As part of the Melbourne Festival Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota has brought 3 of her massive structures here to Melbourne and went along to the city to have a look. It was the closing day so there were not a lot of people about, but a continuous trickle was wandering in from Swanston Street.
Walking into a stark and mainly empty Melbourne Town Hall main room I see Chiharu Shiota’s woolen webbed, steel framed, sculptural labyrinth (First House, 2014) standing bright and mysterious in the middle of the room.
The bright red string, 3-dimensional weave of perfect density through the structure, seems to create an organic portal between the interior and exterior of the sculpture giving it portraying a connectivity between ourselves and the physical world.
Supporting the theme of the home within whilst I was present a Japanese Tea ceremony was being enjoyed by a group following the proceedings well as World Music a range of amazingly complex instrumentalists from all over the globe continuously rotating on stage.
Line-up was:-
1.30PM Neil Morris and Brent Watins
2PM Brandon Lee and Yumi Umiumare
2.30PM Mindy Meng Wang
3PM Brandon Lee and Yumi Umiumare
3.30PM Mindy Meng Wang
4PM Vindo Prasanna and Aman Kalyan
4.30PM Amadou Suso
5PM DFX Barbershop
5.30PM Simon Mavin, Amadou Suso and Vindo Prasanna
