(Let’s go) OUTSIDE - MisFits
2020, National Arts School, Sydney.
Curated by Scott Elliot for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Mardi Gras Festival, 2020.
774 individual B&W 80 gsm A4 Laser prints (photocopy) on variously tinted A4 sheets applied to the wall. Individual overlay contributions researched, produced and installed by National Art School Queer Identifying Print Makers - Bea Buckland-Willis, Eliza Gwynne, Fergus Berney-Gibson and Isac Spigelman.
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE combined images from cruising sites in Sydney (Centennial Park), New York (The Rambles, Central Park) and Singapore (Katong Park) into a continuous parkscape. The inverted Black & White photocopy was printed on two differently tinted papers – green for the foreground and blue for the sky. The contributions of the students were realised by un-inverting the parkscape file to produce an identically scaled positive from which the participating printmakers cut out their own imagery. These were printed on 80 gsm white A4 paper, aligned with the underlying parkscape and affixed with wallpaper glue.
All the elements were printed on the staff office copier at UNSW Faculty of Art & Design and the work was installed over 5 days in February 2020 (Let’s Go) OUTSIDE was conceived of as queer participatory site culturally located in the liminal space between a dance floor and a picnic blanket. Let’s Go) OUTSIDE as a sight, facilitated non-hierarchical, multiple, concurrent creative interventions from Sydney’s emerging LGBTQI+ communities.
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) Viewed from middle. Parkscape image substrate. Black & White Photocopy (Laser print) on Green and Blue 80gsm A4 Recycled paper.
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) With overlay contributions by (Upper Left) Bea Buckland-Willis, (Lower Left) Eliza Gwynne, (Middle and Upper Right) Fergus Berney-Gibson and (Right Half) Isac Spigelman. Hand cut colour photocopy on 80 gsm on recycled
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) Parkscape image substrate. Viewed from Left. Black & White Photocopy (Laser print) on Green and Blue 80gsm A4 Recycled paper.
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) Detail from Left With overlay contributions from left by (Upper Left) Bea Buckland-Willis, (Lower Left) Eliza Gwynne, (Middle and Upper Right) Fergus Berney-Gibson and (Right Half) Isac Spigelman. Hand cut colour photocopy on 80 gsm on recycled white A4 paper
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) Parkscape image substrate. Left hand side showing the conflation of The Rambles (Central Park, New York) and Katong Park (Singapore). Black & White Photocopy (Laser print) on Green and Blue 80gsm A4 Recycled paper.
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) Detail of overlay student contributions. (Upper) Bea Buckland-Willis, (Lower) Eliza Gwynne. Hand cut colour photocopy on 80 gsm on recycled.
(Let’s Go) OUTSIDE (2020) Alpha-Numerical installation grid showing location of the works of individual contributors.
Bea Buckland-Willis installing her work.
Bea Buckland-Willis (left) and Eliza Gwynne (right) installing their work.
Eliza Gwynne installing her work.
Video - “Being transparent is Overrated” Monotonal recital.
5 minutes 38 seconds long. Delivered as part of the public program for MisFits “Being transparent is Overated”, was pre-recorded and projected while Dr. Caligary intoned the ArtHitects disinterest in the transparent and direct which they believe are overrated.