Get your kit off with Spencer Tunick – Opera House – March 1st, 2010. #naked #fb

Internationally renowned artist Spencer Tunick has revealed that he will create an
installation using thousands of nude Australians on the steps of the iconic Sydney Opera
House on the morning of Monday 1 March.

The artist is calling on all Australians interested in taking part to register immediately
at The Base to reserve a place.

Tunick’s installation, called ‘The Base’, will be one of the highlights of this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Participation in the art installation however is
open to all Australians, regardless of sexuality. All nude volunteers will be rewarded with
an official Spencer Tunick photograph of ‘The Base.

The US-based artist is the man responsible for gathering people by the thousand and getting them to strip, en masse, in the name of art. Using a sea of naked bodies as his medium, he moulds his groups of willing volunteers into abstract shapes, in various forms and locations, before capturing it on film. He’s attracted huge crowds the world round,
including 7,000 in Barcelona, and 18,000 in Mexico City.

Less is more - Spencer Tunick

Deadly Funny – An #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comedy Competition

Get ready to laugh your MOOM off with Deadly Funny – An Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Comedy Competition that celebrates distinctive humour of the First Nations Traditional Owners.

From now until March, 2010 the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is sending some of its finest comedians to ATSI communities to hold free workshops and community showcase gigs with emerging performers in search of the best up-and-coming stand-up talent.

Deadly Funny provides a unique opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to
come together, celebrate and share humour and have their deadly yarns workshopped by a professional stand-up comedian. The workshops provide deadly tips and advice on writing, performance and help boost performers’ confidence to get up on stage.

To register, contact Deadly Funny Producer Jason Tamiru (Yorta Yorta) info below. For the workshops bring along five minutes of your best comic material. Pretty much anything is ok – stand-up, a music piece, joke or a funny yarn – as long as it’s Deadly Funny. You must be Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to enter.

The deadliest jokesters from all six states will play off at the Deadly Funny National Grand
Final in Melbourne April 10 for their chance to win $2000 in cash and a deadly trophy.

Note: You must attend comedy workshops

Details of National workshops and to register at www.deadlyfunny.com.au

Or contact Jason Tamiru on 03 9245 3700.

Experimenta Utopia Now – Opening Night #Melbourne

EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW
International Biennial of Media Art
Ominous to optimistic. Innovative and interactive.

Opening Night
Thursday 11 February 2010 7pm
the Arts Centre, BlackBox, Melbourne

Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of Media Art chases the dream of a perfect world. Showcasing more than 35 works from countries including Australia, Japan, Austria, India, Germany, Canada, France, Taiwan and the UK, Experimenta Utopia Now critiques the scope for happiness on earth as we know it, pokes fun at social and physical
boundaries and questions the human race’s ability to preserve itself.

EXHIBITION DATES:
12 February 2010 — 14 March 2010
Open Sunday — Thursday 10am – 6pm
Friday & Saturday 10am – 8pm
All ages welcome/Suitable for all ages FREE!
www.experimenta.org

By Means of a Sigh – Interactive Screen Work #Melbourne

By Means of a Sigh is an interactive video installation by Canadian artists Jean Dubois and Chloe´ Lefebvre that invites the viewer to call a number on the screen with their mobile phone and lend their breath to inflate two bubble gum bubbles being blown between two people on the screen.

Venue: Big Screen Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
(opposite Flinders St Station)
Dates: 1 February — 14 March 2010
Screening Times: On rotation — every day!
Visit: fedsquare.com for more info

Forum – Paradise Lost or Utopia regained? Interactive Media Art #Melbourne #free

Public Forum chaired by Darren Tofts (Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology and a leading academic in the field of media art).
Australian and international artists explore the opportunities for interactive art to take us into uncharted territories, ask some tough questions about the current state of media art in the twenty-first century and ponder the future of the medium.

Panel members include interactive media artists: Van Sowerine (Australia), Christa Sommerer (Austria), Niklas Roy (Germany), David Kousemaker (Amsterdam), Jean
Dubois (Canada) and Matthew Gingold (Australia)

Date: Friday 12 February 2010
Time: 6pm for a 6:15pm start — 7:45pm
Venue: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Studio 1, Federation Square, Melbourne

Experimenta Artist Lab – presented by Australia Media Artists Jesse Stevens and Time Humphries #Melbourne

Experimenta Artist Lab is a space for innovation, experimentation, creative collaboration and learning new skills. The ‘workshop’ style lab is designed to give artists, designers and other creative types the tools and skills they need to move their existing practice into the
interactive realm by introducing them to the basic technology needed to produce physically interactive artworks.

