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VCA Art 2023

Sam George

You know when you're talking to someone, not about anything in particular,

there’s no real intention driving both,

what you are talking about and how you ended up talking.

(Well, maybe the intention was the simple desire to be in that space together for that moment.)

The importance of the contents is unremarkable to anyone eavesdropping and perhaps the participants themselves.

There’s a certain loss of consciousness for beyond you both,

maybe a blur of background, though not enough to trip if you're walking,

and yet still retaining the ability to notice a small house fire.


Maybe you don't know what I mean.


There are these conversations I have had, I couldn’t hold them, I can’t remember them, so I'm trying to find them instead. I’m looking for where they are, I'm trying to build a place for them.


for a conversation, now, sometimes, oops- oh no... sorry, i mean, somewhere… for a conversation, somewhere is an exhibition that builds the space to hold the materialisation of conversations using sculptural structures, instructions, people and performance. 

Sam George, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.

Sam Georg, for conversation, neon lights, steel, plywood, paint (Meadow Green and Deep Blue), 2022- 2023. Image courtesy of Sam George.

Sam George, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.

Sam George, untitled (sealine (...beautiful… whatever… )), detail.jpg, 2.4 metre neon light, posca pen, 2022, Image credit: Jaime Emily Powell

Sam George, untitled (sealine (...beautiful… whatever… )).jpg, 2.4 metre neon light, posca pen, 2022. Image credit: Jaime Emily Powell.

Sam George, to the moon.jpg. A photo of a Letter to Mark Friedlander in relation the assistance to the operation of the moon, 2022-2023. Image courtesy of Mark Friedlander.

Sam George, Or Saturn can hold it forever, digital image, 2023. Image courtesy of Sam George.

Sam George, floor plan, digital image, 2023. Image courtesy of Sam George.

Master of Fine Art
Victorian College of the Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne
PRV12150 / CRICOS: 00116K