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La collaborazione tra gli artisti Geoff Lowe e Jacqueline Riva risale al 1993. I loro progetti intendono dissolvere la separazione tra pubblico e artista,progetto e fruizione e includono video, media digitali, pittura e performance. Lowe e Riva usano anche il nome di 'A Constructed World' per le loro collaborazioni tra cui compaiono la pubblicazione della rivista Artfan, mostre, laboratori e eventi. Sono stati promotori di numerosi progetti con gruppi di artisti amatoriali e non-professionisti come Rosebud, Hy Vong, Life with Us, Crack of Noon ed hanno con gli artisti del gruppo DAMP.

Artists Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva have been working collaboratively since 1993. Their projects seek to dissolve boundaries between artist/audience, sending/receiving and include video, digital media, painting and performance. Lowe and Riva also use the name A Constructed World for their collaborative projects which include publishing Artfan magazine, exhibitions, workshops and events. They have facilitated numerous projects with amateur and non-artists groups such as Rosebud, Hy Vong, Life with Us and Crack of Noon and have worked in collaboration with artist group DAMP.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS    
  • 2000
    1) Three Cubed Artists Space, New York
    2) Hell's Kitchen (ACW + DAMPÉ) EFA, New York
    3) Rent Overgaden, Copenhagen and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (curated by Stuart Koop and Charlotte Day) catalogue
  • 1999
    1) HIVE 10765 (ACW + HIVE) Victoria Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Player Guitar TCB, Melbourne
    2) Clemenger Contemporary Art Award MOMA at Heide, Melbourne, (curated by Max Delaney and Jason Smith) catalogue
  • 1998
    1) Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, (curated by Louise Neri) catalogue
    2) Everybody Knows galleries Openspace and Careof Spazio d'arte contemporanea, Milan, catalogueJacqueline Riva Museum Sal, Seoul
    3) One Hour Photo 1st Floor, Melbourne
  • 1997
    1) Sense-A Constructed World Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Whanki Museum, Seoul (curated by Stuart Koop) catalogue
    2) A Constructed World Archive Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (curated by Sue Cramer) catalogue
    3) Geoff Lowe Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, Sydney and Bellas gallery, Brisbane
    4) Confluence Australian Embassy Hanoi, Fine Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (curated by Ian Were)
    5) Mutant Paradigms Contemporary Art Centre, South Australia ( curated by John Barbour) catalogue
  • 1995
    1) Beyond the Borders, 1st Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea, catalogue
    2) Hybrid Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, catalogue Familiar Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne catalogue
CURATED AND COORDINATED EXHIIBITIONS
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  • 1999
    PocoNoco TCB, Melbourne
  • 1998
    1) We're all Water (DAMP + ACW) performance and video in Habitat Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
    2) JANAX Myer Window Project, Melbourne
    3) DAMP Ideal Lives Next Wave Festival, Morwell Art Gallery, Victoria
    4) DAMP/Audience The Bridge Construction In Process, Melbourne
  • 1997
    1) DAMP Clothing Exchange Greyarea Space, Melbourne World Speak Dumb Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, catalogue
    2) Vedova Mazzei (Italian artists Simeone Crispino and Maristella Scala) Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, catalogue
  • 1996
    1) Being in a Group -Intrepidity Technology Compost: Adelaide Melbourne Sydney Milan New York, Adelaide Biennial Festival, catalogue
    2) Location/Art Holds a High Place in My Life exchange with DAMP, Hong Sung-Do at HongIk University, SeoulKabluey in Kensington Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, MelbourneDAMP Times Five Next Wave Festival, First Site, RMIT Gallery Monash Caulfield School of Art, Melbourne
  • 1995
    DAMP Platform, Degraves St, Melbourne
  • 1994
