conduction

Debris Facility recently wrote on Rosie Isaac’s 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘵𝘶𝘣 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, a performance lecture expanding on the story that informs her installation works 𝘛𝘪𝘱 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵 and 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘴, a story of altered plant growth, landfill chemistry and quarrying at the Darebin Parklands and across Naarm (Melbourne). With 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙙, Debris refracts Rosie’s work through its different iterations and mutations. Aggregating notes, memories, and spirals of Rosie’s text to sift through and filter these materials into something else, re-purposed waste a/effects. @debris.facility Read on Offsite via the link in our bio 🔗 This series of works by Rosie Isaac were first presented as part of 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 at West Space, then later at Conduction, an artist run space in Footscray. 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙙 is co-published by @westspace @conduction3011 and @helen_grogan Images: Rosie Isaac delivering 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘵𝘶𝘣 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 by @melonandwater ; installation details of 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘴 and 𝘛𝘪𝘱 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵 at @westspace by @janellelow_

Artist Talk: flip book screen burn Thursday 14th August 6-8pm. 0$/ Free Join us this Thursday evening as we close flip book screen burn and send off Megan Tan as she moves overseas for her MFA the following week.  The exhibition demos experimental use cases for Megan’s personal e-ink device in defiance of the manufacturer’s intention and the technology’s perceived limitations in the consumer market.  Contributing artists Megan Tan and Leon Rice-Whetton will share words on the show along with some resources and lessons learnt for using e-paper displays and modified e-readers in your own projects.  Prints of ‘flip book screen burn’ are available for purchase along with selected books from Megan for donation. Doors 6:00 Artists talk 6:30 Mingling 7:30-8:00 @ergonomic_cheeseboard @tediously.tediously.tediously @conduction3011 Access:  There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Beverages will be available via donation. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email [email protected]

Form Follows Ornament- Clem Edwards In Form Follows Ornament, Clem Edwards will recount how they fell for a beautiful hinge on the threshold of a castle. Since then, they remain in hardware’s thrall. In a long swoon from Conduction, they will riff on ornament as order’s deviant ancestor and on the delights of understanding ornament above form, among other things. Friday 15th August Doors 7pm, talk at 7.30pm Entry via donation Conduction: 251 Barkly Street Footscray “vic” @clementineedwards Access:  There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Beverages will be available via donation. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email [email protected]

flip book screen burn Megan Tan with Leon Rice-Whetton, Craig Neeson and Angelica Chan Opening Thursday 7th August 6-8pm Megan Tan shares a series of artworks in ‘flip book screen burn’ which use e-readers as an experimental and lossy format for images and video. Featuring contributions from Leon Rice-Whetton, Craig Neeson and Angelica Chan In low-fidelity fashion, refreshing image frames, turning pages or scrolling down a window can cause flickering and leave screen burn on subsequent frames. This screen burning is commonly referred to as “ghosting” by device users and developers. In most use cases, e-paper is implemented for recreational reading and writing, remedying the hyperactivity and attention attrition associated with LCD screens by eliminating or neutralising addiction-inducing stimuli.  This program is a technical demo of available e-paper display modules (most of which are produced by E-ink Corporation) and a model for pushing the technology beyond the manufacturer’s intention. Opening Thursday 7th August, 6-8pm. Free, and all welcome. Light refreshments available.  Exhibition concludes Thursday 14th August  Conduction = 251 Barkly Street Footscray @ergonomic_cheeseboard @tediously.tediously.tediously @craigneeson Access:  There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Beverages will be available via donation. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email [email protected]

Wind Throb (Sharing) Saturday 2nd August 5-7pm 0$/ Free/ All welcome. Following our two-part “Wind Throb” instrument building workshop, we will open to the Conduction audience to share some collective sounds and installations of our instruments. Handmade ceramic ocarina, and beeswax flutes will be casually performed and demonstrated. Audiences are also welcome to test out these instruments. Conducted by Benjamin Woods with Emily Zou, Jacqui Gordon, Ria Soermardjo, Vanessa Chapple, Yongping Ren, and more + Some selected ceramic instruments by Benjamin Woods will be for sale during this event via card and cash. Some complimentary tea and snacks provided. @ben.jamin.woods @gordon_jacqui @vanessaochapple @yongpingren @riasoemardjo Conduction is led by Debris Facility Pty Ltd @debris.facility Access: There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Free performance will have some beverages and snacks available. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email [email protected]

