Sydney Screening – Rabid Tripped Out Psychedelic Lesbian Koalas – premiere April 7

Come to the Australian premiere screening of a collection of fun, colourful gender/queer Australian short films from the arty/radical end of the filmmaking spectrum. This program was curated by Anna Helme and Kelli-Jean Drinkwater for the Bangalore Queer Film Festival in India earlier this year.

“Galactic Sex Wars” rockets us into a futuristic sci-fi world where homos and heteros face off across time and space. “Jorey Corson”, “Ultimate! Dance! Video!” and “Drag Acts” address the performativity of gender, featuring queer and transgender bodies in motion, in masks and moustaches, camping it up in the streets of Berlin, tumbling across an empty sports field at night, inhabiting both the intimate and theatrical. “M.C. G.F.C.” tackles the global fashion crisis, evoking Ru Paul’s “we’re born naked, and the rest is drag”. “With Him of All People” takes a relationship drama into parallel universes of alternate gender. “Procession” is a slice of reality, albeit from a bent perspective, from the Camp Betty weekend of radical sex and politics in 2007, featuring a performative “protest”, aiming to dislocate commonplace demonstration cliches, and generally disrupt the suburbs of Melbourne.

The screening is will be emceed by the captivating Kelli-Jean, and is kindly hosted by the charming Keg and alluring Lucas at their seductive new space in Waterloo, at 643 Elizabeth St (entry from laneway off Phillip St). SYDNEY

Join us Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7.30pm for popcorn and a one-hour screening, and stick around for drinks and chats (some of the filmmakers will also be present).

Come check out some exciting work by independent filmmakers and video artists producing work which steps outside the usual queer film festival fare.

Desire of Codes – technology and art – Japan

Desire of Codes exhibition introduces a brand new installation piece by Seiko Mikami at the Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media. Seiko Mikami creates precise depictions of the gradually transforming relationship between information technology and sensory perception. 

until — 6 June, 2010
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi-city 7530075 JAPAN

To find out more go to http://doc.ycam.jp/outline/index_en.html

FOLD a/v collaborative platform Wed March 10 #Melbourne #HorseBazaar

• HOLY BONER AV SET – Lovers of horror and noise, HOLY BONER feat. Brad Smith (drumkit/screams of agony) & Nik Kennedy (electronics/voices from the grave) reprise their collaboration with visual artist Grand Guignol AKA Tina Douglas.  + special guest victims Zev Langer (zombie groans) and Diana Szabo (bloodcurdling screams) make the noise to go with it. Lionel will get his revenge!
• EARLE STUART / SEAN BAXTER – Legendary outsider Hip Hop MC, Earle Stuart (from the incredible Curse Ov Dialect), joined by percussion nut Sean Baxter.
• DJ CRUMBS (Max Kohane) between the acts!

Wed March 10, 2010

8:30pm

$10 (full) / $5 (conc)

@Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

www.myspace.com/stuttermelb

Second #Experimenta Artist Lab #Melbourne #UtopiaNow #fb

Due to popular demand and overwhelming success, Experimenta will be running a second Experimenta Artist Lab as part of Experimenta Utopia Now, International Biennial of Media Art.

Experimenta Artist Lab is a space for innovation, experimentation, creative collaborations 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 introducing them to the basic technology needed to produce physically interactive artworks. The second Experimenta Artist Lab will be run by Jesse Stevens and Tim Humphrey
who both have extensive experience running workshops as well as working with interactive technology in a variety of artistic and creative contexts will facilitate the workshop.

Sunday 14 March, 10am — 5pm
$85 (lunch and all equipment provided)
Melbourne venue – TBC
No experience with microcontrollers/sensors needed

Places are limited, so BOOK NOW  – call: (03)96509977 or email:
experimenta@experimenta.org
Visit experimenta.org for more information

PICNIC OF THE DAMNED – a fond farewell to Kyeemagh beach

Kyeemagh beach, at the mouth of the Cooks River, Botany Bay, has never been a Bondi or Manly, but recently, this small, working class beach has simply disappeared. A victim, not of rising tides and climate change, Kyeemagh beach succumbed to the NSW Government’s desalination juggernaut (whose pipe runs from the plant itself at Kurnell, under Botany Bay to Kyeemagh).

