Expanded Architecture 2011

Overview

For one night only, the CarriageWorks foyer is being transformed into a giant canvas for moving image installations, projections and avant-garde film. Expanded Architecture, part of the Sydney Architecture Festival, explores the crossover between art and architecture. On Wednesday, 26 October the floors, walls and ceilings will come alive to the tune of 12 projects from Sydney-based artists, collectives, filmmakers and architectural graduates. If only these walls could talk.

The artists’ dynamic, site-specific installations respond to the built environment in which they are installed and the immediate urban environment. Killanoodle’s project, The Pendulum Continuum resuscitates 90’s rave sounds from Carnival of the Mind through to a mash up of documentary film footage and classical music from old school gramophones. Nicholas Maurer's work, Carrier Waves awakens the electro magnetic energy present, and Tega Brain’s Kilowatt Hours measures and presents a real-time visualisation of the power used by the exhibition and the building itself.

Image by Alex Wisser