Ben Apfelbaum

HEARD. SYD BY NICK CAVE @ CARRIAGEWORKS

Carriageworks and the City of Sydney are presenting Heard. Syd by US artist Nick Cave, marking the first time the renowned artist has presented a major work in Australia. Presented over two days, on Thursday 10 November and Saturday 12 November, Heard.Syd features over 60 Sydney based dancers and brings to life 30 colourful life sized horse suits – performed across two locations in Sydney’s CBD and Carriageworks.

Set to live Polynesian percussive rhythms Heard.Syd will impact on Sydneysiders with an exuberant and surreal explosion of equestrian activities. The life-sized horse suits are constructed from coloured raffia and found materials.

Over sixty Sydney based dancers and musicians have had the unique opportunity of working directly with Nick Cave and American choreographers Will Gill and Bob Faust to stage the project.

Encouraging an almost pastoral dream-like state, Heard.Syd is an escapist response to the bustle of the city.

The show is being presented free to Sydney audiences on this Thursday 10 November at 5 pm at Pitt Street Mall, and Saturday 12 November 10 am and 12 noon at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Redfern.

All images by Ben Apfelbaum (c).

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My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.