Illimine Moreart 2018 Detailed Concept

A Narrow Road to the Deep North
MoreArt 2018
ILLIMINE Collective
A Narrow Road to the Deep North is a durational performance in which two artists will take
turns writing on the white line that divides the Upfield Bike Path. They will begin from the
southern border of Moreland (Park St) and continue until they reach Fairfield cemetery. The
writing is conceived as a performative act that unites the north and the south of Moreland,
stitching together two areas usually divided by the symbolic border of Bell Street.
This aim will be addressed at different levels (in this sense the project is scalable):
1. The artists’ solitary performance
A Narrow Road to the Deep North is the title of a travel book by the Japanese poet Matsuo
Basho (1644-1694). Basho’s narrative gives an account of his travels deep into the remote
north eastern region of Japan; the changing seasons, the beauty and simplicity of nature and
the mysteries of the universe. Basho’s travels aim to strip away the trappings of the material
world through Zen Buddhist poetic practice.
The artists will embark, like Basho, on a journey of discovery of the surrounding landscape
and share their experiences through the writing. The title is a playful pun on stereotypes
about the North of Bell Street as a remote, suburban land; while positing it as an open
destination, a place of new encounters and discoveries, a place to be narrated, a site to be
explored and a site for self-exploration.
The ‘epic’ aspect of the 20km durational writing will be the first point of interest and curiosity
for the audience: an easy entry point from which the themes of engagement with place and
peoples can be explored.
2. The written work
The writing will be readable by the audience in two different ways:
- Live on the path: the audience will be able to read day by day the unfolding story,
thus participating in the journey both through the narrative and physically, as the
readers will literally replicate the journey they are reading.
- On a dedicated website: an artist-photographer (Tania Jovanovic,
http://www.taniajovanovic.com.au/) will document the unfolding story through
panoramic images that will be stitched together and posted on the website, for
audience to scroll and read.
The final artwork will be a narrative, but also a long, ongoing, ‘abstract’ line: an intervention
that links the North and the South of Moreland both symbolically and literally.
3. Specific engagement activities
Specific events or activities can be organised to actively attract an audience at different
stages of the project and in different locations, thus indirectly providing further possibilities of
engagement, encounter and dialogue.
- Writing as a link to other events: the performance could be timed to reach sites
dedicated to other artist projects or performances, thus providing a thread that links
the MoreArt 2018 activities throughout.
- Specific evening performances and projections: live or recorded documentation of the
artists’ work could be projected on the walls surrounding the path in dedicated
locations.
- Invitation of other writers/artists: a series of writers/artists could be invited to write a
particular section of the path, or provide texts to be written. The dedicated website
could host texts by other writers.
- Convivial activities: the reaching of symbolic locations (e.g. Moreland Road, Bell
Street, train stations, etc) could be the occasion for celebrations to be shared with the
local communities.
4. On-line presence
Beside the dedicated website, a specific social media presence will be designed to draw
attention to the performance and its durational and epic aspects, following the progress and
marking milestones, thus drawing the audience towards active participation.
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Curriculum Vitae
Illimine is an international collective of multimedia artists, performers and academics, founded
in 2013. Our aim is the practice of a transdisciplinary dialogue around gesture, duration,
expanded poetry, narrative, and site-specific art.
Illimine is fluid and works as a concertina with smaller or larger clusters of artists, academics
and practitioners forming around particular themes. Our way of working is entirely non-
hierarchical, with ownership of intellectual and artistic property shared between all
contributors to the process of thinking/doing. Performers and project managers, directors of
photography and babysitters, chefs and cooks, in their ever-changing roles, share the same
importance. This on-going, daily practice is our ‘Art’ and the temporary results of this practice
constitute our various performances, installations, public actions and objects.
Members of Illimine involved in this project:
Malcolm Angelucci
Malcolm is an artist and Lecturer at The University of Melbourne. Since 2001, he works on
language, style, narrative and genre, with specific interest in 20th century poetics. From 2009
to 2015 he worked as Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, where, in the
context of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation, he worked on Voice Studies and the nexus
between voice, subjectivity, poetry ant technology. This led to a series of academic
publications, organisation of conferences, keynote addresses and to the work with Illimine, of
which he is a founding member.
Majella Thomas
Majella Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist, with particular interest in the nexus between
performance and multi-modality. Since 2013, Majella worked on the development of Illimine,
and has been part of all its major projects.
Majella completed post-graduate studies in Literature in 2007. Her academic interests are
around voice and writing, and the ways in which these relations have been theorised
throughout history and in contemporary theory. This translates into further work on durational
art and its potentialities.
Illimine – Exhibited Works

Confirmed for 2018
Portrait #3 – durational multimedia writing performance/installation and artist residence,
MACRO (Rome, Italy) http://www.museomacro.org (December 2018)
Odyssey #2 – performance writing and installation, Immigration Museum Melbourne (August
2018). As part of Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
2018
Collected Odysseys – exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, (Melbourne Australia)
2017
Odyssey #1 – participatory performance (two days), Face to Face Contemporary Art Festival,
7th Edition (Montefiascone, Italy)
Performance Arcade International Festival, Wellington, NZ – durational performance Portrait
#2
Museo Diffuso di Formello (Rome, Italy) – acquisition in permanent collection
2016
Museo Diffuso di Formello, Sala Orsini (Rome, Italy) – Performance A Crying Game
2
Museo Diffuso di Formello (Rome, Italy) – Scarabocchi, exhibition with Valeria Montanino
Torre dei Lambardi, Magione (PG, Italy) – La Luna al Popolo, collective exhibition
2015
Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (PG, Italy) – Contemplazioni/Contemplations, solo
exhibition
Exploit, Milan (Italy) – collective exhibition
2014
MAAM, Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove, Rome (Italy) – Performance at festival
2013
University of Technology Sydney – Voice/Presence/Absence, Curators of international
conference
2011
University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia) – Performance
2010
Open Fields, Sydney (Australia) – Performance in collective exhibition
2007
Digital Fringe, Melbourne (Australia) – public installation
Illimine - Publications (excluding academic work):

Forthcoming
Book Chapter: ‘Towards an articulation of gesture as durational performance writing, in
Collected Odysseys, Bordeaux Edizioni, Rome (Mid 2018)
2017
Major creative work (poetry): Brennerei, Le Loup des Steppes, Paris.
2015
‘Arte, pratica, politica’, book chapter in EXPLOIT: come rovesciare il mondo ad arte, Giorgio
de Finis, ed., Rome, Bordeaux Edizioni (http://www.bordeauxedizioni.it/).
2014
Ritratto #0/Portrait #0 , Nuova Prhomos Edizioni, Città di Castello. Portrait #0 is a book of
poetic prose, based on a diary by Malcolm Angelucci.
Voice/Presence/Absence, Malcolm Angelucci and Chris Caines, eds., Sydney, UTS ePress.
A multimedia ebook from the V/P/A international conference.
Selected catalogues and reviews:

MAAM, Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove, Giorgio de Finis, ed., Rome, Bordeaux Edizioni, 2017
La Luna al Popolo, Catalogue of the collective exhibition in Magione (PG, Italy), 2016
Forza tutt*, Giorgio de Finis, ed., Rome, Bordeaux Edizioni, 2015
In SteroType, May 2015
InsideArt, August 2016

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