Enclosures
Presented by Charlie White
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
138 Gallery
138 Lygon Street, Brunswick East VIC, Australia
DATES
Thu 15 May 1 – 5pm
Fri 16 May 1 – 5pm
Fri 16 May 6 – 8pm
Closing Event
Sat 17 May 1 – 5pm
How far can one bend a familiar consumer typology away from its formal norms whilst still retaining its platonic essence: speaker-ness?
Enclosures is an exhibition of experimental speakers & audio equipment that toys with the tension between sculpture and engineered device. Polemic rather than functional, the exhibition consists of a series of unique speakers and hi-fi amplifiers made from radically different materials.
Audio technology is often viewed from a strictly utilitarian approach, Enclosures challenges this perspective by introducing material and formal experimentation. The choice of materials and methodologies is make-shift, resourceful and at times humorous, challenging both aesthetic and sonic expectations. The viewer/listener is encouraged to engage not only with what they experience but to also imagine possibilities beyond the conventional black box of speaker design.
The exhibition is open from May 6.
Participants
Dylan Marelic
Dylan Marelić lives and works in Melbourne on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. His work occupies a number of disciplines including sound, video, sculpture, electronics and installation. Marelić’s recent solo exhibitions include In Public Rumination, BLINDSIDE Melbourne (2024) Sad Topology, Hair Ari Melbourne (2024), Balancing Act, RMIT Melbourne (2023) and Selected Throwaway Interactions Vol.2 Site 8 Melbourne (2023). Recent group shows include; B-Sides, BLINDSIDE Melbourne (2024), CAVES fundraiser Melbourne (2024). In 2023 dylan received a MFA from RMIT University.
Charlie White
Charlie White lives and works in Melbourne on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Characterised by the transformation of unlikely materials into design archetypes, White creates an aesthetic language of somber, gothic plasticity through an economy of means. His seductive and expressive works freely tease apart the ambiguities between art and functionality. White’s design background is rooted in his formative studies in Fine Art at the Canberra School of Art and the Glasgow School of Art. Along with degrees in Philosophy and Architecture from the University of Melbourne, White’s designs & artwork position themselves as part of a greater historical continuity of spatial understanding. Recent exhibitions have included the Melbourne Now 2024 NGV, Warmer Solo Show at Upstairs Error404,VERSA at the Meat Market, and Opus Vincula Solo Show at Backwoods Gallery. Works from White’s commission-based practice reside in private collections both in Australia and abroad.