Cairns Festival will kick off its 2012 season with a
multi-dimensional program spanning music, art, dance, culture, comedy and
entertainment in a free and ticketed program that rolls out from Friday 17
August until Sunday, 2 September
One of the highlights of the Cairns Festival 2012 is the Jonathan
Brilliant Resident Artist Installation at the Cairns Botanic Gardens Visitor
Centre.
Visitors to Cairns
will have a unique opportunity to witness, watch and learn about the
construction and subsequent demolition of the installation artwork at the
Cairns Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre. This installation will be on display
from Monday, 13 August – Thursday 23 August and the Exhibition on display from
Friday, 24 August – Sunday, 2 September, 2012.
Jonathan Brilliant. a Cairns Festival Artist In Residence, is
an artist based in North Carolina.
Jonathan will be creating an organic site specific installation in the new
Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre by weaving thousands of wooden coffee stir
sticks in place using only tension and compression – this is will be Cairns’
own piece, aptly entitled, “The Cairns Piece”.
Jonathan began his Goldsworthy of the coffee shop project in
2006, gathering materials in his natural environment and using them to execute site-specific
installations. In Brilliant’s version, the natural environment is the coffee
shop; his materials, the take-away coffee cup and all its accoutrements. “In
this ongoing series of work, I explore my sense that the coffee shop and
related consumer environs are more organic and nurturing than the ‘real’
natural environment,” Brilliant said.
Watch The Artist: 13 – 22 August
Workshop: $10 - Saturday 18 August 9:30am
Workshop: $10 - Saturday 18 August 9:30am
Launch: Wednesday 22 August 6:30pm – All Welcome
Demolition: Sunday 2 September 2pm
Venue: Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Cost: Free
Open: 9am – 4.30pm Weekdays + 10am – 2.30pm Weekends
Info: www.jonathanbrilliant.com | www.tanksartscentre.com
Demolition: Sunday 2 September 2pm
Venue: Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Cost: Free
Open: 9am – 4.30pm Weekdays + 10am – 2.30pm Weekends
Info: www.jonathanbrilliant.com | www.tanksartscentre.com
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