Miss Deaths Art Exhibition at Reverse Garbage, Sydney

Miss Deaths Art Exhibition

Continuing her relationship with Reverse Garbage and the Mad Gallery, Miss Death has constructed this exhibition entirely from recyclable materials. Her first exhibition sculpted out of Styrofoam has given way to exploring other talents such as quilting painting and framing. Even though the images may seem macabre to some Miss Death prefers to shed light on the darker side of the human psyche. Celebrating Mexico’s day of the dead, Secret Society’s and their Symbols, the side show freak and much more. Reach into the darkness to touch the light that is Miss Death.

Exhibition open until Sunday 1st Nov
www.reversegarbage.org.au

Container Gallery 8/ 142 Addison Rd
Marrickville, Sydney, Australia
6-8pm

Australian Sex Discrimination Act Video

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act. Adele Horin talks with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick and author and feminist Anne Summers about that period in the Women’s Liberation movement, the landmark Act and what needs to change.

Watch the Sydney Morning Herald video.

MELBOURNE Timecapsules 2009-2010 Cinema Season

*TIMECAPSULES  RETURNS  8.45pm THURSDAY NIGHTS
October 26 –  December 10, 2009*
*127 Campbell Street*
*Collingwood*, **Melbourne**

*This is the first leg of a 5 month season involving a group of researchers collaborating to make this the best season to date. The emphasis is on animation and experimentation with a dose of social criticism. Three areas of film culture will be given a reasonable amount of exploration. Eastern European film (especially Animation), Post-WWII Hollywood Melodrama and experimental works of the time. Otherwise its the sprawling grab-bag of cinema you have come to expect.*

Visit * the timecapsule website

GG: Editor’s  choice:

December 3rd* * Werner Herzog Documentary Double Feature* *Two Portraits of Women.*

When one thinks of Herzog, one usually thinks of tales of deranged “men of action” trying to conquer nature and subsequently destroying themselves. Whether dragging boats up mountains or trying to find communion with wild bears. These two stories on the other hand are about women, people of sound mind, overcoming the unsolicited catastrophes of life with an uncommon
courage. They are my current favourites of his Documentary oeuvre.

*Lands of Silence and Darkness ; 1971*

Emotionally powerful journey into the work of deaf/blind spokeswoman and advocate Fini Straubinger and her crusade to save other deaf/blind people from their solitary prisons. We learn of the agony faced by those, ignored and shunned, and left alone in their abyss, and experience the liberating effects of a shared language and community.

*Wings of Hope ; 2000*

In 1972 LANSA flight 508 disintegrated in midair, scattering its bulk and human cargo for miles through the Peruvian Amazon. Only one teenage girl, Juliane Koepcke, survived the crash, and was left to fend for herself through the jungle, into eventual safety. During that exact time Herzog was travelling a parallel path through the jungle in his filming of “Aguirre; the Wrath of God”. 30 years later, Herzog brings Juliane back to the scene of the crash, to trace her path through the jungle, and to discover the crumbling remains of the craft. A courageous and moving journey into the painful process of remembering.

Blog Action Day 2009 Climate Change

SMS. SZCZECIN. MELBOURNE. SZCZECIN presented by Guilford Lane Gallery

An International Group Exhibition is opening at Guildford Lane Gallery , presented by the city of Szczecin, Poland.

The exhibition will be officially launched by His Excellency Mr. Andrzej Jaroszy_ski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland  on Thursday 15th October at 6pm. The SMS exhibition includes a selection of works by a group of ten artists from two “peripheries”, two geographically distant but otherwise connected “localities”. Of this group, five artists including Przemys_aw  Cerebie_ –Tarabicki, Danuta D_browska, Jaros_aw Eysymont, Waldemar Wojciechowski and Wojciech Zieli_ski are based in Szczecin, whilst the other five artists: Andrzej Janczewski, Longin Sarnecki, Adam Simmons, Gosia W_odarczak and Jarek Wójcik are based in Melbourne.  Yet they all are bound by one place – a city in Poland – where they were either born, have lived or worked.

The concept of the SMS (Szczecin – Melbourne – Szczecin) project oscillates around communication, dialogue and bilateral exchange. Just as the abbreviation for Short Message Service (SMS) has become synonymous with communication itself, SMS the exhibition is a way of prompting and engaging artists, who come from diverse areas in art practice and geography, in establishing conversation with one another and with an audience of differing levels of interest and commitment to art. The idea of SMS is to recognise the potential of visual language (or languages) created in very specific geographical locations. Imaginary tales, personal iconography, marks, symbols or sounds create unique constellations of thoughts, feelings and personal experiences and are presented within this exhibition through a fantastic array of mixed-media. These intimate worlds, however, appear in the context of the realities of modern social life, thereby creating a dialogue and contrast between individual and universal experience. The artists’ in SMS simultaneously explore individual identity and shared cultural boundaries, invoking parallel spaces of their immediate and distant environments.

