Chicks on Speed

 

Melissa Logan, b. United States of America, lives and works in Munich, Germany
Alex Murray-Leslie, b. Australia, lives and works in Sydney, London and Barcelona



Solo Exhibitions

 2016

Victor Saavedra, Barcelona

2015

SCREAM, ArtScience Museum, Signapore, SGP

Golden Gang, Milani Gallery, Brisbane

Datastravaganza, 401Contemporary, Berlin, D Art Cologne

 

2014

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore

JAMaramma, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia                                               

 

2013

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Artspace, Sydney

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Brisbane

 

2012

The Endless Song, Zuecca Gallery & University IUAV, Venice, Italy

 

2011

Chicks on Speed: Cultural Workship Now! Kunstraum Kreuzberg

Bitanian, Berlin, Germany

Chicks on Speed Happening, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK

Prototype Hits, L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain

 

2010

Chicks on Speed, Don’t Art, fashion, Music, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts,

Dundee, Scotland, UK

 

2009

Viva La Craft, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Art Rules, Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21, Vienna, Austria *

Power Tools for the remote controlled Metaverse, Bawag Contemporary,

Vienna, Austria

 

2008

Art Rules, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Art Rules, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York *

A New Line, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK

 

2007

SHOE FUCK! CAC Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Art For Sale, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

It’s not what you think, it’s the way you look!, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria


Group Exhibitions

2019

Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

 2016

Geek Girls, Creative Industries Precint, Queensland University Gallery, Brisbane (Upcoming)

2015

Girls at The Tin Sheds: Sydney Feminist Posters 1975-90, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney

Experimental Practice: Provocations in Design, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne

The Armory Show, New York

 

2014

Der Stachel des Scorpions, Museum Villa Stuck

Der Stachel des Scorpions, Instituts Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt

Der Stachel des Scorpions, “Carte Blanche”, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt

Green Cathedral, Wollongong Art Gallery, Australia

Fau-Tourism, The Scandinavian Institute, New York

Whitney Biennial, (a collaborative piece with A.L. steiner) New York

 

2013

Touch me baby, I'm bodycentric, a multimodalplosion. With Lisa Walker, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ

 

2012

Cross Counter, Vacant, Tokyo, Japan

Limited-Unlimted , Alta Roma, Rome, Italy

Feminist Fashion Film Now, A Shaded View on Fashion Film,

CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain

 

2011

The Power of Making, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Contour, 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Sound and Vision

beyond reason, Mechelen, Belgium

DIY, Museum for Communication, Frankfurt 

 

2010

Figura Cuncta Videntis: The All Seeing Eye/Hommage to Christophe Schlingensief TBA-21, Vienna Austria

(Back to) the Robots, Sonar, International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain

It’s Not Only Rock and Roll baby! Trienale, Bovisa, Milan, Italy

Scope @ The Armoury Show, Curated by Diane pernet, New York, USA

Estoril Fashion Art Festival, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2009

A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Centre Pompidiou, Paris, france

Best of 50 Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany

Skyscraper, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK

A hanging Garden Party, Chicks on Speed and Pelican Avenue Paris, France

A hanging Garden Party, Chicks on Speed and Pelican Avenue Tokyo Fashion Week, Tokyo, Japan

The Making Of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

21:100:100, 100 sound works by 100 artists from the 21 Century, Melbourne International Arts Festival & Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces

 

Performances

2019

I'll be your body instrument, Performance Space, Sydney

2016

Artformance, Volksbuhne, Berlin

Pohoda Festival, Slovenia

W, GOA, India

 

2015

Artstravaganza, for the closing of Karl Lagerfeld, 'Modemethode', Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Finnish Pavilion vernissage, Venice Biennale

ArtScience Museum, Singapore, SGP

Golden Gang film screening, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney,

Artformance, PS1 MoMA, New York

Chicks on Speed Artformance, 'The Fashion World of Jean Pault Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

ASVOFF8, Centre Pompidiou, Paris

 

2014

Unpainted, Media Art fair, Munich

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Fremantle Perth

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, RMIT University, Melbourne

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore

JAMaramma, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

ZKM, Centre for Art and Media (vernissage Lynne Hershman exhibition)

Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt

 

2013

Gigahertz festival, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, karlsruhe

Australian pavillion vernissage, 55th Venice Biennale

TBA 21 Art Contemporary, 55th Venice Biennale

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Artspace, Sydney

Chicks on Speed SCREAM, Brisbane

 

2012

Laus Awards, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contempornia, Barcelona

 

2011

Contour, 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Sound & Vision beyond reason, Mechelen,Belgium

Video Art at Midnight, Babylon, Berlin, Germany*

MIS Museum of Image & Sound, Sao Paulo

Gareth Pugh, Aftershow Party, Pitti, Florence

Chicks on Speed: Cultural Workship

Now! Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bitanian, Berlin, Germany*

Oddstream Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Legacy, Taipei, Taiwan

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paria, france

 

