Linden New Art | Upcoming events, workshops and artist/curator talks

On Holidays at Linden > My Family and Me

Attention Little Linden Locals! We want your artwork on our walls! #lovelocalart

Drop in to the gallery this school holidays and draw a picture of your family visiting your favourite place in St Kilda. As part of Linden Locals, a photographic exhibition to celebrate our many visitors, artists and locals, we are inviting kids and families to share their stories. Display it on the walls to be one lucky little local and win a sign copy of WORDS by Christoph Niemann.

Presented as part of Linden Locals in partnership with i.e. community.

Performance > Sub Decorative Sequence with Cat Hope

What might architecture sound like?

Listen to the sounds of Linden’s gallery walls in the performances of Sub Decorative Sequencesby Cat Hope. Inspired by the decorative elements of Linden’s interior and exterior design, Hope has created graphic scores that will be performed by musicians in a series of special events.

Saturday 20 July, 2PM > Karina Utomo, Sage Pbbt and Judith Dodsworth 

These three outstanding vocalists featured in Cat’s opera ‘Speechless’, which premiered as part of the Perth Festival earlier this year.  Mixing styles as diverse as death metal, throat singing and classical music, these artists come together to interpret Sub Decorative Sequences I-II.

Saturday 10 August, 2PM > Mary Doumany (Harp) 

Mary Doumany is a remarkable harpist and vocalist, whose performance will create a different take on the Sub Decorative Sequences III-IV.

About the Artist

Cat Hope is a composer, sound artist, performer, song writer and noise artist. She is classically trained flautist, self-taught vocalist and experimental bassist who plays as a soloist and as part of other groups. Her music is conceptually driven, exploring the physicality of sound in different media, using graphic scores, acoustic /electronic combinations, aleatoric elements, drones, noise and glissandi. Her work has been discussed in books such as Loading the Silence (Kouvaris, 2013), Women of Note (Appleby, 2012), Sounding Postmodernism (Bennett, 2011) as well as periodicals such as The Wire (UK, 2013), Limelight (Aus, 2012) and Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft (Germany, 2012). Her works have been recorded for Australian, German and Austrian national radio, as well as range of international labels.

Artist Speakeasy > Promoting Visual Art on a Shoe String

In Conversation > Cat Hope, Lucreccia Quintanilla & Mona Ruijs

Artists Cat Hope, Lucreccia Quintanilla and Mona Ruijs are coming together to talk about the experimental world of sound art.

Drawing on their inspirations about the medium of sound, the artists will discuss their sound art practices and the challenges they have working in this field. Join them together with Linden Curator Juliette Hanson to learn about the commonalities between each of their works and how they have come together in this special exhibition.

Crafternoon for Adults > Generative Patterns with Sound & Code

Suitable for any skill level and with no prerequisites, participants learn coding fundamentals from scratch in Processing, a programming language made for visual artists. We will create patterns made with entirely with code and sound inspired by Cat Hope that can be used for live visuals, poster design, gift wrap, fabric and more. All you need to bring is a laptop and some imagination!

Already got some coding chops? Our worksheets cater for all abilities so you can go as fast as you like through the parts you may already know.

We understand that laptops can be pricey items. If you cannot source a laptop to bring along with you for the day – please get in touch with at gallery@lindenarts.org as some spare laptops may be available.

Presented by Linden New Art in collaboration with Technecolour

Crafternoon for Kids > Sound Collage

Let’s make some noise!

We know you don’t hear it often but – the louder the better! Join sound artists Dale Gorfinkel and Bryan Phillips for a special sound workshop. Using recycled materials, organic or kitchen objects to create sound sculptures, kids will bang, clash and make a collective music composition. Kids will be able to record their sounds and use digital manipulation to create experimental sound collages.

Performance > Sound Bath with Mona Ruijs

Artist Mona Ruijs will facilitate a sound immersive experience with gongs, quartz crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls and various other sound tools that are designed to induce profound physical relaxation, and contemplative states. Lying down on mats you will be saturated and cocooned in the live sounds as you enter inside the wonderful world of the sound bath.

The joy of a sound bath is the opportunity for you to lay, listen deeply with your whole body and go inwards, as you may access a consciousness that lies between sleeping and waking. Here you may be transported to states of stillness, meditation, bliss, altered states of awareness, and self-healing. Sound bath participants variously report powerful bodily sensations and brain states often accompanied by creative thought, rich imagery, insights, and feelings of rest and timelessness. This unique composition of frequencies and harmonics produces a soundscape that washes over you, with the intention to release bodily tension and produce a relaxation response lowering stress, cortisol and adrenaline levels. We invite you to explore new ways of listening and responding, as the ear hears, the brain listens and the body senses vibrations.

Special Event > Decibel New Music Performance

In a very special event, Decibel New Music Ensemble will perform Cat Hope’s work Sub Decorative Sequences with special guest Lionel Marchetti.

Inspired by the decorative elements of Linden’s interior and exterior design, Hope has created graphic scores to be performed by the ensemble in the gallery space. Featuring a cello, viola, bass clarinet, bass flute, percussion and electronics, this concert is part of their #Db10at10 celebration year.

*All Bookings to be made via Linden New Art website