Mark It Market Multiples at Conduction is thrilled to showcase the wares of Eilytat @eilytat 

Eilytat is an artist who works with the decorated body through tattooing, drawing textiles and recently expanding into garments. They create one-off pieces using a nuanced overlay of screen-printing, stencils and airbrush directly onto found and constructed clothing. Their intricate graphics draw from histories and ruins of architectural details, drapery, jewellery, armour and decorative art to carefully reflect emotionally drenched object-symbols which are embodied and worn. Prices range from $50 to $150+ Get in early for these unique items! 
Mark It Market Multiples edition 3  Saturday 19th July 12-5pm. 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011 Access: Payment via cash or card accepted. beverages available.Various seating available. There is a 9cm step into the space, and the bathroom is not wheelchair accessible. Lower sensory space available to use. Air filter and air conditioning will be used. Masks available. See full access information at www.conduction3011.co/access  Photos by Ruby Healey @rubyhealey (image 1,2,3,6) 
J Davies @jdavies.studio (image 4,5) 
and Ava Viscariello @avav.isc (image 7)

Mark It Market Multiples  Edition 3  Saturday July 19  12-5pm.  the 3rd monthly market platform for print +  publishing, critical commodities, making and writing, ,intra-dependent publishing, design and desire, editions, additions, sedition and queer material practices at Conduction.  Featuring: Publications. Prints. Jewellery. Editions. Clothing. 2nd-4th hand goods, Handmade and unmade items, Critical Commodities. Accessories. Excessories. Necessities. Cash and Card, trade and services accepted.  An iterative experimental framework for the distribution of artworks and/or diagrammatic speculation on how artistic and cultural markets function or mutate. A space for discourse, display and direct sales. Printmakers working against commercial re/production. Radical & autonomous writers and publishers. Queer print and textile deproducers and deconstructors. Independent makers pursuing experimental making and distribution. Functional and dysfunctional decorative and object based practices. Exploded authorships and Bootleg methods. Featuring: 3ply Abbra Kotlarczyk Access Lab and Library Ainslie Kerr  Benjamin Woods  Chas Manning Debris Facility Discipline Publishing Dreambod Remit  DRM Dylan Martorell  Eamon Sprod   Grant Ionatan Helen Grogan Indi Jennings  Katherine Botten  M. H.   Meredith Turnbull  Nuublade Qowomo  Un Projects  + MORE ~ Future: Open call for monthly editions for artists, publishers, makers, writers, editors, designers and cultural workers working between and beyond material and critical practices.  Access: Payment via cash or card accepted. beverages are available. Various seating options. There is a 9cm step into the space, and the bathroom is not wheelchair accessible. Lower sensory space available to use. Air filter and air conditioning will be used. Masks available. See full access information at www.conduction3011.co/access

Title: p.33 Artist: m.h. Date: Friday 18th July, 8pm. Cost $10/$20 “an expanded cinema event. moons. seeds. shimmer. flow. horizon. trace cadenzas. a choir of plastic angels. intermissions of self. 1 degree. ilenceinger. crumbles gather. saturn doesn’t know your face. botched words clipping. vibrating an almost. 6 th . essarance. conduction. attuned. chatter and three. messetsss. a bell with no tongue.” m.h. lives and works on wangal and gadigal land, and has been working as an artist, sound maker, and archivist for ~20 years. p.33 is part of iterative project begun in 2018 that brings together altered archival film, cut-up text, and electro-acoustic sound. the project has supernatural intentions. Access: There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Beverages will be available via donation. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email [email protected]

