89964 seconds [paces] of drawing [walking] 2014

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Carey was selected as one of fourteen emerging Australian artists to present work at the SafARI exhibition curated by Liz Nowell and Christiane Keys-Statham. SafARI is part of the prominent Biennale of Sydney; it was created to enable international audiences to experience Sydney's alternative venues, and since then has become an important satellite event of the Biennale. Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west, is home to the Summer Hill Flour Mill. Built in 1922, it is to become a residential and commercial precinct. Redevelopment starts in 2015. Before this happened, the curators of SafARI 2014 took the opportunity to commemorate the abandoned building and its past with site- specific artistic responses. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: For SafARI 2014, I undertook a two-week residency at the Summer Hill Flour Mill. I made excursions into the larger complex, responding to various spaces in a diverse variety of media. One of the most important parts of the work is the process itself, the time spent uncovering aspects and details of the site and considering how to represent or translate them. The outcomes produced, shown in a gallery space, provided a glimpse of time spent in physical homage to the building and its history, a remembrance of things past. Incorporated into these works are the actual physical, performative processes of their making, with the number of steps I climbed daily to the top of the building resulting in an 'endurance drawing'. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This project was commissioned by the curators of SafARI 2014, a satellite event of the Sydney Biennale, Australia's biggest contemporary visual arts event. Other funding partners included: the Australia Council for the Arts; City of Sydney; and Arts NSW. The project was published in a catalogue (attached) and on many websites. Jo Higgins, 'SafARI14' ArtLink, vol 34, no 2, June 2014, described Carey's work as 'memorable', especially his 'large, obsessively rhythmic pencil drawings'.研究背景：凯里获选为十四位澳大利亚新兴艺术家之一，将参展由莉兹·诺威尔（Liz Nowell）与克里斯蒂安娜·基斯-斯特瑟姆（Christiane Keys-Statham）策划的SafARI展览。SafARI是知名悉尼双年展（Biennale of Sydney）的衍生项目，其设立初衷是让国际观众得以领略悉尼的小众艺术场馆，此后便成为该双年展的重要卫星展项。悉尼内西区的萨默希尔（Summer Hill）坐落着萨默希尔面粉厂（Summer Hill Flour Mill），该厂建于1922年，届时将被改造为商住混合街区，改造工程于2015年启动。在改造动工前，2014年SafARI的策展团队借此契机，以特定场域艺术（site-specific art）创作纪念这座废弃建筑及其过往历史。 研究贡献：为参与2014年SafARI展览，我在萨默希尔面粉厂开展了为期两周的驻留创作。我深入整个厂区进行采风，以多元媒介对不同空间进行艺术回应。本次创作最核心的环节之一便是创作过程本身：我耗费大量时间挖掘场地的细节与特质，并思考如何将其具象呈现与转化。最终的展览作品在展厅中展出，它们仿若对这座建筑及其历史的实体致敬，定格了对往昔的追忆。这些作品融入了创作过程中实际发生的实体性、行为性操作，比如我每日攀爬至建筑顶层的步数，最终形成了一件“耐力绘画（endurance drawing）”。 研究意义：本项目由悉尼双年展的卫星展项2014年SafARI的策展团队委托制作，悉尼双年展是澳大利亚规模最大的当代视觉艺术盛会。其他资助方包括：澳大利亚艺术委员会（Australia Council for the Arts）、悉尼市政府（City of Sydney）以及新南威尔士州艺术委员会（Arts NSW）。本项目已收录于展览画册（随附）及众多网络平台。乔·希金斯（Jo Higgins）在《艺术连线》（ArtLink）2014年6月第34卷第2期的《SafARI14》一文中，将凯里的作品评价为“令人难忘”，尤其称赞其“尺寸宏大、充满痴迷韵律感的铅笔素描作品”。