Subject: Ebulletin #10: Exhibition opening next Fri 22 June, 6pm
Date: Friday, 15 June 2007 11:12 AM
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E-BULLETIN #10 JUNE 2007
NEWS
Opening Fri 22 June, 6pm
24HR Art gets into gear for the next round of exhibitions, revving it up with an massive assembly of Australian contemporary art ‘legends’ in SUPERCHARGED the car in contemporary culture, presenting video-animation, photography, sculpture, DVDs and paintings, as well as found auto fragments, zinc-anneal panel paint and burnout simulation video-games. Chill out with Kevin Todd’s mesmerising computer generated imagery, Tobias Richardson takes over the Box Set for a second time with his own associations of the vehicle –a replica WW11 tank, and Vimy Lane passerbys get an intimate view into the grandparents’ home of video artist Kate Murphy.
Gallery talk: Sat 23 June, midday
Vanessa McRae (Curator), Kevin Todd & Tobias Richardson
Residency open studio: tonight 15 June, 6-8pm
To coincide with tonight’s DVAA opening of Oniriquei, exhibition of third year CDU graduating visual arts students, current 24HR Art artist-in-residence Annalise Rees opens her studio to the public to have a look at her work in progress.
EXHIBITION # 4
22 June - 28 July 2007 : Opening 6pm Friday 22 June
Gallery 1 & Screening Room
SUPERCHARGED - the car in contemporary culture
Roderick Bunter, Bill Henson, Martin Mischkulnig, Tracey Moffatt, Ben Morieson, Louise Paramor, Patricia Piccinini, Scott Redford, Daniel Wallwork and Anne Zahalka. Curated by Vanessa McRae.
Since its development in the early years of the last century, the car has played a pivotal role in Australian cultural life, becoming a symbol of status and identity. Where travel and communications have been restricted by the tyranny of distance, the car has provided freedom. SUPERCHARGED...the car in contemporary culture brings together the work of twelve artists referencing the car’s iconic status in Australian life from many different points of view. Driving a vehicle that crosses social boundaries, the SUPERCHARGED artists explore aesthetics, design, memory, sex, death and the impact of the car on the environment. An IMA Touring Exhibition.
http://www.ima.org.au/pages/.exhibits/supercharged-the-car-in-contemporary-culture65.php
Gallery 2
with(in)
Kevin Todd
Kevin Todd’s computer-generated works rely on ambiguity and expression to evoke a sense of intrigue and discomfort with (in) the mathematic/technical format of the medium. However, there is no false dichotomy in the works and the images evoke that which requires the sensitivity to understand the limits of rationalism.
http://www.toddartist.com
The Box Set
SEIGE – In the trenches
Tobias Richardson
The sculptural installation continues an inquiry into Richardson’s childhood, reconstructing his past in an act of self-psychoanalysis. The surviving memories and objects retained in adult life are now relics and signifiers the artist uses to decode himself and to understand the collective cultural memory he operates in.
The Monitor
Leaving Together
Kate Murphy
Using multiple cameras as a process to record both fact and fiction, Murphy placed a video camera into the hands of her subjects - her 90 year old grandfather and 86 year old grandmother. As they move through the rooms of the house they have occupied together for 70 years, passing the recording camera to each other, Murphy too focuses her camera (an observational camera) on the interaction that occurs between the two subjects.
The fragile subjects carry this fragile object, the video camera. Leaving Together speaks of the process of recording moments of family history, fragility of documentation, the need and hope of remembrance, and the passing of time within life.
http://www.katemurphy.com.au
NT OPPORTUNITIES
Art of Reviewing
This Sun 17 Jun 1 - 4pm, Frog Hollow Conference Room, Darwin
Jane Hampson leads visual arts or performance practitioners to hone their art writing/critique skills, or simply writers wanting to specialise in art reviewing. The workshop includes handouts and publishing contacts and will prepare you for the banquet of review-ready subjects with the upcoming Fringe and Darwin festivals.
Cost: $45 full/$35 members/$25 conc./$20 conc. NT Writer’s Centre members
Bookings/Enquiries 8941 2651 or info@ntwriters.com.au
DVAA Members’ show: Year of the Pig
Entries by Fri 22 Jun
Another great reason to be a member, get your work in to one of the most popular open entry shows of the year.
http://www.topendarts.com.au/opp_details.php?id=3329
Art on the old Woolies boardings
Expression of interest due Wed 25 July, COB
Gallery Sometimes is calling for artists to submit work for consideration to be pasted on the boards covering up the windows of the old Woolworths building, cnr Knuckey & Smith St. Reproductions of existing work is fine but would prefer new work that can be printed large scale and appropriate for this temporal art billboard project that aims to make a big statement in this busy city intersection.
