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Transitlounge: a series of residencies for Australian artists, focussing on process-based and transitory works.

website: Transitlounge

Panel: V. Styliandou, Rob Curgenven, Miriam Mlecek, Katie Herman

Last year, overlapping the residencies of the artists facilitated the collaboration. Taking artists our of their comfort zones, and getting them to respond to their surroundings. Collaborations start online, and then the artists finally meet each other when the residency begins. Exhibitions are not in the 'white cube' space, but rather the real workings spaces. Berlin was chosen as a city that had a lot of transitory factors.

Basically, last year was a multimedia-flavoured year. And most of the artists who were using the space were responding to the city of Berlin. Issues that were discussed on the blog, typically Australian-focussed political ideas on immigration, would shift when presented with the multicultural reality of Berlin.

The exhibition for tonight will have Lea (vilea?) and Rob's work, as a performance/performative piece.

Rob: Sound artist from the Northern territory. Environment is very important there. As artist, is interested in field recordings and environmental sounds. Tonight's show is a one-hour piece made by using field recordings. If you come tonight, says Rob, there will be extra tricks that make it different from guzzling beer and staring at white walls.

V. Sytliandou; Investigating walking and language, and the systems of transit and security. In the video "Do you want to Kill me, Baby?", systems of order and disicpline are investigated by use of a fictional company that sells people as products. (I think...)

(Note - This is also the show that Brian is taking part in)

Transitlounge is based in Sydney and Berlin, and in the future work will be made in Sydney and brought over to Berlin, rather than the reverse. They are also collaborating in a show of architecture in Berlin, all whilst the residency program is continuing.