
Panopticon III - Garden of Earthly Delights
Design: Kyle Fitzpatrick, Liam Kenna, Ella Lim, Ezara Ortiz, and Shaleen Shajith.
Hieronymus Bosch’s grand allegory of indulgence, sin, revelry and apocalypse, reimagined by art, music, theatre and media students from the University of Tasmania’s School of Creative Arts and Media.
Friday 14 — Sunday 16 June
Friday 21 — Sunday 23 June
6 — 10pm
Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street
FREE
Panopticon III: The Garden of Earthly Delights featured twelve installations by Art, Music and Theatre and Performance students from the University of Tasmania. Each space was visible from the ground floor windows of the Centre for the Arts and showcased live artworks responding to Hieronymus Bosch’s grand allegory of indulgence, sin, revelry and apocalypse.
Presented by Dark Mofo and the University of Tasmania.
Curated by John Vella in collaboration with Asher Warren and Nick Haywood.
cell ii: the other feast
Colonialism, capitalism and patriarchal power structures create an Eden for some and a hell for others.
This work explores the artist’s experience of brownness and womanhood in Australia. Through offering her body and traditional exports from her ancestral homeland, Sri Lanka, she considers the boundaries between desire and consumption, assimilation and erasure.
Artists: Rebecca Mitchell, Chen Huang
cell iii: synesthetic symbols
Colonialism, capitalism and patriarchal power structures create an Eden for some and a hell for others.
Project. Observe. Contemplate. Suggest. Reflect. Translate. Interpret. Resolve. Engage. Refine. Predict. Exchange. Review. Interact. Relate. Reinterpret. Repeat.
Artists: Mark Buckland, Risa Ray
cell v: flowers of the worlds gardens
Earthy and Delightful, flowers are nature’s artwork filling the worlds gardens with colour and purity. The artists aim to create hundreds of flowers with various designs, filling the space with vibrant colours and beautifully crafted paper art with a quantity that will shock the audience.
Artists: Lilly Amos, Josephine Christensen, Holly Gregg, Bryce Schreuder
cell vii: sin space
Contained within these walls, the rituals of both the mundane and the sinful are performed, engaging in a sadistic exploration of greed, vanity and pain. The room compares both the constructive rituals performed daily with the devious rituals performed in secret.
Artists: Jordan Flynn, Skye Smith, Henry Watson
cell viii: we make great pets
‘We Make Great Pets’ shows hidden violence in ordinary actions and behaviours. This encounter aims to provide the audience with an experience that uses innocuous materials like children’s toys to bastardise the connotations of everyday life and the aesthetics we rely on. The exhibition blends many objects and metaphors to establish an understanding of the abilities and effects of human conduct.
Artists: Leonie Agius, Lilly Amos, Clara Martin, Amber Miller, Bryce Schreuder
cell xi: live drawing no i
In this performance you will find 3 artists drawing in response to an individual panel of the famous Bosch triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. They are also listening to music that resonates with the mood of the panel they are immersed in. The sounds you hear are an amalgamation of the three soundtracks the artists are listening to, from the serene to the debaucherous and brutal.
Artists: Harrison Bowe, Tim Coad, Corinna Howell, Maggie Jeffries, George Kennedy, Colin Schildhauer, Courtney Simpson, Matthew Willes
cell xii: regeneration
A response to the recent bushfires in Tasmania. Regeneration is a reference to Hieronymus Bosch’s third panel in his Garden of Earthly Delights triptych - Hell. This work represents paradise lost through the use of light and shadow. Demonstrating how our actions cause a ripple effect on the environment and encouraging working together to achieve regeneration
Artists: Rachael Soo, Hayley Strutt