calendar 2025
Promoting career defining moments for early career artists to present works to scale. An artist-in-residence will run concurrently, alongside an exhibition at CURRENT Gallery together with an extensive program of related discursive events allowing ample opportunities for audiences to further engage with contemporary art and ideas of our time.
28 JUNE- 10 AUGUST
Opening hours
Wednesday- Sunday
10 am-5 pm
Regenerative Strategies
Artist-in-Residence
"I seek to engage with others by telling stories in a way that is 'right way' for me as an Aboriginal person and artist, and to make a contribution to making spaces culturally safe in the arts and beyond."
saturday, 3-4 pm.
Regenerative Strategies
- Gian Manik, artist
- Annika Kristensen, curator
- Timmah Ball, writer
- Kate Driscoll, art teacher
Free, public event
Thursday 6 pm - 8 pm
CONVERSATION 09 -
MARK LILY / MANNER
Mark Lilly is a local designer/maker gaining national attention for his beautiful, innovative work. Self-taught, he launched his practice, as a ‘design diary’ to document his craft-centric experiments with form and function.
Mark finds inspiration in unusual places. His Banksia Chair, a unique piece crafted from banksia seed pods, debuted at Fremantle Design Week and was runner-up in the inaugural Anibou Prize, a national award program celebrating emerging designers and ingenuity in Australian furniture design.
Drinks will be available from the bar - arrive at 6 pm to view the Regenerative Strategies exhibition by Gian Manik , presented by Vessel Contemporary. The Conversation will kick off at 6.30pm.
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Thursday, 6pm-10pm.
Peer-to-peer learning program.
Intro to the course and a get to know each other session where everyone will share their practice, thoughts and expectations according to a model.
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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.
TUEsday 7 pm - 9 pm
“Rapp had an instinct for being taciturn and pithy; for making the music gossamer light or adding phenomenal weight and vigour, using extraordinarily few notes” Sydney Morning Herald
Vessel joins Tone List in presenting a performance for voice, cello and double bass by Mary Rapp. The performance will take place in Gian Manik’s exhibition Regenerative Strategies and will absorb the work, the space and the site itself to create a deeply felt exploration of embodied resonance - music with guts. This is Mary’s first performance on Whadjuk boodja, since recently relocating here.
Tuesday 5th of August
Doors open 7pm
Performance 7.30pm
ABOUT MARY RAPP
Mary’s practice is led by their perpetual curiosity that investigates jazz, classical, experimental and Korean traditional music. Her interests and musical goals lie in notions of digging deep into the body, movement led technique, site specific composition and practice, and noisy catharsis.
https://maryrapp.com.au/
ABOUT TONE LIST
Tone List is an artist-run, Boorloo-based label for exploratory music. It is dedicated to the nurturing of approaches to music-making which receive little or no attention in existing structures on the west coast of this continent, especially where those approaches are radical or novel. Tone List is a not-for-profit incorporated association, and a registered charity. Its core operations are volunteer-run.
https://www.tonelist.com.au/
Vessel will run a paid bar, with support from our event partners Otherside Brewing, MadFish Wines, Lightning Minds
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SATURDAT 1 pm - 3.30 pm
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
Wednesday, 6pm-9pm.
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAM
Foundation back and forth - Magni Moss
What kind of art (worldview) do you do (have)? What kind of worldview does your art communicate? What is (your) process?This workshop investigates philosophical cosmology, ontology and epistemology as a fundament for our art practices. Lecture and group discussions.
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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.
SUNDAY, 10 am-3pm.
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAM
Words as material - Kate Moss
Approaching writing as an active process to slowly digest and critically examine the world around us. Within studio practice or broadly in life, writing can happen anywhere, on the train, on the sand at the beach, as a sketch, as a beginning - magic happens when we allow ourselves to sit and write. Looking at the writing of Nancy Holt, Lisa Bellear and Inger Christensen. Switching off phones and from the commute to the workshop, participants slowly land in the room-activating a different mode of doing.
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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.
wednesday, 6pm-10pm.
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAM
Beuys Beuys Beuys we’re looking for a good time -Magni Moss
About Beuys and how art can (can it?) be political. Taking point of departure in one of the most influential artist of the 20th century we look into how one can and can’t make a change today, with help from French philosopher Jacques Rancière investigating conceits of radical democracy and consensus. Introduction by Magni, screening of Beuys the documentary and post movie discussion.
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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.
SUNDAY, 10 am-3pm.
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAM
Furthering on from Words as Material, this workshop centres listening as an active, engaged practice —crucial to artistic process.Walking along the banks of Derbal Yerrigan, asking questions:
How do we centre listening- listening with our whole body- in our individual practices? We will be thinking with artists, writers such as Jazz Money, Daniel Browning, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Kinsella, and Etel Adnan.
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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.
Vessel and Fremantle Biennale will be bringing international artists to create a site-responsive commission and provide Western Australian audiences with international perspectives, arts and dialogue.
fremantlebiennale.com.au
SUNDAY, 1pm-5pm.
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAM
Material as part of an immanent quality - Magni Moss
What importance, role and effect does the actual material have that we use? We start with a theoretical note connecting to our second session but with a special focus on experience and immanence, looking at the lifelong practice of Inge Grünwaldt Svensson. Then, we will get into a painting material workshop making egg oil tempera and talking about paint and pigments.
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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.
POLITICA
Cinema Politica is an international network that distributes and streams independent films. Cinema Politica shares Vessel’s belief in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change
cinemapolitica.org