Arts and Culture Unnumbered Sparks: Janet Echelman, TED Sculpture Foreword
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Arts and Culture Unnumbered Sparks: Janet Echelman, TED Sculpture Foreword Imagine a world without performing or visual arts. Imagine – no opera houses, no theatres or concert halls, no galleries or museums, no dance, music, theatre, collaborative arts or circus – and in an instant we appreciate the essential, colourful, emotive and inspiring place that creative pursuits hold in our daily life. Creating opportunities for arts to flourish is vital, and this includes realising inspiring venues which are cutting edge, beautiful, functional, sustainable, have the right balance of architecture, acoustics, theatrical and visual functionality and most importantly are magnets for artists and audiences, are enjoyable spaces and places, and allow the shows and exhibitions to go on. 4 Performing Arts Bendigo Art Gallery 5 Performing Arts Arts and Culture Performing and Visual Arts 03 08 – 87 88 – 105 Foreword Performing Musicians, Arts Artists, Sculptors and Festivals 106 – 139 140 – 143 144 Visual Arup Services Photography Arts Clients and Credits Collaborators Contents Foreword 3 Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall 46 Singapore South Bank Studio, Queensland Symphony Orchestra 50 Australia Performing Marina Bay Sands Theatres 52 Arts 8 Singapore Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Federation Concert Hall 56 Melbourne Recital Centre 10 Australia Australia Chatswood Civic Place 58 Sydney Opera House 14 Australia Australia Carriageworks 60 Glasshouse Arts, Conference and Australia Entertainment Centre 16 Australia Greening the Arts Portfolio 64 Australia Melbourne Theatre Company, Sumner Theatre 18 Arts West Redevelopment University Australia of Melbourne, Arts Faculty 66 Australia Sydney Conservatorium of Music 20 Australia Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct 2 68 Emmaus College, Australia Performing Arts Centre 22 Australia MediaCorp Campus 70 Singapore James Forbes Academy Scotch College 23 Yale-NUS College 72 Australia Singapore State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne 24 Ngeringa Concert Hall 74 Australia Australia Sidney Myer Music Bowl 26 Creative Industries and Performing Australia Arts Development (CIPAD), University of Tasmania 76 Arup SoundLab® 30 Australia Australia Samsung Electronics Concert Hall 78 Genexis Theatre 32 South Korea Singapore Han Gang Art Island 80 Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay 36 South Korea Singapore The Star Performing Arts Centre 82 School of the Arts Singapore 40 Singapore Singapore Millennium Arts Project 84 Llewellyn Hall Refurbishment, Australia Australian National University 44 Australia Gold Coast Cultural Precinct 86 Australia Ari Benjamin Meyers – “K62” with Federation Square Arts Complex 122 Dominique Gonzalez Foerster” / Art Australia Production Fund / Charlie Morrow Musicians, Artists, – “Audubon’s Aviary Exhibition” / National Portrait Gallery 124 Sculptors and Festivals 88 “Suspended Sounds” / Conde Nast with Australia artists including Leo Villareal / Creative Antony Gormley – Angel of the North 88 Time “The Smallest of Wings” / Damien Garangula Gallery 126 Hirst / David Monacchi – “Suspended Australia Vivid Festival 91 Sound” / Dominique Gonzalez Foerster – “K62” / Edgar Arceneaux – “Sound Allens Linklaters Art Gallery 128 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion 93 Canon Double Projection” / Iain Forsyth Australia and Jane Pollard – “Nuit Blance 2011 – Nick Cave – The Death of Bunny Soon” / “Radio Mania: An Abandoned Australian Museum, Crystal Hall 130 Munro 93 Work” / “Silent Sound” / Imani Uzuri / Australia Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston / Lou Reed – Metal Machine Trio 93 Issue Project Room / James Turrell / Jeff Marina Bay Sands Koons / Joel Chadabe / Kristin Jones / ArtScience Museum 134 Ai Weiwei –‘Sunflower 93 Marina Rosenfeld – “Teenage Lontano” Singapore Seeds 3D Audio’ / “Roygbivandb” / Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke / Michael Schumacher / Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ai Wewei – ‘Vito Acconci and Mike Kelley – “The Day is Done” / Miya Asian Gallery 136 Ai Weiwei Sound Installation’ 93 Masaoka / MoMA PS1 – “Pole Dance” / Australia Olafur Eliasson / Olivia Block / Performa Anish Kapoor – Marsyas Sculpture 93 – “How Wheeling Feels…” / Peter Coffin Centre of Contemporary – “Qualunque Light” / Phil Niblock / Arts (CoCA) 138 The Travellers 93 Philip Glass / Rice University / Scanner / Australia Shelley Hirch / Stephen Vitiello / Text of James Turrell – Twilight Epiphany Light (Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Skyspace Rice University 96 Alan Licht) – “Outdoor Symphonies” / University of California at Merced / MPavilion 2015 98 Wangechi Mutu – “Stone Ihiga” / Xavier LeRoy – “Sacre de Printemps” 104 Arup Eureka Flag 101 Services 140 