A fusion of sound and vision over four days will see the inaugural Aphids Reel Music Festival present four very different live music and film experiences.
Highlights include:
26 June 8pm: Waiting to Turn into Puzzles
Louise Curham’s visually stunning hand-processed Super 8-based film with music by David Young will have its Melbourne premiere at the Aphids Reel Music Festival. Shot in Yokohama on special Fuji film stock and hand-processed in Australia, Waiting to turn into puzzles is accompanied by live music performed by Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring. The five-member ensemble will perform from hand-water-coloured musical scores that incorporate screen captures and imagery from the film. This is Ensemble Offspring’s first Melbourne appearance.
27 June 8pm: Skin Quartet
The collaboration between visual artist Louisa Bufardeci and composer David Young, Skin Quartet received critical acclaim at its premiere at the 2003 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Using the USA’s CIA Factbook as the source, Bufardeci and Young have created an intricate meditation on ethnicity, skin colour and nationhood. This will be the first performance of Skin Quartet in Australia since its world tour to America, South Africa and Belgium
28 June 8pm: d.v.d (Tokyo)
The extraordinary Japanese trio d.v.d. (two drummers and a video artist) who will offer up a playful visual music animation recorded live during their exhilarating drum-triggered-visuals show. Their radical reworking of 1980’s arcade classic “Pong” with a retro-Atari aesthetic sees the musician’s drumming controlling game-like animations which generate additional sounds. In turn their drum-play is dependent on the structure of the animation. Based in Tokyo and just back from their first European tour, this is d.v.d.’s first performance in Australia.
29 June, 4pm: Vormittagspuk
Genevieve Lacey and Geoffrey Morris perform Italian composer Maurizio Pisati’s score for the 1928 Hans Richter animation masterpiece, Vormittagspuk. This is the first performance in Melbourne of this exacting and mesmerising work. The program also includes works by Romitelli, Scelsi and Pisati’s ZONE-Spidersound with film animation by Max Bertola.
Tickets for the Aphids Reel Music Festival are on sale NOW
For full program details and further information www.aphids.net
Where: ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Bookings: 03 8663 2583 www.acmi.net.au
Curated by Timba (Wooden Toy Quarterly) and Nate Holmes Trapnell (the Southpaw) comes ‘The Forty Thieves’ (group show) for Gorker Gallery. Celebrating the opening of this brand new artists space with a collection of 15x15x2 artworks by some of the best leading international street and fine artists.
Acorm Akina, Beck Wheeler, Bec Winnel, Ben Frost, Benzo, Biddy Maroney, Bonsai, Boz McCormack, to name a few…
19 June – 2 July
at Gorker Gallery
395 Gore St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
info@gorkergallery.com or www.gorkergallery.com
After his recent success in the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival “Sculpture on the Stream” Rod Belcher is mounting a major exhibition Spirit Guides at FamousWhenDead Gallery.
Brilliantly coloured hand-crafted sculptures and wall hangings, richly infused with a Jungian spirituality inspired by personal dream journeys. Using pure colour inspired by the guiding energy he perceives in the Spirits of the land, sea, plants and animals, Rod has created a unique and at times enigmatic series of three-dimensional beings that speak to us on many levels.
Spirit Guides
12 – 29 June
FamousWhenDead Gallery, 207 Victoria Street , West Melbourne.
Opening hours Tues-Thu 11-6pm, Fri 11-7pm,
Sat&Sun 10-3 pm
website: http://www.rodfordbelcher.com/
Presented by Hide & Seek Festival and Meltdown
Blast Theory presents Day Of The Figurines, a mass participation artwork using mobile phones that is part board game and part secret society. Set in a fictional English town that is littered, dark and underpinned with steady decay, the game unfolds over 24 days, each day representing an hour in the life of the town. Up to 1000 players place their plastic figurines onto the board. They are moved by hand in a meticulous performance throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Players sign up at Royal Festival Hall and then participate by sending text messages. They must help other players as they receive updates from the town, missions and dilemmas. They can also chat to players who are near them in the town using text messages as events unfold in the town: a gig by Scandinavian death metallists, an invasion by an Arabic army, a summer fete.
MELTDOWN is Southbank Centre’s largest contemporary music festival. Running from 16 – 22 June, in 2008 it is curated by Massive Attack.
HIDE & SEEK FESTIVAL runs from 27 – 29 June 2008 at the Southbank Centre + various venues across London. A worldwide photographic treasure hunt, a night-time chase across London and unique flashmob dance – the new cultural phenomenon of social games has arrived this summer with the
Hide & Seek Festival, a 3 day extravaganza of free games and play. Five Best Alternative Summer Events, The Guardian
Day Of The Figurines Opening times
12 June – 5 July, 12 noon– 8pm (some late finishes at 10pm during Meltdown and Hide & Seek)
Venue: Level 1 Foyer Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London
For more details
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
www.hideandseekfest.co.uk
www.blasttheory.co.uk
www.mrl.nott.ac.uk
www.pervasive-gaming.org
POP is brightening the Winter gloom by bringing you a bunch of belly laughs.
Dave O’Neil (Vega FM, Spicks & Specks), Dave Thornton (Comedy Inc) and CJ Fortuna (Hamish & Andy) are standing up in the fight against Parkinson’s disease by doing a stand-up comedy gig for POP.
What: A night of comedy with Dave O’Neil, CJ Fortuna and Dave Thornton
When: Thursday 19 June – Doors open 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start
Where: Word Bar, 14 Goldie Place, Melbourne (click here for directions)
Tickets: $30 – includes one drink, nibbles and a whole bunch of laughs
Bookings essential – call 03 9632 3662 or email
For more information go to http://www.pop.org.au/
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BIT ABOUT POP
Perspectives on Parkinson’s (POP) is committed to funding research into the development of a cure for Parkinson’s disease.
POP was established in 2007 by Nerissa Mapes, who was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease at 28.
Nerissa’s vision is a cure for Parkinson’s disease in her lifetime.
Perspectives on Parkinson’s recognises the individual journey each person with Parkinson’s is on and hopes that in helping to find a cure the road ahead will become clearer and the journey not so difficult.
Perspectives on Parkinson’s partners with the Howard Florey Institute and Parkinson’s Victoria.
or email: Nerissa@pop.org.au
