BUFFER ZONE

Date May 10, 6.30pm

Who Atanas Djonov, Bonita Ely, Allan Giddy, Alison Groves, Ihor Holubizky & Sarah Iremonger
Location COFA | University of New South Wales
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington Lecture Theatre: EGO2

The group exhibition, Buffer Zone, is presented Allan Giddy is the director of ERIA. He is a pioneer
by COFA’s Environmental Research Initiative for in, and one of Australasia’s foremost proponents
Art (ERIA) and co curated by Allan Giddy, ERIA’s of, sustainable energy systems, electronic
director and Lecturer for the School of Art, and interconnectivity and interactivity embedded in the
Canadian academic Ihor Holubizky. physical art object. He has worked with alternative
energy systems in his sculpture and installation art
Giddy and Holubizky (via video from Canada) are for over fifteen years.
joined by exhibiting artists Atanas Djonov, Bonita
Ely and Sarah Iremonger, as well as the exhibition Ali Groves is the exhibition manager of Buffer Zone.
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manager Alison Groves, in this discussion about an Groves has a Bachelor of Art Theory/Arts degree
exhibition that focuses on zones that emerge in areas from COFA and is currently completing her Master of
of friction between two forces (of an environmental, Art Administration degree.
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political, military, social or geographic nature).
Consciously or otherwise, these buffer zones Ihor Holubizky is an art and cultural historian. He has
develop out of a need or desire for protection and/or held curatorial positions in public galleries in Canada
segregation. and Australia, and is currently the Senior Curator for
the Museum of Art, McMaster University, Canada.
Atanas Djonov is a Sydney based artist, born in
Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Before immigrating to Sydney in Sarah Iremonger is an installation visual artist and
1996, he completed a video-production course at visual arts officer for the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh,
Sofia University. In 2002, Djonov graduated with a Co. Cork, Ireland.
BFA (Time-Based Art) from COFA.
The Buffer Zone exhibition runs until July 31 at The
Dr Bonita Ely is one of the pioneers of Australian Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park.
environmental art and has been exhibiting urban
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