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November 11, 2011
August 20, 2011
CAPTURING THE UNSEEN DATA OF THE EVERYDAY
Maybe you’ve wondered what pattern a tree branch makes when the wind blows on it or the movements of a parcel as it goes through in the post? What about about the different shapes women carve their lipsticks into when they use them? These activities and more are captured in UTS Gallery’s latest exhibition, Incidental Data, part of the Sydney Design Festival 2011. Accompanying Public Program: Data Poetry seminar on Wednesday 10 August 6.30-8.15pm
What: Incidental Data
Where: UTS Gallery, Level 4, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo
When: 2 Aug - 2 Sept. Open Mon-Fri 12-6pm
What: Incidental Data
Where: UTS Gallery, Level 4, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo
When: 2 Aug - 2 Sept. Open Mon-Fri 12-6pm
Monica Epstein - Faces behind the self
Sheffer Gallery
38 Lander Street, Darlington.
Aug 12- 27th
Artist talk Sat 27th 4pm
The exhibition then leads to Australian painters, who opened my eyes to a totally new directions, having arrived in Australia in 1998.
This in turn leads to contemporary Australians who have played a significant of my life here. The fields they encompass are wide ranging: artists, gallery directors and opera directors through to friends and also my doctor and dentist.
"It’s a very personal journey and very much an ongoing series. Once up on the walls I realise that the guiding principal for everyone represented is the depiction of the humanity of the self.
38 Lander Street, Darlington.
Aug 12- 27th
Artist talk Sat 27th 4pm
Faces behind the self is an exhibition of faces, which have been brought to life through both paintings and drawings to tell the story of the individuals represented.
It begins with some of the European masters painters and sculptors that I grew up with: Goya Van Gogh, Cezanne, Francis Bacon and Freud to name a few, all of whom had a huge influence on me.The exhibition then leads to Australian painters, who opened my eyes to a totally new directions, having arrived in Australia in 1998.
This in turn leads to contemporary Australians who have played a significant of my life here. The fields they encompass are wide ranging: artists, gallery directors and opera directors through to friends and also my doctor and dentist.
"It’s a very personal journey and very much an ongoing series. Once up on the walls I realise that the guiding principal for everyone represented is the depiction of the humanity of the self.
August 5, 2011
‘Refugee Stories’ told through art
Amnesty International Australia is collaborating with Sydney artists to highlight the experiences of refugees at Chippendale’s Fraser Studios for the opening night of “Refugee Stories” on Thursday 11 August at 6pm.
Several artworks will be exhibited, ranging from photographs of refugees fleeing war-torn Chad; pieces focusing on human rights created by young Afghani women, photographs exploring the plight of refugees coming to Australia, and a film which seeks to display the common humanity shared between Australians and people who have fled their countries in search of safety.
“People need to be able to express their thoughts and feelings in as many ways as possible. The exhibition will give guests an honest glimpse into not only the realities of the refugee experience, but also what young people think about the ongoing debate,” said Matt Woodham, facilitator of a film project which will screen at the exhibit.
"The key to changing the current negativity in the refugee debate is to give more Australians the opportunity to connect and empathise with the courageous stories of real people who have sought asylum in Australia. Art is a powerful medium that can provide this connection,” said Ms Alex Pagliaro, Refugee Coordinator, Amnesty International Australia.
Event Details
Where: Fraser Studios (Queen Street Studio), 10-14 Kensington St, Chippendale
When: Thursday, 11 August, 6.00-9.00pm (exhibition will then run 12 – 17 August 1.00-5.00pm weekdays and 11.00-4.00pm weekends)
Speakers and interview opportunities on opening night:
Najeeba Wazefadost, Afghani refugee and Amnesty International Ambassador
Graham Thom, Amnesty International’s Refugee Coordinator
Several artworks will be exhibited, ranging from photographs of refugees fleeing war-torn Chad; pieces focusing on human rights created by young Afghani women, photographs exploring the plight of refugees coming to Australia, and a film which seeks to display the common humanity shared between Australians and people who have fled their countries in search of safety.
“People need to be able to express their thoughts and feelings in as many ways as possible. The exhibition will give guests an honest glimpse into not only the realities of the refugee experience, but also what young people think about the ongoing debate,” said Matt Woodham, facilitator of a film project which will screen at the exhibit.
"The key to changing the current negativity in the refugee debate is to give more Australians the opportunity to connect and empathise with the courageous stories of real people who have sought asylum in Australia. Art is a powerful medium that can provide this connection,” said Ms Alex Pagliaro, Refugee Coordinator, Amnesty International Australia.
“This exhibition highlights the personal refugee experience and shows the faces and emotions behind the political rhetoric," said Ms Pagliaro.
The opening night will give guests an opportunity to engage with the artworks, meet the artists and hear from a range of high profile refugee advocates. ‘Refugee Stories’ will run from 11-17 August.
Event Details
Where: Fraser Studios (Queen Street Studio), 10-14 Kensington St, Chippendale
When: Thursday, 11 August, 6.00-9.00pm (exhibition will then run 12 – 17 August 1.00-5.00pm weekdays and 11.00-4.00pm weekends)
Speakers and interview opportunities on opening night:
Najeeba Wazefadost, Afghani refugee and Amnesty International Ambassador
Graham Thom, Amnesty International’s Refugee Coordinator
Designer and Industry Collaborate to Propose Improved Traffic Safety
Inviting visitors to make, critique and curate new designs for fluorescent traffic control bollards, Australian artist and designer Jane Gavan’s new exhibition, Factory as Studio opens at UTS’s DAB LAB on Wednesday 3 August.
