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

Found Sound: The Experimental Instrument Project

A new series of musical and sound art events featuring original instruments designed and built by Australian artists and composers. The project showcases rarely exhibited constructions by a diverse selection of performers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including experimental music composers, musicians, sculptors and visual artists. Some of the performers are renowned pioneers in their fields; others are more recent initiates into experimental sound art.

Each event takes the form of an improvised collaboration between at least two participants who do not usually play together. All sounds are to be generated by original, hand-made and/or found elements that can be welded, wired, stuck together, collaged or otherwise assembled into ‘playable’ forms.

Launched 28 January, 6:30pm
Guildford Lane Gallery, 20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne CBD

www.foundsoundproject.blogspot.com

DigiWall

Unlike a conventional computer game, DigiWall lets you move freely without being tied to a monitor. The gaming experience is based on a balance of visual and aural feedback and body movements. Games, contests, challenges and various kinds of creative experiences and experiments are all possible with the DigiWall climbing wall. DigiWall has hand- and foot grips with built-in sensors and lights. In addition to this the wall has a high end surround sound system. Using this interface, a large number of totally different games, exercises, challenges and aesthetic experiences are created. On DigiWall, you can do creative exercises based on varying degrees of physical activity. Sound and music are integral and are used to create the gaming experience and give instructions and feedback. This enables unique experiences that encourage play. When not in use, DigiWall lives its own life and becomes a beautiful sound and light installation. An entertaining work of art – to watch, listen to and touch – and above all, to interact with.

http://www.digiwall.se/

Join the Wave! Obama’s buddies

In order to mark the arrival of Mr. Obama as president of the United Sates, the company Pixman is contributing to “this time of change” with the creation of a Web 2.0 experiment, establishing an interactive communication channel through its worldwide street media and communication network and using its technologies and world presence to allow people throughout the planet to genuinely express and share their own views regarding the significance of this event. In order to do so, Pixman has created a global event based on the idea of joining Mr. Obama and his team. This global event is called “Join the Wave”.
The results are genuine, varied and entertaining.

See for yourself: we invite you to watch or join the Wave that is already spreading through more than 25 countries around the world.

jointhewave.com

Don’t Look Now Gallery

screwsLoose is Tim Hilton and Sari TM Kivinen, both performance artists active in the local Sydney art and nightclub scene. As a collaborative act screwsLoose (a dynamic duo) explores its own duo dynamic in tragic-comic ways, mashing experimental music, movement, improvisation, excessive costuming and make-up, with its penchant for playdough.
screwsLoose
Sunday Feb 8, 6pm (performance)

Intimacy Hospital
By Alexis Armytage, David Urquhart, Frank Jones, Irit Pollak, Jacqueline Olivetti, Matt Rochford (the 2203 collective) and special guests
Opens Friday February 13, 6pm, Thur Feb 12 – Sat March 7 (exhibition)

‘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, the moments are clinging to life support and trying to stay warm.  Enter… if you have the stomach for it.

Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery: 2009 Program
419 New Canterbury Rd Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ph: 0401 152 434
Director/curator: Greg Shapley

EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery