Social Tsunami presents Tijuana Tumbleweed

Mexican musical mayhem featuring from Phoenix Arizona , an electronic musician originally from Mexico coming out of the Nortec stable. ‘Lxuk’ hails from the border of Texas and Mexico and is musically influenced by Cumbia, Tejano, and Norteno sounds. Musically trained by Bostich EL Padrino de Nortec, (The Godfather of Nortec Collective), Lxuk has been performing his post-Latin fusion creations around the world… Japan, Romania, USA, Mexico and now oz.

His current creative projects include an LP to be released by Bostich (Nortec), and a documentary film about Chicano Lowrider culture in Japan, scheduled to be released soon.

Playin alongside is Uber Lingua mover and shaker bP, promising to play a barrage of Mextronica, and Lava room regulars Vapor (Chile) and Mashy P, who are also central to the Uber Lingua movement.

Mexican culture has been a central part of Uber Lingua’s makeup. In 2005 & 2006 Uber Lingua hosted the ‘Nortec Collective’ at events in Sydney (Candy’s) and Melbourne (St Jeromes RIP). These collaborations led to a strong bond that continues to this day between the east coast of Australia and Tijuana.

This connection led to the 2007 Mexican tour of Uber Lingua DJs bP, Mashy P, Saka la Mois and DJ Sheerien (now based in the UK ). As invited guests of the ‘Melbourne en Tijuana’ festival they performed at three events in the border city alongside the Makila Collective and members of Nortec, making multiple media appearances.

From there, they also went on a DJ adventure performing at events in Guadalajara (with another UL compadre DJ Alejandro Davilla), Mexico City (with Mex MC Boca Floja), San Cristobal Chiapas & Xalapa Veracruz.

The 5-city Hola Mexico Film Festival ‘Opening night fiestas’ presented by Uber Lingua in 2008 were another extension of the tangent.

Also on the bill is Lisa Marmur, she is a singer/songwriter, originally from Melbourne, Australia. She has spent ten years in the desert of Phoenix, Arizona where she learned most of what she knows today from some very special and talented people, having worked in various bands, including electro-pop outfit ‘Runaway Diamonds’.

Check out this Mexican musical fiesta in a deep Pacific tiki territory!

Lava rooms is truly a sight to behold, a totally transformed space featuring the most amazing collection of Pacific art including massive Easter island heads, a variety of bamboo structures, cane furniture, Polynesian carvings and paintings collected avidly over the years by Sydney artist Brian Paisley.

Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 8:00pm
Lava rooms
Corner of Wattle and Broadway, near Central, entrance on Wattle st
Sydney, Australia

Revolution on paper Mexican prints 1910–1960

Diego Rivera, Emiliano Zapata and his horse 1932

The exhibition is the first in Europe to focus on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the 20th century. It features 130 works by over 40 artists including prints by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Highlight objects on display in the exhibition

Between 1910 and 1920, Mexico was convulsed by a socialist revolution that aimed to topple the elite ruling class and improve conditions for society at large. The left-wing government which emerged laid great emphasis on art as a vehicle to promote the values of the revolution. Walls of public buildings were covered with vast murals, and workshops made prints for mass distribution.

Some of the finest prints from the period were produced by the ‘three greats’ of Mexican art: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

The exhibition includes Rivera’s famous Emiliano Zapata and his horse which has achieved iconic status in 20th-century art. It also features works by artists that rose to prominence after the founding of the Taller del Gráfica Popular (the national print workshop) in 1937, and earlier works by José Guadalupe Posada, who was posthumously recognised by the revolutionaries as the father of printmaking in Mexico.

