“Out-of-Office” – a Cool Change × FORM. takeover

From 15 January to 25 February 2024, Cool Change was ‘in residence’ at FORM Gallery, working between their usual King’s Complex location in Boorloo/Perth and the gallery/café space in Claremont.

Anticipating the onslaught of Birak/Bunuru heat and festival season burnout, CC embraced this mutual out-of-office-ness with procrastination and time spent at the beach while presenting an exhibition, an artist residency, and a series of public programming events.

Collectively titled Out of Office, these activities to consider the increasingly blurred boundaries of labour and leisure, moving between the HARDLY WORKING slacker aesthetics of the recent past and the WORKING HARD grindset of late-stage capitalism.

TOM ROGERS
4 Spells

Cool Change is pleased to announce that Tom Rogers will be undertaking one of two residencies within Cool Change’s Out-of-Office takeover of FORM Gallery (15 January – 25 February).

Originally returning to Walyalup/Fremantle from Naarm/Melbourne to visit family and friends over the summer, this vacation-cum-working-holiday will see Tom undertake the development and production of a narrative short film centred on the creation and documentation of a magick sigil.

This new work, 4 Spells, will be made over a three-week intensive residency period and encompass the creation of four personal spells. During this time, Tom will also be admiring and enjoying the creative potential and influence of the ocean.

Partially set in a CGI medieval building/town (referencing Fremantle) and an unnamed other Modern Place (Melbourne or Perth), the work will consider art production, the internet, and australia’s post-irony landscape. Invited to participate in the sigil’s ritual and power through the medium of video, viewers will charge the sigil anew with each viewing.

Upon completion, the film will premier with a Q&A on Saturday, 3 February, before being made available to watch within an installation in the gallery for the remainder of the Cool Change takeover.

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Tom Rogers is an artist living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country. Using a variety of mediums, he explores personal relationships with nature, the media, intuition, magick, australiana, and the everyday surreal.

@70mr06
https://www.tomrogers.garden/

SOPHIE DURAND
Guesting and Hosting:
Exchange? [Meet = Meet Another + Another Meets Initial Other]

Cool Change is pleased to announce that Sophie Durand will be undertaking one of two residencies within Cool Change’s Out-of-Office takeover of FORM Gallery (15 January – 25 February).

Returning to Boorloo/Perth on a summer vacation from her studies in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sophie has brought with her a selection of artworks borrowed from friends and acquaintances in the Baltic region: Loora Kaubi, Anna Malika, Joosep Kivimae, Ieva Laskevičiūtė, Ingrid Helena Pajo, Anton Karyuk, and Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė.

In the larger tradition of artists travelling with small physical artworks in their luggage to aid the economic presentation of national or international art, Sophie will further consider and develop an exhibition of these artworks over a three-week intensive residency period, working with local artists to facilitate various aspects of the exhibition-making process.

Bringing together a variety of mediums, including textiles, sculpture, and photography, the exhibition Guesting and Hosting: Exchange? [Meet = Meet Another + Another Meets Initial Other] will present a loose and subjective survey of an international art scene, touching on social and political issues while considering representation and responsibility, empathy and care, context and translation, and the differences between curating and facilitating an exhibition.

Upon its resolution, Sophie’s group exhibition will open with a floor talk on Saturday, 3 February, remaining open to the public for the remainder of the Cool Change takeover.

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Sophie Durand is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania, whose practice engages installation, collection, drawing, and text. Her projects are catalysed by experiences, observations, and artefacts in which encounters set narratives in motion, generating more extensive investigations, collections, and networks through diverse methods.

@sophiedurand.news
https://www.sophiedurand.net/