Start: 2010-03-13T04:00:00
End: 2010-03-13T06:00:00
Location: Bay 19 CarriageWorks 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
PERFORMANCE SPACE INVITATION:
Nigel Helyer in residence.
Meet the artist and discuss his ongoing
project GhosTrain
Saturday 13 March, 3pm
Bay
19 CarriageWorks 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
Please RSVP to becd@performancespacecom.au
as
refreshments will be served.
Please
pass on to your railway and railway heritage networks as we do not have contacts
for all of the individuals that we would like to invite. We are steadily
building a contact list.
About the project
Nigel Helyer is
beginning research for the third stage of a project called GhosTrain
beginning on 8 March with Performance Space @ CarriageWorks.
The third
stage of this project will result in a permanent audio tour and digital audio
cartography of the CarriageWorks site, which we hope to extend to the Eveleigh
Locomotive side of the tracks.
We have applied for funding for this stage
of the project and are waiting for the results.
In order to conduct
research for this project and collect the individual and myriad stories and
historical audio material to make the project a rich and informative experience
for members of the public, we are inviting you to join us, so that we can
explain the project and invite your expertise and
contribution.
GhosTrain is focused upon the Eveleigh Railway
Workshops, once the largest employer in New South Wales, and in its day a both a
centre of technological innovation and of working class political organisation.
The site was closed by the State government some decades ago and has recently
been repurposed as a cultural zone, mirroring the redevelopment of its sister
site (the Redfern Locomotive Workshops) as a Technology park. GhosTrain
is designed in three stages and aims to recognise the importance of the
soundscape that once characterised the site and endeavours to re-instate
specific elements of its acoustic ecology and the memories contained within oral
history.
The first phase, a series of five short broadcasts produced at
ABC Radio National (Sydney) established contact with a range of ex-railway
workers and interlaced their oral histories with commentaries from historians,
architects and the like ~ this was in effect an early research phase, collecting
material and getting under the complex skin of the site. These audio files can
still be listened to on the ABC’s POOL site: http://pool.org.au/users/ghostrain
The
second phase, you will be able to hear each day at 1pm at CarriageWorks until 17
March and 13 May – 5 June.
We are submitting a Heritage Project
Nomination to the RWA for the third stage. We will also be organising another
meeting in June 2010, to give us enough lead-time to get the word out
comprehensively to the many people involved in the history of this site.
In the meantime, it would be great if you could join us for the
afternoon tea, so that we can discuss this evolving project and seek your input
into it
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need more
information.
Bec Dean
Associate Director
PERFORMANCE
SPACE
Performance Space at CarriageWorks
245 Wilson Street Eveleigh
PO
Box 461, Newtown NSW 2042 Australia
t +61 2
8571 9101
f +61 2 8571 9118
http://www.performancespace.com.au