More from the British Museum

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

Mu-Meson July Highlights

Saturday 18th July
Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick Comedic Missives from The American Underground
Danny Plotnick roared into the underground film world in the 1980s.  Fueled by his love of punk and alternative culture and infected with d.i.y. spirit, he started making films that captured a similarly snarly attitude. The films on tonight’s program include Swingers’ Serenade, a titillating tale of suburban sexual malaise; I, Socky, a rogue sock monkey hits the town on a big day out; Steel Belted Romeos, a turbo-charged tale of California road rage; Skate Witches, a glimpse into the world of a 1980s female skateboard gang; Flip About Flip, a tribute to comic genius Flip Wilson. Mu-Meson Archives (Sydney) Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $10

Sunday 19th July
Miss Deaths Knitting Group
Do you want to learn how to knit, crochet or any other craft? Or you just want to come along for a social? For the new ladies who are coming for the first time bring a friend. Boys are welcome as long as they do a craft or something useful.  Mu-Meson Archives (Sydney) 4pm with a plate…

For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives web site
http://www.mumeson.org

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale, Sydney (Australia) at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone +61 2 9517-2010

Personal Space and Dotspace – Darwin

Personal Space
The idiom of Personal Space has many connotations as a citizen living in amodern world, a world that is definitely more complex to exist in than in previous times. Navigating day to day life is now challenged by new technologies and invasive constructs; spam, Facebook, cctv surveillance and marketing profilers, to name a few. The exhibition Personal Space invites artists from Darwin and Beijing to question notions of personal space, not in the literal sense, but in relation to private space, shared space and public space.

Dotscape: Sutthirat Supaparinya
Annoyed by the interrupted view from the train window caused by advertising posters, Supapaprinya shows a sequence of blurred landscape images traveling from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, unraveling the threat to the natural landscape and daily life by commercial development in Thailand.

runs until ­ 25 July
24HR Art – Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
Vimy Lane, Parap Shopping Village, Darwin, Australia

Find out more at: www.24hrart.org.au/programs.html#exhib1

etoy calls all flower people

flower people, apple nerds, spiritual travelers, bankers and other wayfaring (wo)men to leave their offices & teepees to check out the show “im anfang war das wort” (“in the beginning was the Word”) in Entlebuch/Switzerland.

After successful return from orbit the 5,32 tons of steel hammered down on the First near Heiligkreuz/LU:
http://www.heiligkreuz09.ch/index.php?id=61 The container is expected to carry key code for etoy’s ANGEL APPLICATION and 4 GB of new data from Tim Leary and Sepp Keiser as well as a ritual object for sepulchre ceremonies at Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz, the world’s leading media arts festival (3. – 8. 9. 2009: Human Nature / the anthropocen

http://www.aec.at/humannature/index_de.html)

Since the clash of art and nature in Motiers (art en plain air 2007), and all the psychedelic experiences up there, etoy.AGENTS are raring to go back into wild and spend the summer of 2009 in the mountains: a public STOWAWAY ENCAPSULATION WORKSHOP (register here: http://www.heiligkreuz09.ch/index.php?id=etoy), agent retreats, meetings, further data gathering sessions with test pilots and an etoy.CHILDREN summer camp are on the list.

Vernissage “im anfang war das wort”: Sunday, 5th of Juli 2009, 13.30 / Schuur Heiligkreuz In Concert: Gruppe Hans Kennel, Alphorn

Attending artists: Wilma Benz, Patricia Bucher, Anton Egloff, Monika Feucht, Edith Fluckiger, Johannes Gees, Rene Gisler, Heini Gut, Alex Hanimann, Thomas Heini, Beat Mazenauer und Anna Luchs / Urs Hofer Robotlab, Matthias Gommel, Martina Haitz, Jan Zappe, Roger Schnyder, Peter Stobbe, Stockwerk 7

Beautiful Losers – Film

Directed by Aaron Rose, Beautiful Losers tells the story of his semi-legendary Alleged Gallery in downtown ’90s NYC. Alleged provided an incubator for a group of taggers, skateboarders and other criminally disposed minds AKA young artists (such as Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Ed Templeton, Barry McGee etc) who hung/worked and 20 years later became famous and successful beyond your wildest dreams. Tough life huh?

