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Equalessable
Artbank Window curated by The Countess.Report
In conjunction with Equalessable, Artbank and WikiMedia Australia will be co-hosting a special Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to help increase information about Australian women artists on Wikipedia. Just over 19% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower.
Join Countess.Report’s Elvis Richardson, Wikimedia Australia’ s Belinda Spry and Alison Smith along with the Artbank Team for an interactive workshop where you will have the opportunity to work on Wikipedia entries of women artists featured in Equalessable and the Artbank Collection.
The workshop will include research resources and access to the Artbank Collection and Library. Basic computer skills are required. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Bring your own laptop. The workshop will be followed by the official opening of Equalessable.
Further information will be provided on registration via the eventbrite link below. 15 places available.
Presented in partnership with Wikimedia Australia as part of the Countess. Report Artbank take over.
When: Tuesday 3 September, 2024
Time: 2pm – 4pm REGISTER HERE
Opening Equalessable: 5pm – 7pm RSVP HERE
Where: Artbank Sydney, Unit 1, 222 Young St Waterloo
or rsvps@artbank.gov.au
Gordon Bennett, Linda Dement, Adrienne Doig, Margaret Dodd, Lesley Dumbrell, Leah Emery, Sarah Goffman, Pamela Irving, Iwantja Young Women’s Film Project, Alice Lang, Mai Nguyễn-Long, Elvis Richardson, Nuha Saad, Yasmin Smith, Clare Rae, Sarah Robson, Nicola Smith, Jenny Watson, Tjanpi Desert Weavers - Narelda Ken, Nyanu Ken, S Ken, Cynthia Charra, Noreen Heffernan, Maringka Tunkin.
Artbank has invited The Countess.Report to curate our Sydney Window gallery. Countess.Report investigates the structures and frameworks that govern artistic production and legitimation in the Australian contemporary art world. Their conceptual curatorial approach to working with the Artbank Collection emphasises collection methodologies. It uses the comma to situate selected works within the domains of both the symbolic and the sociological.
Equalessable
An exhibition without wall labels and in their place commas trades biographical information and data points like place of birth year of birth name of the artist etcetera the stuff of museum and auction house databases capable of storing recording individuating work a form of administrative representation without which records of property and ledgers of ownership would be difficult to maintain and we replace this with the comma symbol of the precise moment at which a name word number title becomes a point of data namely when the information is sandwiched between two of them we see here the importance of this specific character in making legible to standard systems the who what when where but what exceeds its capacity is the why of the work its truth content if you will the desire and drive of one artist which is connected to another in a series of relations that confuses the spreadsheet is sought to make clear in supplanting the tombstone info with the seventeen bronze delimiters connectors momentary divisions and pauses between watson dement bennett smith dumbrell and others we admire
Countess.Report 2024
The Countess.Report is an ongoing independent artist-run research project led by Elvis Richardson, Miranda Samuels and Shevaun Wright.
