Mike
Hunnewell Paul Trinidad
FALVA - University of Western Australia
Mum
Tah-Bun condition
still negotiating
|Project
Brief|
Introduction:
Michael Hunnewell came to
Australia to undertake this project on short notice, as a
window of opportunity opened for an exhibition at the Cullity
Gallery, a brief residency with Printmakers Association of
WA (PAWA) and the Faculty (FALVA).
Michael, a practicing artist
and Assistant Professor with the Miami Dade College, has been
a virtual Artist in Residence and involved with the Visual
Arts program here at the Faculty for four years. He has been
involved with student exchanges, and has facilitated the exhibition
of works from UWA in Miami. This has included collaborations
with students, professors and staff from the Faculty as well
as Western Australian Artists such as, Bevan Honey, Jon Tarry,
Peter Hancock, Bob Sommerville, Hans Arkeveld and others.
During his residency Hunnewell
worked with students throughout the entire studio program,
including the honours students. He guest lectured with the
Drawing Program and assisted in producing three experimental
films for use in teaching.
His work in supporting international
links between UWA and the USA are greatly appreciated.
Note: This Electronic publication
is not complete as the collaboration and documentation continues.
Paul Trinidad
Lecturer
FALVA
From: Professor Alberto Mezo
MDC Miami Florida
To: "Michael Hunnewell" <mhunnewell@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Mum Tah-Bun
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:34:41 -0400
>Mike and Paul,
>
>The work looks awesome! I think the language of Love permeates
and informs Paul's imagery, descriptive and evocative but
nonetheless powerful. Your work, mike, which I am more familiar
with, is still a serious search for process, for ideas that
are struggling to becoming "the nothing that really is",
a true poetic form without the overbearing and distracting
influence of words.
>
>Thanks for sharing it with me! I am envious of the work
you two have accomplished in so little time. It really looks
that the chemistry between two artists can really work to
the benefit of all of us who area merely viewers, occular
witness of an artistic vision at work.
>
>Keep up the good work!
>
>More later,
>
>Meso
Hunnewell
Concepts:
Michael Hunnewell (Protégé of a society of
political refuge)
Born: May 27, 1967, Miami Florida (90 miles from the site
of the Cuban Missile Crisis at the Bay of Pigs)
MFA- Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond Virginia,
the capital of the Confederate Army of the United States of
America)
selected exhibitions :
2006 “mum tah-bun”, Cullity Gallery
University of Western Australia
“Random Rhythm”, Art in City Hall
Hollywood, Florida
“TEXTURES: No choice”, 621 Gallery
Tallahassee, Florida
video performance in collaboration with Paul Trinidad:
2006 “Fire Ritual”, Byford, Western Australia
2005 “Run Boy Run”, Clinton, Iowa
“Chasin Trains”, Chicago, Illinois
In Progress:
My work deals with my environment and the interaction with
specific situations within my reality. Scrounging and acquiring
Raw materials left behind as waste from urban developers I
make objects that relate to our sophisticated societies. I
have
developed my own language through the use of these materials
and see my art practice as a Process of Ritual.
The process allows unconscious thoughts to enter into
consciousness while at the same time physically capturing
the thought onto a tangible surface. The imagery is a dialogue
between the known and the un-known authenticities
thrust upon our sophisticated societies. This interaction
begins to inform the circle of the un-known.
Dingo Lingo
Trinidad
Concepts:
no longer rumour:
Twelve years ago, I felt embattled as a maker of figurative,
masculine art. Post Structuralist and Feminist discourses
of the day tended toward realizations I did not pronounce.
Since then, I can say, the self-inflicted dyslexia’s
and homophobia’s are simply fragments of ill conceived
dreams, which as well as the self consciousness of the other
condition, are not worth revisiting. That condition of subjectivity
in research and making as a process where artists inadvertently,
inescapably, or otherwise, delight themselves with discords
of psychotic disregard to the traditional scenario of the
researcher and the researched are now wonderful diestrus as
well.
After ten years of painting landscapes with mud and excrement
gathered from Eutrophied wetlands, dirt from drill holes in
the desert, and permissioned stones from sacred country, I
have for the past two years been relishing the sensory overload
of capricious performance art, experimental film making and
synthetic colour in a sometimes obviously, incomprehensible
discourse.
Men, masculine humour, male bonding, love, being lonely,
depressed, tooling around women’s and other men’s
business I perhaps should not be minding!
Paul Trinidad///Lecturer FALVA, UWA///Recent
Tours; God bless America USA 2003, AH Tour USA 2005///Exhibitions:
Transient, Fremantle Arts Centre 2004///CBDS, Miami Dade College2005///Hal
Missingham 2005///Mum Tah-Bun Condition, UWA, 2006///Performances
with Hunnewell: Run Boy Run, Clinton Iowa, USA 2005/// Chasin
Trains, Chicago, Illonois USA 2005///Fire Ritual, Studio Byford,
2006///
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