MUSECOLOGY (Part 2): Mnemonic Museum

Overview

Experimental art curator Jack Jeweller (director of the formerly glorious Black and Blue gallery) and Daniel Stricker of Siberia Records (nee Midnight Juggernauts beat-keeper) have joined forces, with support from City of Sydney, to present MUSECOLOGY: a series of four unique musical and visual performances, each of which makes use of an unlikely and historically significant site within Sydney. Not simply a chance to see a conventional performance in a new (old?) space, however, and not to be thought of as conceptually underdeveloped, each MUSECOLOGY event will draw upon the very history and character of its respective venue, such that the aura of each site might be re-enlivened and reproduced by the performances each hosts.

In the first instalment of MUSECOLOGY, at the end of last year (thematically tagged 'Machismo'), performers including Kirin J. Callinan and Justice Yeldham repurposed the Woolloomooloo PCYC—and made special use of its boxing ring—to compose visceral odes to the club's unambiguously machismo milieu. Now, for this second instalment, themed 'Mnemonic Museum', four acts, including void-noise merchants Naked On The Vague, newly-formed duo DCM (Daniel Stricker and ex-Wolfmother synth-player Chris Ross), Not Applicable (Jaimie Leonarder/Jay Katz of Mu-Mesons and Mu-Meson archive), and one more yet-to-be-announced 'very special guest', will each compose a soundtrack to accompany a specific sequence from the 1961 cult film The Eyes of Hell, a.k.a The Mask, released in analglyphic 3d. And if a museum were not already itself an appropriate enough venue for a curated event that so mines film history, this instalment of MUSECOLOGY will take place at the University of Sydney's Macleay Museum, itself home to a collection of rare historical photographs.