WHAT: What I Said Yesterday: narratives of childhood
WHO: Artists including Chris Angus, Atong Atem, Josh Bentley, Jacob Boyd-Skinner, Julien Bowman, Nina Dorabialski, Maryann Gascoigne, Sophie Hardcastle, Julien Kenworthy, Luke O’Connor, Ashlee Phillips, Yoshimi Temple, Sophia Temporali, Sam Winters
Curated by Hayley Coghlan and Julian Kenworthy
WHEN: Opening Thursday August 2. August 3-10
WHERE: Verge Gallery, City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, The University of Sydney
We keep coming back to them. They’re our precarious safety blankets, wrapping up the dreams and nightmares through which we filter everything. According to Freud they are the key to all phobias and manias. Childhood memories can be nostalgic and sentimental, but they can also be terrifying and traumatic, full of ghosts in darkened corners, school bullies, and worse…
Featuring a variety of media including photos, videos, installations and performances, this exhibition unleashes the inner-child. Verge will be transformed into an oversized cubby house, partitioned into rooms, each a compartment for a different artist’s baggage. Teetering somewhere between longing and repulsion, ‘What I Said Yesterday’ will take you on a one way trip back to where it all began.
For example…
Memories fade, bleached by the passing of time. Luke O’Connor illustrates this with his de-saturated wardrobe. These pale garments, representative of bygone fashions, are each tied intimately to wavering memories of events and people. They hang in purgatory; unloved ghosts of their former selves.
No childhood party would be complete without sickly-sweet cakes. Sophie Hardcastle makes sure this memory sticks in our throats with inedible delicacies comprised of human hair.
Nina Dorabialski channels both the abject child and Tracey Emin in a work that recognises mess as a legitimate source of individual creativity. Rather than sweeping it under the carpet, Dorabialski presents us with highly personal strata of that which is neither waste, nor useful – ‘mess’.
University of Sydney Union
Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Rd., The University of Sydney NSW 2006
T: 02 9563 6218 E: g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au W: http://verge-gallery.net
“The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in Non-Human Animals was publicly proclaimed in Cambridge, UK, on July 7, 2012, at the conclusion of the Conference, at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, by Philip Low, David Edelman and Christof Koch. It was written by Philip Low and edited by Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low, and Christof Koch. The Declaration was signed by the conference participants that very evening, in the presence of Stephen Hawking, in the Balfour Room at the Hotel du Vin in Cambridge, UK. The signing ceremony was memorialized by CBS 60 Minutes.
Download a copy of the signed declaration: http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciousness.pdf
The First Annual Francis Crick Memorial Conference, focusing on “Consciousness in Humans and Non-Human Animals”, aims to provide a purely data-driven perspective on the neural correlates of consciousness. The most advanced quantitative techniques for measuring and monitoring consciousness will be presented, with the topics of focus ranging from exploring the properties of neurons deep in the brainstem, to assessing global cerebral function in comatose patients. Model organisms investigated will span the species spectrum from flies to rodents, humans to birds, elephants to dolphins, and will be approached from the viewpoint of three branches of biology: anatomy, physiology, and behavior. Until animals have their own storytellers, humans will always have the most glorious part of the story, and with this proverbial concept in mind, the symposium will address the notion that humans do not alone possess the neurological faculties that constitute consciousness as it is presently understood.”
Dive!
Arts in Action invites all to attend a screening of the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! Living off America’s Waste. Inspired by a curiosity about America’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles’ supermarkets. Awakened to the enormous volume of perfectly good food going to waste every day, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food – resulting in an eye-opening documentary that is equal parts entertainment, guerrilla journalism and call to action. DIVE! has garnered critical praise while raising important questions about hunger and waste in society.
Screening Partner: Melbourne based not for profit organisation FareShare provides a grassroots solution to food waste by providing free, tasty, nutritious meals to Melbourne’s hungry using donated food not needed by supermarkets, farmers and markets. Director of Development from FareShare Claire Leach, will be along to speak about food waste and food rescue and how we can support their volunteer and food donor programs. 40% of the proceeds from the screening of DIVE! will be donated to FareShare.
SCREENING DETAILS:
WHEN: Thursday 26th July 2012
WHERE: Bella Union – Trades Hall Cnr Lygon St & Victoria Parade, Carlton
(enter via Lygon St) MELBOURNE (Australia)
TIME: Doors open at 8pm film starts at 8.30pm
TICKETS: Group Discount (6+ online only): $10 Online: $12/$15 Door: $17/$20
Advanced Bookings: http://www.bellaunion.com.au/ticketing/2822
MELBOURNE: GERTRUDE STREET PROJECTION FESTIVAL
In 2012
The Gertrude Street Projection Festival will celebrate its fifth year of staging inner Melbourne’s most visible and accessible free large scale arts festival. For ten nights in July and in over twenty sites, the length of Gertrude Street, Fitzroy is illuminated by the visions of talented projection artists for the Gertrude St Projection Festival. Buildings, laneways, footpaths and tree trunks will be lit up with site-specific, curated projections on the theme Elements. Projection based workshops, music events and art tours connect and celebrate our diverse community in this free outdoor street gallery. Visit the website for events, full artist lists and project descriptions.