Call Ivor Cole on 0413 478 258 or email colemine@bigpond.net.au
Chinatown public art spot
Expression of interest due Wed 25 July, COB
Darwin City Council are calling for artists interested in creating a large scale work for the specially designed plinth on the Smith St streetfront of the new Chinatown precinct. Emerging artists are encouraged to apply.
The technical specifications and selection criteria for the project can be obtained by contacting Elizabeth Szegedi on (08) 8930 0409 or e.szegedi@darwin.nt.gov.au For more information on the project please contact Alice Bignall on (08) 8930 0674 or a.bignall@darwin.nt.gov.au
INTER/NATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
2007 NETS Victoria Symposium for curators: Shock & Awe- Curating Contemporary Art, Craft & Design
Registrations close 20 June, 5pm
Join fellow curators, artsworkers, artists and students for a rare professional development event and networking opportunity. Shock and Awe will explore political and ethical issues from a curatorial perspective. It will provide an opportunity to engage in critical debate around a range of issues while also encouraging dialogue between galleries.
www.netsvictoria.org/2007symposium
Basil Sellers Art Prize
Entries by Fri 29 Jun, 5pm
Australian artists are invited to submit entries for art work that \ reflect and engage with one of the central elements of Australia’s cultural and social life - sport. Selected artists will be judged for the inaugural prize of $100,000.
http://www.sellersartprize.com.au/
Call for public comment
Response by Sun 29 Jul
NAVA are calling for feedback from artists and artsworkers on the draft guidelines (and the wider issues raised) for best practice in the relationship between artists/craft practitioners and publicly funded galleries. They would appreciate your views to be incorporated into the 3rd edition of NAVA's The Code of Practice for the Australian Visual Arts and Craft Sector (due out in early 2008) so will influence the expectations of artists/craft practitioners and administrators for some time to come.
The DRAFT version of Best Practice for Artists and Publicly Funded Galleries is now available at:
http://www.visualarts.net.au/readingroom/bestpracticeforartistsandpubliclyfundedgalleries
Email hollister@winsoft.net.au or post to: PO Box 97 Rylstone NSW 2849
Contempora Sculpture Awards 2008
Proposals by Tues 31 Jul, 5pm Artists are invited to submit proposals for outdoor sculptures to be displayed in public spaces around Melbourne’s Docklands from 6 Mar – 20 Apr 2008.
http://www.contempora2.com.au/about2008.php
The Memento Australia Awards 2007
Entries by Tues 31 Jul
The Memento Australia Awards reward and promote artists, craftspeople and designers who create innovative, quality and authentic mementos for the tourism and retail gift markets that reflect the unique character and spirit of Australia.
http://www.mementoaustralia.com/
RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Notorious Bettie Page
Tonight 9.30pm & Sun 17 June 7.30pm
MA 2007. USA. M Harron. 91 m
Bettie Page is famous as the Pin Up Queen of the Universe, this movie retells her story as a naïve model in 1950’s New York finding herself in bondage and fetish ‘glamour’ shots. The film captures the 50’s aesthetic with fabulous costumes and settings.
http://www.deckchaircinema.com
ONLINE CONNECTIONS
Dreaming of travelling by doing artist-in-residencies?
TRANSARTISTS “The world’s main information centre for artist-in-residence opportunities”
This is a comprehensive resource for searching for residencies all over the world with shared experiences and thorough information.
http://www.transartists.nl/
CHECK OUT CURRENT EVENTS AT OTHER CAOS ORGS
CAOs: Contemporary Art Organisations of Australia : http://www.caos.org.au/members.htm
Artspace, NSW: http://www.artspace.org.au
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, VIC: http://www.accaonline.org.au
Australian Centre for Photography, NSW: http://www.acp.au.com
Australian Network for Art and Technology, SA: http://www.anat.org.au
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, NSW: http://www.boomalli.org.au
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT: http://www.ccas.com.au
Centre for Contemporary Photography, VIC: http:///www.ccp.org.au
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, SA: http://www.cacsa.org.au
Contemporary Arts Services Tasmania, TAS: http://www.castgallery.org
Experimental Art Foundation, SA: http://www.eaf.asn.au
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, VIC: http://www.gertrude.org.au
Institute of Modern Art, QLD: http://www.ima.org.au
Performance Space, NSW: http://www.performancespace.com.au
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA: http://www.pica.org.au
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