Holy Families: a new artwork needs your help #ivf #renaissance #photography #families #geekgirl

holy-families

Please help Deborah Kelly  find subjects for her photographic portrait series!
She is looking for families, queer and straight and otherwise compiled, whose children have been conceived with the assistance of any reproductive technologies, from turkey basters to IVF.

Participants will …be posed in beautiful and serious formal arrangements based on renaissance Holy Family paintings of disputed provenance.

The work will be exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane from April. All participating families will receive a signed, museum-quality artists’ proof of their portrait.

Deborah really needs your assistance, especially to find (any) families with little babies.

deborahkelly@iinet.net.au
until Friday, March 23, 2012 at 12:30am
Any city in Australia

Three performative Video works by Emile Zile #Melbourne #video #byob #geekgirl

An evening of three performative video works by Emile Zile [http://emilezile.com/] Emile Zile at the Open Archive project space. Pre-recorded music, Facial recognition, Office stationery; Stone, Portraiture, Cinema, YouTube, Liquids; Sweat, Voice, Scream, Smile. Building on a background of single-channel and performative video art, Emile Zile’s current research focuses on photographic portraiture with contemporary image-making techniques, site-specific audiovisual performance and the use of the internet as a site for mourning, transgression and revelation.

97 Nicholson Street Abbotsford, Melbourne,Victoria.
30 November 2011, 7pm

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Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…

WHAT: Storytelling: Tales from the Union Art Collection

WHO: Curated by Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan. Featuring works by Bill Henson, Trent Parke, Terry Gilliam, Del Kathryn Barton, Hayley Linz, Gareth Sansom,  Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Matheus Van Helmont and Albrecht Dürer.

WHEN: Opening Thursday October 13, 6pm. October 10-November 4, Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm.

WHERE: Verge Gallery, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Road, University of Sydney. Australia

CONTACT: Greg Shapley on (02) 9563-6218, g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au 

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…

Original artworks from these, and other artists, will be on display at Verge Gallery as part of an exhibition that playfully joins the dots between some of the University of Sydney Union’s most interesting art acquisitions. This century-old art collection contains a prestigious and eclectic range of works. Student interns turned curators, Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan have selected works from this collection that are dying to be seen and heard. Each one beckons you in closer, throws an arm around your shoulder and whispers historic tales of intrigue and suspense. Collectively, they chatter away inviting audiences to become involved in the bigger conversation on the nature of art and the human condition. Visitors are asked to document what they hear on large scrolls that, in turn, become part of the show. Also involved in this grand narrative are works by Trent Parke, Del Kathryn Barton, Gareth Sansom, Hayley Linz, Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Albrecht Dürer and George Milpurrurru.

Pretending Things are a Cock #MCF #comedy #geekgirl

Pretending Things are a Cock (Still cocking after all this year)

After critically acclaimed performances to sell out audiences in festivals around the world, AND over 12000 Facebook fans – Jon Bennett brings his Just for Laughs – Best Comedy Award nominated show of over 200 pretend cocks back to Melbourne!

A unique stand-up experience, ‘Pretending Things Are A Cock’ is part photographic exhibition, part pot-holed journey into the idiosyncratic world of Jon Bennett.

This is a show unlike any other in the festival. It takes the form of an exhibition opening, with a gallery tour, live stories accompanied by live classical cellist, and cock shaped hors d’oeuvres. And of course Cocktails (Some supplied by our sponsor; Tequila Tromba). “Every picture tells a story”, thus does every pretend cock and these cocks come from all over the world.

“A worldwide phenomenon!”

“Could possibly be the most ambitious project of the festival”

“Delightful and enthralling” – Australian Comedy Review

“Bennett will have you completely engrossed” – Montreal Mirror

­­­­LISTING INFORMATION

Venue: Tuxedo Cat and Bertha Brown

Dates: April 14^th, 16^th, 17th, 19^th, 20^th, 21^st and 23rd at Bertha Brown

Tickets: $18.00 Full, $14 Conc, $10 Tightarse Tuesdays

Times: 9:00pm – Bertha Brown

The Diana World Tour: #lomography #sydney #melbourne #auckland #charity #geekgirl

The Diana World Tour
Lomography has made it a new mission to bring unique Lomographic events and happenings to the community worldwide…Bring on The Diana World Tour!

The Diana World Tour was kick started in Hong Kong, and has since travelled to Tokyo, Seoul, Porto, Lisbon,Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, New York City, LA, Riga, London and is now making it’s way to Australia and New Zealand.

