Museum of Brisbane reaches for the stars with its new cosmic digital installation CELESTON2 created by Brisbane’s own Man & Wah, featured as part of the worldwide Ars Electronica Festival from today, 9 September, 2020.
Pairing celestial landscapes and flowers blooming in galactic scale, the artworks were created during Man & Wah’s Museum of Brisbane Artists @ Home residency from May to June 2020. The online exhibition showcases a curated amalgamation of video and photographic material centred on the cosmic and botanical worlds. The online exhibition is accompanied by an installation which will wrap around the walls of Museum of Brisbane’s foyer from Wednesday 9 September until 31 January 2021.
Traditionally held every year in Linz, Austria, Ars Electronica Festival has restructured this year’s program to align with social distancing requirements. “The corona crisis makes a Linz festival mile with 100,000 visitors from all over the world impossible,” says Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica’s Artistic Director.
As a result, this year’s Ars Electronica Festival (9-13 September) will feature virtual and physical events across 120 venues internationally, including Museum of Brisbane. Watch Man & Wah’s Artist Studio Profile to learn more about the artists’ creative process and the places they forage for inspiration and meaning, shared on the Museum of Brisbane Arts Electronica Festival page.
Man & Wah will also be inviting the public to explore their installation and creative process with an exclusive live streamed Q&A on Thursday, 10 September at 7pm AEST, facilitated by independent curator Lubi Thomas. The public can tune in to the live event and ask the artists questions through MoB’s YouTube page.
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