SMS attempts to explore the interplay between communication, cultural exchange and globalization and if the “… concept of “locality” is no longer bound to a specific place… the place as an identity label has not disappeared. What is more, it has acquired a new meaning”.*

Guildford Lane Gallery
20-24 Guildford Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000
www.guildfordlanegallery.org

WHEN:
Opens 6pm Thursday 15th October
Gallery hours:
12 – 9pm Wed – Fri
12 – 5pm Sat & Sun
Office hours:
10am – 6pm Mon – Fri

The Yes Men fix the World. Goofball indeed.

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks.

From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.

Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed.

Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?

GG: if only it were as easy as they make it out to be

Cool trailer though. Watch it.

Good, Clean & Fair an afternoon with Carlo Petrini founder of Slow Food

Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, shares his revolutionary ideas about food with Sydney International Food Festival director Joanna Savill, followed by a short question and answer session.

In what is sure to be one of the highlights of this year’s festival, Petrini will deliver a manifesto for change based on the simple principles of good, clean and fair, which he explains as follows:

“Slow Food is good, clean and fair food. We believe that the food we eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food producers should receive fair compensation for their work.”

From humble beginnings as a protest against the opening of a McDonalds near the Spanish Steps in Rome, the Slow Food movement has blossomed internationally to include over 100,000 members – including an Australian branch.

Passionate, thought-provoking and challenging, prepare to rethink the politics of your refrigerator; after spending an afternoon with Carlo Petrini, you’ll soon find yourself saving the planet – one meal at a time.

Sunday October 18 @ 2pm

BOOK on (02) 9250 7777 or online at
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/carlopetrini.aspx

Adult: $39
*Concession: $29
Children U16: $18
*Concession available to Australian pensioners and students

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point, Australia

Earthsharing Film Competition

Entries are now open for Earthsharing Australia’s 2009 film competition entitled “I Want to Live Here: The war on creativity.” Artists and film makers are asked to respond to issues of gentrification and the difficulty creative communities have when rent increases cause them to move onto cheaper suburbs.

Entries close 4 November

For more information visit http://iwanttolivehere.org.au/

16th World of Women Film Festival

This is a short film festival screening films with a thematic perspective of … seeing the world through the eyes of women. Best selection of new Australian & International short films created by women filmmakers!

14-18 October, 2009
Chauvel Cinema
Paddington, Sydney, Australia

Check out the WOW program at http://www.wift.org/wow/

Peter Greenaway creates the Last Supper to be served in Melbourne

Acclaimed as an extraordinary spectacle of sound, light and multimedia magic, Melbourne Festival invites you to the Australian premiere of one of this year’s most exciting and affordable events on offer.  From Saturday 10 October, North Melbourne Town Hall will be transformed into the Santa Maria delle Grazie of Milan, with visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s acclaimed masterpiece Leonardo’s Last Supper.

Screening every half hour for only $10 for adults and $5 for children, Melburnians are sure to be mesmerized as Greenaway gives new life to one of the world’s most iconic and mystifying masterpieces, merging visual arts, cinema, music and cutting-edge technologies.

A master of cinematic magic, Greenaway has created an inspiring multimedia event in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. This is a perfect, three-dimensional sculptural clone of Milan’s crumbling, 510-year-old chapel wall and painting, with live projections of images and light as well as a life-size physical reconstruction of the table in the painting accompanied by a soundscape of voice, music and atmospherics.

The Last Supper depicts the moment when Christ announces that one of the apostles will betray him and disruption ensues. Greenaway’s sensitive spectacle delves into this moment. It uncovers truths about the painting and its influence, and reveals obscure details lost to time, overpainting and restorations.

“To the strains of modern opera, he used cutting-edge technical trickery to make Leonardo’s Christ appear like a three-dimensional hologram while a radiant sun rose and fell over his head. He turned the original colourful image red, grey and black before the artist’s gentle brush strokes were replaced with a chalk outline of the 13 figures, as if Leonardo had drawn a crime scene. Dawn broke, dusk fell and by the end the disciples had been dramatically cast into the shadow of prison-like bars,” Robert Booth, The Guardian.

This exact recreation of the chapel wall - to the same size and scale, and featuring the same characteristics and texture of the original - has been achieved through a groundbreaking combination of sophisticated technology and craftsmanship.  Leonardo’s Last Supper places Peter Greenaway among the great artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.

Greenaway conceived Leonardo’s Last Supper in response to a deep fascination with visual literacy and explores the potential interaction between 114 years of cinema and eight thousand years of painting.

More info at the Melbourne Festival website