TheCube

26/04/2019

17/04/2019

https://news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/articles/oxford-art-factory-kicks-off-new-art-series-with-rosie-deacon

The highly acclaimed artist has set up shop at art space, The Cube.

03/04/2019

Tonight is the Night. Rosie Deacon Opening at the Cube 6pm - 9pm. Music and beverages supplied, please join us in celebrating the first show of Signal’s 2019 schedule.

19/03/2019

The Cube is excited to announce its new curators for 2019, Jarryd Lynagh and Orson Heidrich, working collaboratively as Signal. Their public program begins April 3rd.
Signal’s focus will be on interactivity, kineticism, scale and visual and spatial engagement through installation, mixed media, performance, sculpture and painting. This project will use the space to be a platform for both new and resolved bodies of work for artists at varying stages of their careers.

15/11/2018

15/11/2018

Jan van der Ploeg
BALLROOM BLITZ, 2018
Vinyl on glass
250 x 1320 cm.
OXFORD ART FACTORY , Sydney
Curated by Romy Hansford-Gerber
Supported by the City of Sydney

19.10 - 28.11
Friday - Sunday 8PM - 3AM
38-46 OXFORD ST. DARLINGHURST, SYDNEY

Photo Courtesy Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.

The Cube is pleased to present a site specific work by Dutch artist Jan Van der Ploeg, who next year takes part in a series of exhibitions in the Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, on the occasion of “100 years Bauhaus”.

Here Van der Ploeg presents a slight deviation from his distinctive cannon of uncompromising bright colour and painted line by designing a large scale vinyl to be exhibited on the glass of The Cube. BALLROOM BLITZ flirts with experience and function, with a marriage of hollowed vectors and white, to form a cavernous space branded with JVDP monochrome pattern. Here Van der Ploeg places his practice on the surface of The Cube in the nightclub, carving out new spaces for modernism in a play between reverence and reference, respect and historical quotation, factors that exert a conscious and unconscious influence on the nightclub audience.

This work celebrates both the architectural and sculptural qualities of The Cube, and lies somewhere between the constructed form and it’s given space, where jarring white lines frame the gesture of the artist. The Cube becomes a self disciplining ordering of space, where transparency becomes the artists tool in the place of the white walls of the gallery.

17/08/2018

Congratulations to 110% Collective for their upcoming work for Performance Space Liveworks Festival at Carriageworks! 110% performed in The Cube in 2016 over a two week residency curated by Mikaela Stafford. We look forward to seeing their durational, multidisciplinary work this October!

http://performancespace.com.au/events/

10/08/2018

THIS WEEKEND 10pm - 12 am will be taking over The Cube as part of Isabella Cornell’s five week curatorial residency encompassing performance, sculpture and experimental reading.

Māra Māyā Dēvi is the third manifestation of ceramic / performance artist Dileepa Dayananda. Māra Māyā Dēvi is a vehicle of exploration into Drag Culture, Sri Lankan Vesmuhunu masks and the Gendered Brown Body. Māra Māyā Devi utilises drag aesthetics along with both scene and ritual performance styles in order to gain control over the image of their q***r brown body. Māra Māyā Devi as a moniker encapsulates the Theravada Buddhist Roots of Dileepa through the fusion of Māra, the one who sought to tempt Lord Buddha away from enlightenment, and Māyā, Lord Buddha’s Birth Mother who passed after child birth. The demon tempter and the passed Mother exist reflectively with Dileepa’s own identity as a q***r fem brown mess.

Māra Māyā Devi
My mother and her mother. my sister
My mother’s sisters and my cousins, mothers to their daughters.
And me
And this hoodless naga.

Reclamation of me-fe-male. This body in hips to wide and hips to slim.

Māra Māyā Devi, the Monstrous Mother Divine. Stolen breasts and budding lies burst from this trampled chest.

The resurrection of my mother-me divinity. The mourning of a womb, never-born.

Me, my daughter?

The self creation, the selfie as god(dess).

I will make her again.

And make myself whole.