1/4 Inch 2014 1/4 Inch put all its energy into one event in 2014, Speak Easy. Speak Easy was a multi day event at Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, featuring exhibiting artists and performances over a 10 day residency in October. Here is some documentation of the event's promotion: Come celebrate the opening of Speak Easy's 10 day residency at Project! We have amazing food, art and performances over the 10 days we are in the space. Kicking off 1/4_inch will be presenting music performances by - Clocks and Clouds - Benjamin Kinsman, Patches & -1 - Tarant Hill (DJ Set) Four artists have contributed work to the Speak Easy exhibition Greg Hughes, Aaron Hull, David Hull and Jessica Cohcrane. This work will be on display at each of our events. Thursday evening will be the official opening of this exhibition. Dr Mex will be lighting up the wood fired grill and providing authentic Mexican cuisine for all you hungry souls from 6pm! About the Musicians and Artists ::Benjamin Kinsman, Patches & -1:: https://soundcloud.com/bkinsman Ben Kinsman, patches & -1 are forward thinking synthesist/producers from Sydney. This group of artists utilise evolving technologies and unconventional electronic instruments to create organic evolving electronic music. They have performed alongside of great artists such as Alessandro Cortini https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCljKhC72e6zPp2-gAuVFeUA ::Clocks and Clouds:: http://www.anaphoria.com/clocksclouds.html Clocks and Clouds is comprised of core players and composers Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima. Performing with retuned vibraphone and pump organ. Clocks and Clouds are renowned for utilising unique instruments that are retuned using pure harmonic tuning that explore the beauty of room resonances via ancient sacred scales and multi-dimensional geometries. It is not uncommon for an audience to experience the sensation of harmonics sweeping through space due to the way in which sound waves from the instruments interact with the environment. Exhibiting Artists ::Aaron Hull:: Aaron Hull is difficult to pigeon hole. Musician, Sound and Video Artist, DJ and founding member of the performance series 1/4_inch. Working across a multitude of collaborative projects in a variety of genres in 2014, Aaron's music practice extends from the deep fringes of the sonic landscape to german dub techno. Taking inspiration from film sound tracks, noise, the Australian landscape and malfunctioning audio equipment, Aaron’s performances and installations vary from intimate sonic landscapes to all out assault of noise and shattered glitch. Greg Hughes Greg is a practicing Wollongong-based designer, artist, musician and lecturer in the Design program at University of Western Sydney. He is also completing his PhD at University of Wollongong focusing on the hybrid qualities of analogue and digital technology in creative production and consumption. Greg's recent exhibitions and performances have revolved around mapping and data visualisation that make the invisible visible, and involved the design of audio-visual systems that allow video, sound and feedback loops to collide with physical materials in a controlled manner. Greg has explored this process in composition, performance and applied data visualisation. http://hypertrace.tumblr.com/ Looking Good, 2014 Jessica Cochrane Acrylic, Tobacco, Chilli Flakes, Cinnamon, Coffee, Green Tea, Pharmaceutical Drugs on Digital Photographic Prints My work is representative of authentic and invested phycological engagements with socio-political topics in my life that are deeply rooted in popular culture, fashion, beauty and the grotesque. This body of work reflects on the societal pressures that are put upon us to fit an edited ideal of femininity and sensuality, by using consumable substances as mediums to aggressively distort stereotypically attractive imagery. David Hull This series of work reflects issues that have underpinned my work for most of my life. Although spanning some 20 years each deals with that peculiar impression we all have that corresponds to our own sense of place. The neon piece and text panel as well as the small paintings and boxes all correspond to those private conversations with my father through which I began to understand about my place. These private understandings and trusts that can only exist between those close to us. If asked about them we would simply say we spoke of " this and that " if no consequence to others but deeply significant between us. Other pieces, the large drawing and sequential painting simply explore our capacity to wander and drift. To drift without a special goal in a kind of random free improvised journey without beginning or end. Conversations I had with my father. Oil on canvas, Perspex boxes, chicken feathers, grease and wooden tools. This and That Neon and text Here and There oil on canvas Tracing the chair Graphite wax and oil
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