Gavan’s interest in traffic control bollards began after personally experiencing an all too close encounter with one in Belgium.
“I was commuting from Germany for a residency at the Radiant fluorescent colourant factory in Belgium, and towards the end of a long journey, I hit an out of place roadworks bollard and completely wiped out my car’s side mirror.”
“I wondered why the bollards were so dull, unlike those in Australia that use fluorescents. Later at the Radiant factory, the research and development team explained that stringent European protocols require that traffic bollards only be white and red.”
“There’s a real case for changing to fluorescent colours because people see fluorescents 30% sooner and 30% longer at the end of the day as the light fades, so they’re much safer,” says Gavan.
Understanding that the European protocols are very difficult to change, Gavan took a close look and discovered a by-clause stating that bollards of alternative colours may be used for special occasions.
Gavan then met with cultural officers and the mayor of the Belgium city of Hasselt, who agreed that they would allow her to create new fluorescent bollards with the Belgium Radiant Colour Factory for use during the city’s cultural festivals and events in order to raise awareness to the issue and make a case for change.
“When I came back to Sydney, I decided I wanted to involve the local design and art community to get more input into the project,” says Gavan.
The exhibition Factory as Studio invites visitors to engage in the design process in several ways: as makers by developing models and drawings of bollards, as curators by collecting and re-presenting groups of models in mini exhibitions, and as critics by offering critical feedback.
Factory as Studio is part of Gavan’s ongoing research into the long tradition of innovative practices in factory communities and looks at how designers can create opportunities for collaboration within these industrial environments.
Factory as Studio by Jane Gavan is on show from Wednesday 3 - Friday 26 August 2011 at DAB LAB Research Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Building 6, Level 4 Courtyard, 702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo.
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am – 5pm.
An artist talk will be held on Thursday 11 August at 2pm.
Factory as Studio is part of Sydney Design 2011.
Gavan’s interest in traffic control bollards began after personally experiencing an all too close encounter with one in Belgium.
“I was commuting from Germany for a residency at the Radiant fluorescent colourant factory in Belgium, and towards the end of a long journey, I hit an out of place roadworks bollard and completely wiped out my car’s side mirror.”
“I wondered why the bollards were so dull, unlike those in Australia that use fluorescents. Later at the Radiant factory, the research and development team explained that stringent European protocols require that traffic bollards only be white and red.”
“There’s a real case for changing to fluorescent colours because people see fluorescents 30% sooner and 30% longer at the end of the day as the light fades, so they’re much safer,” says Gavan.
Understanding that the European protocols are very difficult to change, Gavan took a close look and discovered a by-clause stating that bollards of alternative colours may be used for special occasions.
Gavan then met with cultural officers and the mayor of the Belgium city of Hasselt, who agreed that they would allow her to create new fluorescent bollards with the Belgium Radiant Colour Factory for use during the city’s cultural festivals and events in order to raise awareness to the issue and make a case for change.
“When I came back to Sydney, I decided I wanted to involve the local design and art community to get more input into the project,” says Gavan.
The exhibition Factory as Studio invites visitors to engage in the design process in several ways: as makers by developing models and drawings of bollards, as curators by collecting and re-presenting groups of models in mini exhibitions, and as critics by offering critical feedback.
Factory as Studio is part of Gavan’s ongoing research into the long tradition of innovative practices in factory communities and looks at how designers can create opportunities for collaboration within these industrial environments.
Factory as Studio by Jane Gavan is on show from Wednesday 3 - Friday 26 August 2011 at DAB LAB Research Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Building 6, Level 4 Courtyard, 702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo.
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am – 5pm.
An artist talk will be held on Thursday 11 August at 2pm.
Factory as Studio is part of Sydney Design 2011.
GREEN BANS ART WALK CELEBRATING THE LEAGACY OF GREEN BANS – 40 YEARS ON
Green Bans Art Walk is a collaborative project from BigFagPress and The Cross Art Projects. Presented by Performance Space, Green Bans Art Walk is comprised of two exhibitions, a self-guided walk and a series of public guided walks. These multi-venue walking tours will depart from Firstdraft Depot, Woolloomooloo and The Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross where
the related exhibitions will be open from 6–27 August 2011.
Approaching the 40th anniversary of the first Green Bans actions in Sydney, Green Bans Art Walk revives the excitement and struggle that was a part of 1970s Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst and Kings Cross. Decades have passed since Victoria Street and Woolloomooloo were saved from demolition for large-scale building boom projects. Over four intense years
building workers withdrew their labour for social and environmental reasons, resulting in over 40 ‘bans’.
Under Jack Mundey’s leadership (as secretary from 1970–73) the Builders’ Labourers Federation made social and environmental advocacy part of its industrial role and Mundey’s term 'Green Ban' became internationally known. Local residents worked with building workers, unionists, wharfies, artists and architects to change the rules that now regulate urban planning and include community participation.
Green Bans Art Walk is a social history and artistic collaboration with the local community that celebrates the legacy of the five-year battle for ‘The Loo’ and the intense three-year-long 'sit-in' battle for Victoria Street. Many protesters were jailed, many reluctantly moved away and the struggle was believed to have killed Mick Fowler, the last Victoria Street squatter and it is widely speculated to have been a contributing factor in the murder of Juanita Nielsen, publisher of local newspaper Now.
