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

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 | Magaret Ruckert

27 November 2011 | Morgan Lewis

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.

July 19, 2011

On the show this week (3)

18 Lives in Paradise (the installation)
Brook Andrew

More info here!

On the show this week (2)

Suffering for our Art? Achieving work/life balance in the ArtsJuly 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.

Visit us on facebook / twitter

Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group E info@samag.org T (02) 8250 5722 W www.samag.org P PO Box 18, Leichhardt 2040

On the show this week (1)

We have these guys:

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.

Developed in 2007, the program has been successfully running in Sydney with UTS, UWS and Billy Blue students collaborating on a range of campaigns such as climate change and access to clean water.
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.

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.

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.

click here for info

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

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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
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Gustavo Balboa
Paola Talbot
Cigdem /aydemir
Flavio Campagna Kampah
Zio Ledeux
Seraphina Martin
Lawrence McDonell
oNacloV
Jenny Orchard
Simon Alexander Cook
Sophie Verrecchia

25 Women create with 25 palettes

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

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) 

AUSFAILURE NATIONAL TANTRUM
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