The film covers off their progression from DIY street art twenty-somethings to mainstream success in advertising, film, and graphic design. Even though it somewhat glosses over trickier subject matter about what happens to punk ideals when they meet big bucks – the film does provide nice insights into some of the greater artistic minds of our time. Plus their can-do-art attitude is pretty inspiring.

Where:
ACMI Cinemas, Fed Square, Melbourne
When:
Premiere Thurs July 2, 7pm. Then Fri July 3, 7pm; Sat July 4, 7pm; Sun July 5, 5.30pm.

Website: Beautiful Losers
Source: 3thousand

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest running documentary film festival in the US. The Festival takes place each November at the American Museum of Natural History. The Mead showcases far-reaching international documentaries and a range of non-narrative films and videos. The Festival seeks works that showcase the diversity of non-fiction storytelling including: animation, indigenous media, experimental and essay films, as well as hybrid works. The Festival seeks works made within the last 3 years and that is of any length.

Send in your submissions http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/submit/

Deadline has been extended til June 26th, 2009 so hurry!

More information on Margaret Mead from Wikipedia

Changing Landscapes – 10 years of images from Lake Cowal

Changing Landscapes is a photographic exhibition documenting the story of Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold miner, and their operations in the culturally and ecologically significant area of Lake Cowal. Lake Cowal is an ephemeral lake experiencing periods of flooding and drying in 20-year cycles. The Lake is not only a Nationally significant wetland but is known as the Sacred Heartland of the Wiradjuri Nation.

Covering a 10 year period the exhibition explores the beauty of Lake Cowal and the stark changes on the landscape through gold mining. Exploring the natural changes through drought and the changes created by human intervention Changing Landscapes aims to inform the community and wider public about the environmental impacts of Barrick’s gold mine at Lake Cowal. The photographs tell a dramatic story of struggle and beauty in the face of the resource boom.

Tortuga Studios
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: 31 Princess Highway, opp BP garage in Sydney Park, NSW, Australia
Phone: 0415380808

Unite to stop violence against Indians

It’s pretty said that people turn their hatred and arrogance against someone who represents their fears. Fortunately, most people can figure out problems are generally systemic & not based on individuals who simply happen to be part of an ethnic group.

There’s lots of events happening in around Melbourne so we can show our support.  For instance, Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) in partnership with ABC Music Deli is presenting a FREE concert 24 June at 7pm at the Iwaki Auditorium, featuring Indian musician Dya Singh.

Dya Singh, Indian musician and MAV artist comments:
“I believe that Arts and culture are a window into the soul of a people. Indian arts, especially music and dance are so rich and profound that anyone involved in them, even as a spectator, is spellbound. Greater exposure of such rich heritages in the mainstream would go a long way in spreading greater harmony within the diversity of Australian life. Besides cricket, Indian food and Bollywood, I hope our authorities consider it important to provide more Indian art and culture through concerts and other public events within the mainstream to heal the gaping wounds which have appeared between ‘Indian’ and ‘Australian’ people over recent ugly events of the apparent racist bashings of ‘Indians’ and their retaliations through ugly demonstrations and destruction of public property, not only here, but also in India.”

Dya Singh is an icon of the Australian music scene and has quietly gained a phenomenal ‘standing’ worldwide as a ‘world music’ artist in the last 15 or so years. Dya Singh is one of the many Indian artists that MAV supports and promotes through our mission to foster cultural diversity and respect through the promotion, enhancement and celebration of multicultural arts in Australia. His ‘world music’ and ‘Sikh spiritual’ music group has travelled to USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Kenya, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand and throughout Australia since its formation in 1994. He is now based in Melbourne.

Event:
24 June at 7pm
Iwaki Auditorium, Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Australia.

Note: Refugee Week in Australia is being celebrated with a series of amazing performances and unique cultural experiences around Melbourne from 16 June to 26 July 2009.