Date: Sunday 21 February 2010
Time: 10:00am — 5:00pm
Venue: Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne (Behind Flinders St
Station towards Sandridge Bridge)
Age group: 18+ (no experience with microcontrollers/sensors needed)
Cost: $85 (lunch and workshop materials provided)

Bookings for all Workshops:
Call 03 9650 9977 or email experimenta@experimenta.org

The mother of all zine fairs #Melbourne

60 plus zinemakers, 40 tables x 1.8metres of zine real estate, 140 or so chairs, market umbrellas, street exposure, nearby cafes and bars and ZINES, thousands of precious precious zines from all over the country. At the institute we know how to hold a zine fair and we take it VERY seriously. Don’t expect to find any vegan cupcakes or craft felt toys here.

Saturday, February 13, 2010
3:00pm – 8:00pm
City Square, Melbourne

Farragut North, a play about dirty tricks and media fixers on the campaign trail

In a double election year for Victorians, what the public get to know about the respective candidates will be created in PR boardrooms around the country long before the campaigns commence.

Farragut North, set within Washington’s back corridors and bars, explores the compromised relationships between media managers, spin doctors and journalists on the campaign trail as the Democratic party decides on its presidential candidate.

Stephen, a young and extraordinarily gifted press secretary is working for a fastrising candidate. With confidence and power beyond his years, he’s convinced that he and seasoned campaign manager, Paul can steer their team into the west wing without breaking a sweat. But power demands the highest of integrity and someone must fall when a confidence is broken to the opposition.

With quick-witted banter and an inside look into the world of politics, Farragut North is a timely tale of hubris, loyalty and the lust for power.

“A morality tale about a ‘Crackberry’ generation mover and shaker…and the frenzied scheming and counter-scheming of would-be Washington kingmakers.” LA Times

Beau Willimon worked as a campaign aide in college, and graduated to working on campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean. Farragut North captures the merciless pursuit of victory as well as the way political machinations have eclipsed what’s really at stake in elections.

“The subject of [Farragut North] is not politics,” Willimon says. “The subject is ambition, power, hubris … it’s a universal story.”

Starring Red Stitch ensemble members David Whiteley, Brett Cousins and Tim Potter alongside Lucy Honigman, Kurt Geyer, Karen Roberts and Adrian Dean, Farragut North is directed by Kim Durban.

Previews: Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 February
Season: Friday 5 February – Saturday 6 March
Times: Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 6.30pm
Bookings: (03) 9533 8083 or www.redstitch.net
Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear, 2 Chapel St, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

Angie Réhe brings Patsyfox to Guildford Lane for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

Patsy Fox 2010

As part of the 2010 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, the gallery will host an array of fashion-related works from some of Melbourne’s most talented artists, designers and photographers.

Angie Réhe has been working in the fashion industry since graduating in the late eighties. After years of travelling the world and designing for some of Australia’s favourite fashion brands, she now mixes freelance design and illustration with lecturing, web-based reporting for essential fashion industry news site WGSN.com, maintaining her illustrated blog www.patsyfox.com, and designing cards and stationery.

Angie’s illustrations will appear during Melbourne’s Fashion Festival at Guildford Lane Gallery against a backdrop of fashion events such as forums and launches, and alongside the work of industry contemporaries. Including portraits of the fashionable, the famous and the just plain fabulous, her work will be on display from the 10th – 21st March 2010, with an opening event to be held on the 11th.

New for 2010 and launching during LMFF at the gallery is The Patsyfox Drawing Salon, evening classes in fashion illustration for both beginners and advanced.

Illustrator and designer Angie Réhe brings the beautiful work of her alias, blogger Patsyfox, to Guildford Lane Gallery this March.
www.patsyfox.com
www.guildfordlanegallery.org
www.lmff.com.au

GUILDFORD LANE GALLERY
20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000 Australia
PO Box 12179 a’Beckett St., Melbourne 3008
Ph 61 3 9642 0042 Mobile 0422 442 363

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