Wall drawing (Fragments from a catalogue).
2005
Triptych (After marches for a May Day, Sydney).
Photography: Christian Capurro
2005
Banner frames.
2005
Installation of three elements in the two-person exhibition course, also featuring a drawing and video by Jan Svenungsson
Exh.: Tom Nicholson and Jan Svenungsson, course, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, 29-31 July 2005.
course brought together two related projects by Tom Nicholson and Jan Svenungsson. Nicholson’s Wall drawing is a list of the creation of national boundaries since 1901, drawn in pencil directly on to the gallery walls, chronologically ordered over 13 metres of wall, and completed over a two-week period. The Triptych exhibited in a stacked formation is a sequence of three images from Marches for a May Day, Sydney, a pair of dawn banner marches which took place in Sydney on 29 and 30 April 2005. Banner frames is a stack of dissembled banner frames used in banner marches in Melbourne, Sydney, and Kellerberrin during 2004 and 2005.
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A dialogue between Jan Svenungsson and Tom Nicholson was published to coincide with the exhibition.
The list of instances of the creation of national boundaries was later used in a collaborative work with the composer Andrew Byrne, an instruction based score performed in Melbourne in 2006, and in El Siglo, a 100-minute video broadcast on Señal 3 de la Victoria in Santiago on 5 and 6 October 2006.
The exhibition was also the setting for an Ocular Lab dinner in honour of Jeremy Wafer, the South African artist then an artist-in-resident at RMIT as part of the South Project.
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