MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART
MEDIA KIT
Meijers + Walsh
The Collector 7: The Processor of Circumstance
24 April - 7 July 2012
Introduction
As part of the ongoing series of project exhibitions commissioned for the
Merlyn Myer Gallery, the Monash University Museum of Art presents The
Collector 7: The Processor of Circumstance, the latest instalment of the
superfiction Henri Papin – the Collector by Hobart-based artists Meijers +
Walsh.
Deriving his traits from literary and cinematic figures, Henri Papin – the
Collector examines aspects of social anthropology through the development
of an obsessive character and psychological schema within a series of large
scale sculptural installations. According to Meijers + Walsh, Henri Papin
‘exists in a more fantastical realm – one that utilises delusion as a baseline
for normality’.
Ground Floor, Building F
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia
Henri Papin is a collector of human behaviour. His collections are
constructed from moments of voyeurism, fragments of memory and found
samples, distilling ‘stains of experience’ into objects or scenarios. Meijers
+ Walsh describe the centrepiece, The Processor of Circumstance, as
‘a device for measuring that almost unknowable quality which could be
described as “attraction”. Henri definitely lacks it – living behind the scenes,
voyeur to other people’s lives and experiences. The machine device is his
invention for trying to extract and understand the thing which compels
interest between people’. Accompanied by a display of fishing flies bound
with human hair, this machine draws its energy from a bandaid-clad pig
and activates an array of iron filings, ferrofluid, neodymium magnets and
lodestones – Henri Papin’s metaphors for desire.
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Time-ticker-follicle-plug 2010
timber, motors, hair, rubber
courtesy of the artists
MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART
The Collector 7: The Processor of Circumstance
Artist Biography
Exhibition Dates
Meijers + Walsh are in their seventh year of collaboration. In addition to
Henri Papin – the Collector, their primary projects include The Subterranean
Plant Society, a fictional society that seeks to reconstruct and reconfigure
history through presentations and the manufacturing of ‘artefacts’ and
archaeological finds, and the installation/performance group The Holy Trinity
with Alicia King, a fictional alliance of three self-proclaimed deities who exist
in a highly saturated pop fantasyland.
24 April - 7 July 2012
Meijers + Walsh have undertaken other collaborations through Six_a, the
artist-run initiative they established in Hobart in 2007. External to Six_a’s
annual program, major collaborative projects have included Battery
operated and supercharger, for Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival in 2008
and 2010 respectively, and an Asialink ARI residency with House of Natural
Fiber in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, in 2011.
Artists Mish Meijers & Tricky Walsh in conversation with Francis Parker
Tuesday 24 April 12.30 - 1.30pm
Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus
In addition to their collaborative works, Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh
maintain distinct solo practices. Meijers completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts
with majors in sculpture and drawing at the University of Tasmania in 1997.
She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice experiments in surface
tensions: how one material conforms or abrades against the matter of
another. She distorts the inherent worth and significance of her objects
with regard to popular culture, gender determination and functionality, in
an alchemic and at times discordant sensibility to construct sculptural
tableaux. Walsh has pursued a career in the visual arts after initially studying
architecture in the mid-1990s. An interdisciplinary artist, whose work is
architectural in nature and broadly spatial in practice, Walsh is concerned
with the integration of mysticism with scientific reasoning.
Opening function:
Saturday 28 April 2012, 3.00 - 5.00pm
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MEDIA
For all media enquiries please contact Rosemary Forde on 03 9905 4360 or
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This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.
For further information see:
http://mishmeijers.com/home.html
http://trickywalsh.com/home.html
Ground Floor, Building F
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia
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Telephone +61 3 9905 4217
muma@monash.edu
Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm; Sat 12 – 5pm
Meijers + Walsh
The Collector 1: Museum
installation view, Inflight Gallery, Hobart,
2006, courtesy of the artists