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The Complaints Choir

Exhibition

A Constructed World: Increase your Uncertainty

...to be Great’ are ACW’s mottos for avoiding the ego-conscious trap. During the exhibition a lot of people embraced the concept of increasing their uncertainty, as the title of ACW’s survey encouraged. They sang out loud in the Complaints Choir: a joyous and evidently popular expression of grumbles...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

...while creating an opportunity for reflection about A Constructed World’s evolving body of work: ACW Performance - The Melbourne Complaints Choir 3 June 2007 A choir of singers and non-singers performed a song full of complaints in the first installment from...
ACCA acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work and welcome visitors, along with the neighbouring Boonwurrung, Bunurong, and wider Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their longstanding and continuing care for Country and we recognise First Peoples art and cultural practice has been thriving here for millennia. We extend our respect to ancestors and Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
Glimpse into the archive—

The artist stood before two piles of white paper arranged side by side on a table. As Robert Douglas’s radiophonic tape composition Alpha Solstice began to be heard, Lewis began to scribble on the top sheet of the left-hand pile…

Ruark Lewis: Transcription Drawings 1988-1992 (1992)

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