Flossie Peitsch located in Melbourne, PhD, MFA, BFA (HONS) an acclaimed, internationally exhibiting installation, multimedia, performance, and interdisciplinary art with interests in social sculpture, generating creative communities through the arts and contemporary spirituality facilitating the self-realization of being in Australia. ‘Splace’ is her invented term, engaging the voice of art for the self-realization of being. Her community art projects found throughout the world are noted for their expansion of the definition of Fine Art. An immigrant of long standing – from Canada to Australia as a young adult – she is grounded in the everyday by 164 concurrent years of mothering her six children.
The two of us met while in Residency at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, in the winter of 2009, and established a connection and an interest in each other’s work. In 2012, we delightedly embarked on a joint project at the Bundanon Trust, NSW. Through walks and meditation we drew inspiration and raw material from Bundanon itself as ‘place’, incorporating the idea of mindfulness and ‘country’ in the Australian Aboriginal sense. Daily, we would listen to imageandsee sound as essential exchange and reflection vital to each stage of our working process. In addition to combining images/installation art and music, we identified that we both come from a churched background and brought a willingness to probe this key common base.
Exhibition Statement: Respecting the strong ‘sense of belonging to a place’ related by native peoples around the world, Peitsch (Canadian) and Green (Australian) keenly researched their own belonging. Though neither of them are indigenous to their respective countries, they feel an ongoing connection to each other’s adopted country. Via their combined art practices they delve deeply into the land and spirituality they love.
Exhibition Description: A Bundanon Residency Collaboration of belonging to place comprising an expanded series of wall mounted linoleum panels, fabricated and fabric sculpture, and canvases by visual artist Flossie Peitsch and an ensuing series of sophisticated and developed original audio interpretations / soundscapes by composer / performer Christina Green. The inaugural showing of the seminal art/audio movie combining images of this Bundanon Residency and relating to its creative output, features highly.
Formative discussions….BELONGING: Longing for Place, Longing for Kinship, Longing for Affinity, Longing for Acceptance, Longing for Relationship, Longing to Belong.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Ellen Wilmeth wrote:
What an accomplishment! After being away for so long! Absolutely stunning! I loved reading each description and thought they were so insightful and very clever! I hope the exhibition is very well received and that you sell every piece! I laughed when I read the last leg story, he sounds like a gem of a guy!
I’m wrapping up details and we’re off to Des Moines tomorrow! Dylan loved your 20 questions idea and he’s going to handle that part! His girlfriend is wonderful, we love her already!
Know you must be exhausted but hope you can bask in the moment of your impressive work! Love, Ellie W.
On Aug 4, 2016 1:58 AM, “Flossie Peitsch” wrote:
Thanks, Ellie! I sure do like your feedback! When do you have time to read this stuff? You are a very BIG fan! May I use this on my Blog with your name? I do think the exhibition looks good in its space.
I had my first day of casual teaching since arriving back here. It makes me feel so useful AND I get paid! Hope there is more to come…
I guess I am exhausted. Maybe that contributes to my ‘funk’. DAH!
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Tim Schwarz wrote:
Awesome work Aunty Flossie, I especially liked Backdrop and Defeet, Backdrop would make a lovely artwork in my home. And is the cover art of a dolls house on legs? I have no where in my house to fit it but I’d certainly do my best to make room for it. All very well done. Neils email was excellent and hilarious, have you worked out how to get the leg yet?
Love ya, TS
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Flossie Peitsch wrote:
Thanks, Tim-o’-my-heart!
Glad you liked BACKDROP! It would like great in your home! Likely to be a ‘leftover’ at some stage and you can stake a claim on it! lol The cover pic is called HOUSEPET
I found the doll’s house in the hard rubbish and added the legs but I didn’t know that it would take on such a big personality once the legs were attached! That was a fun surprise. No, Neil’s leg is not here. We have not worked out how to get it yet! I might have to visit them and drive it back here! I will attach a high DPI photo of HOUSEPET and you can print it yourself, frame it and you have a space friendly piece of art. I will even sign the photo when we visit -or you come here – next time!
BTW, may I use your email on my blog site? With your name?
