Test installation done – tick

With only a week to go until I pack the car and head east to Kandos for Cementa15, there isn't much time to sort out any outstanding issues. So with that in mind, today was the day for my test installation of the Cementa work, Indicatus, at the Fire Station Arts Centre in Dubbo. Thankfully, …

Surrounded by sound

Kim V Goldsmith installation artist Indicatus Cementa

Despite a feeling of panic (that often accompanies working in public with technology), the various elements of my Cementa work, Indicatus, are finally coming together. Today, after six hours of sitting on two computers, the soundbites are sorted. I've been using some recordable motion-sensor sound boxes imported from the UK for this element of the work …

Working to a schedule in the countdown to Cementa

Kim V Goldsmith installation Cementa15

Months have now passed since I've had an opportunity to physically work on my installation piece,  Indicatus, for Cementa15, but there have been plenty of other administrative tasks to do such as provide artist profiles, chase sponsorship (thank you to Dubbo City Council & the Western Plains Cultural Centre - I hope to do Dubbo proud) and …

Kandos Projects residency: the report

Kim V. Goldsmith artist

Speed dating Kandos It’s fair to say I wasn’t very prepared for my week-long residency in Kandos, something I’d agreed to as an artist participating in the 2015 Cementa contemporary art festival (9-12 April). Exhausted before I’d started after a big year of consulting work and creative projects, and not sure of what I would …

Kandos Projects residency: Part 1

smell sensory installation Kim V. Goldsmith

The work on my installation piece for Cementa 15 has been a stop/start affair, even since refocusing and finding a new direction for the work after my Fire Station Arts Centre residency in late 2013. So it is with nearly all the sensory works I've been producing since 2008…they seem to all have long gestations. …