    HyVong Springvale Heritage Centre, MelbourneLife With Us Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, MelbourneHyVong, Life with Us and Rosebud Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1993
    ACW, Australian Toy Museum, Melbourne
  • 1992
    Learning Next Wave Festival, Monash Studios, Collingwood
    Some Paintings From A Constructed World, Victorian Ministry
VIDEO SCREENINGS
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  • 2000
    1) Player Guitar, scenes from the Whipstick forest.. 'Three Cubed' Artist Space, NY
    2) Animal 3, Fresh History, Player Guitar 'Rent' Overgaden, Copenhagen and ACCA, Melbourne
  • 1999
    1) Scenes from the Whipstick ForestÉ 'Clemenger Art Prize' MOMA at Heide
    2) Scenes from the Whipstick Forest... 'Roteiros Roteiros Roteiros' Sao Paulo Bienal and 'Everybody Knows' gallery Openspace, Milan
    3) Crack of Noon Careof Spazio d'arte contemporanea, Milan
  • 1997
    1) To bring you my love and The Future 'ACW Archive' MCA Sydney and 'Sense' CCP Melbourne, Whanki Museum, Seoul
  • 1996
    10 Photographs 'Mutant Paradigm' CACA, Adelaide
  • 1995
    The Future 'Geoff Lowe' Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, Sutton Gallery and Bellas Gallery,
    'Beyond the Boarders' Kwangju Biennale,
    'Artrage' compilation video commissioned by Kim Machan for ABC TV
PERFORMANCE WORKS
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  • 1998
    1) We're all water DAMP, CCP, Melbourne
    2) I don't want to/I don't think so Museum Sal, Seoul
  • 1997
    1) Globalism Whanki Museum, Seoul
    2) Think Global/Act Local CCP, Melbourne
    3) Fester Live MCA, Sydney
VIDEO WORKS    
  • 2000
    1) Animal 3 VHS 4 mins
    2) Player Guitar VHS 10 mins
    3) The Death of Fester VHS 6 mins
  • 1999
    Fresh History VHS 15mins
  • 1998
    Scenes from the Whipstick Forest... VHS 37 min
  • 1997
    1) Crack of Noon VHS 6mins
    2) To bring you my love VHS 4 mins
    3) 10 Photographs, VHS 20 mins
  • 1995
    The Future VHS 2mins

Special Publishing ProjectsArtfan contemporary art review magazine, founded in 1993, edited by Riva + Lowe, published by ACW Inc. Artfan is an unfunded review magazine publishing competing voices and multiple points of entry. Its contributors include; art critics, artists, people from other professions and the general public. Issue # 10, Summer 2000 Permanent Food contributing editors 1996/97, published by Maurizio Cattelan, Dominique Gonzales Foerster and Le Magasin, GrenobleVedova Mazzei text Jen Budney, ACW + CCP, Melbourne, 1997 catalogueA Constructed World ACW, Sue Cramer + MCA, Sydney, 1997, catalogueSense-A Constructed World ACW, Stuart Koop + CCP, Melbourne and Jay Young, Whanki Museum, Seoul, 1997, catalogue

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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  • 2000
    1) Stuart Koop 'Rent art:' ojeblikket Copenhagen, issue #3 vol.10 pp46-66
    2) Jacqueline Riva + Geoff Lowe 'Double' Crudelia? Anno 1 Gennaio- Marzo 2000
  • 1999
    1) Cloe Piccoli 'Totem E tivu' La Repubblica Milan 28 Feb pp73-5
    2) Jason Smith 'Contemporary Art'Gallery NGV pp14-6
    3) Jed Budney 'A Constructed World: Objective Reality' Clemenger Art Award, MOMA Heide, catalogue p26
  • 1998
    1) Jen Budney 'Who's It For' Third Text no 42 Spring pp88-94 (re Artfan p94)
    2) Louise Neri 'Oceania:Exploring, Not Knowing' XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal, 'Roteiros, Roterios, Roterios' catalogue pp30-42
    3) Louise Neri 'Geoff Lowe's A Contructed World where work is always in progress' XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal, Representacoes Nacionais catalogue pp162-5
    4) Kim Hye Kyung 'Making Sense-A Korean Australian Partnership' Art and Asia Pacific issue #19 pp30-2
    5) Courtney Kidd 'Surrounded by Art' Art and Australia Vol35 no 3 pp436-7
  • 1997
    Sue Cramer 'Geoff Lowe: A Constructed World' Contemporary Art Archive, MCA Sydney, catalogue pp76
    Stuart Koop 'World Speak Dumb' Art & Text , #58
    Lara Travis 'World Speak Dumb' Like, #3
    Stephanie Holt 'Just for Fun' Art and Australia Vol 34 no4 pp490-502
  • 1996
    J in-Sup Yoon 'Trend in Art Science' Art World Monthly Magazine of Art Seoul no 8 p25
