Nathan Coley
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Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
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Scottish artist Nathan Coley will erect his famous message sculpture Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens on the ACCA Forecourt during the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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Coley is a Turner prize nominee whose practice is based on an interest in public space, architecture and in particular, religious architecture.
Previous works include a scale model of the Manchester Marks and Spencer building which was damaged by an IRA bomb and demolished, and another work focused on Pan Am Flight 103 which was blown up over Lockerbie. His Turner Prize nomination however, was for large cardboard sculptures of a synagogue, a mosque and a church.
This work, a project by ACCA in collaboration with the City of Melbourne’s Public Art Program, will be installed on ACCA’s Grant Street exterior and makes reference to retro religious roadside signage – with a message both reassuring and unsettling. A similar work with ecclesiastical undertones, There Will Be No Miracles Here, has recently been installed against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
The installation will be accompanied by a series of forums and artists talks around the subject of heaven, and accompanies the exhibition Mortality, also showing at ACCA, whereby some of the world’s leading artists explore life’s journey from the moment of lift-off to the final send-off, which is also part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
All This, and Heaven Too
Mon 27 Sep, 5pm for 5:30pm start
Nathan Coley will speak about his public art projects and the genesis of Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, joined by a panel of speakers, responding to the question, ‘is heaven in the hereafter or the here and now?’ The collective social condition of the modern metropolis can create topographies of ennui, spatial anxiety and alienation. Equally, the urban environment offers infinite possibilities for retreat and hope. Where and what are these sites of official and personal sanctuary in Melbourne?
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Moderator
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Virginia Trioli, journalist, ABC
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Panel
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Dr Paul Collins, theologian and historian, Professor Barbara Creed, Professor Screen Studies, University of Melbourne, Rob Adams, Director City Design, Melbourne City Council
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Supper Room, Melbourne Town Hall
For Heaven’s Sake!
Look Who’s Talking
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Join us for evening talks from these Melbournites as they ponder what HEAVEN is to them. Whether it be football, shopping or chowing down on a sausage in bread at Bunnings in Coburg.
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Wed 13 Oct, 6pm
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Catherine Deveny, serial pest
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Wed 10 Nov, 6pm
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Robert Buckingham, creative founder of the Melbourne Fashion Festival
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Graveyard Drift
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Join us for a twilight Halloween cemetery tour. Do it before you leave this mortal coil.
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Sun 31 Oct, 7.30pm
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Tour led by Dr Celestina Sagazio
COST $25.00
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Contact ACCA on +613 9697 9999 or programs@accaonline.org.au
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Nathan Coley
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Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
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Presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
Commissioned for the Folkestone Triennial 2008
A commission by ACCA in collaboration with the City of Melbourne's Public Art Program
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Nathan Coley – 25 September – 12 December. On show 24 Hours a day
Mortality – 8 October – 28 November, 2010
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am–5pm. Weekends 11am-6pm. Mondays by appointment.
Tel: 03 9697 9999. Admission: Free. www.accaonline.org.au
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For further media information:
Katrina Hall on 03 9697 9999,
mobile 0421 153 046
or email kathall@ozemail.com.au
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A project by ACCA in collaboration with the
City of Melbourne's Public Art Program
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