parlour 13 rooms
PARLOUR FOR “13 ROOMS”
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING FOR KALDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECT #27 “13 ROOMS”
11-21 APRIL 2013
PIER 2/3 WALSH BAY, SYDNEY
CURATED BY KIM FASHER AND SARAH MOSCA (SUPERKALEIDOSCOPE)
A series of art and music performances, panel discussions, performance lectures, workshops, artist tours, video installations and interactive artworks were presented across two evenings to compliment the exhibition “13 Rooms”.
Participating Artists included: Alaska Orchestra, Todd Mcmillan, Christopher Hanrahan, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Michael Snape, Ken Unsworth, Brown Council (Diana Smith, Fran Barrett, Kate Blackmore, Kelly Doley), Anastasia Klose, Heath Franco, Jodie Whalen, Natalya Hughes, Shane Haseman, Alex Gawronski, David Capra, Jessica Olivieri, Julie Masterton, Kate Mitchell, Tim Bruniges, Mitch Cumming, Rebecca Baumann, Michaela Gleave, Alexander Jackson Wyatt, Marian Tubbs, Heath Franco, Sarah Contos, James Shirlaw, Tom Polo, Justin Balmain, Caroline Garcia
PROGRAM NIGHT 1 - LOOKING BACKWARDS
PROGRAM NIGHT 2 - LOOKING FORWARDS
ABOUT EXHIBITION 13 ROOMS - CURATED BY HANS ULRICH OBRIST AND KLAUS BIESENBACH
Kaldor Public Art Project #27, entitled 13 Rooms, brought together 13 famous artists and more than 70 trained performers to present a groundbreaking group exhibition of ‘living sculpture’ within 13 purpose‐ built rooms. The groundbreaking event was curated by renowned museum directors and curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co‐director of London’s Serpentine Gallery, and Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 in New York.
It included iconic senior artists Marina Abramović, John Baldessari and Joan Jonas along with major figures in contemporary international art today: Damien Hirst; Tino Sehgal; artist duo Allora and Calzadilla; Simon Fujiwara; Xavier Le Roy; Laura Lima; Roman Ondák; Santiago Sierra; and Xu Zhen.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co‐director of the Serpentine Gallery said, “For us it is important to find more possibilities to show art that experiments beyond the object. 13 Rooms does so by offering thirteen spaces
