MelLingen and MelShangLingen

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BACKGROUND Companion works, MelLingen & MelShangLingen, sit within the framework of concepts such as Henri Lefebvre's 'rhythmanalysis' and McKenzie Wark's 'telethesia', as part of my practice that explores urban consciousness and identity within transience. These specific works respond visually to the conceptual framework of the SkypeLab research project. An accompanying book (Kerber Publishing) was launched at the German exhibition in April 2016 and in Melbourne by the German Consulate General at the RMIT Design Hub. My artworks are on pages 42-45 and 64-65. Concepts within my artistic research and writing practice interweave eg 'Carto-City Revisited: unmapping urbaness' in Transformations: Art and the City (Intellect Publishing, UK forthcoming 2017), 'The Invisible City' in SkypeLab: transcontinental faces and spaces (Kerber, Germany 2016, 'The Transient City: The city as urbaness' in Re-Imagining the City (Intellect Publishing, UK 2013). CONTRIBUTION AND SIGNIFICANCE Through the question - How can a re alignment of the elements of cartography through artistic practice contribute to knowledge in unmapable fields such as transience, urban consciousness and identity? - the art works contribute to understanding of contemporary transience and extend the capacity of 'mapping' to capture the unmapable. The works contribute to new knowledge in the artistic field but also within architecture and design research eg as an extension of Darko Radovic's 'Unmapable City' projects in Tokyo, Japan. Peer review: Staedtische Galerie Germany is the equivalent of a city or regional gallery in Australia. The exhibition was by invitation (letter of invitation from the Deputy Director attached). Gallery curator, Dr. Rolf Gottschlich. The exhibition was reviewed in multiple newspapers and on TV in Germany. One example is attached that specifically includes my artwork.