The Collective have returned in 2010 with “Re_Collection” #Melbourne #arts #geekgirl

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“The Collective are a group of seven artists who also are linked by their professional contributions to the museum profession. In this, their second exhibition together, they explore ideas of time, permanence and memory through a  range of media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.

Sarah Edwards tackles notions of status and reverence through the re-presentation of discarded objects, re-establishing their permanent place in memory.  Ben Healley photographically captures the fleeting, forgotten moments of a sleeping city, while Colleen Boyle examines the relationship between time and representation via the heavens. Rod Gray stirs up the memory of our subconscious with his paintings of dreamlike landscapes, whilst Lee-Anne Raymond depicts concepts of time and space via illusion and myth. Brendon Taylor tends a sculptural hand to our fragmented, personal memories, while Sarah Parker toys with ideas of transfiguring the ordinary, re-presenting it as a fragile ceramic object.”

In this, their second collaborative exhibition together, the group present their responses to time, permanence and memory.

Opening night Sept 1st 6-8pm
Red Gallery
157 St. Georges Road,
Fitzroy North, Melbourne
03 9482 3550

Interactive Sound Exhibition – constellation: a durational chamber work: Liquid Architecture #Melbourne

“constellation: a durational chamber work” by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey at Red Gallery (North Fitzroy, Melbourne) is a set of performance interruptions that occur daily during the exhibition period, accumulating over the entire period. On the first day, one piece is performed. By the last day, all pieces are performed.

Madeleine and Tim commissioned a collection of composers to create new work to become part of a larger piece, responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Artists created a collection of objects, scores, instructions, installations and video which Madeleine and Tim have assembled into an interactive sound exhibition, a chamber orchestra of sound. constellation imagines these entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of people in the process of creation. constellation is supported by the New Music Network, Liquid Architecture and Arts Victoria.

Runs until July 17th, 2010 – check website for more info:

For more information on constellation – including performance times
For all Liquid Architecture programs and event schedules.

Experimenta – Immersion – NGV – #Kids Corner

Step into the ocean and use your shadow to interact with sea creatures without getting wet! Experimenta are pleased to announce that from June, Immersion, an Experimenta New Visions Commission will be installed at the NGV Children’s Gallery as part of an Light Play, an exhibition that explores multiple perspectives on light through interaction, education and play. Immersion is an interactive artwork by Australian artists Angela Barnett, Andrew Buchanan, Darren Balingall, Chris MacKellar and Christian Rubino.

June – 7 November 2010 FREE!

Open 10am – 5pm. Closed Mondays

7 Evils in One! #exhibition #melbourne

11th June to 24th June, 2010

The title 7 Evils in One! is derived from the work of American artist and comic book illustrator Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat, Mr Natural). Crumb’s work is widely recognised for it’s distinctive style and subversive, satirical content.

In 1994 Kitchen Sink Press commissioned Robert Crumb to design the packaging of a chocolate bar using his character, “Devil Girl”. On the back of the wrapper of Devil Girl Choco Bar the ingredients were listed:

7 Evils in One! 1-Delicious Taste; 2-Quick, cheap buzz;
3-Bad for your health; 4-Leads to hard drugs;
5-Waste of money; 6-Made by sleazy businessmen;
7-Exploits women.

The above tongue-in-cheek anti-marketing statement sets the scene for what to expect from these seven artists. With a range of popular culture influences from; comic books, cartoons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Spiderman, basketball cards, heavy metal paraphernalia, toys from the 70’s and all things mystical and psychedelic, these artists revel in childhood fantasies whilst poking fun at Western culture.

Don’t miss the opening night performance by Melbourne band Love Connection and many thanks to Androniki Douramakos for her mountain installation.
Opening Thursday 10th June 6-9pm.

THE ARTISTS

JAMES BLAGDEN
Brooklyn artist James Blagden is inspired by popular culture and it’s many diverse sub-sects. His major clients include the New York Times, MTV, Vice and Nike.

KELIE BOWMAN
Kelie is the founder of Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn. She uses her time drawing, painting, making murals and killing time at Cinders gallery.

COUGAR FLASHY
Cougar Flashy was born in Illinois and now lives in Melbourne. He is forever drawing, creating comics, writing songs and collaborating with friends.

PATRICK KYLE
Canadian artist Patrick Kyle is the founder of Wowee Zonk a comic book anthology featuring contemporary comic strips by Toronto artists. His clients include Vice and Rice paper magazine.

MICHAEL FIKARIS
Melbourne artist Michael Fikaris paints and illustrates. He has self-published his own Froth comic since 1991 and is the founder of Silent Army a publication showcasing the work of young emerging artists.

JOANNA ANDERSON
Joanna is a Melbourne based illustrator. Her focus on characters ranges from human portraits, depictions of animals and the creation of letters. She has illustrated for the National Gallery of Victoria.

MARK SILIPO
Melbourne’s Mark Silipo is the man behind Magic Sweater. He is a freelance illustrator and maker of zines. His self-published zine is called Teen Vomit.

Curated by: Louise Klerks

NO VACANCY GALLERY

34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne 3000. (enter from Russell St)
Phone: (03) 9663 3798
Email: info@no-vacancy.com.au
Web: http://www.no-vacancy.com.au/

The Light in Winter – Federation Square installation

4 June – 4 July 2010, FREE

From large-scale light installations, projections and torch-led tours to Indigenous storytelling and Sudanese hip-hop, The Light in Winter celebrates the warmth of  community and shared cultural experiences.

