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Space-Shifter at Detached

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth will have a solo exhibition Space-Shifter at Detached in Hobart as part of

MONA FOMA 14 Jan–3 Feb 2012






David Chesworth is AIR at MONA FOMA

David's work will be all over Hobart in January as the MONA FOMA artist in residence.

See Chesworth's installation Oceanography/Peron Station at CAST gallery in Hobart.

David Chesworth Ensemble is performing Chesworth's Vanishing Tekopia on Sat 14 Jan and Badlands on Sunday 15 Jan







David Chesworth Ensemble plays Spiegeltent Melbourne

This special CD launch concert features Vanishing Tekopia, the latest work written for the eleven-piece

David Chesworth Ensemble at 4pm on 19 February 2012

The Way You Move Me at Fremantle Arts Centre

Leber and Chesworth recently completed a two channel video The Way You Move Me while on an IASKA residency

in rural Western Australia. The work will be shown in the Spaced: Art Out of Place exhibition at Fremantle Arts

Centre, part of the Perth Festival, 4 February - 11 March 2012







Richter/Meinhof-Opera at AGNSW

David Chesworth's Richter/Meinhof-Opera tours to Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2012

2011


- Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture

..Leber and Chesworth are finalists in the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, exhibition at Federation Square

..Melbourne from 7 Nov to 21 Nov 2011


- Now and Forever

..Now and Forever is part of In camera and in public at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Sep-Oct 2011,

..Melbourne Festival visual art program

- Space-Shifter at PICA

..Sonia and David's Space-Shifter installation at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, September 2011.

..Part of the Totally Huge New Music Festival





- We, The Masters

..A new site-specific sound-based installation for Melbourne's City Square, July-Aug 2011.

..Commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art



- Almost Always Everywhere Apparent II

..Selected elements of Sonia and David's earlier project for ACCA have been reworked for the Stealing the Senses

..exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. To 6 June 2011


- Volcanic 3D

..Museum Victoria has been awarded an American Association of Museums Gold MUSE Award for Volcanic 3D.

..Wax Sound Media created the 12 channel surround sound design for the 360-degree fully immersive and interactive 3D
..
..environment, working in association with iCinema and ACT3 animation. Exhibition continues throughout 2012.


- Field Formation

..A built-in soundscape for the forecourt of AAMI Park, Melbourne, Field Formation was launched in February 2011








PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS:


- Rewards of Silence a commission for the Chapel of the Separate Prison at Port Arthur, Tasmania

- Landing Place installation at Botany Bay National Park, Sydney

- Proximities (Leber/Chesworth/Nelson) along William Barak Bridge, Melbourne

- Oceanic Endless (Leber/Chesworth/Nelson) in Melbourne

- The Master's Voice installation in City Walk, Canberra

- 5000 Calls at Sydney Olympic Park