On show from 26 June - 18 July 2025, 'Open Systems' marks the the first iteration of an ongoing collaborative sculptural project by Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry.
Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry
26 June - 18 July 2025
Opening Celebration Thursday 26 June, 5-7pm
Open Systems marks the the first iteration of an ongoing collaborative sculptural project by Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry.
As a self-replicating sound/light-structure, the work acoustically mimics the ambient by-products of its techno industrial surround, while materially adopting the residual aesthetics of global infrastructure and institutional form.
Hovering between every-thingness - the omnipresent auditory drone of late-modern life - and nothingness - the objects prosaic refusal of utility - it channels the soft coercions of built space through the banal, localised fragments specific to its emplacement.
Its logic is respiratory: it builds through fragmentation, inhales environment, exhales form. Somewhere in the oscillation between interior and exterior - between intake and output - a subject emerges: a subtle persistent tonality of harmonised/formal distortion.
Adam Gottlieb and Oliver Henry are second year Masters students at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.