Name: 'Wet lines' (excerpt 1) by Benjamin Woods
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: Double Bass and Spring live performance as part of the exhibition 'Wet lines' at Alta Forma, Melbourne. 24 May 2025.

Lèlè #1 was presented on 11-05-23 at Powerhouse Museum by Temporary Position as part of their curated Powerhouse Late program. 

Materials:
vibrator, acupuncture needles, guzheng, string, brass bells, head massager, double bass, guzheng stand, rope, blutac, baby chair, giant balloon, cable tie, back massager, melodica, multicoloured transparency, lamp, small balloon, plastic flute

Lèlè #1

Double Bass and Spring live performance as part of the exhibition 'Wet lines' at Alta Forma, Melbourne. 24 May 2025.

'Wet lines' (excerpt 1)

I’m an artist practicing in Naarm (Melbourne). My improvisational practice works cyclically between sound, sculptural-spatial, and writing processes. The works that I make focus on intersections between embodied listening and forming practices, including an interest in queer practices, forces of habit, and affect.

I hold a BFA Honours (2007-10) and MFA (2012) from the Victorian College of the Arts; and a PhD from Monash University, Fine Art (2018-22). I am a Lecturer at Monash University Fine Art, and also currently co-direct Run Artist Run (with Yongping Ren), a studio residency space in Docklands.  

I also participate in Tributaries collective (with Geoff Robinson, Saskia Schut, Ying-Lan Dann), and in Lèlè (with Yongping Ren).

Recent solo works include: Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy Ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) premiered at Grafton Regional Gallery; Little and Many Intensities and Beeswax Flutes 2 for Liquid Architecture; Leaves (Hope for Resonance) at Youkobo Art Space; Forming Resonant Situations at MADA Gallery; that which enables and constrains… at West Space which included the publication of my first (action) score book titled Sweet Potato; widen, subtract, warm, cool… at Incinerator Art Gallery; Processual Rhythms at The Substation; Enfolding Outward at Outward Projects; and, Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp) at Study Space, and as a finalist piece in the Darebin Art Prize.

Contact: benjaminwds [at] gmail.com

'Wet lines' (excerpt 1)

Benjamin Woods

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