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Public Programs
The project includes various public programs. You all are welcomed to join workshop, talk events, exhibition, and performance as well as open studio from 4th September. Open Studio Event The instrument-making process is open to the public. Visitors can observe the artists and their collaborations in the studio space. September 4 – September 16, 2018...
The project has started!!
The Instrument Builders Project Kyoto: Circulating Echo has just started at Kyoto Art Center today! After touring the Kyoto Art Center building, artists introduced themselves each other and shared the idea for the project. The project continues till 17 September and many public programs are scheduled. Please keen eyes on the process of instrument buildings....
IBP Kyoto -Circulating Echo
*Japanese follows The Instrument Builders Project will launch the new edition. IBP expands its programs to the collaboration in 3 countries, Indonesia, Australia, and Japan. For three weeks, artists with diverse practices and cultural backgrounds from 3 different countries will create musical instruments while sharing the processes of making these devices. Various public programs are...
Interview with the IBP curators for the NGV
An interview with Instrument Builders Project founders and co-curators Kristi Monfries and Joel Stern by Serena Bentley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
IBP3 Opening Event at the NGV
The third iteration and the first Australian presentation of The Instrument Builders Project opened on Saturday 1 November at the NGV Studio in Melbourne. 400 people (and little people) attended and made an almighty racket. The instruments looked and sounded incredible.
IBP3 Public Progams starts this Wednesday!
From Wednesday to Saturday the IBP workshop will open its doors to the public. There will be freeform music jams, an expanded listening program, synth building and the closing party. All Welcome!
Sounds from the cage
(by Dale Gorfinkel) At customs, on arrival back in Australia, I took the ‘Nothing to Declare’ queue because it seemed to be moving faster. People generally like things to move faster, right? Customs checks traveller’s bags for items containing wood, plant and skin or animal materials. This is to protect local agriculture. Meanwhile, petroleum based products,...
Reflections on connections
or Why join this to that to do this or that, or indeed anything at all? (by Peter Blamey) Since the IBP ended I’ve been trying to get a handle on a few significant things about connectivity, materials and context that occurred to me during the course of the project, but it’s proving to be...
between two trees, between two ears
(By Caitlin Franzmann) One of the folklores identified with the Alun Alun Kidul is masangin, the ritual of walking through the twin banyan trees blindfolded. It is believed that those having pure hearts can walk directly through the two sacred trees...
The Power of Pamor Ujung Gunung
Wukir Suryadi, Peter Blamey The Power of Pamor Ujung Gunung, 2014 keris, tea tree branch, copper wire, amplifiers 1. The Keris Keris is a dagger (sharp-edged on both sides) with many cultural functions known in west and central part of Nusantara. It’s got a distinctive shape of asymmetrical handle, wavy blade, and most often would...
