David Chesworth and Sonia Leber

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+PLUS FACTORS

Justene Williams, Victoria Lawson, Space Pork Adventures, Shaun Gladwell, Chris Bennie, David Chesworth and Sonia Leber, Temp-Team, Inverted Topology Commissioning Curator: Juliana EngbergCoordinating Curator: Anna MacDonaldPublication...
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Regional Touring Initiative: Almost Always Everywhere Apparent to Mildura Arts Centre

To extend upon its commitment to sending major contemporary art to the regional centres, and with support from the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, ACCA commenced its Victorian Regional Touring project with the restaging of David Chesworth and Sonia Leber’s Almost Always...
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Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Almost Always Everywhere Apparent

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Almost Always Everywhere Apparent was the third Helen Macpherson Smith Commission.Commissioning Curator: Juliana EngbergPublication...
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Things that Go Bump In the Night

Melbourne artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth have recorded hundreds of intimate vocalisations between people and their animals for a new sound-work that will emanate from the City Square from 21 July.Part of a series of new works curated by ACCA for the City Square, Leber...
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2008

In 2008 ACCA initiated its Victorian Regional Touring program, sending major contemporary art to a number of regional centres. This was inaugurated with the restaging of David Chesworth and Sonia Leber’s Almost Always Everywhere Apparent at the Mildura Arts...
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Rewind: Contemporary art at home in the regions

...at ACCA, to all corners of the state. Through its partnership with the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, ACCA commissioned several ambitious and exciting new projects from artists, including Callum Morton, Rosslyn Piggott, Daniel von Sturmer, David Chesworth and Sonia Leber, which were exhibited in galleries...
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Out and About: ACCA At Large

Plus Factors 13 March – 7 May 2006 Artists: Tony Schwensen, Justene Williams, Victoria Lawson, Space Pork Adventures, Shaun Gladwell, Chris Bennie, David Chesworth and Sonia Leber, Temp-Team, Inverted Topology ACCA...
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Sound walk: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth

Join artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth on a guided sound walk starting from the ACCA environs, culminating in a discussion of the experience of sound in public spaces, and sound in art. Sound is an elusive yet integral component of many time-based, new-media artworks. As artists...
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Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

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Who’s Afraid of Public Space? is a multifaceted project of exhibitions and programs exploring the role of public culture, the contested nature of public space, and the character and composition of public life. The exhibition continues ACCA’s Big Picture series, which explores contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural […]

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Announcing ACCA’s Summer Season – Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

Briggs and Sarah Lynn Rees, Jon Campbell, Michael Candy, Simona Castricum, David Chesworth and Sonia Leber, Boris Cipusev, Greg Cooper, Nicola Cortese / Lauren Crockett / Stephanie Pahnis, Ross Coulter...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Always Everywhere Apparent and A Kind of You: 6 Portraits by Roni Horn. Talk - Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, artists 26 August 2007 Held in conjunction...
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Things that go bump in the night

Things that go bump in the night21 July - 7 August 2011Two new public projects by Laresa Kosloff and Leber and Chesworth for the City SquareMelbourne artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth have...
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Venice Revisited: 56th Venice Biennale In Conversation

Join artists Marco Fusinato; and Sonia Leber and David Chesworth as they discuss their experience of exhibiting at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and reflect on Okwui Enwezor's central international exhibition, All the World's Futures. Hosted by Dan Rule...
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Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Almost Always Everywhere Apparent

This catalogue documents the third Helen Macpherson Smith commission at ACCA and includes an introduction by Juliana Engberg and essay by Nikos Papastergiadis
Full colour production, 48 pages

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Sonia Leber & David Chesworth: Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue

This catalogue documents the third Helen Macpherson Smith commission at ACCA and includes an introduction by Juliana Engberg and essay by Nikos Papastergiadis
Full colour production, 48 pages

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Defining Moments: Clifton Hill Community Music Centre

Lecture by David Chesworth; Respondent: Kelly Fliedner  The Clifton Hill Community Music Centre (CHCMC) was a lively place from 1976 to 1984, where artists from two distinct generations created, performed, debated and occasionally shirt-fronted each other. In the dilapidated...
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Rewind: Out and About: ACCA At Large, Part 2

Others may wonder if heaven is the place they were told it would be”. Things that Go Bump In the Night: Laresa Kosloff, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth...
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Rewind: The Voice

...installation from Australian composer David Chesworth and artist Sonia Leber, which eventuated in a howling, demonic, uncanny subterranean situation in the public toilets located on Gordon Reserve, Melbourne.  The Gordon Assumption, as it was titled, featured a recorded chorus...
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Education Space: Creating Art in Public

...public artists. Artists: Atong Atem, Ross Coulter,  Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Eugenia Lim, John Meade, Clement...
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Rewind: Ambitious Thinking: the Helen Macpherson Smith Commissions at ACCA

...with objects and videos. Sonia Leber and David Chesworth returned to the idea of inserting one architecture into another with a Panopticon structure, which opened up to a soundscape elevating the upper strata of the gallery with heavenly voices. David Noonan softened the acoustics and evoked a 1960s...
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What is Public Art?

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, We, The Masters, 2011. Vinyl, 2 channel audio, up to 14 speakers, digital player...