Soda_Jerk ‘After the Rainbow’
Originally commissioned by Melbourne’s Next Wave for Next Wave Time Lapse, Federation Square pulled After the Rainbow (2009) from exhibition on their outdoor cinema screen due to concerns over the work’s deliberate copyright infringement. Opening June 1, Sydney viewers now have the chance to see this new work at Kudos Gallery.
After the Rainbow is a 2-channel video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Through a re-imagining of the initial sequence of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s sad life collide in much the same way as the worlds of Kansas and Oz in the original film. Instead of taking Dorothy to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Judy Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self. This is Soda_Jerk’s second installment in ‘The Dark Matter Cycle’, a series of video remix works that mobilise the conceptual framework of time travel to explore the relationship of recorded media to the passage of time.
Soda_Jerk will discuss their work in an artist talk on the final day of the exhibition, Saturday 12 at 2pm.
Opening, 5-7.30pm Tuesday 1st June. Exhibition continues till Saturday the 12th June.
Kudos Gallery
6 Napier Street
Paddington, Australia
Five Wounds written by Jonathan Walker and illustrated by Dan Hallett #graphicnovel
A breathtakingly original, deep, dark story reminiscent of Patrick Suskind’s Perfume and Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Inspired by Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Uncanny X-Men, this surreal, darkly beautiful and unsettling graphic novel is by turns hilarious and horrific, grotesque and tender.
Five Wounds is the story of five wounded characters, all orphans: Gabriella, a crippled angel; Cur, the leader of a sect of dogs; Cuckoo, a gambler with a wax face; Magpie, a thief terrified of going blind; and Crow, a leper trying to distil an antidote for death. Via a series of mutilations, murders, kidnappings and dramatic escapes, everyone gets exactly what they deserve – or do they?
Kate Holden, author of In My Skin has said,
“If I say this fable is peculiar, it’s a compliment. Not so much steampunk as, what? Canalpunk? This elaborate macabre book plays games, runs riddles, leaps in flights of fancy and dives down chasms of nightmare with Tarot, murder, jokes, and angels thrown in for good measure. The illustrations are Goya meets comic-book, the text Perfume and Pan’s Labyrinth, Gogl, Calvino and Cassanova’s memoirs of Venice all in one. Extraordinary.”
Jonathan Walker will be appearing at Sydney Writers’ Festival on Sunday 23rd May for the event “Graphic Novels vs Illustrated Texts”.
Museum Victoria is offering a $5,000 award for up to 2 young emerging new media artists
Museum Victoria are looking for innovative proposals for digital projects that can be exhibited online as part of a 3 year project called Talking Difference.
The aim is to inspire conversations between and within cultures about difference and commonality.
Your project could utilise any form of digital media. It could be a short film, interactive game, online interactive artwork, digital public art project, mobile phone application… the possibilities are endless.
For more information and application form go to: http://museumvictoria.com.au/talkingdifference
#Melbourne – 100 proofs that Earth is not a globe
A cross-media, pseudo-spiritual journey in search of The Truth.
6:30pm at the Next Wave Festival Club, Melbourne (for 7pm sharp space shuttle departure) 6 performances only Wed 19 May – Fri 21 May 2010 Wed 26 May – Fri 28 May 2010
Marking the much-anticipated debut performance season of Melbourne artist collective Tape Projects, 100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe is a live art installation and guided performance that is part science project, part religious intervention. Meet at the 2010 Next Wave Festival Club where your journey begins; a space shuttle will ferry you to and from state-of-the-art research facilities in a galaxy not too far away.
This secular and spiritual space mission will launch on six nights only – will you be aboard? 100 Proofs Artists: Jessie Scott, Eugenia Lim, Zoe Scoglio, Michael Prior, Lee Anantawat, Cait Foran, Tanja Milbourne.
More Info: http://tapeprojects.org/ http://2010.nextwave.org.au/