Green Bans Art Walk is a project that opens up discussion between the public and the movement’s many individual activists, historians and agencies, and sheds light on a crucial part of Sydney’s history for a new generation of residents.
The project is part of Performance Space’s WALK, a season of walks, promenades, marches and strolls in and around Sydney taking place throughout 2011. It has been supported by The Firstdraft Depot and has received a cultural grant from the City of Sydney.
Artists: Louise Anderson, Pat Armstrong, Michelle Blakeney, Diego Bonetto, Josie Cavallero and Anne Kay, Alan Davies, Mini Graff, Margel Hinder, Jo Holder, Lucas Ihlein, Fiona MacDonald, Marion Marrison, Mickie Quick and Joe Szabo.
BOOKING INFORMATION:
WHERE The Firstdraft Depot Project Space 13 Riley Street, Woolloomooloo
The Cross Art Projects 8 Llankelly Lane, Kings Cross
Sat 6 Aug, 12 noon
To book into a guided tour, please go to performancespace.com.au
or call (02) 8571 9101
the related exhibitions will be open from 6–27 August 2011.
Approaching the 40th anniversary of the first Green Bans actions in Sydney, Green Bans Art Walk revives the excitement and struggle that was a part of 1970s Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst and Kings Cross. Decades have passed since Victoria Street and Woolloomooloo were saved from demolition for large-scale building boom projects. Over four intense years
building workers withdrew their labour for social and environmental reasons, resulting in over 40 ‘bans’.
Under Jack Mundey’s leadership (as secretary from 1970–73) the Builders’ Labourers Federation made social and environmental advocacy part of its industrial role and Mundey’s term 'Green Ban' became internationally known. Local residents worked with building workers, unionists, wharfies, artists and architects to change the rules that now regulate urban planning and include community participation.
Green Bans Art Walk is a social history and artistic collaboration with the local community that celebrates the legacy of the five-year battle for ‘The Loo’ and the intense three-year-long 'sit-in' battle for Victoria Street. Many protesters were jailed, many reluctantly moved away and the struggle was believed to have killed Mick Fowler, the last Victoria Street squatter and it is widely speculated to have been a contributing factor in the murder of Juanita Nielsen, publisher of local newspaper Now.
Green Bans Art Walk is a project that opens up discussion between the public and the movement’s many individual activists, historians and agencies, and sheds light on a crucial part of Sydney’s history for a new generation of residents.
The project is part of Performance Space’s WALK, a season of walks, promenades, marches and strolls in and around Sydney taking place throughout 2011. It has been supported by The Firstdraft Depot and has received a cultural grant from the City of Sydney.
Artists: Louise Anderson, Pat Armstrong, Michelle Blakeney, Diego Bonetto, Josie Cavallero and Anne Kay, Alan Davies, Mini Graff, Margel Hinder, Jo Holder, Lucas Ihlein, Fiona MacDonald, Marion Marrison, Mickie Quick and Joe Szabo.
BOOKING INFORMATION:
WHERE The Firstdraft Depot Project Space 13 Riley Street, Woolloomooloo
The Cross Art Projects 8 Llankelly Lane, Kings Cross
WHEN Guided Walks departing from:
The Cross Art Projects
Sat & Sun 6 & 7 Aug, 2.30pm
Sat 13 & 20 Aug, 2.30pm
Sat 6 Aug, 12 noon
Exhibitions 6–27 Aug, 11–6, Thu–Sat
To book into a guided tour, please go to performancespace.com.au
or call (02) 8571 9101
August 4, 2011
CULTURECYCLE
5 km ; Slow pace
Easy / Some Traffic / Uses Off-road Cyclepaths / Uses On-road Cycleways /
Cost $95 inclusive of museum entry and crochet workshop in the members lounge of Australia Museum
Contact: Angelina Russo; Ph 0416 106 097Starts: 8:30AM; Remy and Lee's, 547 Bourke St reet, Surry Hills
July 25, 2011
RhiZomiC Poetry
RhiZomiC Poetry
the last Wednesday of every month
Poetry Party and open-mic
Featuring:
Judy Johnson
Judy Johnson has published three poetry collections. Individual poems have won many poetry awards including the Josephine Ulrick, Tom Collins and Banjo Paterson Prizes.
Her verse novel Jack won the 2007 CJ Dennis Prize in the Victorian Premier's Awards. She lives in Newcastle with fellow poet and poetry publisher Rob Riel.
Wednesday July 27, 7-9 PM
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 King St. Newtown
the last Wednesday of every month
Poetry Party and open-mic
Featuring:
Judy Johnson
Judy Johnson has published three poetry collections. Individual poems have won many poetry awards including the Josephine Ulrick, Tom Collins and Banjo Paterson Prizes.
Her verse novel Jack won the 2007 CJ Dennis Prize in the Victorian Premier's Awards. She lives in Newcastle with fellow poet and poetry publisher Rob Riel.
Wednesday July 27, 7-9 PM
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 King St. Newtown
July 22, 2011
Dan Disney | Sunday Poetry @ 2 | Brett Whiteley Studio | 24 July 2011
24 July 2011 | Dan Disney
Dan Disney was born in 1970 in East Gippsland, where he grew up. He has worked in psychiatric institutions, paddocks, warehouses, and universities, and currently divides his time between Melbourne and Seoul, where he lectures in twentieth-century poetries at Sogang University. Articles and poems appear in Antithesis, Cordite, Heat, Meanjin, New Writing, Orbis Litterarum, andTEXT, and this year his poems have received awards in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize (USA) and the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (2nd). His first full collection of poems, And then when the, will be published by John Leonard Press in July 2011, and will be launched at Brett Whiteley Studio. www.dandisney.com.
