Commissioned by LUX AUSTRALIS a new video work of animated drawings by Australian artist Mia Salsjö taken from and created in collaboration with Lux Australisn 2 a new commission of a composition in 6 parts by Australian composer Alex Turley
October 24, Chapter House, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
Commissioned by Lux Australis, video still from series of Score drawings created from Australian Composer Alex Turley’s 6 part composition and animated by Video editor Cameron Wisth
Mia Salsjö, Horror Vacui: Afterglow, 2024, 64 drawings on paper is currently exhibiting in the group show ‘Characters’ at Haydens Gallery, 1/10-12 Moreland Road, Brunswick East, VIC 3057. Selected artists include Mira Gojak, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Julie Irving, Amalia Lindo, Kerrie Poliness, Mia Salsjö.
https://haydens.gallery/
05.04.2024 - 04.05.2024
Mia Salsjö, Horror Vacui: Afterglow, 2024, 64 drawings on paper with pen, clips, matboard
Mia Salsjö’s, The Bridge, a score for Sydney Harbour Bridge, will be performed live by a 12 piece Brass ensemble both at the Sydney Opera House and at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of ‘Performances on the Quay’ jointly presented by the MCA and The Sydney Opera House, 23 June at at the Sydney Opera House's Western Broadwalk at 5pm and MCA 5:45pm Level 4 Terrace. Followed by an in-depth conversation between Mia Salsjö and senior curator of contemporary art at the MCA Jane Devery. The Bridge was commissioned by the MCA as part of The National 4: Australian Art Now. https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/mia-salsjo/the-bridge/
Live performance of The Bridge at the Sydney Opera House's Western Broadwalk. Performances on the Quay is a free a series of performance art jointly presented by the Sydney Opera House and the MCA. This project was commissioned by the MCA as part of The National 4: Australian Art Now. Photo: Katje Ford
Live performance of The Bridge at the Sydney Opera House's Western Broadwalk. Performances on the Quay is a free a series of performance art jointly presented by the Sydney Opera House and the MCA. This project was commissioned by the MCA as part of The National 4: Australian Art Now. Photo: Katje Ford
Night time live performance of The Bridge at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Performances on the Quay is a free a series of performance art jointly presented by the Sydney Opera House and the MCA. This project was commissioned by the MCA as part of The National 4: Australian Art Now. Photo: Katje Ford
Mia Salsjö on ABC Art Works:
Episode 6 HOTA, Rel Pham, Mia Salsjö, Jason Lim
Mia Salsjö at the Powerhouse Museum researching the original photographic archives of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Image: ABC Art Works
Mia Salsjö’s A SCORE FOR FED SQUARE 2023
MELBOURNE NOW exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre,
NGV Australia. This project was commissioned by fed square and ngv.
24 March – 20 August 2023
Installation view of Mia Salsjo’s A Score for Fed Square 2023 on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne from 24 March – 20 August 2023.
Image: Sean Fennessy
Phoenix Central Park performances of 'The Quietude'
A composition created from the built form of The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Two Concerts, 21 April, 6:30pm and 8:15pm. Concerts are sold out.
Prior to each Phoenix sitting, Mia will give a talk about the basis of her work and her process as an artist, before 'The Quietude' was realised for the first time by a quintet of young accomplished musicians - Peter Clark (1st violin), Yena Choi (2nd violin), Meagan Turner (viola), Rachel Siu (cello) and Jaan Pallandi (double bass).
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A SCORE FOR FED SQUARE
A Score For Fed Square played by musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra commissioned by Fed Square and the National Gallery of Victoria
Join Fed Square on its birthday for the world-premiere of Mia Salsjö’s new orchestral work, A Score for Fed Square, composed to celebrate our distinctive architecture.
Responding to detailed architectural drawings, architects’ annotations and build material selections, composer Mia Salsjö has translated and interpreted these hand-drawn and machine-made lines, transforming them into a code. The musical composition has emerged in the spaces between the architectural plans, the Fed Square site and the artist’s method of interpretation.
This work has been commissioned by Fed Square and the National Gallery of Victoria, in collaboration with Mia Salsjö and will be performed by musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
https://fedsquare.com/events/a-score-for-fed-square
1000 Year Plan for Gertrude Glasshouse
New Operetta Song Composed by Mia Salsjö
Gertrude Glasshouse
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood
16 September - 8 October, 2022
https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/mia-salsjo-1000-year-plan-for-gertrude-glasshouse
SPIRIT OF PLACE
Three-channel video installation and Live Performance
26 May - 25 July 2022
BUNJIL PLACE
2 Patrick NE Dr, Narre Warren VIC 3805
THE QUIETUDE
Live Performance May 26, 7pm
https://www.bunjilplace.com.au/news/digital-wall-exhibition-spirit-of-place
If Not At Arm’s Length
Curated by Tim Riley Walsh
Exhibition Dates: 18 December 2021 - 30 January 2022
Gertrude Contemporary | 21-31 High Street, Preston
The Gertrude Studios 2021 exhibition If Not At Arm’s Length examines how art can mediate our relationships with each other, our familial units, and broader society. The exhibition structures its analysis around a series of four thematics: the civic, the familial, the digital, and the public, exploring art’s agency across these overlapping realms at a time when interaction is impacted by existing and new regimes of distance. The exhibition features new and recent work from Gertrude’s nineteen current Studio Artists, displayed across all of the galleries at Preston South.
IMAGE: Mia SALSJÖ
Time and Beyond, Space and Beyond, Sound and Beyond
2020-2021
20 million year old Bluestone, laser etched, sound recording
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Digital Projects: Mixed business
Gertrude Contemporary
Mia Salsjö @miacerasalsjo, Critical Units, 2020, ink on paper.
