Imogen Semmler and Neil Brandhorst will be in the studio tomorrow to talk about Underbelly Arts festival on Cockatoo Island.
Check it out here: www.underbellyarts.com.au
TaLKing ThRougH YoUR ArTs ***Every SATurday 12-1pm*** 2SER 107.3
July 1, 2011
Adam Hill at the Brett Whiteley Gallery
On Sunday 26th June, an enthusiastic audience was fortunate enough to hear Aboriginal poet Adam Hill reading some of his poetry and playing the didgeridoo at the Whiteley.
Adam Hill is a contemporary Sydney-based artist and spoken word performer committed, for over a decade, to forging social justice through his art and commentary. An accomplished musician who has pursued the masterful art of the Yidaki (didgeridoo), Adam has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, both as a solo artist and as a collaborator.
Recently back from an Australian tour, Adam displayed a map of Aboriginal Australia and invoked audience participation in his performance. In the style adopted by many Aboriginal poets, his poems exposed the negative effects of colonialism and ‘settlement’ with rage and humour, culminating in the witty Ausfailure National Tantrum, received with great applause. The haunting sounds of the didgeridoo contributed to a memorable occasion and brought the reading to a close.
Convened by the indefatigable Angela Stretch, the Whiteley readings are an integral part of the Sydney poetry scene, featuring poets of high calibre. Currently unfunded, this event of 13 years standing is seeking sponsors in order to continue. The next reader will be Melbourne poet Dan Disney, launching his new collection, and then when the, on Sunday 24th July.
(Margaret Bradstock)
Australians all let us remorse
For we are blind can't see
We've golden soil that we all spoil
Our home washes into sea
Our land abounds in racist gits
Of whom we really can't bear
In history's cage recompense the slaves
Do Australians really care?
In painful strains that left a sting
Do Australians really care?
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/alternative-anthems-creator-sings-against-bitter-injustice-20090531-brqt.html#ixzz1QcjaoyRx
Beauty, Vanity and Narcissism
An invitation from The Cross Art Projects to view a remarkable exhibition
and celebrate NAIDOC Week
Exhibition: Beauty, Vanity and Narcissism. Three Aboriginal Male
Artist-Photographers: Adam Hill, Garry Lee & Christian Thompson.
Curator: Djon Mundine OAM
Opening: Saturday 2 July 2011at 4pm; Performance by Bjorn Stewart at 5.30pm.
Exhibition Dates: 30 June to 30 July 2011
Venue: The Cross Art Projects
8 Llankelly Place Kings Cross 2011 (off Orwell Street)
About the Exhibition: Beauty, Vanity and Narcissism
In Arnhem Land when beings, creatures, and people exhibit a type of
internal radiated ‘beauty’ at certain times, they are said to be fat,
or full of djukurr. It is a period of strongly evident health and
vitality. Beauty is exhibited by those attributes deemed culturally as
pleasing or impressive or just a socially defined personal appearance.
This varies considerably from society to society, culture to culture and
time to time.
Vanity isn’t necessarily a bad personal trait as in pride in one’s
achievements and knowing your worth. These three artists have much to be
vain about as they are good looking, stylish, intelligent and prescient.
They have accomplished artistic careers by any measurement. But, when
vanity does appear as excessive pride or conceit it is painful to watch
and endure. These three artists have never shown together: Adam Hill and
Christian Thompson are ‘photoshop’ generation while Garry Lee’s
disarming work retains a documentary aura. Yet their work puts
playful/serious questions about stereotypes of Aboriginality.
Christian Thompson’s brazen display is more than a conceited flaunt. In
former times and revelatory occasions Aboriginal adult males covered their
naked bodies with various painted and adorned spaces and designs. These
were in essence a vision of how your soul, your very personal spiritual
essence, in all its power and beauty exists all the time, despite the
changing form of your outer shell. To be an intellectual in Australia is
a terrible burden (maybe a vanity). Freudians may say that everything is
sexual but there is identification with and a joy of meeting the young.
This joy of freshness and renewal is Gary Lee’s obsession, search and
expression. Adam Hill projects his alter ego, possibly unconsciously,
revealing a 1950s ‘Chesty Bond’ Australian male as a kind of striving
sincerity, and yet a send-up of himself and the idea of the ‘male’.
Extracts taken from essay by Djon Mundine OAM, 2011. (Download full essay
from web link below)
www.crossart.com.au
and celebrate NAIDOC Week
Exhibition: Beauty, Vanity and Narcissism. Three Aboriginal Male
Artist-Photographers: Adam Hill, Garry Lee & Christian Thompson.
Curator: Djon Mundine OAM
Opening: Saturday 2 July 2011at 4pm; Performance by Bjorn Stewart at 5.30pm.
Exhibition Dates: 30 June to 30 July 2011
Venue: The Cross Art Projects
8 Llankelly Place Kings Cross 2011 (off Orwell Street)
About the Exhibition: Beauty, Vanity and Narcissism
In Arnhem Land when beings, creatures, and people exhibit a type of
internal radiated ‘beauty’ at certain times, they are said to be fat,
or full of djukurr. It is a period of strongly evident health and
vitality. Beauty is exhibited by those attributes deemed culturally as
pleasing or impressive or just a socially defined personal appearance.
This varies considerably from society to society, culture to culture and
time to time.
Vanity isn’t necessarily a bad personal trait as in pride in one’s
achievements and knowing your worth. These three artists have much to be
vain about as they are good looking, stylish, intelligent and prescient.
They have accomplished artistic careers by any measurement. But, when
vanity does appear as excessive pride or conceit it is painful to watch
and endure. These three artists have never shown together: Adam Hill and
Christian Thompson are ‘photoshop’ generation while Garry Lee’s
disarming work retains a documentary aura. Yet their work puts
playful/serious questions about stereotypes of Aboriginality.
Christian Thompson’s brazen display is more than a conceited flaunt. In
former times and revelatory occasions Aboriginal adult males covered their
naked bodies with various painted and adorned spaces and designs. These
were in essence a vision of how your soul, your very personal spiritual
essence, in all its power and beauty exists all the time, despite the
changing form of your outer shell. To be an intellectual in Australia is
a terrible burden (maybe a vanity). Freudians may say that everything is
sexual but there is identification with and a joy of meeting the young.
This joy of freshness and renewal is Gary Lee’s obsession, search and
expression. Adam Hill projects his alter ego, possibly unconsciously,
revealing a 1950s ‘Chesty Bond’ Australian male as a kind of striving
sincerity, and yet a send-up of himself and the idea of the ‘male’.
Extracts taken from essay by Djon Mundine OAM, 2011. (Download full essay
from web link below)
www.crossart.com.au
June 23, 2011
Refugee Art Project Launch + Pop Up Parramatta
Also featuring on the show this week:
The Refuge Art Project launch at Mori Gallery last Monday, World Refugee Day.
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Pop Up Parramatta is a project based on the successful Renew Newcastle project and focuses on injecting creative enterprise and creative infrastructure into unused shop and office spaces in Parramatta to renew the city space, promote the region, promote the creative community and to stimulate and support creative enterprise.
‘Home’ - Eora College Art Exhibition returns to Boomalli Aboriginal Art Gallery
Buffer Zone
http://www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/Visiting/Whats_on/events/all_events/buffer_zone_2011_exhibition
Sunday Poetry @ 2 | 26 June 2011
Brett Whiteley Studio | 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills.
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