muma
MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART
ROom sheet
open spatial workshop:
converging in time
FOYER
Plaster cast from folded clay
experiment.
Shelf: crinoid (sea lily) fossil
(416-443 million years
ago), Silurian era collected
from Brunswick clay pits
circa 1900’s (Wurundjeri);
vitrified brick for chemical
works made by Hoffman’s
Brickworks collected 1923;
and greenstone from
Wil-im-ee Moor-ring /
Mt William, Lancefield
(Wurundjeri) collected
1853-68.
Anthropocite, 2015.
The anthropocite rock is
composed of a range of
recycled materials including
concrete, asphalt, glass and
plastic. It was produced
through an experimental
process that builds on
traditional glass and ceramic
methodologies. The rock
is constructed using a
layering process that mirrors
sedimentary rock formation
and is encased in a crust
of ‘magma’. The work
incorporates a bluetooth
beacon that links viewers
to www.anthropocite.com
where a video narrative may
be viewed.
SOUTH GALLERY 1
Blown glass forms [Sari
Zananari], lead caps and
saléeite crystals collected
from Ranger uranium mine,
Northern Territory (Mirarr).
Slumped plasticine form
and steel models of crystals
including graphite [brown
coal], vivianite, quartz,
copper, saléeite, iron
[Murchison meteorite],
hermatite [banded
iron], jadeite [Victorian
greenstone], sanidine [lava
bomb], olivine [basalt tree],
calcite [trilobite eyes].
HALLWAY TO SOUTH
GALLERY 2
Trilobite fossil, Cambrian era
(488-542 million years ago),
mild steel and stainless steel
plate.
SOUTH GALLERY 2
Linear structure
incorporating: found
concrete form; Paleo platter,
2016; Murchison meteorite,
Murchison (Ngurai-illamwurrung), in blown glass
form [Sari Zananari]; basalt
log collected from Footscray
circa 1860’s; and lava
bomb.
Hanging form incorporating
natural and artificial tektites.
Pothole assemblage:
pothole grinder in acrylic
tube, concrete and naturally
occurring copper.
Graphite ball.
Video: sand particles at Big
Drift sand dunes, Wilsons
Promontory (Boon Wurrung,
Bunurong and Gunaikurnai),
3.06 minutes. Videography:
Polly Stanton.
CORRIDOR
(left to right)
Blown glass form [Sari
Zananari], lead caps and
saléeite crystals collected
from Ranger uranium mine,
Northern Territory (Mirarr).
Teeth marks from bucketwheel excavator, Hazelwood
opencut coal mine
(Gunaikurnai).
Photo: Natarsha Lamb,
2011.
Tree stump fossil inverted
in seam, Yallourn
(Gunaikurnai), J.P. Campbell
collection, 1924-30.
Pictures Collection, State
Library of Victoria.
Aerial view of Ranger
uranium mine, Northern
Territory (Mirarr), 2017.
Map Data: Google,
DigitalGlobe, CNES/Astrium.
Banded iron collected
from the Pilbara, Western
Australia (Yamatji).
Brunswick from the air
looking east (Wurundjeri),
1921.
Courtesy of Moreland City
Libraries.
Photo: Richard Daintree,
1862.
State Library of Victoria.
Victorian mining display,
Melbourne International
Exhibition, Royal Exhibition
Building, Melbourne.
Photo: Ludovico Hart, 1880.
Royal Exhibition Building
Collection, Museums
Victoria.
VIDEO ROOM
Glimpse, 2015
5.26 minutes
NORTH GALLERY
Torn plasticine.
Papercrete platform with
fossilised Kauri log collected
from Loy Yang open
cut mine (Gunaikurnai),
2006 and bronze casts of
meteorite impressions.
Video: Cape Liptrap
formation (Boon Wurrung,
Bunurong and Gunaikurnai),
4.55 minutes.
Videography and sound
recording: Polly Stanton.
Sound post-production:
Melissa Vallence.
Excavation of Cranbourne
meteorite (Boon Wurrung),
Daintree collection.
*Various specimens have been
loaned from the Geosciences and
Technology collections of Museums
Victoria and Crystal World and
Prehistory Journeys.
*All locations are in Victoria unless
otherwise specified.
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