JUMP

Overview

It has been my personal experience that most galleries tend to have a pretty stringent ‘No Jumping On The Art’ policy. This seems unfair, I know, especially when so much contemporary art would probably improved by a good old double bounce, but I don’t make the rules!

Fortunately, Melbourne based artists Brooke Williams and Henry Madin share our dismay at the un-jumpability of most art works, and have developed an installation piece to satisfy our taboo desires. Finding its home in Fort Delta gallery, JUMP relies on human interaction and movement to realise its full capacity. Fifty-five hand crafted wooden boxes are aligned in a semi-haphazard grid, and respond to weight bearing with a click-clack sound similar to the sound of wooden clapping sticks you probably last used in year 5 music class.

Described by the artists as a facilitation of physical expression through movement and sound, the installation is designed to be navigated sock footed gallery goers, moving between coloured boxes to create a somewhat disjointed, yet undoubtedly cheery, soundtrack to the experiential piece.

The exhibition runs August 9 – 23, so if you’d like to make sweet music with your body, hot foot it down to Fort Delta gallery (located downstairs at the back of the Capitol Arcade on Swanston Street). Take a friend or two along for the ultimate year 5 music class nostalgia.