Break it! Make it! Fake it!
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| Admission is free. You will need a ticket to enter, which you can book free of charge via the ticket link on this page. |
| Hall 1, Ground Floor |
| Part of: Humboldting! |
In a museum, the value of things takes centre stage: a cultural, emotional or monetary value. Exhibits are protected, guarded, cared for and restored. But who or what gives an object its value? Can it be changed and if so, how?
In their multimedia live video performance, Australian father-daughter artist duo Rhian and Ivy Hinkley, together with Berlin students from the Thomas Mann Gymnasium, experiment with destroying objects in the most creative way possible in order to reassemble them using modern technologies and traditional skills, giving them a new form and thus a new value.
In the performance, you will experience the phases of destruction, reassembly and the creation of new stories. You can decide for yourself what value the new objects have: The creations will be auctioned off to the highest bidders.
Make it. Break it. Fake it. takes place as part of Humbolding! A School Research Project, a long-term project of the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss at the interface of education and art. Artistic direction: Alice Fleming and Darren O’Donnell.
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Rhian Hinkley is a filmmaker and artist based in Melbourne. For ten years he was director of Nebula a portable arts and performance space run by Arts Access Victoria, creating collaborative theatrical and installation-based shows across the state of Victoria. His sculptural practice includes commissions from the City of Melbourne and exhibitions at multiple galleries including the Ian Potter Gallery of Art in Melbourne. He has a longstanding relationship with Back to Back theatre, creating the video components of The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes (2019), Lady Eats Apple (2016), Ganesh Versus The Third Reich (2011), Food Court (2008) and Soft (2002). He has directed numerous versions of the Democratic Set and Radial film projects including in Hong Kong (2019), Edinburgh (2015), Freiburg (2016) , Berlin (2017) and Dundee (2018). In 2020 he was the director of photography and editor of the short feature Shadow which premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin Texas 2022. He has worked as designer on a number of collaborations with choreographer Sandra Parker including the shows Out of Light (2009), Document (2011), The Recording (2013), Small Details (2016), as well as the gallery installations Replacement (2022) and All Day and All Night (2019). Other dance production credits include I Could Pretend the Sky is Water by Trevor Patrick (2011), Origami by BalletLab (2006) and Aorta (2014) by Stephanie Lake for Chunky Move. Film Credits include Buckstop (1997) winner of the Directors Award for technique at the New York animation festival, Face of the West (2000), finalist in the Tropfest Film Festival.
Ivy Hinkley’s artistic practice focuses on fashion, textiles, and photography, addressing the way that society tends to dismiss crafts as ‘women’s skills’ instead of incredible artforms. This stems from an aim to valorise craft through photographic, knitting and sewing works, by displaying them as ‘pure art’. Ivy is interested in exploring the role of craft in contemporary art and the way these skills are passed down through generations of women.
In 2013 she was mentored by Melbourne based costume designer Shio Otani, across her dance-based costume design and making. In 2018 -2019, she launched, designed and led an online fashion business, Maude Fashion. She continues designing and creating costumes and clothing, including working on costumes for a number of dance and film projects including Chunky Move’s Aorta (2013), Back to Back’s Shadow (2022) and her self-directed film Adorn (2022). She is interested in processes of collaboration and is keen to explore the way in which creativity can be shared and expanded within collaborative and group settings.
Her textile piece ‘Transformer’ was displayed in the 2022 Top Design exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, and a three-part photographic series which explored tradition, heritage, and lineage, was awarded the exhibitions ‘artwork acquisition’ prize. Her work has been exhibited in the 2022 Centre of Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy, Victoria.
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