    Joan Kerr 'Colonial Quotations' Art and Australia vol33 no 3 pp376- 387
    Charles Green 'Painting and Noise''Terra Australis-Janenne Eaton' ANU p5
    Merryn Gates 'Colonial/ Post-Colonial' MOMA at Heide catalogue
    David OHalloran 'Technology Compost' Visual Arts Program Telstra Adelaide Festival catalogue pp15 &19
    D&M Rawlings 'Psychology:learning,thinking and experiencing' STAV p86 (illustration)
  • 1995
    Stuart Koop 'Australian Perspecta 1995' Art & Text #51 pp66-7
    Flash Art News '1st Kwangju Biennale' Flash Art Oct pp37&40
    John Kavanagh 'Contamination as a Moral Issue' BRW Feb 6 pp84- 5
    Alison Carroll 'The Asialink Centre 5 ' University of Melbourne p33
    Tony Clark (AJC)'Ten Famous Feelings for Men and Towerhill' Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, catalogue
    Robyn McKenzie & Geoff Lowe 'Kwangju Biennale, Beyond the Borders' catalogue
  • 1994
    Susan McCulloch 'The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art'
    Kathy Bail ' Geoff Lowe' Rolling Stone issue 496 May p42
  • 1993
    James Button 'Big Picture Diplomacy' Time no 14 Apr 5 pp46-7
    Charles Green 'Geoff Lowe' Artforum Dec p93
    Virginia Trioli 'The official autobiography of music as told by me' Binocular Moet and Chandon
    Zara Stanhope 'Vietnam' Art&Text 45 p75-6
  • 1992
    Rebecca Lancashire 'Australia Vietnam...' The Age Jan 4
    Juliana Engberg 'VIETNAM A Project by Rozalind Drummond & Geoff Lowe 'Asialink, catalogue
    Angela Brennan, Juliana Engberg, Ian Stuart, 'Collaborations 1982- 1992' Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, catalogue
    Robyn McKenzie 'Collaborations' Art & Text 43 pp77-8
    Merryn Gates 'Domino 1 Collaborations between Artists' The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, catalogue
    Juliana Engberg and Harriet Edquist 'The Angelic Space' Monash University Gallery, catalogue
    James Button 'Brand New Day' Time Australia Apr 6 no14 p12-19
INTERVIEWS
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  • 2000
    Jacqueline Riva Geoff Lowe 'Double' Crudelia? Anno 1 Marzo, Rome, cover +pp8-9
  • 1997
    Sue Cramer Geoff Lowe Jacqueline Riva Ben Curnow 'A Constructed World Contemporary Art Archive' Like Art Magazine no4 pp33-37
  • 1995
    Robyn McKenzie 'Geoff Lowe and Towerhill' Parkett no 45 pp18-26
  • 1990
    Alison Carroll 'The Excluded Middle' Broadsheet vol 19 no1 p5 (reprinted in 'Collaborations 1982-1992' Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, catalogue)
  • 1989
    Alison Carroll 'Artists on Museums Geoff Lowe Lesley Dumbrell Micky Allan Robert Hunter' AMAA News no9 Jan
  • 1987
    Ashley Crawford 'Geoff Lowe' Tension no12 pp16-19
  • 1986
    Peter Cripps 'Interviews: The Institute of Modern Art ' Brisbane pp23-8
  • 1985
    Adriano Sofri 'Melbourne Provincia di Siena' Fine Secolo, Reporter, Rome no83 9th June pp14-18
LECTURES
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  • 1999
    Artfan Live MOMA at Heide, Melbourne
  • 1998
    A Constructed World Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro
    The Way Ahead Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
    Videor 'Practice' Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
  • 1995
    Photography Painting 'A Small History of Photography' Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
    Practice SWIM, Stop 22, MelbourneAudiences and the Arts Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
  • 1993
    Australian Visual Arts in an Asian Context: A Symposium Sydney College of the ArtsA Constructed World Ho Chi Min City School of Art
    Contemporary Australian Art Hanoi School of Fine Art
  • 1992
    A Constructed World Information Expo, Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria
    Do Artists Delineate Their Own Practice? Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria
    The Potential of Collaboration (lecture/workshop) CAST Arthouse, Launceston
    Inside Out/Outside In Creativity and Marginality, National Gallery of Victoria
    Political Art Oncology Unit, Fairfield Hospital Exhibition at Linden Gallery, Melbourne.

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