Monday, February 22, 2010

RatARTat

MOVEALONG - Next Wave Festival - 2002
‘MOVEALONG’: a travelling sound and light show produced by 15 young people in Ballarat for the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne. It was parked at the Art Centre and animated for 10 days, then returned to Ballarat to the Fine Art Gallery and beyond.




THE GREAT SCULPTURE WRAP
Ballarat Winter Festival - July 1998.
Ballarat has a reputation for low temperatures. We dressed, in character,
7 of the Victorian statues in the main boulevard of the town with recycled woollen blankets.
Little did we realise that the R.S.L. would assert that we had
desicrated The Boer War Memorial. A debate was conducted locally in the media and then nationally.
Many people became advocates for the work and it was defended successfully.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

From the archive - Brisbane Riverfestival 2003

Water Tables - Brisbane Riverfestival 2003.

Ephemeral sculptures made from thousands of plastic water bottles. Because as we all know good clean water only comes out of plastic bottles!!
Collaborative project -Ratartat, Vivienne McDermott and students from the Fine Art Department
Queensland College of the Arts.
Water Tables - Idea sketches



Table and Chairs



'Salinometer'. Plastic bottles, salt, wood, wire.
SouthBank Brisbane Riverfestival 2003. The salinometer was built around one of the palm trees that line the river bank.



Pool Table
Brisbane Riverfestival 2003
images copyright Ratartat 2003