Museum of Modern Art – Cellophane House 101 Clients and Collaborators 142 Tate Modern 101 Visual Bill Fontana – ‘Harmonic Bridge’ 101 Arts 106 Photography Credits 144 David Byrne Australian Centre for the Moving – ‘Playing the Building’ Installation 101 Image (ACMI) 108 Australia Chanel Mobile Art Travelling Pavilion 101 National Gallery of Victoria 110 Australia William Kentridge – “I am not me, the horse is not mine” 101 Bendigo Art Gallery 114 Australia Australian Pavilion, Venice Australia Council for the Arts 101 Melbourne Museum 118 Australia Antony Gormley – Drift Sculpture Marina Bay Sands Integrated National Museum of Australia 120 Resort Hotel 101 Australia Performing Arts 10 Performing Arts 11 Performing Arts Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Melbourne Recital Centre “It’s a fantastic sensation to performers and audiences across a play here,” were the words of range of musical styles. The crown violinist Jo Beaumont as she for Limelight magazine’s number stepped off stage at the Elisabeth one chamber music space in Murdoch Hall, a venue designed Australia (2011) sits comfortably with the intention of becoming on the head of this venue, but the Melbourne’s home of chamber crown may need to make way for music. After five years of settling other regalia as it is now globally into itself, the hall has found its renowned for being much more groove, gaining a reputation for than Australia’s best venue for delighting musicians, ensembles, chamber music. orchestras, solo artists, choral Melbourne, Victoria Australia 13 Performing Arts Melbourne Recital Centre 14 Performing Arts Sydney Opera House Just like Bennelong – the It’s one of the world’s busiest Aboriginal man whom the Sydney performing arts venues. Each Opera House’s location is named year over 1,900 performances after – this glimmering beacon – by a raft of companies from plays a significant role in bringing The Australian Ballet, Opera people together. Where Bennelong Australia, to Sydney Theatre mediated between early settlers Company and Sydney Symphony and Indigenous Australians, the Orchestra – are seen by 1.4 million story of Sydney’s 40+ year- people, in six indoor theatres, old cultural icon is one full of halls and performance spaces acclaimed performers, countless and one outdoor forecourt space. outstanding performances and Thankfully the ongoing care of hoards of thrilled visitors, SOH is a priority and ensures it coming together in the name of continues to play a seminal role in performing arts. Australia’s performing arts story. Sydney, New South Wales Australia Image used with permission of Sydney Opera House Trust Arup is a proud partner of the Sydney Opera House 15 Performing Arts Glasshouse Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre From sleepy holiday town to The modern building design Port Macquarie, the fastest growing area in New stands out in a town where more New South Wales South Wales, Port Macquarie’s traditional buildings are the Australia world-class performing arts norm, and the superb acoustics centre is helping transform and theatre design has attracted a region. After four years of a stellar roll out of performers operation, it has staged over 1,500 from the Australian Opera, shows and events, attracted over Bell Shakespeare Company one million visitors through the and Flautist Jane Rutter, to doors and is bringing significant comedians, singers and the benefits to the regional economy Russian Ballet. and local communities. 18 Performing Arts 19 Performing Arts Melbourne Theatre Company Sumner Theatre In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot had its first public stage Southbank, Victoria premiere in Paris. Meanwhile, on the far side of the world, Mr. John Australia Sumner founded the Melbourne Theatre Company, which some 56 years later would dedicate their most innovative, intimate and technologically advanced theatre to him. The Sumner Theatre exemplifies everything the late Sumner represented – vision, creativity, diversity, innovation, entertainment, thrill. Just as the company he created became a model for other state theatre companies, the Sumner Theatre too started a new chapter in design. Its 500-seats, modular stage, variable proscenium opening, Juliet balcony and stage, fly and wing configurations provide flexibility to match the MTC’s cutting edge repertoire and make this one of the best drama facilities in the world. Beckett’s Godot may have just turned up if he could perform on this stage! 20 Performing Arts Sydney Conservatorium of Music The nearby shiny white Opera Over its almost 100 year journey Sydney, New South Wales House sails might get all the as a music school, its location – Australia postcard glory, but it’s the Sydney in the middle of a bustling city Conservatorium of Music which with trains below and gives composers, performers freeways close by – has presented and educators a twinkle in their challenging difficulties. Musicians eyes.