Cave Urban is teaming up with the University of Tasmania to create The Hothouse for this years Dark MOFO festival in Hobart.
We will be down in Hobart all of May constructing the pavilion which will play host to Clemenger's Hothouse and Dark MOFO's Winter Feast.
Cave Urban member Jed Long spoke with Sculpture By The Sea, about Cave Urban's most recent work Save Our Souls, currently on display at the headland above Bondi
Cave Urban member Jed Long, spent the last week helping Georges Cuvillier build his Tunnel van de Liefde (Tunnel of Love) for the Swell Sculpture Festival. Constructed from 300 poles of Oldhamii, harvest from Crystal Waters, the piece is joined using a rope system that allows for the piece to be dismantled and the bamboo re-used once the exhibition ends.
Cave Urban photographer Kai Wasikowski recently visited us onsite at Southbank in Brisbane.
Here are a few photos from a wet day of building.
Cave Urban will be getting involved at QUT project week. Students will be able to get involved with Cave Urban's upcoming project for the Brisbane Festival, whilst also completing their own proposals for a bamboo installation. One of the projects will then be built later in the year in Brisbane's Botanic Gardens.
Cave Urban recently spent the weekend harvesting Bamboo from Crystal Waters and Kin Kin, with a group of volunteers from QUT.
They harvested 1000 poles in preparation for the upcoming installation at Southbank for the Brisbane festival.
A big thank you to all our volunteers and Boc from Crystal Waters for helping out.
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Jed spoke on behalf of Cave Urban at the 2014 Woodford Planting Festival. The talk was entitled 'Bamboo in Australian Design' and provided an overview of bamboo globally before addressing the specific issues facing practitioners in Australia.
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Cave Urban member Jed Long recently presented a lecture entitled "Bamboo in Australia, Cave Urban at Work" to the Bamboo Global Summit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It concentrated upon Cave Urban's first research folio on ' Bamboo and Lightweight Structures' and showed several of Cave Urban's recent works. The talk introduced the idea of education and workshops as a means to introduce bamboo to a developed economy.
Cave Urban’s sculpture menangang (meaning ‘memory’ in Balinese) was a hit at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, taking out the Allens People’s Choice Prize. Inspired by traditional Balinese bird-scarers, the installation made of 222 wind-chimes is a memorial to each of the lives lost in the Bali two terrorist attacks.
The original concept for this artwork came from Lachy Brown, a journalist and member of Cave Urban who went on to form a team of volunteers within the collaborative for this particular project. Other members of the Cave Urban collaboration include: Nici Long, Juan-Pablo Pinto, Clary Akon, Kate Ratner, Jed Long, Angel Heradia, Angus Hudson, Kevin Nixon and Alice Nivison, a mix of architects, builders and artists.
More than 5,000 votes were cast for the Allens People’s Choice Prize, with Cave Urban the clear winners. The artists will receive $5,000 for the prize.
The artists will be recreating menangang at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2013, held from 8 to 25 March on the beautiful Western Australian shore.
For more information on the Allens People’s Choice Prize, visit: www.allens.com.au/spons/sculpture/inde
