Random Acts of Elevator Music want your building tips…

Random Acts of Elevator Music are preparing their itinerary and plan to bring productivity-raising muzaktronica to as many city office buildings as possible in Sydney and Melbourne.  Let them know if you want to experience these soothing oscillations and melodies in your elevator!

Email cityfreqs@akm.net.au or tweet to twitter.com/cityfreqs and we’ll put your building on our itinerary.  Leave a mobile number or email address and you’ll receive notification of when Random Acts of Elevator Music are about to come your way (and we won’t tell your supervisor that you gave us the inside tip…)

Melbourne office appearances: September 23^rd to October 2^nd

Sydney office appearances: October 5^th to 12^th

Random Acts of Elevator Music are back in 2009, performing live muzaktronica during office hours in buildings throughout the Sydney and Melbourne CBDs, helping to increase productivity in workplaces everywhere.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

For further information visit:   www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs

Melbourne Fringe Festival, people and walking tours

“People’s Tours”, are a set of unique audio and walking tours of Melbourne’s local history, starting on Saturday 26 September.

For the first time, walking tours are being done “live” as part of the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival as three walking tours every Sunday of Fringe, and one “sit-down” tour at the launch.

The launch is 7 pm  – 9 pm at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne on Saturday 26 September and entry is free.

At the launch there’ll be an introduction to the “People’s Tour” project, an overview of the 13 tours done so far, and then to kick it off, Tour #1 Irine Vela of The Habibis tours the hits, failures and challenges of her life as a working musician in Melbourne.

We’ll visit Irine when she first became entranced with Cat Stevens and his music, and her excitement of hearing the Bouzoukis in his song Ruby My Love. We’ll hear the first song Irine wrote as a bitter sixteen year old, One day I’ll Kill Myself, and follow her life’s journey as she discovers that choosing a life in the arts transgresses a taboo for a Greek-Albanian girl.

And if you can’t make it, you could put on your walking shoes and explore the lesser known histories of Carlton, Brunswick or the Maribyrnong River…

Tour #2 Stencil artist Tom Sevil (Civilian) takes us off the beaten latte track of Lygon Street and into its back alleys to find remnant political graffiti and street art from the 70s to 2009. Sunday 27 September, 1 pm – 2.30 pm. Meet at Readings Bookshop, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton. Find out more…

Tour #3 Making Modern Melbourne author Jenny Lee explores the long history of a short river, the Maribyrnong, in a tour that covers the indigenous history of the area, the old explosives factory, and the river’s changing landscape to the current McMansion invasion. Sunday 4 October, 3 pm – 4.30 pm. Meet at Lily Street Park, Essendon West. Find out more..

Tour #4 Activist and author Iain McIntyre takes us back in time to Brunswick in the Great Depression, when thousands of Melburnians thrown out of their homes. Tour the sites of some of Melbourne’s fiercest anti-eviction battles (now the sites of some of Melbourne’s fiercest real estate battles). Sunday 11 October, 1 pm – 2.30 pm. Meet at Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick. Find out more…

Walking tour tickets are $10, pre-sold only and available at Melbourne Fringe Festival website: People’s Tours. The sit-down launch (Tour #1) is free.

The tours are co-produced by 3CR Community Radio and Jane Curtis, and funded by the Local History grant program of the Office of Public Records.

People’s Tours co-producer http://peoplestour.net

Silk House Art Projects. The Twilight Girls present Wet Walls

EXHIBITION OPENINGS – SATURDAY 12 SEPT 6PM

Silk House Art Projects and the Arthive gallery present…

Exhibition: The Twilight Girls present ‘Wet Walls’
Dates: 12 September – 09 October
Artist/s: The Twilight Girls Curator: Penny Thwaite

A site-specific installation situated on the glass windows of the Silk House shopfront. The Twlight Girls bring a mix of the tactile, the architectural and classic 70s design to the windows of Silk House. ……is it water? Is it glass? How did they do it??

Opening: Saturday 12 September
Time: 6pm
Location: SilkHouseARtProjects, Shop 1, 200 Hunter St Mall, Newcastle, Australia

SilkHouseARtProjects is a series of installations and experimental art projects.

Works viewable 24hrs & open to visit 10-5 each Saturday.
Contact SHARP by email info@silkhouseartprojects.com
www.silkhouseartprojects.com

Cityoneminutes.org

Interested in learning what people across the other side of the globe are up to right now? If you’re answering a big phat resounding yes, then point your perky browser to cityoneminute.org:

“In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day.  Every film is a personal impression of the city in which the artist lives or in which he is staying. On cityoneminutes.org you can browse through time and place in a number of ways. For example:  Follow the life in Beijing throughout 24 hours; explore life in each city between 5 and 6 in the morning; watch all the films in a mosaic of cities.”

Trace at Artspace. Post colonial cluster fcuk.

29 August – 03 October 2009
TRACE: Displaced (Post-Colonial-Cluster-Fuck)
TRACE COLLECTIVE: PHIL BABOT, LEE HASSALL, EDDIE LADD, TONY SCHWENSEN, ANDRÉ STITT

Located in a domestic terraced house in Cardiff, TRACE has presented live works and resulting ‘trace’ installations by a wide range of major international practitioners for almost a decade. According to TRACE: ‘the seemingly left-over or discarded matter from performance activity is offered up for contemplation and reflection in relation to contemporary artists’ exploration and research. In bringing together these discrete elements one becomes aware of a certain unity of practice; a living archive centred on process, events and experiences — traces that embody that fragile quality where the object itself is imbued with the performance that created it.’ With this in mind, the collective also creates regular exhibitions of its archive-based documentations, residues and partial objects created through the process of performance art.