28 August 2011 | Roberta Lowing
Roberta Lowing was Fairfax Media The Sun-Herald's film and video critic for twenty-three years and covered the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals for ten years, interviewing directors and actors and writing travel stories. In the late 1990s, she produced and directed 80 episodes of the environmental show Green Seen, which she co-founded, for the community television station Channel 31. From 2006 until 2010, she ran the Poetry UnLimited Press Readings in Sydney. Roberta recently completed her Master of Letters at the University of Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Meanjin, Blue Dog and Overland. Roberta's first collection of poetry, Ruin, was published in 2010 by Interactive Press. Fairfax Books has also published a collection of Roberta's reviews from the The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age.
25 September 2011 | Vivienne Plumb
23 October 2011 | Magar
27 November 2011 | Morga
Dreamstates & Dreamscapes
Today! 3pm-5pm Saturday 23 July 2011
at Quirk-ability,
Shop 2 The Connection Arcade,
162-172 Church St,
Parramatta
(2 minutes from Parramatta Station)
Please join us for an afternoon of food and drinks and mingling art appreciation!
The results of an open call out, we will be showcasing painting, etching, drawing, collage, montage, photography and sculpture inspired by dream!
Featuring works by Anna Watts, Elisha Babooram, Ella Turner, Lin Tan, Lyndsey Hatchwell, Maria Haren, Merryn Spencer, Terri Tang, Unknown Quantity, Vicki Hedden, Alexis Apfelbaum, Michael Petchkovsky and Sarah Buick.
The show will be running until Thursday 18 August and Quirk-ability is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, see website for shop hours.
at Quirk-ability,
Shop 2 The Connection Arcade,
162-172 Church St,
Parramatta
(2 minutes from Parramatta Station)
Please join us for an afternoon of food and drinks and mingling art appreciation!
The results of an open call out, we will be showcasing painting, etching, drawing, collage, montage, photography and sculpture inspired by dream!
Featuring works by Anna Watts, Elisha Babooram, Ella Turner, Lin Tan, Lyndsey Hatchwell, Maria Haren, Merryn Spencer, Terri Tang, Unknown Quantity, Vicki Hedden, Alexis Apfelbaum, Michael Petchkovsky and Sarah Buick.
The show will be running until Thursday 18 August and Quirk-ability is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, see website for shop hours.
July 19, 2011
On the show this week (2)
| Suffering for our Art? Achieving work/life balance in the Arts | July 2011 |
| 6.00-8.00pm, Monday 25 July 2011 Australia Council, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills A recent University of SA survey showed that most Australians are increasingly unhappy with the balance between work and life. Working in the arts brings its own particular challenges. For artists it often means practicing their artform and working another job to earn a living. Arts managers are often in the position of working a fulltime job but then having to attend evening performances. Working in the arts can offer more flexibility but it can also be an area where the demands beyond office hours are extensive. Is it harder to find a balance working in the arts? Do the rewards of doing a job that you’re passionate about make the juggle worthwhile? Or is that just a myth to keep us working harder and longer? And then how do you manage all this when you have a family or other caring responsibilities. Penny Miles discusses the challenges of juggling your art practice, work and family and the opportunities for arts organisations to meet the needs of their employees with a panel including artists, arts managers and a social policy academic. The panel includes: Teresa Bell is a writer, actor and director. Her play "Taizé" won the George Fairfax Award. She is Founding Director of the Australian Poetry Centre and her first book "36; formless writings" was released in 2009. She is currently doing a doctorate in Creative Writing at Wollongong University, falling in love with Elvis and being mum to a lively three year old and an incredibly busy six year old. Her next book of poetry "Under a Nightingale's Wing" will be launched at the Byron Bay Festival in August. She was also Artistic Director for Playworks and Mainstreet Theatre in Mt Gambier and was a producer for Performing Lines. George Catsi has an extensive and diverse 25 year background that overlaps film, theatre, film business, health and education and is currently completing a Doctorate in Creative Arts at UTS. He is the 2010 Kit Denton Writing Fellowship winner for his satirical evangelical piece I Want to Be Slim. George has performed in comedy, cabaret, stage and TV. As Executive Producer, he created RPAtv, an in-house health and wellbeing TV channel. RPAtv was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Award in 2006. George originally trained as a nurse before moving into the arts. From 1997-2001 George was Co-owner/Executive Producer of Flickerfest International Short Film Festival. He played a key role in restructuring and repositioning the Festival, achieving huge increases in audiences and building it into Australia's premier short film festival. In 2005 he was a juror for the 33rd International Emmy Awards and has been a pre-selector for various festivals including Flickerfest and Dendy Awards. George has a partner and two children, both boys. He refuses his children pets. Associate Professor Lyn Craig is Deputy Director at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. She has researched work-family balance, the time impacts of children, parenthood and the gender division of labour over a period of ten years, using time use analysis as her primary methodology. Lyn has held a Time Use Fellowship from the Office of the Status of Women (2005-06), an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-09) and currently holds an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (2010-14). She is a member of the NSW Premiers Expert Advisory Council for Women and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Gender Statistics Advisory Board, and is author of Contemporary Motherhood (Ashgate, 2007). RSVP: Janelle Prescott info@samag.org or (02) 8250 5722 (msg only). FREE ENTRY for 2011 SAMAG Members / $10 for non-members / $5 for students. Please pay at the door - cash or cheque only. Half-yearly membership forms can be downloaded from membership page . SPECIAL EVENT Monday 29 August, 3.30-7.00pm THE POWER OF PEOPLE: ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE ARTS with Eliza Muldoon, an awarded lecturer at the School of Art History and Art Education within the College of Fine Arts (COFA). For further information visit SAMAG website. |
On the show this week (1)
We have these guys:
This year’s projects focus on communicating and advocating for fair workers rights and better working conditions for people living in the poorest communities around the world.