Australian/New Zealand Tour dates

SYDNEY 3 February – 16 February 2011

MELBOURNE 25 February – 11 March 2011

AUCKLAND – 18 March – 31 March 2011

The Diana World Tour includes: The Detrich Collection – a collection of 100 original Diana Clone Cameras, The DWT Global Vignettes Collection – the coolest collection of Diana images that you are ever likely to witness from all around the world and The Customised Clones Exhibition – a collection of 25 Diana cameras, customised by some of the most interesting artists, illustrators, creative types and good-time Lomography friends that Australia and New Zealand has to offer. Each clone is a complete one-off and will be exhibited as part of the 3 city tour and auctioned online to raise money for a couple of charities in need of our support – www.seethroughme.com.au and World Child Cancer.

diana World Tour opening Night Parties!

Music, booze, plastic cameras and the chance to view the Detrich collection, DWT Global Vignettes Collection and Customised Clones Exhibition. We would love you join us at one of our opening nights. Please RSVP to make sure your name gets on the list. All you need to do is email dwt@lomography.com.au and place the city name in the SUBJECT.

opening Nights

SYDNEY 03.02.2011 @ 6pm Blender Gallery 16 Elizabeth St Paddington

MELBOURNE 24.02.2011 @ 6pm No Vacancy Gallery 34 – 40 Bell Lane Melbourne City

AUCKLAND 18.03.2011 @ 7pm The Department Store 10 Northcroft Street Takapuna

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

#Melbourne Art Fair 2010 – #geekgirl

Melbourne Art Fair 2010
4-8the August

Melbourne Art Fair is an exhibition of leading contemporary art, presented by over 80 selected national and international galleries. The biennial event features paintings, sculpture, photography, installations and multi media art works of over 900 artists and attracts up to 30,000 visitors.

Melbourne Art Week 2010 will be launched with the Melbourne Art Foundation Lecture presented by a Bill Henson.  This is followed by six days of events, functions and entertainment, including: the Galleries and Collectors Dinner, the celebrated opening night Vernissage and after party, free Lectures, Forums and Artist Talks, receptions for international guests, industry parties, walking art tours of Melbourne, live radio broadcasts from the venue, private morning teas, free Guided Tours, the launch and gifting of the Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, Project Rooms, Music Music Music! Fair Shake music night, and other public events and functions, and most importantly the Melbourne Art Fair exhibition of over 80 galleries and 10 project rooms held in the Royal Exhibition Building and surrounds.

Discovered – Tina Modotti – #Photographer and #Revolutionary

Tina Modotti - Hands of the Puppeteer - 1929

In the exhibition “TINA MODOTTI – Photographer and Revolutionary”, KUNST HAUS WIEN presents a comprehensive retrospective of a legendary photographer who has still not received the attention she deserves. Tina Modotti, who was born in 1896 in Udine, Italy and died in 1942 in Mexico, was one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. She became famous as a result of the photographs she created in Mexico in the 1920s and her involvement in the revolutionary movements of her time.

The exhibition traces the path of Tina Modotti’s life, which took her from Italy to California, Mexico, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Spain and back to Mexico, and acquaints us with the people who were important to her, among them the photographers Edward Weston and Johan Hagemeyer, the author B. Traven and the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. It also presents other photographers’ impressions of Modotti, who had started out as an actress in silent films, among them one of the most highly priced nude photographs in the history of photography, the image “The White Iris”, made by Edward Weston in 1921.

Discover more…

Virion – screen based digital art exhibition – Artists Submissions Now Open until July 14th. #geekgirl

Virion July 19 – August 1: Artists Submissions Now Open

Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience throughout Brisbane. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each. All submissions also play on the Virion website. Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represents a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices. Screens include: AXIOM Estate Agents, The Exchange, Blue Lotus, Urban Dental, Health Stream Fitness Club, QUT Health Clinics – Podiatry and Optometry, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, the Creative Industries Precinct, H‐Block Gallery and The Edge.

Online Artist submissions are now open.
To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.

Sum of these holes: new pinhole works by Steph Tout #Melbourne

until – 1 July 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

An exhibition exploring perceptual processes through dreamlike photographs of place, taken with a camera made from a biscuit tin. Photographer Steph Tout has used simple hands-on technology drawn from more than a century ago to create stunning images that immerse the viewer in a variety of intricate, non-linear yet cohesive landscapes.  Impressions have been gathered from sites both wild and urban, from Kinglake’s regrowth to the cobbled streets of Brussels. Tout’s photographs from the past two years are brought together in her first Melbourne solo show.

www.stephtout.com.au
www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au