Creative Sydney’s Opening Night
The opening night of Creative Sydney sees the unveiling of the very special segment called Remixing History. Remixing History is a live VJ/DJ set - a mash-up of audio and visual pop culture elements that have left a significant imprint in the minds of the Remixing History crew. It’s a smorgasbord of jingles, commercials, films, TV shows, news and a whole lot more, and is designed for your live entertainment. Request a decade or year from one of the VJ/DJs and see what unveils before you.
On Your Evening’s Dance Card:
Part of this event is the much talked about installation piece, TimeBomb.
What is TimeBomb?
TimeBomb is the brainchild of Sydney artist, Maddi Boyd (KissKiss) and multi-media artist, Lukasz Karluk and is an interactive graffiti piece, designed to take you along a journey through the many incarnations of a graffiti wall. Lukasz says, “TimeBomb tries to illustrate the many layers that go onto a graffiti wall over time and allows people to uncover those layers added, in this case by the Stupid Krap! studio artists.”
There’s no denying, graff and urban art has been an increasingly popular and engaging art form in Sydney in the past decade. Yes, the council is guilty of frequently rallying against it, but with the ever-increasing exhibitions in Sydney showcasing urban talent, audiences can not get enough. Maddi believes, “urban art will never cease to be relevant because it’s about being a part of the living city and responding to what’s happening around the artist.”
The TimeBomb project – the idea of “allowing the viewers into the creation of a painting” and being able to see “the development of an artwork over time,” Maddi says “would make an excellent subject for a reality TV show.”
So in a nutshell, the TimeBomb piece is essentially this…
Nine street and studio artists from Stupid Krap! have layered their artworks on the canvas wall, which is colloquially known as bombing - in simple terms means throwing up a graffiti piece. Over five days, the artists took turns to bomb the wall, while Lukasz captured every detail of their designs using stop motion photography. The final product is in two segments:
1. The first is the final graffiti piece on the canvas wall.
2. The second is the multi-media time-lapse piece, which Lukasz says, “allows the audience to distort the graffiti piece through their body movements and uncover the hidden layers that lay beneath the surface of the finished piece.”
The most fascinating aspect of the TimeBomb process, according to Lukasz, “was seeing the different artists come in and do their pieces, with their own individual styles and approaches.” He goes on to say, “The most important and challenging aspect of this was to make the interactive projection as smooth and intuitive for people as possible.”
TimeBomb features the works of Stupid Krap! artists: KissKiss, DMOTE, Kid Zoom, Numskull, Ben Frost, Roach, John Doe, Bennet and Creon and will be showing at the MCA as part of Creative Sydney: Wednesday, May 27, from 8pm - 9pm.
