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JOE'S "NOT NOTHING" WORKOUT TEE: A TRIBUTE TO MORAL SUPPORT

2024

Hand printed with Power Flower straight through the chest on both sides of the heart and triple World Famous Artists stripes featuring hidden 'Not Nothing' slogan on unique garment dyed heavy weight cotton tee in one of a kind Workout grey. 

One size L

Limited Edition of 6

$85

play something else cowboy

book by bruna volpi with jake terrey

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JUST MARRIED

Artist Statement: Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier - A Wedding as Art, Performance, and Resistance

Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier's wedding was not just a personal celebration, but an intentional artistic performance that confronts the spectacle of life. By approaching it as an alternate form of making art, their aim was to create an authentic experience, rooted in the criticality of care, love, and friendship. They strove to reverse the spectacle’s disintegration into all aspects of their practice, to reclaim agency, and push the boundaries of what art can be. It is a statement embodying the fusion of art and life, labor and leisure, and challenging the dominant cultural narratives of our time.

Photo: Jake Terrey

april 2023

VAEF

Eddie Abd, Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen, Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier, Emily Parsons-Lord, and Genevieve Felix Reynolds.

OPENING NIGHT Wednesday 24th August 2022, 6 - 8pm. National Art School Gallery

Presented in partnership with NAS and exhibited at the NAS Gallery in Darlinghurst. NAS Gallery Coordinator, Scott Elliot, will be joining Artspace’s Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch to develop the Fellowship exhibition. 

NSW VAEF has evolved over the past 100 years into a key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW. Valued at $30,000, the Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW to enable a visual artist early in their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development.

Each year, Create NSW convenes a judging panel of esteemed colleagues to determine the finalists, providing insight and passion to assess the highly competitive round of proposals.

union magazine #2

interview with Sophie lanigan

https://unionmagazine.com/fly-a-kite-have-a-picnic/

RECENT

JOE WILSON & CHANELLE COLLIER
EVERYTHING IS OK :)

13 MAY – 10 JUNE 2022

Exhibition launch: Thursday 19 May, 6-8pm

Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are a collaborative love team based in Sydney. They have a generative practice developing ideas and dialogue to work alongside gallery and institutional programs. They use image, object, and sound mediums influenced by peer contemporaries, International Situationists, and critical media theory.
 
Their gallery exhibition Everything is ok :) establishes languages of resistance built around demonstrations of play and dialogue. An expression of agency is made through sound, material, actions and words. 
 
Featuring their Summer 68 artwork series of iconic tent material, from pioneer Andre Jamet’s French brand; it draws from historic French political protests and detourned content. From this, Wilson and Collier use situationist play as a position that can be active and have the potential to divest from the labour of art work. This exhibition brings together infra-distances and the artists two voices to speak to the institution with criticality through care.

Verge Gallery
City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza
University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW, 2006

Open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm
Thursday 10am-7pm
(From 16 May, Verge will be open Monday-Friday 10-5pm, Thursday 10am-7pm)
P: 02 9563 6218
verge-gallery.net

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PLAY SOMETHING ELSE COWBOY is a program that interconnects professional dialogue, personal narrative and recreational past times via a cowboy themed cocktail bar. 

Play Something Else Cowboy is a site for participation, where the bar acts as a locus object, a meeting place. Conversation and cocktails facilitate a generative dialogue between peers, hosting 2 guests every Friday night at 6pm. 

The work engages notions of sonic agency and social practice as forms of resistance and exchange. 

Accompanying Play Something Else Cowboy, is an ongoing series of cocktail glasses engraved with unattributed quotes from guests that reflect the quantity and diversity of engagement.

(Right) Documentation photo by Robin Hearfield

(Below) Cocktail photos by Jake Terrey

AVAILABLE WORK

The very best of [Sydney 2021]

A limited release of eight new The Very Best Of painted record covers are now available.

38 x 38cm, acrylic on found record covers framed under glass.

this is not a love song [sound archive]

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Project

This Is Not A Love Song [Sound Archive] is an ambitious, ongoing project to create a comprehensive sound archive of field recordings from major museums worldwide. The Archive captures the ambient soundscapes of exhibition spaces, from echoing galleries to bustling foyers. It has been contributed to by an international network of artists, museum staff and institutions; aiming to collect a recording from every possible nation, building towards a collection representing 200 museums across 200 countries.

Concept

This Is Not A Love Song invites participants to explore the relationship between individuals and institutions through sound. It creates a space for critical reflection on field recordings and museums by immersing listeners in a unique soundscape experience. The project fosters collaboration through email and phone communication, generating an ongoing dialogue between artists, audiences, arts workers, and institutions. This focus on deep listening and quiet actions fosters a critical discourse centered around care.

Left: This Is Not A Love Song, 2019. Poster Print Edition. 60 x 90cm.

2019 - ONGOING

CV

Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are an artist love team based in Sydney. They share a conceptual practice and make artwork using textiles and sound. In galleries and institutions their exhibitions explore strategies of criticality and care. Kite flying , cocktail partys and picnics, are as much a part of their practice as any traditional art form. This is a tactic of alternate exhibitioning and relational exchange. They place a high value on peer to peer engagement, prioritising agency and reciprocity amongst artists. They create audio-visual worlds for intimate experiences, wielding personal emotions of love and friendship, sincerity, and grief.

Joe and Chanelle are influenced by the International Situationist movement 1960’s and contemporary media theory, evidenced through the use of vintage materials and combinations of found text and imagery. With a methodology of resistance, play, and gift giving, they are interested in the role of art in social change; and how artists are implicated within institutional power.

Recent collaborative projects include This Is Not A Love Song, an archive of field recordings of museum spaces; Play Something Else Cowboy, a cocktail bar project which imparts agency through direct conversation; and Summer of 68, which researches the language of resistance with textiles.

Wilson and Collier have collaborated since 2015 each is supported by a Higher Ground Studios Residency; Winners, Viewer’s Choice Award, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, 2018. Grants, Residencies, and Fellowships including: Cité Internationale des Arts, France, 2018, returning in 2019; NAVA Create NSW Artist Grant, 2018; Create NSW Artist Grant, 2021; Create NSW Covid Development and Project Grants in 2022; The Renshaws inaugural Artist Residency 2022 and Finalists in the Artspace Emerging Visual Arts Fellowship 2022; Residency & Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, USA, 2022; Artists in Residence, Bundanon Trust, 2022 and 2023. Commissioned collaboration, Phoenix Central Park, 2021.

Wilson and Collier have been published or featured in Artist Profile #55; UNION Magazine #2; M17: The Big Circle catalogue; Catseye Bay design techniques (2020 dissertation); Resonance Extra (UK); EastSide 89.7 Arts Monday.