ACCA Visit "The Dwelling"

To begin with I wasn’t looking forward to going into the city having to deal with the weather etc, however after trudging though the acca door and into the art space and inspecting this exhibition called the dwelling which was a collaboration of International artists exploring the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’.
In an all new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.

Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.

The idea behind this exhibition was to look at the “home” in an eary spooky light, a spooky creepy psychical way of perceiving the home or.....(more creepily put).... “The Dwelling”
Apart from the whole creepy spooky theme, that had going on the art pieces that stood out to me where:

Callum Morton
International Style (1999)
Morton reconstructs Mies van der Rohe’s infamous Farnsworth House (built in Illinois, 1945-1950) with the laughing, chattering and glass-tinkling of a cocktail party culminating in the sound of gunshots and desperate screams. Not only the way it was set up but the story behind it I found very interesting and eccentric.

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Opera for small room (2005)
Cardiff and Miller’s Opera for small room is a tour de force of sound and effects. Their absent protagonist is evoked by lights, a gravelly voice, and the mechanistic theatre of record turntables, and shadow plays. The viewer is privy to the private world of some sinister hermit. He lives in the woods or plains: somewhere remote for sure. A wolf howls around the hut. This pieces was just awesome, the way it was put togeather, the way everything work with each other was very impressive.


and another one i took when no one was watching....