Chicks on Speed - Fremantle Arts Centre
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Chicks on Speed - Fremantle Arts Centre
MEDIA CONTACT Maria Noakes 08 9432 9565 [email protected] fremantle arts centre present chicks on speed scream + utopia album launch An interactive collision of art, technology, music, video and fashion Above: Chicks on Speed (Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie) Globetrotting performance, art, music, fashion and new media provocateurs Chicks on Speed roll into FAC this April with a typically genre-defying and mind-bending show. An immersive and interactive exhibition, SCREAM is based around a giant sculptural structure on which Melissa Logan (USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Australia) project a visually and sonically explosive collage. In addition, the exhibition invites the viewer to use iPad Apps within the gallery which enable them to compose, mix and project audio visual scenes against the gallery walls in real time. SCREAM also showcases the duo’s wearable ‘Objekt Instruments’ (new interfaces for musical expression) such as a wireless high heeled ‘shoe guitar’, a theremin tapestry, made in collaboration with the Australian Tapestry Workshop, which triggers audio samples and a haute-couture hat amplifier. It’s colourful, noisy, sculptural, cheeky and downright fun. This multimedia, multi-room show includes the WA premiere of Golden Gang, a 12 minute short film shot in and around Kalgoorlie and The Pinnacles in November last year. Starring legendary Australian artist Richard Bell (currentlt exhibiting at PICA), the film is a remix of a vignette from Luis Buñuel’s 1930 French surrealist comedy L’Age D’or (The Golden Age). MurrayLeslie and Logan were invited to remake an excerpt of the film as part of the project Der Stachel des Skorpions Ein Cadavre exquis nach Luis Buñuels ‘L’Âge d’or’, by M&M collective and it will be exhibited at MuseumVilla Stuck, Munich in March and Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt in June. Golden Gang showcases the bright, surrealist, poetically disjointed visual language of Chicks on Speed. “We’ve drawn on the symbolism in Buñuel’s film inparticular his use of shifting power structures and in this case the insatiable hunger for more gold at the cost of losing oneself,” Murray-Leslie and Logan said. “The film also references WA’s desolate goldfields and the unimaginably painful and unbalanced Aborigional/settler relationship while also exploring our helplessness, human mental isolation and the awesome landscapes which the viewer senses are wilderness or pilfered land.” MEDIA CONTACT Maria Noakes 08 9432 9565 [email protected] “We can’t wait for Chicks on Speed to unleash SCREAM at FAC,” FAC Director Jim Cathcart said. “This exhibition has been embraced by audiences in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and now people in Perth have the chance to immerse themselves in the irreverent, surreal world of these truly innovative artists.” Over the past 15 years, Chicks on Speed’s founding members Logan and Murray-Leslie have worked between the worlds of music, art and fashion, creating their own brand of GESAMTKUNSTWERK – an all embracing art form (a total work of art). Having collaborated with luminaries as diverse as Peaches, Karl Largerfeld and Douglas Gordon, the duo are globally renowned for their ability to cross artistic and technological boundaries in their innovative projects. They’ve exhibited and performed at major festivals and key global institutions, including; opening the Australian Pavillion at the 55th Venice Bienale, Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary 21, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London and MoMA, New York. In addition to SCREAM, Chicks on Speed will launch their latest studio album UTOPIA at FAC on 5 April accompanied by electro drummer Erica Lewis. UTOPIA was created by Murray-Leslie and Logan in collaboration with leading contemporary artists, activists and producers including Julian Assange and Yoko Ono. ABOUT UTOPIA Chicks on Speed are back with a new daring style of Media-Art-Pop-Music. UTOPIA, the Chicks latest studio album, is scheduled for release in early 2014, accompanied by six interactive iPad App’s. To mark the occasion Chicks on Speed’s founding members Melissa Logan (USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Australia) will perform a series of live concerts in front of Australian audiences, accompanied by electro-drummer Erica Lewis. The album launch performances will see the unveiling of tracks from the new album, as well as inviting audience members to participate in the creative process on stage with the chicks, by live-composing and mixing audio-visual scenes via the Chicks on Speed Apps. UTOPIA was created by Murray-Leslie and Logan in collaboration with leading contemporary artists, activists, producers and a princess, including: Julian Assange, Yoko Ono, Peter Weibel, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Christopher Just, Oliver Horton, Angie Seah and Anat Ben-David. SCREAM - EXHIBITION SAT 5 APR – SUN 25 MAY OPENING FRI APR 4 | 6:30PM featuring a live chicks on speed performance in fac’s main gallery UPTOPIA - ALBUM LAUNCH SAT 5 april 6pm | Tickets $35+BF from fac.oztix.com.au ARTSPOKEN WITH CHICKS ON SPEED WED 7 MAY | 7PM | FREE MAIN | GALLERY Alex Murray-Leslie and Melissa Logan will be beamed into FAC via Skype for a discussion about their latest multimedia extravaganza SCREAM. About Fremantle Arts Centre One of Australia’s leading arts centres, FAC is housed within an iconic heritage building and beautiful grounds. Visit for free exhibitions, a shop selling the finest WA hand-made wares, an expansive live music program, special events, an idyllic cafe and free wifi. 1 Finnerty St Fremantle | fac.org.au 7 days | 10am–5pm | +61 8 9432 9555