Oxfam Australia is part of a global campaign to persuade sports brands to respect workers’ rights. Workers producing for companies like Nike, Adidas and Puma, commonly face low wages, long hours, verbal abuse, dangerous working conditions and denial of trade union rights.
Oxfam’s Labour Rights work aims to help workers, particularly women, build sustainable incomes, ensure that their rights are respected and that they have a voice in influencing decisions which affect their lives. We do this by supporting local organisations to educate workers about their rights and how to obtain them, and by campaigning to influence companies to respect workers' labour rights.
Please join us to open the exhibition and to celebrate the power of creativity, collaboration and Design4Change at 6pm, on Thursday 21 July, at Vibewire Enterprise Hub, 525 Harris Street Ultimo.
Industry guest speakers include:
Ben Peacock,
co-founder of Republic of Everyone
Matt and Pip,
Directors of the Loop.
MORE INFORMATION at www.3things.org.au/
MEDIA ENQUIRIES ABOUT DESIGN4CHANGE AND OXFAM AUSTRALIA Please contact Oxfam Australia Media Coordinator Charlotte Greig at charlotteg@oxfam.org.au
BILLY BLUE YOUNG DESIGNERS IN COLLABORATION WITH OXFAM AUSTRALIA PRESENT
DESIGN4CHANGE EXHIBITION
Vibewire Enterprise Hub, 21 July – 28 July.
Design4Change, is an initiative of Oxfam Australia’s Youth Engagement team 3things, and works with design, communications and business students in their final year of study to create inspiring and innovative social justice campaigns, designed to create change.
This year’s projects focus on communicating and advocating for fair workers rights and better working conditions for people living in the poorest communities around the world.
Oxfam Australia is part of a global campaign to persuade sports brands to respect workers’ rights. Workers producing for companies like Nike, Adidas and Puma, commonly face low wages, long hours, verbal abuse, dangerous working conditions and denial of trade union rights.
Oxfam’s Labour Rights work aims to help workers, particularly women, build sustainable incomes, ensure that their rights are respected and that they have a voice in influencing decisions which affect their lives. We do this by supporting local organisations to educate workers about their rights and how to obtain them, and by campaigning to influence companies to respect workers' labour rights.
Please join us to open the exhibition and to celebrate the power of creativity, collaboration and Design4Change at 6pm, on Thursday 21 July, at Vibewire Enterprise Hub, 525 Harris Street Ultimo.
Industry guest speakers include:
Ben Peacock,
co-founder of Republic of Everyone
Matt and Pip,
Directors of the Loop.
MORE INFORMATION at www.3things.org.au/
MEDIA ENQUIRIES ABOUT DESIGN4CHANGE AND OXFAM AUSTRALIA Please contact Oxfam Australia Media Coordinator Charlotte Greig at charlotteg@oxfam.org.au
July 18, 2011
11k Raised For Largest Release Of Borneo Orangutans
We had Rebecca Murphy one of the artists featured in this event on the show a couple of weeks ago.
Check out pictures from the event here.
Check out pictures from the event here.
July 15, 2011
THIRTY THREE on now at Tap Gallery
Check out "33" on now at Tap Gallery. Gemma and Alistair from the show were in the studio. What a song! What a voice! What a guitar.
July 8, 2011
On soon - street art to help save orangutans
SET ME FREE
STREET ART EVENT TO HELP RAISE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS
A special evening of art and entertainment to help raise funds for the release of endangered Orangutans back to the wild.STREET ART EVENT TO HELP RAISE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS
Wednesday 13th July, 7.00pm to 9.30pm at Name This Bar, 197 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst
One of the featured artists is Rebecca Murphy. Check her out here.
Click here for info on orangutans
Rana and Nusra Qureshi on now at 4a Gallery
Rana and Nusra Qureshi
"The way you look at me"
When: Friday, 8 July - Saturday, 20 August
Where: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 181-187 Hay St Sydney
How much: FREE
Naeem Rana and Nusra Qureshi are both artists of Pakistani birth who have adapted traditional forms of representation to depict their contemporary experience of the world. Having migrated to Australia in 2001, Rana and Qureshi have continued to practice Urdu calligraphy and Mughal miniature painting, and for this exhibition combine them with sculpture and digital photography in a reflection on (in)visibility and adopted spaces. Qureshi's calligraphy is recontextualised within advertising and pop culture and digital media, and Rana has transformed the scope and the scale of the works she creates using techniques for miniatures.
This exhibition offers insights on several levels: into Pakistani art, history and development, and on how the ancient and contemporary can be synthesised. There's also a point being made about how Australian culture has responded to and influenced Rana and Qureshi as people and as artists, perhaps suggesting that they've garnered more recognition as the latter than the former.
July 1, 2011
RETURN FLIGHT EXHIBITION
From their facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155117747883963
After an excellent response to last night event, the artwork will be on display for the next 3 week "by appointment" with a closing event on the 9th with a few extra surprises!
2 minutes from Wollli Creek station
Click more to see the amazing lineup!
