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Model Court

Model Court is an ongoing curatorial/research project involving the artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees. It uses the structure and technologies of the courtroom to interrogate the signifying and controlling role architecture plays in contemporary art and society.

This opening will present the results of their research during their residency at Ptarmigan.  The exhibition (opening through 22 April) will explore the intersection of the courtroom and the cinema, the use of technology in jurisprudence and specifically the extraordinary case of the François Bazaramba trial.

Anthea Caddy and Felicity Mangan

Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist based in Berlin, Germany. She has developed her practice through frequent collaborations with dancers, visual artists as well as musicians, utilising digital composition techniques to explore field recordings and sampling from found sound archives. Through the deployment of custom-built amplification, Felicity presents her work in live performance and sound publications, to explore the physical sound qualities of field recording via hand-made speakers and contact speakers made from re-cycled and found objects.

Anthea Caddy (Melbourne, Australia) is a media artist and cellist. Her practice centres on the relationship between recording, spatialisation, and the instrument. Exploring the cello’s textural, spatial and dynamic capabilities, she draws reference points from electro-acoustic music and sound art. Working with digital composition, environmental field recording, and acoustic performance she consolidates the conceptual and practical aspects of these approaches by applying techniques and concepts indigenous to digital spatialisation to her performances and recordings. She has performed previously at Ptarmigan with Thembi Soddell.