2011 Visiting Research Fellows

Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf

Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf are transdisciplinary artists from New York City collaborating under the name EIDIA. They define their endeavours as "aesthetic research" which often involves collaboration with many individuals. EIDIA's work addresses: art politics, social spaces, and the environment. EIDIA has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and are in numerous collections.

Their projects run from the video portrait of an artist living in the famous Chelsea Hotel, THE CHELSEA TAPES when Lamarre and Wolf met in the 1980s, to THE STARVING ARTISTS' COOKBOOK & VIDEO of 150 artists cooking; to "the nea tapes" a documentary about art censorship in the US; to Plato's Cave a collaborative artists installation and edition series from 2009 to 2012; and most recently Art As Archive, which premieres at the Sydney College of the Arts in April 2011.

Anjali Srinivasan

Anjali's research erodes the notion of a self-contained object. Through cross-disciplinary practices she develops ways to discover, access and restructure essential information or overlooked potential held in a material or situation. Her works exhibit unusual behaviour and defy common perception. They remain unfulfilled without human engagement. Anjali is interested not in what is, but what can be.

During her fellowship at SCA, Anjali will be researching 'Living Cultures in Glass: Entropy, Agriculture and Post-Glass', in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources and the Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis (ACMM).


{Entropy}...What does it mean for glass to be formed by breath when the "breather" or source is not a human but organic matter?... {Agriculture}... What comes about when a material like glass, considered to be pristine and immortal, blooms dead matter on its surface?... Or when the creation of fine capillaries through its structure can support plant life?... {Post-Glass}... In other words, what transpires when an artist is unable to cope with the perfectly reasonable techniques and methods laid out for her by time, history and tradition?

The goal is to expand the conceptual and technical underpinnings of an artist's vocabulary, given the hybrid nature of contemporary disciplines, and to make the research in the above fields of science accessible to general public in visual, sensory and tactile ways.

www.anjalisrinivasan.com

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