Wind Throb: A two part Workshop and performance run by Benjamin Woods. @ben.jamin.woods 
 WHAT: Workshop including drawing, writing, breathing, sounding, clay ocarina making (+ firing), and beeswax flute making. WHEN:  Workshop part A - Saturday 26 July, 12-5pm Workshop part B - Saturday 2 August, 12-5pm Performance (group devised) - Saturday 2 August, 5 - 6.30pm WHERE: Conduction (251 Barkly Street Footscray, 3011) APPLY: via short E.O.I. before 18th of July. COST: Two-part Workshop is $80 / $120 (maximum of 12)
 Further Workshop Info: You are invited to participate in an instrument-building and sounding workshop called Wind Throb, which will culminate in a collectively devised performance at Conduction. Ben Woods will lead everyone through the process of making both beeswax flutes and clay ocarinas, considering the emergence of their particular voices in relation to our own multiple voices. We will work with breath-based techniques, drawing, writing-scoring, simple beeswax casting, clay hand-building, and contact and hydro microphones. Ben will introduce notions of body schema, resonant bodies (via Lygia Clark and Suely Rolnik), and active and reactive forces, in order to assist in collectively organising an approach to a public performance event one week following the workshop. All instruments will be the participant’s own (clay ocarinas will go through a kiln firing between part A and B of the workshop).
 Outcomes for participants: 
Fired ceramic ocarina, beeswax flute, group-devised free public performance facilitated by Benjamin Woods, drawings, writing, performance documentation (audio, video, images).  Access: Workshop participants will be asked about their access needs, and we will do our best to accommodate. There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Free performance will have beverages available. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email [email protected]

WINDOW: Debris Facility Pty Ltd - FalseWork, 2022. Laminated collage, from “Octopus 22: Baroquetopus (Humanimal entanglements and tentacular spectaculars)” Curated by Tessa Laird, shown at Gertrude Contemporary On display in the window is a display of an assemblage of laminated collages made by our Conductor @debris.facility between 2020-2022. 8 large panels cover the entire window surface and will be changed over, added to and edited over the course of the month. “False Work” is the term given to temporary scaffolding while bridges are being constructed, and this installation re-enacts the anarchive of Debris Facility for their Decayed Decade. The shopfront window leaks, so waterproof artworks are useful. Moving studio generates editing of material, which is useful. We’ll be working through the dis/function of these works as curtains for Conduction. Evasion and transparency. FalseWork is available to purchase, in whole or in part as part of our fundraising to keep Conduction conducive. Enquire via DM/ email @debris.facility @gertrudecontemporary Access: FalseWork is available to view through the window and security grille 24/7 at 251 Barkly street Footscray. Haptic and touch of the work is available and encouraged during opening hours

Induced Telepathy: Live Saturday 28th of June 2025, 8-10pm: $10/$20/ First Nations Free.  Gaping orbits, the eyeballs are absent. It is the key to the temple. A double billing of aural poison. The audio//visual astral assault of Septic Psychic meets the Orthodox Industrial of Solar Logos Sect in a double billing of indoctrinating experimental occultism. Septic Psychic: Mindpoisoned necromancy. Astral warfare. Return of the imagevirus. Atrocities obscured by dust and static. Red ants on black concrete; the sun turned dark and rotten. Birdbones in the windpipe, pockets full of ash. Transfer damage. Alien voices from unwashed mouths. Induced telepathy. It went like this, or so they say. Neo-cold war paranoiacs, picking through the detritus of this dying century. Kill your love, the end is near! @teethdreamer & @godless_sodomite Solar Logos Sect is Romy Seven x Cosmo Feltham (scumwitch/ cutting room/ bodies of the divine  infinite and eternal spirit) Orthodox industrial. Exhuming the fossilised remains of god from the machine. Smoke Scripture. Circuitry. Witness the ritual. @scumwitch & @cosmo.36 Tarot by Sagan. Intermission tarot readings conducted by Sagan in a darkened corner of the room. Transmuting the material/psychic feedback loop through refracted desire and speculation. Services via direct donation. @th0tsferatu_ Conduction is at 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011. Tickets through @conduction3011 website, and available on the door with cash or card. Light Hospitality provided. 🔄 Conduction is supported by Maribyrnong City Council’s “Creative Places Program” @artsandculturemcc Access: There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air conditioning and air filter in use. Masks available, not required. Loud volume and noise will occur alongside high intensity visuals. DM any questions.

Induced Telepathy acoldcell x teeth dreams present: ‘induced telepathy’,a micro-residency, two part AV project with live performance event and curated screening program. Saturday 28th June: Live. @godless_sodomite and @teethdreamer as Septic Psychic unfold their electronic occult circuits with their cloven coven of Solar Logos Sect (@scumwitch x @cosmo.36 ) and @th0tsferatu_ offering Tarot Thursday 26th June: screening. Conjuring the electric shadows from the filmic lineage. Projecting Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) & David Cronenberg’s Stereo (1969). Conduction: 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011. See posts for more info and access notes.