‘VERGE AWARDS/SOS SCA’
11 OCTOBER – 22 OCTOBER, 2016
Michael Sun, Spectures, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: A shot of three analog photographs hung on the wall of the gallery. Dates on the photographs indicate that the images were taken on the 14th of January 1994. The photographs show a window with sheer curtains that look onto a cityscape with tall office buildings. In the middle image, there is a man in a white shirt and tie sitting behind the curtains, obscuring his face from view. The image on the right is another younger person sitting behind the curtains, looking to the left side of the image.
STUDENT ARTISTS
Shortlisted artworks by :: Anna Shen, Safari Lee, Jack Godfrey-Baxter, Xan Hardman, Jacques Chevrant-Breton, Mariia Zhuchenko, Jiamei Liu, Michael Sun, Janine Bailey, Andrew Simms, Stephen Burstow
Shortlisted musical compositions by :: Anna Shen, Sarah Gaul, Alexis Weaver
Shortlisted literature by :: Jess Zlotnick, Tom St John, Edward Furst, Samantha Jonsher, James Holloway, Michael Sun, Katrina Kemp, Jeremy Blum, Izabella Antoniou, Daniel Gunstveit, Sophie Wakefield, Alcina Giang, Shaun Colnan, Nicola Cayless, William Poulos
SOS SCA, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: The gallery has numerous large red and white banners hanging on the walls. On the right, a sign saying "BVA STAYS" hangs on the wall, above some smaller cardboard signs with various slogans such as "No Move, No Cuts", and "Let SCA Stay" lean against the wall. On the center wall, a large banner with the letters "SOS" is suspended, with a drum placed on the floor beneath it. The drum shows clear sign of use, with a small sticker that says "#SOS SCA" stuck to it. On the right wall, a political poster which states "The University of Sydney is killing its art school" and a cardboard stencil with numerous cutouts of the letter S that have been sprayed with paint are hung on the wall. A plinth with a clipboard and more "#SOS SCA" stickers can be seen in the right corner of the image.
SOS SCA, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: On the wall of the gallery, there are numerous photographs attached, showing students and teachers engaging in protest at the University of Sydney.
SOS SCA, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: On the wall of the gallery, there are numerous photographs attached, showing students and teachers engaging in protest at the University of Sydney. Two larger photographs show a person waving a banner on the University campus, which wrote "Save Sydney College of the Arts", and another image of the former SCA campus with banners and political slogans hanging on the building.
SOS SCA, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID:On the wall of the gallery, there are numerous photographs attached, showing students and teachers engaging in protest at the University of Sydney. To the left, there are pages attached to the wall, showing a list of alumni of Sydney College of the Arts from 1976-2016. Underneath the list, a framed poster leans against the wall, stating "Students with disabilities need SCA: support, studios, quiet location, accessible, parking, staff who care, safe, green spaces, not crowded." To the left of the image, there is clipboard and some stickers placed on a plinth.