"If you wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down." - Toni Morrison
Do you dream of flying? When presented with the dilemma, "fight or flight", is your first instinct to opt for the better part of valour? Have you, through necessity or expedience, had to flee a situation or locale? Do you indulge in flights of fancy? When about to embark on a flight, do feel excitement, anticipation or dread?
An obsession for artists, dreamers, visionaries and inventors throughout time, analogous for ambitions and fantasies, and now such a common practice it's positively mundane. But next time your heading on a flight, just remember you're sitting in a 400 tonne machine, flying through the air, 11 kilometres up in the sky, at around 900 kmh - the correct reaction is FUUCK!
Featuring Blubberbots
The Autonomous aerial creations of Jed Berk (USA)
Archival UFO Footage from:
Western Suburbs Aeronautical & Space Administration
Music and Performance
Jack Nastyface
Le Gato Gruff
K
Guest Exhibition Artists Include:
Rod Nash
Mike Turner
Hiske Weijers
Brian Paisley
Pete Strong
Simon MacEwan
Dean Sewell
Terry Archer
Anna McSwain
H (Helen Morgan-Harris)
Dean Christ
Jemila MacEwan
Garth Knight
Tony Sawrey
Pippa Willison
Meghan Rheynolds
Mark Swartz
Emily Valentine
Cecilie Knowles
Jasmin Poole
Ganbold Lundaa
onacloV
Gustavo Balboa
Paola Talbot
Cigdem /aydemir
Flavio Campagna Kampah
Zio Ledeux
Seraphina Martin
Lawrence McDonell
oNacloV
Jenny Orchard
Simon Alexander Cook
Sophie Verrecchia
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155117747883963
After an excellent response to last night event, the artwork will be on display for the next 3 week "by appointment" with a closing event on the 9th with a few extra surprises!
2 minutes from Wollli Creek station
Click more to see the amazing lineup!
"If you wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down." - Toni Morrison
Do you dream of flying? When presented with the dilemma, "fight or flight", is your first instinct to opt for the better part of valour? Have you, through necessity or expedience, had to flee a situation or locale? Do you indulge in flights of fancy? When about to embark on a flight, do feel excitement, anticipation or dread?
An obsession for artists, dreamers, visionaries and inventors throughout time, analogous for ambitions and fantasies, and now such a common practice it's positively mundane. But next time your heading on a flight, just remember you're sitting in a 400 tonne machine, flying through the air, 11 kilometres up in the sky, at around 900 kmh - the correct reaction is FUUCK!
Featuring Blubberbots
The Autonomous aerial creations of Jed Berk (USA)
Archival UFO Footage from:
Western Suburbs Aeronautical & Space Administration
Music and Performance
Jack Nastyface
Le Gato Gruff
K
Guest Exhibition Artists Include:
Rod Nash
Mike Turner
Hiske Weijers
Brian Paisley
Pete Strong
Simon MacEwan
Dean Sewell
Terry Archer
Anna McSwain
H (Helen Morgan-Harris)
Dean Christ
Jemila MacEwan
Garth Knight
Tony Sawrey
Pippa Willison
Meghan Rheynolds
Mark Swartz
Emily Valentine
Cecilie Knowles
Jasmin Poole
Ganbold Lundaa
onacloV
Gustavo Balboa
Paola Talbot
Cigdem /aydemir
Flavio Campagna Kampah
Zio Ledeux
Seraphina Martin
Lawrence McDonell
oNacloV
Jenny Orchard
Simon Alexander Cook
Sophie Verrecchia
This Is Something You Should Know... Call Out
As part of the “reverse=bread.from(crumbs)” group show that opens at the Vanishing Point Gallery on July 21, I’m going to install a version of my augmented reality artwork, The Information Virus. At previous shows, this work has presented punters with random images and audio recordings pulled from the internets, but this time it’s going to do something different – it’s going to provide content created by you.
What I’m after are short audio recordings (no more than a minute or so) and associated images on the following very broad theme:
“This is something you should know…”
You can interpret this in any way you choose. It could be a declaration of love; some piece of wisdom that life has taught you; a statement about a political issue that isn't getting the airing it deserves; an observation about how amazing it is to do something as simple as lay in the grass or look up at the stars; a restaurant recommendation; an evaluation of a favourite piece of
music/literature/art; a set of tips about fashion/cooking/gardening/sewing/robot-building; a short philosophical/critical rumination; a prediction about the future; whatever.
Just record yourself passing this information/knowledge on to the world (if you don’t have access to an audio recorder, a video that I can pull the audio from will do) and take a picture that relates to it. (If you want to go beyond a simple monologue and create a poem, musical piece, or sound art composition, that would also be welcomed… Actually, that would be freaking awesome.)
Your contribution will become part of the artwork, and you will be credited as one of its creators. (I’m not getting any funding for this, so unfortunately I’m not going to be able to remunerate you for your efforts. I would if I could though…)
The deadline for submissions is July 10. Send any contributions you have to filmcement@gmail.com, and include a short description in the body of the email.
And yes, you'll need one of those elitist smartphones to see the work, but I'll try to get an iPod that anyone at the gallery can use to check it out. And I'll also have some kind of audio player with headphones in the gallery that'll loop through the contributions.
I'm reserving the right to exclude anything that's obnoxiously racist, sexist, homophobic, defamatory or so poorly recorded that it can't be made out, but those are the only limits I have.