On March 6, 4pm, there’ll be a picnic to commiserate this disappearance, next to this ghostly strip, outside the perimeter of the security fence marking the no-go zone. Bring a picnic basket and blanket, and come dressed a la Picnic at Hanging Rock. Documentation from the picnic will be used for an exhibition in May by Greg Shapley.

WHAT: Picnic of the Damned
WHERE: Near where the beach used to be, next to the Cooks River – opposite General Holmes Drive & O’Dea Ave, Kyeemagh (near Brighton Le Sands), Sydney, Australia
WHEN: Saturday March 6, 4pm-6pm
WHO: Contact Greg Shapley on 0401 152 434 or email gshapley@gmail.com

Critical Animals is calling for proposals for the 2010 festival.

Critical Animals is the creative research arm of This is Not Art, held each October in Newcastle, NSW. CA welcomes proposals for papers, panels, presentations, performances, exhibits, installations and happenings. The symposium is interdisciplinary and unthemed – it is an opportunity to present research material and creative practice with the thought to
generating discussion and collaboration. In particular we look for artists that engage with creative research, challenge their medium or reflect upon their practice.

Details of the callout <> *Applications close Wednesday 31 March.*

#DJ Spooky Live Performance, March 5th, #Melbourne

Experimenta, Open Channel, Shed 4, Stable and RBMA Radio present:

DJ SPOOKY, THE NAURU ELEGIES

As part of the Nauru Elegies, DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance in Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse, Shed 4. Composed by Paul D. Miller (aka. DJ Spooky), the performance reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated by DJ Spooky and a string quartet.

Tickets on sale now, $25, $20 concession + booking fee:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=34591&ref=Shed4

Friday 5 March, 8pm
Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne

http://www.djspooky.com/

The Nauru Elegies #Melbourne #DJSpooky

A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture

The Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru. The work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. It has been realised through the collaboration of composer Paul D. Miller, best known as DJ Spooky, and architect Annie K. Kwon.

The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.

Venue: Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building,
Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates: 19 February – 6 March. Times: 10-5 daily

http://www.experimenta.org/

CitySwitch urban interventions – Exhibit

Event: CitySwitch urban interventions
What: Exhibit
Start Time: Tuesday, February 23 at 5:00pm
End Time: Saturday, February 27 at 8:00pm
Where: Hunter St Mall & Renew HQ 3 Morgan St Newcastle AUSTRALIA

CitySwitch is an international exchange between Japan and Australia, where urban designers, architects and artists workshop ideas over 5 intense days, to collaborate on the creative activation of urban spaces.

23-27 Feb 2010

CitySwitch Lab invites you to downtown Newcastle to collaborate with a team of architects, artists, and designers from across NSW and Japan for the 2nd international workshop on urban revitalisation.

… “We are working on the ground to create four catalytic interventions within downtown Newcastle”

… “Artists, architects, creators, and thinkers of the city are all invited to take part in the workshop”

You can join in on the workshop (each day), come to free lectures (Tues/Weds/Thurs 8pm), or come and view the completed exhibitions/installations/projects (Saturday 27th, from 2pm).

The workshop includes the collaborative design and production of four different urban intervention projects, a series of international lectures, and a range of social events. The workshop culminates in a public show to exhibit, critique and celebrate the works on Saturday the 27th of February.

**International guest creators include: Satoru Yamashiro (Tokyo, Japan), Toshinori Esumi (Izumo, Japan), Jin Hidaka (Japan) and Jun Inokuma (Tokyo, Japan). **

Full details http://cityswitchlab.org/newcastle/index.php

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