For TRACE: Displaced at Artspace, the TRACE Collective will build a suspended floor structure — a scaled replication of the floor area of TRACE in Cardiff. During each day of the initial, public live aspect of the project, the artists will engage in an ongoing dialogue with the installation, navigating its physicality and making interventions upon its structure. Collective activity will include the dismantling of a number of classic Australian-built Torana cars combined with accumulative documentary videos of live work created in and around Sydney during the TRACE residency at Artspace. References to locations and conditions in and around Old South Wales are displaced and relocated to New South Wales, with the intent of creating multi-layered investigations which reference departure and arrival though post-colonial-scouring-cluster-fuck.

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Renew Newcastle THIRTY SIX PROJECTS and counting

Renew Newcastle will be celebrating the launch of their THIRTY SIXTH separate project in the 22nd formerly empty spaces that they’ve taken over in the Newcastle (Australia) CBD.

Set to launch another series of art and creative projects which have opened in Newcastle; a collection of events over two days will celebrate the talent and hard work of the artists involved in cleaning up vacant shops to use for a range of creative projects.

The events, all held in the Newcastle CBD, include art exhibition openings, shop opening parties, a walking tour of the new projects, and a rare open studio show by visual artists, all designed to show-off the diversity of Newcastle’s creative talent.

The guided tour of the new projects on Saturday 15 August, 2009 introduces 15 new projects in 12 new properties in the Hunter St Mall area and will begin at 3pm at the Biami Mara Indigenous Art Gallery, Shop 3, 200 Hunter St Mall.

The group of new creative projects which you can visit on the day includes: an indigenous art gallery; a landscape photography gallery; a zine shop; the headquarters and display space for Newcastle Fashion Week; a tea house art gallery; a dance costuming workshop; a retail gallery selling locally made, hand made art, clothing, jewellery and household objects; the newly reinvented gallery space of the ARThive collective; and the individual working studios of 7 visual artists.

The walking tour has become a “don’t miss” event, with large numbers of local visitors joining in on the guided tour of new and existing sites around the Hunter St Mall area. The tour is presented by Renew Newcastle founder, some time ABC TV presenter, and This Is Not Art festival founder Marcus Westbury.

Please come along, say hi and help the RN crew celebrate!

Renew Newcastle News.

Renew Newcastle on ABC TV’s Sunday Arts

How many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?

An exhibition by artist Anthony West and inspired by street drawings of bins, windows, alleyways, tourists, posters, buses and more. Showing at the Guildford Lane Gallery, 20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne.

6 to 30 August 2009.

Dreams that money can’t buy Exhibition

The next SilkHouseARtProjects event is the opening of DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN”T BUY, a film/sound/text project featuring dissimilitude a film/sound installation by Ryszard dabek and groeten uit zandvoort a text/object by i.j.oog.

Opening night: Saturday 01 August
Time: 5pm
Exhibition Period: 01 – 22 August 2009

The SHARP artists would love you to come along and experience their new project!

For more information on Ryszard Dabek see http://ryszard.net/

SilkHouseARtProjects is a series of installations and experimental art projects located at Shop 1 / 200 Hunter St, Newcastle (Australia) in the Hunter St Mall.

The project is a part of the Renew Newcastle initiative.

The works will vary in material and process. You may find the artist is working in the space during setup and throughout the exhibition.

The works are viewable 24hrs and will be open 10am-5pm every Saturday. http://www.silkhouseartprojects.com/

Urban Art Agenda Number 3 opens in Ballarat

Urban Art Agenda #3 is an international stencil art exhibition, which has opened at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.  Inspired by New York graffiti of the 1970s, stencil art is a form of street art, or urban art as it is often called, which has sprung up all over the globe in the last two decades. The Ballarat exhibition (coinciding with a Hans Heysen exhibition) is presented by FamousWhenDead and PinXit Arts & Events and brings together some of the most prolific stencil artists from around the world, including A1one (Tehran), David Soukup (Chicago), ELK (Canberra), El Moocho (Melbourne), HaHa (Melbourne), Jana and JS (Salzburg), Jef Aerosol (Lille), Kenji Nakayama (Boston), Mandarina Brausewetter (Vienna), Orticanoodles (Milan), Ozi (São Paulo), Penny (London).

Exhibition dates: Ballarat, 18 July – 23 August. The exhibition will be presented with additional artists in Melbourne in September, Sydney and Brisbane in October and November.

www.urbanartagenda.com.au

Japan CREAM Festival Competition

International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009, a pioneer project of ‘Creative City Yokohama’, could not be categorized as either an ordinary film festival or a contemporary art exhibition.

CREAM competition craves a new visual expression, or works that cross the borderlines between different genres of art such as contemporary art, film, performing art, music and etc., and therefore inspire and influence the future generations.

Submissions due 31 July

Find out more at http://ifamy.jp/en/competition.php