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Image: Beeswax Flutes, video still, 2018.
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Wind Throb (Sharing)
at Conduction, 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011
Saturday 2nd August, 5-7pm
0$/ Free/ All welcome.
Following our two-part "Wind Throb" instrument building workshop, we will open to the Conduction audience to share some collective sounds and installations of our instruments. Handmade ceramic ocarina, and beeswax flutes will be casually performed and demonstrated. Audiences are also welcome to test out these instruments.
Conducted by Benjamin Woods with Emily Zou, Jacqui Gordon, Ria Soermardjo, Vanessa Chapple, Yongping Ren, and more +
Some selected ceramic instruments by Benjamin Woods will be for sale during this event via card and cash.
Some complimentary tea and snacks provided.
Conduction is led by Debris Facility Pty Ltd.
Access: There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Free performance will have some beverages and snacks available. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email conduction3011@gmail.com
Wind Throb
Two-part workshop
WHAT: Workshop including drawing, writing, breathing, sounding, clay ocarina making (+ firing), and beeswax flute making.
WHEN:
Workshop part A - Saturday 26 July, 12-5pm
Workshop part B - Saturday 2 August, 12-5pm
Performance (group devised) - Saturday 2 August, 5 - 6.30pm
WHERE: Conduction (251 Barkly Street Footscray, 3011)
Apply: via short E.O.I. before 18th of July.
Cost: Two-part Workshop is $80 / $120 (max 12 participants)
Further Workshop Info:
You are invited to participate in an instrument-building and sounding workshop called Wind Throb, which will culminate in a collectively devised performance at Conduction. Ben Woods will lead everyone through the process of making both beeswax flutes and clay ocarinas, considering the emergence of their particular voices in relation to our own multiple voices. We will work with breath-based techniques, drawing, writing-scoring, simple beeswax casting, clay hand-building, and contact and hydro microphones. Ben will introduce notions of body schema, resonant bodies (via Lygia Clark and Suely Rolnik), and active and reactive forces, in order to assist in collectively organising an approach to a public performance event one week following the workshop. All instruments will be the participant’s own (clay ocarinas will go through a kiln firing between part A and B of the workshop).
Outcomes for participants: Fired ceramic ocarina, beeswax flute, group-devised free public performance facilitated by Benjamin Woods, drawings, writing, performance documentation (audio, video, images).
Unimposing Form, essay book, True Belief/Run Artist Run.
135x200 / 84 pages / perfect binding / ISBN 978-0-9756242-1-0
Design/cover by Adam Cruickshank
Edited by Abbra Kotlarczyk
Unimposing Form is an essay book that rethinks the relationship between form and matter in forming practices, including and exceeding sculpture. These essays explore the potential of the work of philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray for rethinking forces of sculptural formation through an exploration of the practices of Barbara Hepworth and Lygia Clark. When put into generative dialogue with theory from Jacques Derrida and Suely Rolnik, Irigaray’s conceptualisations of the interval, difference, relation, and affection enable a rethinking of tensions and conventions at play between notions of form and matter.
Purchase online from True Belief or from selected stockists: Run Artist Run, Alta Forma or in store from Conduction.
Image credit: Ming Liew
Launched at NGV Art Book Fair, 16-18 May 2025.
Launch event/talk presented by Adam Cruickshank:
Friday 16 May, 4-4:30pm
NGV Federation Court
https://artbookfair.melbourne/event/unimposing-form/
The launch of Unimposing Form included a discussion between author Benjamin Woods, artist and Director of Alta Forma, Meredith Turnbull, and artist and academic Terri Bird. Artist and designer Adam Cruickshank, representing publisher True Belief, introduced the speakers.