Neal Nuske and Flossie have been in dialogue vis-à-vis her art practise – casually, since 1975 and intensely, since 2004. A monoped since the age of twelve, Neal takes special interest in HABITAT and its featuring of various disconnected and ‘poised’ legs. Neal offered to contribute his own no-longer-used ‘detachable, bogus leg’. This proposal presented a problem.
Peitsch received the following email from Neal (now edited) soon after she arrived home from a recent, demanding overseas trip….
‘Bad luck about the snubbing welcome from your faithful and loving dog. So much for the notion of canine faithfulness and love. You sound discombobulated, ethnically confused, and suffering from nationalistic uncertainty, badly in need of an existential compass which works.
My only struggle has been trying to fit my other leg in a box. I went to a box factory which looked at me askance when I told them I wanted to post my leg to Melbourne. It was only then they looked down and realised I had been defeeted. They offered to reorganise their box making machinery to cut-out a box to suit. When I asked them the cost to do a special run in this gigantic, industrial type, (expletive), box-making factory, it became clear they could cover all their overdraft and back-dated superannuation bills in one sale. The salesperson smiled sweetly and was in no way aware of how close she came to being stuffed into one of their miserable and inadequate boxes and posted forthwith to New Zealand.
It was also the day I got horribly lost in the industrial area of Brisbane, a simple trip took me two hours. When I asked Australia Post how much it would cost to post one leg to Melbourne it soon became clear that nowhere at all on their filing system did such a postal category exist, the system jammed. I felt lost, alone, isolated and disjointed in the cosmos, without even a dog which had the honesty and integrity to reject me. ’
Such is life. With mirthful pathos, this story in itself, recapitulates the essence of HABITAT. Once again, for these words, Peitsch admits that she owes Neal.
MY DOG PRISCILLA WHO SNUBBED ME WHEN I RETURNED HOME AFTER HAVING LEFT HER.
Medium: Canvas and wood, Set of twenty-five (25) panels.
Dimensions: (31 x 31) x 25
Price: : Each canvas (30cm x 30cm) @ $350 [inc GST and 30% commission]
For best results when learning to play music, it is important to note the composer’s style playing directives. One such term is ‘Staccato’, of Italian origin meaning literally ‘detached or disconnected’. Here a collection of similar shapes relate to each other – or not – within their spaces. These patterns are a metaphor for the seemingly random connecting of cells, creatures, human beings, or experiences during life’s combined journey.
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATOVARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
ACCESS reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. The QR* code + one’s phone is all that is required to access a history of artists with ecological / ideological causes or tally future issues that artists may pursue. All this exists outside of but with the support of ‘the white cube’. Going below the surface, it links blank wall, canvas and technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image, system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private, inclusion and exclusion, to name only a few.
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ACCESS
by Flossie Peitsch, 2016
A collaboration with Matthias Peitsch
Rationale ACCESS reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. The QR* code + one’s phone is all that is required to access a history of artists with ecological / ideological causes or tally future issues that artists may pursue. All this exists outside of but with the support of ‘the white cube’. Going below the surface, it links blank wall, canvas and technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image, system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private, inclusion and exclusion, to name only a few.
G is for Gallery
T is for ted.com
H is for Hair
U is for jUnks
E is for Earth
L is for Look
S is for Saatchi
N is for Never
O is for glObal
Collaborating IT/Music Composer: Matthias Peitsch
*This is a QR code and can be scanned by free applications available for a Smartphone.
Programs that can access QR codes:
Android (free) – barcode scanner, google goggles,
iPhone (free) – RedLaser barcode scanner
Blackberry (free) – QR code scanner free
Price: Total of six $4600 [inc GST and 30% commission
Though the tones between black and white are infinite, it is possible to move from one to the other in six tonal steps – using only fabrics found in the ‘average’ Spotlight Store. We are told the same ‘six step’ dictum often holds true in directly connecting oneself with a famous relative or celebrity. Through the morass of human beings, a linking thread of commonality can be discovered. This may also point to connection with all creation.
SIX DEGREES IN POSITION IN HABITAT
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