Store_Blp
Margaret Roberts
Downstairs | Opens on Apr 29 until May 15 | Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun
'Store_Blp' is open 11am - 5pm Wed-Sun 29 April - 15 May 2022 or by arrangement by texting 0425277462. Opening event: Sat 30 April 2-5pm. Artist’s talk: Sat 7 May 2-3pm. Articulate project space is at 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt 2040. articulateprojectspace.org. Links to photographs showing the works installed can be found on http://margaretroberts.org/Storeblp.html .
'Store_Blp' is the latest in 30 years of making site-specific artworks. I realized my attraction to working with site specificity came from its advocacy for place through the role its artworks give to their own physical locations—making them models for how people can also value the places we live in. Actually it’s a model for the globalised Western culture in particular, as Indigenous cultures care for Country as a matter of course.
Blps do something similar to site-specificity because their inventor, artist Richard Artschwager discovered they help make us aware of the presence of the place that we share with the blp. Blps might also help with the documentation of site specific art by supplementing photography with an ambiguous sign for the presence of the places they are photos of. The next blp project is 'Wayout_Blp', planned for 2023 in Kandos, in the Central West of NSW. It invites residents of the Central West to lend an object they live with to lay out on the floor in a shape of a large blp to demonstrate their communal regard for ‘here’.
-Margaret Roberts, April 2022
Store_Blp has been supported by the National Art School
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Opening reception | Sat Apr 30, 2-5pm
Opening reception for Margaret Roberts (with work supported by NAS), Sandy Edwards and a pop-up installation by articulate.
Artist talks | Margaret Roberts, Sat May 7, 2-3pm
Store_Blp is a new site-specific installation made by Margaret Roberts to work out relationships site specific artworks could have with their (live) site while the artworks are dormant (uninstalled). Store_Blp has been supported by the National Art School.