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Mythical Creatures
Mythical Creatures
Find an annotated version here.
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Complimenting Strangers
A shiny happy video showing how strangers react to random compliments:
“Just having fun being friendly to strangers, hoping to brighten their day!
”Watch the video here.
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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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Open Call – New Life Happening
Propose a happening or event for 10.000 participants in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Conference. Your concept should involve collective action and will be implemented alongside New Life Happenings by artist groups Superflex (DK) and Signa (DK/A) among others. The Submission deadline is October 1st 2009. The official Opening of New Happenings is December 7th 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. To submit, please visit: www.wooloo.org.
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5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
CologneOFF V – 5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is planned to be launched in November 2009 under 3 festival themes
1. On Violence
2. Taboo? – Taboo!
3. One Minute Films – on memory & identity—————————————————-
Entry
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VideoChannel – video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org invites artists and directors for submitting videos/films, i.e. narratives and documentations (max 15 min.) experimenting with new concepts of transforming artistic contents into moving images, new forms of representing and new technologies
Deadline: 1 September 2009All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX – networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030
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Earth at Don’t Look Gallery
Sunday, April 26 at 6:00pm. Hiske Weijers with VJ Jax and Pete Jones
Artist, Musician, Composer Hiske Weijers presents an aural/sonic collage of leviathan proportions in collaboration with VJ Jax and her Psychic Date mate, Pete Jones. Prepare yourself for a “Trip” !!@#?? to a primal landscape where sound and vision collide in all their natural beauty !!!!! Not for the faint-hearted as sound levels may exceed 100db’s…ear-plugs available on request.
Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia (426/428/445 bus)
Phone: 0401152434
Email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
Web: www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery
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Don’t Look Gallery presents Melodien and Comings and Goings.
Melodien
Jacob Craig is a Sydney-based composer and sound designer whose work merges organic field recordings with fragments of sampled instrumental music, dissolving the structures that inform our everyday listening experiences and expectations. These sonic re-imaginings are improvised using Ableton Live and other software.
WHAT: Melodien
WHO: Jacob Craig
WHEN: Sunday March 22 2009, 6pm
WHERE: Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney 2203
CONTACT: Greg on 0401 152 434, dontlookgallery@gmail.com
COST: $10/$5Coming and Goings
The entrances and exits of the artist Andrew Newman.
“I don’t know what you do with your days,” my father recently said to me.
“I go to my studio ,” I said.
“And what do you do there all day?” he asked begrudgingly.
“I make art.”
The conversation stopped there. My father didn’t really try to unravel my life any further. Art was a foreign concept to him. At every exhibition opening he would walk around the gallery exclaiming, “this is art?” I told my father I would document my days for him and start a blog so he could see that I was doing something. I wasn’t too offended by my fathers inability to understand what I did each day. I never understood what he did each day. He was an accountant. He would go into the office, and then he would leave the office. The hours in-between were a mystery to me. Once as a child I spent a day in his office and I watched what he did. He had an inbox and an outbox. He would take pages from the inbox, look at them, change them, and then put them in his outbox. It seems to me now that an accountant isn’t too far removed from a conceptual artist. This abstract of the daily grind that exists in most modern professions, where people are at pains to exactly explain what they do each day is the motivation for the blog titled ‘Comings and Goings’. The blog documented me at the door of my studio, entering at the beginning of the day and exiting at the end of the day. Each blog post included a photograph and a short text explanation listing what I had done before I entered and after I entered the space. Instead of clearly articulating what it was ‘I did’ the blog revealed an absurd, Beckett-like, state of existence that expressed the persistence of the passing of time. The sociologist Manuel Castells wrote that ‘the process of work is at the core of social structure’. The idea of ‘work’, particularly during this current rise in unemployment, is a pertinent issue that needs to be addressed by artists. People’s very existence is shaped by work and their daily comings and goings. Yet artists, who have a vital social role to reveal the idiosyncrasies of the world, often overlook the nature of ‘work’. An artist practises art. It is an experimental state, yet at the end of this practise, this dress rehearsal, the artist has an artwork. This is where the work begins.
WHAT: Comings and Goings: The entrances and exits of the artist Andrew Newman.
WHO: Andrew Newman
WHEN: Wednesday March 25, 6pm (opening), Thur March 26 – Sat April 4 2009
WHERE: Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney
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The Garden of Forking Paths
Don’t miss this exhibition of altered books that have been folded, cut, torn and sewn to create intricate sculptural forms. Floor talk presented by Nicholas Jones – Thursday 19 March at 2.30pm
Until 19 April 2009
Geelong Gallery, Little Malop Street, Geelong
Monday to Friday 10am - 5 pm, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 5 pm
For further information,
geelart@geelonggalley.org.au
www.geelonggallery.org.au
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Critical Animals 2009 Call for Proposals
Critical Animals, the creative research symposium held during This Is Not Art, is now calling for proposals for papers, panels, presentations, performances and exhibits.
The symposium brings together students, researchers, writers and artists who are critically engaged in creative and experimental art practices. All artists, writers, thinkers and part-time philosophers are encouraged to apply. The symposium will take place over three days, from Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 October, in Newcastle, NSW.
Critical Animals is calling for proposals in the following areas:
* Papers, panels, and presentations
* Performances, exhibits, events
In your proposal please outline your work and the way in which you would like to present it (up to 500 words).
If you would like to be involved with Critical Animals but you do not have a proposal, contact us anyway. We may be able to find a suitable event for you to get onboard. Submit proposals, questions, ideas and concerns to criticalanimals@gmail.comSUBMISSIONS CLOSE MARCH 31, 2009
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David Kirkpatrick & STiCHi MONsTA -Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
David Kirkpatrick is a sound and multimedia artist working in theatre, site specific projects and live performance. He networks electronics with life, society, and the environment using technologic elements that coexist with the real world. STiCHi MONsTA is Sam Dalley, Online Curator at Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre. He is currently exploring subconscious soundscapes through blurring reality and what it is to dream. Together, they draw on influences ranging from Portishead to Lucier, Eno, Dr Dre, Nine Inch Nails, Ravel, Aphex Twin, Bartók, Severed Heads, Brubeck, Glass and Filastine to create their unique sound.
WHO: David Kirkpatrick & STiCHi MONsTA
WHEN: Sunday March 8 2009, 6pm
WHERE: Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill 2203
CONTACT: Greg on 0401 152 434, dontlookgallery@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/dontlookgallery
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