CarriageWorks canvas for Architecture

The Sydney Architecture festival will transform CarriageWorks into a giant canvas of moving imagery for one night only, with the help of artists, filmmakers and architects.

The Expanded Architecture exhibition aims to explore the intersection between avant-garde film, art and architecture, including 12 collaborative teams and solo artists from these fields. Participants have created an original moving image work to be projected onto the floors, walls and ceilings

Co-curator of Expanded Architecture Sarah Breen Lovett said, “Expanded Architecture explores the intersection of art and architecture, which is one of the key themes of the 2011 Sydney Architecture Festival.”

“We invited collaborative proposals from local artists, architects and filmmakers for moving image projections and film installations that responded to the foyer space of CarriageWorks or its immediate urban environment,” she explained.

Seven collaborative teams will have their works projected onto the walls, including documentary film footage of a rave party; bending railway tracks from the floor up the walls; and projected animation focusing on the experience of children.

It also involves the works of five individual artists including Energy Field by artist Marcia Jane, a bright circle of light pulsating out of a black space to fill the surrounding area with a shimmering pattern of light; interactive artist Bert Bongers with Facets of CarriageWorks, an interactive video installation on the floor of CarriageWorks featuring pre-recorded footage of the precinct’s architectural structure.

Expanded Architecture is part of the official program of the 2011 Sydney Architecture Festival and will be presented at CarriageWorks from 7pm until 10pmon Wednesday 26th October 2011.

The exhibition is free entry but bookings are required through www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org.

The Sydney Architecture festival is a 10 day celebration of architecture beginning October 20. As Australia’s only Architecture Festival, it aims to stimulate debate and offer fresh perspectives about what constitutes good architecture and design and how to create a sustainable, healthy and culturally rich built environment.