What makes a site? Loosely inspired by the surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, two artists take turns inscribing, (re-)etching and printing the same copper plates. The first person making a mark on a new plate chooses the site, and after that, all additions to the plate must represent the same site using different methods. After each round, one-third of the plate is chopped off, excluding it from further alterations. 

 

Brendan Cooper (Ballarat) is a printmaking, sculpture, landscape, and journey artist. Justas Pipinis (Melbourne/Stockholm) tries to make sense of the things that don’t. The two met while undertaking MFA at RMIT and have been making sporadic appearances in each other’s processes ever since. This is their first full-scale collaboration.