Final note about the images: I'll be cutting small triangular thumbnails out of them to texture the virus, so an image with a strong single focus, or detail that looks good when zoomed in on, works best.
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 12 FESTIVAL OF SOUND ARTS
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 12 FESTIVAL OF SOUND ARTS
Liquid Architecture 12: Festival of Sound Arts presents a festival program dedicated to investigations into the traditional lineage and contemporary form of sound art.
Celebrating its twelfth consecutive year, Liquid Architecture presents an exciting touring program of national and international contemporary sound arts. This diverse program, bringing musicians, composers, designers and media artists together in an eclectic mix of local and global talent, features live performance events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense focused listening environment, privileging our most unsung sense: listening.
In Sydney, Ultimo becomes the festival hub. ABC Classic FM presents our Performance Concerts series, at The Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo. These two Performance Concerts are Free of Charge, by special arrangement.
On Saturday 2nd July at 4pm, Jon Rose’s Project Palimpolin, which will see Rose perform with the interactive electronic k-bow, alongside Lukas Simonis (Netherlands) and Dave Brown (aka candlesnuffer) (Melbourne).
On Saturday 2nd July at 7:30pm, International guests include Marc Behrens (Germany), whose works mainly consist of concrète electronic music and Pascal Battus (France), who has a multi-disciplinary practice involving sound with movement, drawing machines and acoustic and amplified percussion, alongside Sydney’s own Pia van Gelder, an artist whose practice is centered around audio and video performing machines.
As a special highlight Pascal Battus presents his self devised Sound Massage / Massages Sonores, creating acoustic frequencies in a performance context for one person audiences in fifteen minute appointments. This festival highlight is predicted to book quickly, with limited appointments in each east coast festival location, and regional Victoria. These Sound
Massage appointments are available in Sydney on Sunday 3 July, between 2pm and 5pm, and bookings are essential, and can be made through the festival website: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
2011 Festival Program Locations: Brisbane, Sydney, Bendigo, Melbourne and Perth. Dates: 27 JUNE - 3 JULY.
For full program information including session times and ticketing please visit www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
SYDNEY 2 - 3 JULY
Sydney, co-produced with ABC Classic FM, two FREE special concert events will feature Pascal Battus (FR), Lukas Simonis (NE),
Dave Brown (Melbourne), Marc Behrens (DE), Jon Rose (NSW) and Pia van Gelder (NSW). Sound Massages by Pascal Battus.
2 JULY Performance Concert at The Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo, Sydney, 4pm
2 JULY Performance Concert at The Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo, Sydney, 7:30pm
3 JULY Sound Massages by Pascal Battus, University of Sydney, Ultimo, 2pm – 5pm
Liquid Architecture 12: Festival of Sound Arts presents a festival program dedicated to investigations into the traditional lineage and contemporary form of sound art.
Celebrating its twelfth consecutive year, Liquid Architecture presents an exciting touring program of national and international contemporary sound arts. This diverse program, bringing musicians, composers, designers and media artists together in an eclectic mix of local and global talent, features live performance events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense focused listening environment, privileging our most unsung sense: listening.
In Sydney, Ultimo becomes the festival hub. ABC Classic FM presents our Performance Concerts series, at The Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo. These two Performance Concerts are Free of Charge, by special arrangement.
On Saturday 2nd July at 4pm, Jon Rose’s Project Palimpolin, which will see Rose perform with the interactive electronic k-bow, alongside Lukas Simonis (Netherlands) and Dave Brown (aka candlesnuffer) (Melbourne).
On Saturday 2nd July at 7:30pm, International guests include Marc Behrens (Germany), whose works mainly consist of concrète electronic music and Pascal Battus (France), who has a multi-disciplinary practice involving sound with movement, drawing machines and acoustic and amplified percussion, alongside Sydney’s own Pia van Gelder, an artist whose practice is centered around audio and video performing machines.
As a special highlight Pascal Battus presents his self devised Sound Massage / Massages Sonores, creating acoustic frequencies in a performance context for one person audiences in fifteen minute appointments. This festival highlight is predicted to book quickly, with limited appointments in each east coast festival location, and regional Victoria. These Sound
Massage appointments are available in Sydney on Sunday 3 July, between 2pm and 5pm, and bookings are essential, and can be made through the festival website: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
2011 Festival Program Locations: Brisbane, Sydney, Bendigo, Melbourne and Perth. Dates: 27 JUNE - 3 JULY.
For full program information including session times and ticketing please visit www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
SYDNEY 2 - 3 JULY
Sydney, co-produced with ABC Classic FM, two FREE special concert events will feature Pascal Battus (FR), Lukas Simonis (NE),
Dave Brown (Melbourne), Marc Behrens (DE), Jon Rose (NSW) and Pia van Gelder (NSW). Sound Massages by Pascal Battus.
2 JULY Performance Concert at The Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo, Sydney, 4pm
2 JULY Performance Concert at The Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo, Sydney, 7:30pm
3 JULY Sound Massages by Pascal Battus, University of Sydney, Ultimo, 2pm – 5pm
Underbelly arts in the studio tomorrow
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
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.
+
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.
June 16, 2011
This week's show!
AWARENESS MUSCLE - PART II
Chris Virtue will be presenting Part II of the Awareness Muscle Exhibition
Launch of 'Eastern Bloc' Gallery Opening - Friday 17th June, 6pm
Also on the show this week we will be speaking to one of the founders of EASTERN BLOC, Wade Marynowsky.
Exhibition open from 18th June - 10th July, Wed - Sun, 11 - 5pm.
