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Behind the Velvet Rope: Soon it would be too hot 2
Behind the Velvet Rope: Soon it would be too hot 2, was ubs at the Coal Loader as part of the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize.
Behind the Velvet Rope invites us to watch the spectacle of the climate crisis in action—again.
This work asks us to reflect on our own consumption—not only of fossil fuels, such as coal—but of the mesmerising scenes of devastation that we, collectively, have wrought. Seeing this work in the Coal Loader tunnels will infuse the work with both site-specific poignancy and a sense of urgency.
2022 North Sydney Art Prize
The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
2 Balls Head Drive, Waverton
14 – 29 May 2022
Soon it would be too hot (instal timelapse)
Soon it would be too hot melting at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 12-14 Feb 2021.
Soon it would be too hot: Eiffel Tower
In Soon it would be too hot, anthropogenic climate change is made manifest as iconic towers from around the world succumb to relentless man-made heat.
Here the Eiffel Tower melts at high speed.
Tracey Clement: Soon it would be too hot
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
23 January – 21 February 2021
PhD show: Mapping The Drowned World
Tracey Clement, ‘Mapping The Drowned World’ installed at SCA, 21-23 September 2017.
All three bodies of work which I made for my PhD (Post-Premonitionism 2, Metropolis Experiment, and my Drowned World Maps) came together in my show Mapping The Drowned World, for 3 days only. Both the sculptures and the maps were made in response to JG Ballard’s 1962 novel, The Drowned World. You can watch me de-install the show in the video below.
Watch Tracey Clement de-install ‘Mapping The Drowned World.’ 3.5 years work, 6 day install, 7 hour de-install: compressed into 1.5 minutes!
Tracey Clement, ‘Mapping The Drowned World’ installed at SCA, 21-23 September 2017.
Tracey Clement, ‘Mapping The Drowned World’ installed at SCA, 21-23 September 2017.
Drowned World: Loximuthal Projection
Tracey Clement, ‘Drowned World: Loximuthal Projection,’ 2017, pencil and rust on paper, 800 x 1210.
This the fifth (and final) map I’ve made as part of my Mapping The Drowned World project, inspired by JG Ballard’s novel The Drowned World.
You can find all of my Drowned World maps here.
In this map the conventional view of the planet is inverted. After all, there is no right way up in space.
18.3 hours of drawing, January – September 2017.
Watch Tracey Clement creating Drowned World Loximuthal Projection here.
Drowned World: Buckminster Fuller Projection
This the fourth map I’ve made as part of my Mapping The Drowned World project, inspired by JG Ballard’s novel The Drowned World.
Maps are always staking a claim or making a point. Far from being an endeavour of pure science, they are political and cultural tools. They frequently represent power and the domination of both people and places.
Maps are artefacts deeply embedded in the cultures that make them and the conditions of their time. And my Drowned World maps are no exception.
In my Drowned World series of drawings I transpose a predicted ocean level rise of 70 meters on to maps of the world. These artworks picture planetary geography re-shaped in a way that echoes Ballard’s science fictional vision of The Drowned World, but they are also grounded in the real.
This map took approx 25 hours of drawing, August – December 2016
The time-consuming nature of these works is a deliberate strategy which points to our complicity in creating our current climate crisis.
This catastrophe did not just happen: it took centuries of dedicated labour, ruthless exploitation of the natural environment, manic consumerism, and blatant disregard for the consequences of our actions to reach this moment in time.
The Buckminster Fuller projection was created in 1943.
WATCH Tracey Clement create Drowned World: Buckminster Fuller Projection.
Drowned World: Eckert Projection
WATCH Tracey Clement create Drowned World: Eckert Projection.
See my Drowned World maps in the group show Future Stratigraphy, 6-29 October 2016, at SCA Galleries, Sydney.
The Eckert projection was created in 1906. My map took approx 21 hours of drawing, February – June 2016
This the third map I’ve made as part of my Mapping The Drowned World project, inspired by JG Ballard’s novel The Drowned World.
Drowned World: Bonne Projection
WATCH Tracey Clement create Drowned World: Bonne Projection. 30 hours of drawing compressed into 2 minutes.
This map is part of my broader PhD project, Mapping The Drowned World. It is the second map I’ve completed.
Post-Premonitionism 2: work in progress videos
Post-Premonitionism 2 is part of my broader Mapping The Drowned World project in which I respond to the vivid prognostications in JG Ballard’s novel, The Drowned World.
READ the catalogue for Mapping The Drowned World, the group exhibition I coordinated for SCA Galleries, 8-31 October 2015.
Each of the salt cones in Post-Premonitionism 2 takes about 3 months to construct from start to finish.
Tracey Clement, ‘Post-Premonitionism 2,’ work in progress, 18 Feb 2015.
The first step is to make a cone from a flat sheet of fabric.
Tracey Clement, ‘Post-Premonitionism 2,’ work in progress, 18 July – 27 Sept 2015.
The cones are then strung up, the steel structures are stitched in and the whole thing is soaked with super-saturated salt solution.
This timelapse was shot without a tripod so things move around wildly. This version is all about the buckets!
Tracey Clement, ‘Post-Premonitionism 2,’ work in progress, 18 July – 27 Sept 2015.
This version is slightly steadier and concentrates on watching the rust develop.
Tracey Clement, ‘Post-Premonitionism 2,’ 2015, salt, rusty steel, cotton, dimensions variable, 36 units, height 80-190cm ea. Courtesy: the artist. Installed over 2 days, 3-4 October 2015.
125+ kilograms of salt crystals were added to the sculpture in this installation.
Click HERE for more info and more work in progress stills.
READ the catalogue for Mapping The Drowned World, the group exhibition I coordinated for SCA Galleries, 8-31 October 2015.
Drowned World: Petermann Star Projection
This map is part of my broader PhD project called Mapping The Drowned World, which has included a group exhibition of the same name and a sculptural installation, Post-Premonitionism 2.
Post-Premonitionism 2 installation video
Tracey Clement, ‘Post-Premonitionism 2,’ 2015, salt, rusty steel, cotton, dimensions variable, 36 units, height 80-190cm ea. Courtesy: the artist. Installed over 2 days, 3-4 October 2015.
WATCH Tracey Clement install her work, Post Premonitionism 2 for Mapping The Drowned World.
Plastic City Videos
Plastic City was constructed in the gallery over 7 days.
Watch the whole project from beginning to end in these time-lapse videos.
1+1=1 Videos
The praxinoscope is a 19th century animation device, similar to the better known zoetrope.
I made 3 praxinoscopes to animate drawings my father did for me when I was a child.
They were part of my solo show 1+1=1.
Tracey Clement: artist and writer 