2010

Chicks on Speed, Don’t Art, fashion, Music, DCA,

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK

Express yourself Night, Manhattan Cosmetics, Berlin, Germany

The Brandery, Barcelona, Spain

The Naked Performer, Inkonst, Malmo, Sweden

The Sound of Munich, Munich, Germany

 

2009

Bread and Butter, Berlin

Viva La Craft, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Art Rules, Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21, Vienna, Austria *

Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Volksbuhne, Berlin, Germany

Fashion on Paper, Alta Roma, Rome, Italy

The Brandery Opening Gala event, Barcelona, Spain

 

2008

Art Rules, by Chicks on Speed & Douglas Gordon,

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

Art Rules, by Chicks on Speed & Douglas Gordon,

MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA *

Fashion Against Aids/H&M Launch Party, Berlin, Germany

Diesel XXX Party, with Whomadewho, Milan, Italy

Fashion Against Aids/Hennes&Mauritz Launch, Colette, Paris

Future Music Festival, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Australia

Yoox.com Birthday Party, Bologna, Italy

 

2007

Art Rules by Chicks on Speed and Douglas Gordon,

Centre Pompidiou, Paris, France

SHOE FUCK! CAC Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Art For Sale, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France*

It’s not what you think, it’s the way you look!,

Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

2006

LIVE! Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

 

2005

What is Music, Australian Tour

Nu Music festival, Stavanger, Norway

 

2004

Glastonbury, UK

Red Hot Chilli Peppers & James Brown, European tour support

Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain

Diesel Music Awards, Ghent, Belgium

Jalouse party, Moscow, Russia

Sonar Festival of Advanced Music, Sao Paulo, Brazil & Tokyo, Japan

Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany


Public speaking, Workshops & Lectures

2015

DIY, Musical instrument design workshop, Material Futures, Central St Martins, Univeristy of the Arts, London (Alex)

Keynote presentation, Faculty of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons the New School, Paris (Alex)

Performance Workshop, Interface Cultures, The University of Art and Design Linz (Alex)

Keynote presentation, Design Friends, Rotondes, Luxemburg

2014

SCREAM, Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

SCREAM, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth, Australia

Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz (Alex Murray-Leslie)

Subversion in Art & Culture, Theory, HAW Hamburg (Melissa Logan)

Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sydney (Alex Murray-Leslie)

University Pompei Fabre, Barcelona (Alex Murray-Leslie)

Costume Colloqium, Colours of fashion, Keynote presentation (Alex Murray-Leslie)

Xcommunicate, University of Technology, Brisbane (Alex Murray-Leslie)

 

2013

Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (Alex Murray-Leslie)

Interface Cultures, University of Art and Design Linz (Melissa Logan and

Alex Murray-Leslie)

HAANGAR. Org

SymbioticA, University of Western Australia (Alex Murray-Leslie)

University Pompei Fabre, Barcelona (Alex Murray-Leslie)

 

2012

Utopia Utopia! Superstadt

Performance Lecture & interview with curator Milovan Farronato, MiArt, Milan Art Fair

Book Works, London. ( Melissa Logan & Anat Ben-David)

Lecture, University IUAV, Venice, Italy (Alex Murray-Leslie)

Lecture & Workshop with Sabine Seymour, Hangar, Barcelona

Art and Humor, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (Melissa Logan)

Don't Art, Fashion. HfK Bremen, (Melissa Logan)

Humor & Very Serious Cheekiness, From Video to Tit-Prints.

Raum Blau, Hamburg. (Melissa Logan)

 

2011

Chicks on Speed, don’t Art, fashion, Music, book launch & lecture, Corso Como 10, Milan, Italy

Chicks on Speed, don’t Art, fashion, Music, book launch & lecture, Gallery Mutt, Barcelona, Spain

 

2010

Lecture, Prototype, Symposium, convened by the Victoria & Albert

Museum & Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee

Workshop & Lecture series, Music 2.0, Camon, Alicante, Spain

 

2008 

“Fashion as Song”, performance lecture, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Australian

Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI) Melbourne, Australia

“Play It Loud” Panel discussion, Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia

Women in Research, workshop and residency, Monash University, Australia

“Art Rules” lecture Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

Elisava School of Art and Design, lecture, Barcelona, Spain

 

2007    

„Lebe wild, prekär und gefährlich“ Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Melissa Logan)

 

2006   

The Inflencers, CCCB, Barcelona

 

2003  

The Art of Pop, Goldsmiths collage of Art, London

 

 

Residencies

2015

Arts and Design Research Incubator & Department of Sports science, The Pennsylvania state university (Alex)
Music Technology Group, Department of Computer Science, University Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona (Alex)
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (Alex)

Research fellow, Study Centre, MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (Alex)

2014

ArtSpace, Sydney

ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

SymbioticA, University of Western Australia

 

2013

ArtSpace, Sydney

ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21

 

2012

Hangar.org, Barcelona, Spain

 

2011

L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain

 

2010

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom

Hangar.org, Barcelona, Spain

 

2009

Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

Thyssen Bornesmizsa Contemporary 21 & Museum of Modern

Art Vienna, Austria