Teleportation Device Request for _Game of War Weekend_?

Consider this official: I totally *need* one of you luverly Geekgirlers to create a Teleportation Machine so I can get to this bangin’ event:

“On Saturday the 26th, Class Wargames presents ‘Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter’, a day of making and playing Guy Debord’s The Game of War.

Sunday is the World Premier launch of the Class Wargames’ film – The Game of War. Directed by Ilze Black; script writers Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett; xenography by Alex Veness, voice over by Hayley Newman and Alex Veness.

For more information about Class Wargames and players:
http://www.classwargames.net.”

[All teleportation device donations gratefully accepted. K-thx-bai;)]

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The Story of Gusty and Ford

[The following is a type of latent design morality tale concerning observation: train yourself to look + you never know what might eventuate;) Oh + it should be viewed with the following warning in mind - there's a few mild "adult concepts" involved, so view at your own risk.]

“This film is about the way you see more when you walk – in this case, the way you look at road signs. I didn’t drive anywhere to shoot any of these road signs. Most of them I walked to and one of them was in Norway and turned out to be quite a long walk especially carrying a camera.”

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Take Off Your Skin (TOYS)

Take Off Your Skin (TOYS): A Replication Project
Produced by Melbourne Fringe + WELL Theatre + FULL TILT

Japanese dance artist Yasuko Kurono is a replication artist: she uses “clones” of herself to stage public-oriented dance performances [sounds quite trippy, huh]. Kurono, who has been engaged in events like these since 1999, wants Melbournites to join in one such viral performance event during the week prior to Friday 2 October:

“Be a part of TOYS – a large public art performance. Join 100 performers and 20 assistants as we take over the streets of inner city Melbourne for one afternoon. We’ll even dress and preen you for the occasion. All you need to bring is enthusiasm.

To join us:

1. Read the information here about the different performer and assistant roles.
2. Fill in the form to let us know which part you want to play.

Then we’ll let you know all the details shortly.

If you have any queries, contact Producer Kath Papas at Melbourne Fringe before you register phone 9660 9600 email kath@melbournefringe.com.au.”

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Call: The Cafe Poet Program

If:

1. You like a decent cuppa
2. You’re a dab-hand with a writing implement
3. You like to throw around words with reckless [and/or possibly formalized] abandon

…then have a squizz at this puppy:

“We are looking to expand the [The Cafe Poet] program so if you are a poet and wish to participate in the program by connecting with a cafe near you and being its CAFE POET IN RESIDENCE, please contact the Australian Centre by emailing paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au.

We are taking applications until September 30 and will announce the new cafe poets by the end of October. And check out the cafe poet facebook page.”

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Cityoneminutes.org

Interested in learning what people across the other side of the globe are up to right now? If you’re answering a big phat resounding yes, then point your perky browser to cityoneminute.org:

“In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day.  Every film is a personal impression of the city in which the artist lives or in which he is staying. On cityoneminutes.org you can browse through time and place in a number of ways. For example:  Follow the life in Beijing throughout 24 hours; explore life in each city between 5 and 6 in the morning; watch all the films in a mosaic of cities.”

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Inform: An Interactive Fiction Design System

Inform: An Interactive Fiction Design System

“Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world’s best-known writers of IF.”

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Critical Path: Choreographic Research Centre

“Critical Path is a choreographic research and development centre for dance artists in New South Wales, Australia. Based at The Drill, a large rehearsal space on the harbour in central Sydney, Critical Path’s program offers:

• Space and support for artists undertaking their own research

• Intensive laboratories and workshops facilitated by national and international artists

• Masterclasses with artists from dance and other disciplines

• Mentoring projects for choreographers to build new relationships with peers

• Discussion events and opportunities for artists to share practice and ideas.”

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Primitive: A New Multi-Platform Media Artwork

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new multi-platform media artwork Primitive was commissioned by FACT in partnership with Haus der Kunst, Munich and Animate Projects, London. The work is a combination of:

• a multiple- screen video installation
• a music video
• a short film for cinema
• an online film
• an artist’s book.

“This will be the first solo exhibition in the UK by the Thai artist, which forms part of the AND Festival, Primitive is set in Nabua in the Renu Nakhon district of Thailand, which suffered violent clashes between communist communities and the Thai military in the 1960s. Communist suspects were brutally tortured during attacks and those who managed to escape fled to the jungle where they disappeared forever. Nabua’s story undeniably has echoes with the current political turmoil in Thailand, as freedom of expression is still restricted and Thai security forces continue to engage in extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, with new cases of ‘enforced disappearances’ emerging during 2008.”

Read more about Primitive at FACT.

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Connected 09 – Melbourne exhibit

Cathy Staughton
Cathy Mother Poor ‘R2D2′ Robo & Good Little Boy Angels 1 Year old Dec 2007 2008
Gouache & Ink 765 x 560 mm

Connected 09…

Selected Artists from Arts Project Australia will be exhibiting in Connected 09 exhibition at Black Box Theatre at the Victorian Arts Centre.

Artists included in the exhibition are Jodie Noble, Dionne Canzano, Steven Ajzenberg, Peter Ben, Steven Worrell, Alan Constable, Julian Martin, Miles Howard-Wilks, Leo Cussen, Cathy Staughton, Chris O’Brien, Brigid Hanrahan, Cameron Noble, Valerio Ciccone and Lisa Reid.

Location
Black Box Theatre,
Victorian Arts Centre
100 St Kilda Road,
Melbourne VIC

Opening
Friday 31 July 2009 at 11.30am

Exhibition Dates
Thursday 30 July – Thursday 13 August 2009

Hours
Daily from 11am – 6pm and until 9pm on Friday and Saturday evenings
FREE and open to the public

Arts Project Australia is a not-for-profit incorporated association that is committed to supporting people with disabilities to become practitioners in the visual arts and to promote their work as integral to the broad spectrum of contemporary arts practice.

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Intimacy Hospital at Don’t Look Gallery

‘Intimacy Hospital’ explores intimate moments experienced by the artists, making public acts, events, spaces and moments that are normally hidden away.  In a similar way that artist, Sophie Calle, adds personal decorations to a public phone booth, Intimacy Hospital will ‘curtain-off’ these moments placing them in the public space of the gallery for anonymous guests to view.

Frank Jones comes to terms with his hairy back in a video about showering in the rear alley of the gallery, David reveals his very intimate relationship with Fido… a red corduroy dog which he has slept with for almost 70 years, Jacqueline looks at the lover/carer relationship examining the medical paraphernalia involved in her mother and father’s relationship. The hospital is now open to the public…

WHAT: Intimacy Hospital
WHO: By Alexis Armytage, David Urquhart, Frank Jones, Irit Pollak,
Jacqueline Olivetti, Matt Rochford (the 2203 collective) and special guests
WHEN: Opens Friday February 13, 6pm, Thur Feb 12 – Sat March 7 (exhibition)
WHERE: Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW
Ph: 0401 152 434, Email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com

COMING UP:

David O’Donoghue
Sunday Feb 22, 6pm (performance)

This February David O’Donoghue presents a rare live sound performance for Don’t Look Gallery. O’Donoghue will be playing back and manipulating field recordings extracted from the urban fabric of Sydney and Melbourne over the past four years.

David Lynch’s Hands
By Greg Shapley
Opens Wednesday February 25, 6pm. Thur Feb 16 – Sat March 7 (exhibition)

While movie director, David Lynch, is giving interviews, saying the same old things to the same old people, his hands are giving their own performance. ‘David Lynch’s Hands’ uses a hypnotic visual version of the musical concept of phase minimalism to make Lynch’s digits dance.

www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery

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