Directed by Robyn Archer, this free, month-long program also features a new, specially commissioned work, Solar Equation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – one of the world’s greatest installation artists.

The Light in Winter is proudly supported by The City of Melbourne. To find out more about what’s happening in Melbourne this winter, visit www.thatsmelbourne.com.au.

Solar Equation - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

While Lozano-Hemmer has toured the world with his many works, Solar Equation marks his Australian debut. This specially commissioned piece is a faithful three dimensional simulation of the sun that uses live mathematical equations to simulate the turbulence, flares and sunspots on the sun’s surface. MORE

Solar Equation – Julie Renouf

As part of Federation Square’s Environmental Sustainability policy, the energy that is used to power The Light in Winter, the Big Screen and all external events at Fed Square, comes from wind-generated, Green Power.

Description.WHAT: Un/shore: A beach, denied

Description.WHAT: Un/shore: A beach, denied
WHO: Greg Shapley
WHEN: Opening Wednesday May 12, 6pm, featuring DJ Jack Shit
Thursday May 13 – June 12, 2010
WHERE: Mori Gallery, 168 Day St, Sydney

UN/SHORE: A BEACH, DENIED

Kyeemagh beach, at the mouth of the Cooks River, Botany Bay, has never been a Bondi or Manly, but a couple of years ago this small, working class beach 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). Although this shoreline is being rebuilt, the gains have been negligible, and the potential losses, greatly understated.

‘Un/shore: a beach, denied’, a new installation by new media artist Greg Shapley, interrogates what it means to have a security fence surround a valuable public asset, rendering it a private construction site – an eyesore and earsore – an extra blight on an already highly impacted landscape. Shapley takes a stroll round this landscape comprised of surreal juxtapositions, documenting the uncanny moments – the bits between humanity and humour, and the cold reality of business as usual.

In this exhibition, Shapley weaves a tangled web of moving imagery, sound and sculpture using a multitude of overlaid media to portray this sight, so un-Australian, a beach, denied.

Greg Shapley is a new media artist and composer. He has been Director of Don’t Look Gallery and the Sound of Failure Festival and currently teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney. This year Shapley will also be exhibiting at the Newington Armory as part of the Memory Flows project.

The exhibition opening features Jack Shit spinning foxtrots, tangos and sambas for your dancing pleasure.

CONTACT:
Greg Shapley – gshapley@gmail.com,
phone 0401 152 434
http://gshapley.com/

Dematerialization – #Melbourne – a sound-image hybrid installation

MELBOURNE – DEMATERIALIZATION
A sound/image hybrid installation by Dinesh de Silva & Marcia Jane
May 11-22 at First Site Gallery
344 Swanston St, Melbourne

Electricity, air, shimmering, falling, light, flicker, sound, energy, suspension, organic, a brief freedom from time and space – dematerialization. An installation of amplified sound and projected light shaped by the surfaces and contours of the gallery. Live performances during the exhibition.
 
For more information see http://www.concealedentrance.com

Enigmatica by Kit Webster

Another startling installation by Kit.

“A series of suspended frames diminish in size down the length of the gallery creating for a multifaceted sculptural installation, simultaneously acting as a canvas for the display of surface specific projected visual sequences”.

http://vimeo.com/9842123

Wilkins Hill – Windows impersonating other windows #Artspace

EXHIBITION: 5 March — 10 April 2010

Wilkins Hill
Windows impersonating
other windows

Wilkins Hill’s new multimedia installation Windows impersonating other windows addresses the structures of communication through abstracting relationships between words, objects and meanings.  The installation can be understood as extending the artists’ interest in the underlying processes involved in the communication of meaning between an artwork and an audience, building upon earlier works such as The Plague of Inheritance (2006), Sunny (2005) and the True meaning of Christmas (2004).

Throughout 2008 and 2009 Wilkins Hill participated in residency projects in Berlin, Paris and Hamburg during which time they began experimenting with language translation, utilising the inherent gaps and misunderstandings between languages as departure points for creativity. Produced when in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, their video work Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs, bestiality, nazi aryanism (2009) incorporated speech recognition software and automated translation websites as a way to generate poetic texts and narratives that were then edited into a corresponding visual structure. Windows impersonating other windows incorporates translation devices in a similar fashion, creating a space for deeper consideration of how meaning is extracted from our physical environment.

ARTIST DISCUSSION
Saturday 6 March, 2010, 3.00pm
Wilkins Hill, Sam Smith and Simon Denny will be joined by Reuben Keehan.

Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
www.artspace.org.au

The ends of the Earth a mixed media installation

Exploring Environmental Degradation through Mixed Media Installation

Jane Castle & Linda Dement, wax box blood(detail), 2009

Jane Castle and Linda Dement present a malevolent installation involving leaking and congealing blood, video loops on hacked digital players, anomalous machinery and a soundscape from recordings made at the ends of  the earth.

runs until 28 November, 2009
SASA Gallery
Kaurna Build, City West Campus
Cnr Fenn Place & Hindley Street
South Australia

Check out the details at:
University of South Australia