Gasworks’ Cabaret Festival features a week of events for the cabaret
connoisseur. Top of the bill is Bingo Burlesque hosted by the very sassy
Shirley Billing and featuring magician Cath Jamison, and glamorous
feathered and tasseled starlets Hi Ball Burlesque. Bingo Burlesque is an
unpredictable part-performance, part-gameshow hybrid. It’s an interactive
burlesque sideshow cabaret variety hour, where cast, crew and audience
play bingo in a tonight show featuring illusions, comedy, song and dance.
It’s not your average game of bingo. Also featured in the Cabaret Festival
are the melancholic original compositions by local outfit Plastic Palace
Alice, whose show The Great Depression rests somewhere between Brechtian
cabaret, Bowie, Bacharach and gothic melodrama. The Caravan of Love also
invite you to go barefoot at their burlesque performance This Is Not A
Shoe, and allow yourself to become immersed in an absurd world of exotic
characters, elaborate costumes and tongue-in-cheek cheek. Visit the
Gasworks events & festivals page for more details on each program.
Dates: 4-7 July 2007
URL: http://www.gasworks.org.au
‘Greengrocer,’ an installation by Catherine Clover
Catherine’s practice concentrates on the mediums of sound, digital imaging
and installation. Her interest in found objects, including found sound
[field recordings] in particular, have led to a focus on contemporary
landscape and ideas surrounding our relationship with wilderness,
technology and art. The daily, the ordinary and the everyday inform this
exploration. This installation looks at the Greengrocer cicada [Cyclochila
australasiae], the cicada whose loud and pervasive song we are all so
familiar with in urban and suburban Melbourne and Sydney.
Opening: Saturday 14th July, 4-6pm
Additional Dates: Saturdays, July 21st and 28th, 2-6pm
Venue: Austral Avenue ARI, 36 Austral Avenue, Brunswick, Melbourne
Phone: 03 9383 2635
Footscray Audio-Visual Social Club (FAV-SC) is honoured to host the
Melbourne artist presentation of Schimpfluch Gruppe (Dave Philips and
Rudolf Eb.Er) during their tour of Australia and New Zealand. An
uncompromising experimental performance group that had it’s genesis in
Switzerland in the mid-eighties, Schimpfluch Gruppe are exponents of
“psycho-physical tests and trainings”, a methodology of extreme
physicality in audio/sonic art, actionism, bruitism, performance, musique
concrète, painting and installation-work. Pushing the body to its limits
in a live context, Schimpfluch Gruppe at Footscray Arts will present a
chronology of their performances and experiments. Rudolf and Dave will be
presenting video footage rarely seen outside of Europe, a unique
opportunity to gain insights into the origins, motivation and desires of
Switzerland’s influential Schimpfluch Gruppe.
Date & Time: Friday 13 July, 7-9pm
Free entry
Venue: Hydra, Footscray Arts; 45 Moreland Street, Footscray
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URL: http://footscrayarts.com
Experience sound as a process of interactivity between machine, artist and
audience in Jolt’s Interactacon concert. Internationally acclaimed
Melbourne-based interactive technology musicians Natasha Anderson, Robin
Fox, Jolt and James Hullick will be joined by the musicians of the
Amplified Elephant – a sonic art ensemble for musicians with and without
an intellectual disability. Together they will present vibrant and
visceral Australian and International premieres of compositions created
specifically for interactive technology environments. Audiences will be
treated to a unique afternoon of state-of-the-art interactivity-generated
sound by some of Australia’s premiere artists. Interactacon is the fourth
concert in the Jolt cutting-edge music concert series for 2007.
Date: Sunday 26th August
Time: 3pm – 4.15pm
Venue: 45 Downstairs, large gallery
Cost: $10 conc/$15 full
Bookings: Mary at SPAN House ph: 03 9480 1364 or email: mary@spanhouse.org
(NSW, Online) d/Art/07 – The Post Cinema Experience
d/Art/07 is the tenth anniversary of Australia’s premier screen and digital
media arts survey. The exhibition is presented by d/Lux/MediaArts in venues
across Australia and online. d/Art07 provides audiences with a
sophisticated point of entry to some of the best examples of recent
digital media works from Australia and overseas, complimented by a program
of on-line and real world screenings, industry discussions, talks and public forums.
This year we examine the increasingly fragmented edges of the digital media world,
where device shifting, bandwidth and media distribution technologies are fast becoming
the key apparatus of contemporary screen culture. d/Art07 will also explore multi
user online environments such as Second Life, and how artists are penetrating the
‘In World’ to access the new audiences and unique opportunities these spaces offer.
Please visit the d/Lux website for more information.
Presented from 13th -29th July, all of the works in the exhibition will be
available in five different venues:
– The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
– Chauvel Cinema, Sydney
– Revelation Film Festival, Perth
– Second Life
– Online at www.dlux.org.au/dArt07