Hand drawn in colourful ink on paper. The image and layout show notations.
Mia Salsjö provides two-and-a-half hours of care and consideration: Mixed Business.
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𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰. 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥/𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.
Mixed Business is Gertrude's new and growing program of mixes and playlists created by current Gertrude Studio Artists, to be released over the coming weeks on Gertrude's Digital Projects space.
Accompanied by mix imagery and liner notes, the compilations are provided to soundtrack moments of isolation proliferating in the current era and offer a form of sonic riposte to threats of disconnection: a mix to start an impromptu lounge room dance; to generate a contemplative reverie; or even lean into the bizarre chaos of the present.
Future editions of Mixed Business are forthcoming via Gertrude Digital Projects.
THE CALL
Mia’s work is featured in The Call at Michael Reid Gallery in Sydney. The Call presents the work of ten women artists whose work examines issues at the forefront of current cultural, social and political discourse. Across painting, installation, video, sculpture and photography, these works investigate representations of the body, the construction of identity and cultural heritage, and the possibility of translation.
22 Apr - 15 May 2021
Standard House 105 Kippax Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010 Australia
BLECH PERFORMANCE: 'Midnattsol/Hëna é ditës' | 2021
Improvisation for Flute and Pump, the confusion of tongues.
Presented as part of the exhibition ‘Liminal Wanderlust’ at FOX Gallery, Melbourne
Opening 1 April, 6:30pm
67 Wellington St, Collingwood
Curated by Rebecca Agnew
Video by Mark Newbound
The Quietude | City of Melbourne
GERTRUDE TALKS: STUDIO ARTIST INTERVIEW
Mia Salsjö was interviewed with fellow Gertrude Studio Artist Hoda Afshar about her work and process.
STUDIO ARTIST AT GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY
Mia is currently undertaking a two-year studio artist residency at Gertrude Contemporary.
Mia is working on her upcoming project The Quietude.
MOVING PICTURES | LA TROBE REGIONAL GALLERY
Mia Salsjö invites you to a live performance of an exciting new composition which will be performed by Australia’s leading classical quartet, the Silo String Quartet, for the exhibition Moving Pictures at La Trobe Regional Gallery.
The performance takes place on 1st of February, 2020 at 2pm sharp.
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO TRAINS | Susana Pilar Delhante Matienzo, Adriana Arronte, Diana Fonseca Quiñones, Mia Salsjö, Robyne Latham, Angela Tiatia
Intercambio: Cuba Australia Video Exchange is a part of a five-year artist residency and exchange program between RMIT School of Art and the Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art, culminating in a presentation of Australian works at the 2019 Bienal de la Habana.
Susana Pilar Delhante Matienzo: Susana Pilar Delhante’s homage to the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta, whose violent death in 1985 cut short the career of a highly influential artist. Similarly, Angela Tiatia will devise a new work that pays homage to Mendieta as an artist of global significance
The Video Exchange focuses on the works of six women artists from Cuba and Australia. The exhibition brings into focus shared concerns for artists in the geographical South, with particular emphasis on themes of identity and social participation.
The nations of Cuba and Australia are profoundly different in terms of political structures, histories, economies, scales and most notably, in their cultures. Yet curiously, as two countries of the geographical South, their multi-ethnic and post-colonial legacies reveal surprising synergies and concerns, especially at the levels of cultural discourse and artistic practice.
Six women artists – three from Cuba and three from Australia – will present video works within the discursive framework of the Intercambio: Cuba Australia Video Exchange. Issues including gender-based violence, social participation, identity and otherness are explored through video based works. Ranging from the confrontational to the whimsical, the exhibition focuses especially on performance-based processes. This includes Susana Pilar Delhante’s homage to the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta, whose violent death in 1985 cut short the career of a highly influential artist. Similarly, Angela Tiatia will devise a new work that pays homage to Mendieta as an artist of global significance.
In contrast, Melbourne-based artist Mia Salsjö will present works made in Cuba and Australia that reflect on her own experience as an artist living in diverse locations and as one who draws on exceedingly different cultural roots. Salsjö’s works will appear alongside Delhante’s reflections on her African ancestry in both local and global contexts. Robyne Latham will similarly consider issues pertaining to Indigenous identity and universality.
Adriana Arronte will present documentation of planned and impromptu performances, at times enacted in public spaces in Cuba. Her works deal with issues of gendered violence and the extent to which such topics are publically discussed.
MODES OF TRANSLATION | Documentary
Just arrived and a long time waiting. A snippet of a short doco made about Mia's work, process and Modes of Translation.
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The 13th Havana Biennial
Mia Salsjö recently exhibited in the 13th Havana Biennial.
Watch her live performance at the world-renowned Fabrica de Arte Cubano.
The 13th Havana Biennial, the largest visual arts event in Cuba, runs from April 12 to May 12, 2019, with the commitment that the capital city of the island become a “cultural corridor” in which the creators and the public interact.
INCINERATOR ART AWARD RECIPIENT
Mia was the second place recipient for the 2018 Art for Social Change Award at the Incinerator Gallery.
Photo: Pier Carthew
THE SCORE | The Ian Potter Museum of Art
“Mia Salsjö’s multi-faceted project reveals the processes and final outcomes of the artist’s acts of self-reflexive translation and scoring. Salsjö assigns notes to letters of the alphabet, and translates into music certain words that she feels correspond to her practice. She plots and expands these repetitive fragments into complex drawings (a number of which were on display), which also respond to architectural and spatial structures. Her work Modes of Translation (2016–17) was influenced by one particular site–the buildings of the National Schools complex in Havana, Cuba–and the final two-channel video featured nine violin students performing Salsjö’s composition under one of the school’s crumbling domes.”