Or by appointment, ph: (02) 9555 8816,info@easternblocgallery.com Eastern Bloc are currently programming the year's calendar and are accepting proposals from artists and curators. There are three-week slots available in the near future for solo and group exhibitions. The space is also open to performance / screening / sound events.
Let them know your vision:info@easternblocgallery.com Eastern Bloc
Arts and Social Media - SAMAG June Seminar
This week on the show we will be speaking to Olivia Bolton about the upcoming SAMAG seminar - Arts and Social Media.
Olivia is an artist and arts administrator. Prior to the DAAO Olivia was Marketing Coordinator at Arts on Tour NSW. She has worked at Carclew Youth Arts Centre as a researcher & artist, has volunteered at the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and, among other things, did a stint at the OECD in Paris. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from UniSA and did her post graduate study in art and arts administration at COFA, UNSW.
Olivia is an artist and arts administrator. Prior to the DAAO Olivia was Marketing Coordinator at Arts on Tour NSW. She has worked at Carclew Youth Arts Centre as a researcher & artist, has volunteered at the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and, among other things, did a stint at the OECD in Paris. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from UniSA and did her post graduate study in art and arts administration at COFA, UNSW.
A year is a long time in the world of social media, so it's about time for a follow-up to SAMAG's popular "Being creative with social media" seminar. Our panel will discuss the latest in social media - from audience development strategies to establishing social media policies and creative production with social tools.
The arts and social media
6.00-8.00pm, Monday 27 June 2011
6.00-8.00pm, Monday 27 June 2011
Australia Council, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
FREE ENTRY for 2011 SAMAG Members / $10 for non-members / $5 for
students. Please pay at the door - cash or cheque only
For more info please visit: http://www.samag.org/
Social Experiment # 9 AND Crude & Clean @ INDEX
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT # 9, opening at Index this Saturday, takes a look at the many and varied impacts of technology on our world today.
The show features work from three emerging local artists, Aesha Henderson, Kolet Hodgson and Tolmie Macray.
Index, 60 Hutchinson Rd, St Peters
This Saturday 2 – 4pm, Weds – Sun, 10am – 6pm until July 3rd.
Free!
CRUDE & CLEAN
It has been said that you can divide the art world in two.
The question then is "what two do you divide it into?"
Obviously there are only two distinctions left, CRUDE and CLEAN and they stand ready to become the next grand antimony that will divide and define art for the next couple months!
The question then is "what two do you divide it into?"
Obviously there are only two distinctions left, CRUDE and CLEAN and they stand ready to become the next grand antimony that will divide and define art for the next couple months!
INDEX will be staging two exhibitions back to back, calling them respectively CRUDE and CLEAN and asking artists to take sides.
So pick a side and put your art on it. The winning side will have the art world totalized in the image of their practice!
Good Luck!
PLEASE SEND A QUICK SUBMISSION to info@indexspace.com.au. Include artist name, phone number, email. A short paragraph describing work, a short bio (or cv) and an image of work or related work. Please remember to indicate which show you are submitting for.
Participation in each show will incur a $80 artist fee (3 weeks).
Proposals close Thu. July 15, 6pm.
So pick a side and put your art on it. The winning side will have the art world totalized in the image of their practice!
Good Luck!
PLEASE SEND A QUICK SUBMISSION to info@indexspace.com.au. Include artist name, phone number, email. A short paragraph describing work, a short bio (or cv) and an image of work or related work. Please remember to indicate which show you are submitting for.
Participation in each show will incur a $80 artist fee (3 weeks).
Proposals close Thu. July 15, 6pm.
For more info please visit: http://indexspace.com.au/x/2011/06/16/crude-and-clean/
June 10, 2011
On the show this week:
Fear + Hope
The Refugee Art Project
To counteract the rise of negative and inaccurate perceptions towards asylum seekers within the wider community, a group of academics and staff from three Sydney universities are organising a group art exhibition at Sydney’s Mori Gallery from 20 June 2011 entitled fear+hope. The exhibition will be launched on World Refugee Day and will be opened by Amnesty International’s Graham Thom.
http://www.therefugeeartproject.com/faqs
Awareness Muscle
The Academy of Emergency Art
Awareness Muscle combines; new works (Deadline Art) created by a selection of Emergency Artists who have been invited by Dennis and Jones to participate in awareness muscle training; a collection of videos documenting the duo’s activation of critical formats over the previous 18 months; and unique live formats and events that will be launched throughout the exhibition, encouraging community participation and collective critical awareness exercise. The exhibition is part of Creative Sydney Vivid Festival, exhibiting At The Vanishing Point Gallery.
Mikelangelo and The Tin Star
Mikelangelo and The Tin Star will be launching their Debut Album The Surf ‘n’ Western Sounds Of Mikelangelo and the Tin Star at The Vanguard on Friday 17th June.
Well known for his cabaret persona fronting The Black Sea Gentlemen, and as a star of the international hit
show La Clique, Mikelangelo formed The Tin Star in late 2009 as a channel for his love of instrumental
guitar music of the 50’s and 60’s. Combined with a fascination for Western cinema soundtracks and
Mikelangelo’s impressive baritone croon, The Tin Star could never be a purely instrumental band, and
shades of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley can be heard in the vocals on the group’s debut album.
Mikelangelo and The Tin Star will also be performing a Melbourne launch at the Northcote on 10th June and in Canberra at Tilley’s on Saturday 18th June.
+ Sydney Film Festival interview w/ Celluloid Dreams, film show
+ more!
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