the meeting of East and West.

COOK N FOGG

Light Collaboration
14 May - 15 June 2013

To coincide with Sydney's VIVID festival of lights, Australia's pioneer of Lumino Kinetic Art - Roger Foley-Fogg (also known as Ellis D Fogg) - returns to SLOT with a new collaborative artwork created with Redfern talent Jessica "Jess" Cook.

Utilising electronically controlled LEDs and steel mesh, this dynamic lightwork combines Cook's cloth weaving process with Foley's recent forays into rope lighting.  Despite a forty-year difference in their age, Cook 'n Fogg share a passion for artistic collaboration and alternative process.

The ribbon LEDs play wonderfully with the street scape, their bounced reflection on the shop window mingling with street signage and the tail lights of passing traffic.

SUSANNAH WILLIAMS

experimental drawing project in parts
31 March - 4 May 2013

Over the next five weeks Susie Williams will work directly in SLOTs window to create a series of experimental drawings that will effectively take form, and then change over time.

Check out the girls at work in the space as a timelapse on youtube.

Essentially the window will function as an 'open studio' where viewers can track the formation and development of ideas, both on the ground and via QR codes. 

  

Williams kicks off with her"Artist in Transit" project, a collaboration with former architect Ro Murray and guest collaborators sound artist Warren Armstrong and photographer Peter Morgan. Murray and Williams exchanged drawings during the mail when Murray was on residency at Hill End earlier this year and Williams based in Redfern, each loosely responding to their surrounding sounds through colour and form.

Warren created a sound scape while the girls were installing in SLOT. Have a listen at the following link sounds of silence.

Williams and Murray returned to the  SLOT 20 April creating a new drawing intervention using black tape.

The drawing in tape continued to alter, moving from the rear wall to the glass.

CARL SCRASE
Real Democracy Australia
 24 February - 30 March 2013

Carl says "I want to put democracy back on the agenda." Melbourne-based activist artist does exactly that using a ground-swell language of the streets with a probing poster campaign.

This interactive installation encourages comments from our sidewalk audience - posts that are then uploaded on twitter stimulating a broader dialogue.

Carl extends his SLOT show to the streets of Redfern, posing the questions through guerilla-style poster dialogue: Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Does anything matter more than the environment? How can we best acknowledge and respect the first nations of Australia?

 Tweet your responses or those that capture your passion under the hashtag #Gov2Au and Carl will retweet any that tag him with @carlscrase.

The posters can can be downloaded from the realdemocracyaustralia.org website and Carl is encouraging people to put them up in their workplaces and local zones.

RICHARD TIPPINGUrban Animals
21 January - 23 February 2013

Concrete poet and artist Richard Tipping has recently moved to Redfern. However, it is not the stereotypes that his eye honed towards as he beat the pavements from Redfern Park to SLOT As he says, "Urban Animals is an on-going series on animlas and their images in the city and surrounds, trying for poignancy and the mysterious more than simply documentation."
 

A suite of 'pics' snapped on a smart phone and then uploaded to a blog, these images are quirky and fun. They capture the speed of a pedestrian and the kind of transitions in a day. Utilising a QR code displayed in SLOTs window pedestrian viewers can visit Richard's urban animals blogspot and find out the stories behind these peculiar urban critters - where is James the pig now? did the vet bills get paid?   

richardtipping.blogspot.com.au

  

ALEXANDER JACKSON WYATT

CLOSED FOR REINVENTION

17 December - 19 January 2013

 

Thinking about what might be shown in SLOT I grappled with the concept of the Window Gallery itself. Focusing on it as space that one encounters from the street - and at the same time being a space that brings the artwork into the public arena whilst still remaining a conventional form of a gallery space (ie. white cube/non-interactive). These original ideas focused on dealing with the very volume of the slot. My first thoughts were to build a construction that did not fit into the space - ideas that were trying to engage the curiosity of passing pedestrians by creating a work that performs within the space itself, and at the same time making it a foreign concealed object.

The idea then moved towards a direct interest in the actual SLOT window space, and was to replicate the volume into plywood. Made to look as though it had ‘turned’ within the confines of SLOT, appearing to have crumpled in on itself. These ideas remained attractive but unrealistic, especially if the installation was going to be shipped from Europe where I am on residency. The challenge was to take this thinking process towards something that could be installed by others via instruction. What developed was a work that challenged the concept of the Window Gallery and arrived at a project that covers the glass with images documenting the artist trying to fit something into a space. This was an attractive move as it would also involve the passing viewer, creating an invitation to remove the posters so as to reveal the scrunched mattress inside SLOT.

 Now the work is as much about interaction as it is about making art at a distance but
also sticks to the original proposal to make an artwork that is present to the urban
character of Redfern as a surrounding environment.

- Alexander Jackson Wyatt 2012