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Personal Information: Danger Mouse is a British cartoon from the 1980’s. He is a secret agent who lives beneath London with his assistant Penfold. From this base he gets his instructions from Colonel K to thwart the dastardly plans of Baron Silas Greenback and his henchmen Stiletto and Leatherhead.
What the Fringe Festival is to Edinburgh and Liste is to Basel, SafARI 2008 will be to Sydney during the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. SafARI is an exhibition presenting works by emerging and unrepresented Australian artists across three Artist Run Initiatives in Sydney (China Heights, MOP Projects and Gaffa). SafARI will include works in photography, new media, ceramics and painting, and is timed to coincide with the first three weeks of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney (13 June – 29 June 2008).
SafARI events Public Forum with Barbara Flynn – 3pm Sunday, 22 June 2008 at Gaffa Artist Talks and ARI Tour – 2pm Saturday, 28 June 2008 meeting at MOP Projects
Closing Party – 6pm Saturday, 28 June 2008 at China Heights www.safari.org.au
SquatSpace has been invited to be part of an exhibition at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. This is the gallery where it all started, back 3 years ago, when for the curated show Disobedience SquatSpace organized the first two Redfern/ Waterloo Tours of Beauty. As part of the current show, Concrete Culture, yet another Tour will be offered.
CONCRETE CULTURE Asian and Australian projects at the intersections of art and architecture, private and public spaces Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan(Philippines/Australia), Ou Ning (China), SquatSpace (Australia), Richard Goodwin (Australia), Ashok ukumaran (India)
Curator: Felicity Fenner Exhibition: 29 May–5 July 2008* Forum: Monday, 23 June 2008, 9.20am–5.45pm Extra/Ordinary Cities: The Cultural Dynamics of Urban Intervention
Convened by the Centre for Contemporary Art & Politics, UNSW and the Biennale of Sydney with Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in connection with a Linkage Project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC)
Bookings: www.bos2008.com/app/biennale/event/8
Tour of Beauty: Sunday, 22 June 2008, 1pm-5pm There are some *strictly limited* places on the Tour of Beauty bus – please book immediately. Bookings – email info@squatspace.com.
Meet at ID Gallery, Selwyn St, Paddington, NSW Load into our special tour bus (book in advance), or arrive on your bicycle(no booking required).
COST: We don’t like to charge for the tour, but we would request a donation of $5 or $10 depending on your means, to help cover the cost of the bus, fuel and driver. If you can’t afford it, come along anyway as our guest!
From June 14 to September 28, 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Frida Kahlo. Organized by world-renowned Frida Kahlo biographer and art historian Hayden Herrera, the presentation will include approximately 50 paintings from the beginning of Kahlo’s career in 1926 to her death in 1954. The San Francisco presentation is organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA assistant curator of painting and sculpture.
While concentrating on Kahlo’s hauntingly seductive and often brutal self-portraits, the exhibition also will include those particular portraits and still-life paintings that amplify her sense of identity. The peculiar tension between the intimacy of Kahlo’s subject matter and the reserve of her public persona gives her self-portraits the impact of icons. As her practice progressed, her images grew in confidence and complexity, reflecting her private obsessions and political concerns. Kahlo struggled to gain visibility and recognition both as a woman and an artist, and she was a central player in the political and artistic revolutions occurring throughout the world.
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Videowork surveys the work of one of Australia’s most successful video artists; Shaun Gladwell. Presented over two months, this unique exhibition will showcase different works every two weeks. It will also feature the video Storm Sequence from 2000, a work that has become synonymous with Australian video art.
Dates: 1 May – 30 June Venue: WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE Address: 76 Wingewarra Street, DUBBO NSW http://wpccdubbo.org.au/exhibitions.html