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June 4, 2010

Live Webcast- Blueprint for Accountability- Monday, June 7th

On Monday, June 7th, 2010, the Culture Project presents its Blueprint for Accountability with an unprecedented panel of the world's foremost experts and artists, building a case against the institutions and individuals threatening our system of democracy, while engaging the public in constructing a blueprint for a more just and democratic future.

Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren will be part of a stimulating panel discussion at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts at NYU in NYC. A brief look at the Nuremberg Trials and Geneva Conventions will inform a probing discussion of the historical framework for America's policies limiting abuses in war, and our nation's radical departure from international human rights laws and civil liberties protections post-911.

May 31, 2010

DECORATING LOOS

Decorating Loos explores the aesthetic impulse through the prism of one of its most basic forms – the desire to embellish the lavatory walls with the mark of our distracted fancy. It does this quite literally through the construction of 15 toilet cubicles in the gallery, each of which is given to an artist to “decorate” according to their practice. The result will be 15 immersive environments, each drawing on different mediums, genres, and subject matter – from video and performance to installation, painting and drawing – each a discrete world of imaginary practice, and all existing in intense proximity to one another. The installation is intended to interrogate the value of aesthetic endeavor by superimposing advanced contemporary art practice onto the much denigrated act of public toilet vandalism, asking what is the relationship between these two activities? Are they so different, and if so how?

May 28, 2010

Decorating Loos 3- 20 June 2010 @ At The Vanishing Point Gallery in Newtown

Decorating Loos explores the aesthetic impulse through the prism of one of its most basic forms – the desire to embellish the lavatory walls with the mark of our distracted fancy. It does this quite literally through the construction of 15 toilet cubicles in the gallery, each of which is given to an artist to “decorate” according to their practice.

May 25, 2010

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 24th WARNER ROADSHOW STUDIOS QUEENSLAND NEW FILMMAKER AWARDS

The quality of films submitted for the 24th Warner Roadshow Studios Queensland New Filmmakers Awards (QNFA) suggests that the future of the Queensland film industry is in very safe hands, Screen Queensland CEO, Maureen Barron said today while announcing the 2010 finalists.

“The panel of industry judges had a very tough time selecting the best of the best from more than 100 entries, with film students from Griffith University, Bond University, QUT and JMC Academy generating particularly high entry rates,” said Ms Barron.

May 25, 2010

THE TREE RECEIVES A SEVEN MINUTE STANDING OVATION AT THE CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Transmission Films is proud to announce that the Australian/French co-production THE TREE received a rapturous standing ovation at its World Premiere last night, as the closing night film of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
Described by Variety as a “top-flight technical achievement for Aussie filmmaking” and “several grades above the norm for a Cannes closing-night selection,” THE TREE stars Charlotte Gainsbourg (who earlier in the day had presented the festivals top award, the Palme d’Or), Marton Csokas and Aden Young and is directed by French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli, whose debut feature, Since Otar Left, won the Grand Prize, International Critics’ Week, at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

May 22, 2010

Merlin Carpenter - The Opening

This was a paper I wrote at university on Merlin Carpenter. While I never saw the show in person, having read a short review of it in Art Forum I couldn't get it out of my head until I wrote about it.

May 18, 2010

BURNING MAN

Principal photography has begun on Burning Man, writer/director Jonathan Teplitzky's reckless, sexy, irreverent and ultimately tear-jerkingly beautiful story of a father and son's journey back to happiness.

Matthew Goode (A Single Man, Leap Year, Watchmen) plays Tom, an English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach. He's a man behaving badly, surrounded by women trying in their own ways to help him put his life back together.

Starring Matthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox,

Kate Beahan, Gia Carides & Rachel Griffiths

May 18, 2010

EMERGENCY DISPLAY

This text was written for a survey exhibition of contemporary art from emerging artists in Sydney's Inner West.

An exhibition of contemporary art from emerging artist of Sydney's Inner West.

Emergency Display

April 28, 2010

The Spanish Film Festival announces Oscar® winning festival guest, acclaimed director Fernando Trueba

The Dancer and the Thief [18+] (el Baile de la Victoria) 127mins SPAIN'S OFFICIAL ENTRY - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM. ACADEMY AWARDS 2010 followed by an exclusive Q&A with Fernando Trueba

April 20, 2010

Haft-Sin Zazen at Ghaf Art Gallery on the 25th of Apr at 7:pm

Iranian-American artist, Naz Shahrokh, is concerned with the natural environment as seen through the lens of various mediums. In her current work Shahrokh has been working on site-specific installations and using leaves as the base for her painting.

Iranian-American artist, Naz Shahrokh, is concerned with the natural environment as seen through the lens of various mediums. In her current work Shahrokh has been working on site-specific installations and using leaves as the base for her painting.

Her materials are detritus, whether natural or man-made and she strives to transform these often overlooked banal materials and inject them with a new found value.

For more info:
Tel: +9712 6655332
Fax: +9712 6655292
Email: ghafgallery@gmail.com
Website: www.ghafgallery.com

April 17, 2010

3 NEW EXHIBITIONS

ERIC BRIDGEMAN New Photographs from KoKwara trail
ARIs PRABAWA In the Service of Nature
TESSA ZETTEL & KARl KHOE Make-do garden city

OpenIng: THURSDAY 25 March
Exhibition Dates: 26 March – 8 May 2010

PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Artist Floor talk Sat 27 March 3pm

Make Do Garden City Workshops
Saturday 10 April 11am-1pm &
Saturday 8 May 11am-1pm (CLOSING EVENT)

ERIC BRIDGEMAN New Photographs from KoKwara trail
ARIs PRABAWA In the Service of Nature
TESSA ZETTEL & KARl KHOE Make-do garden city

OpenIng: THURSDAY 25 March
Exhibition Dates: 26 March – 8 May 2010

PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Artist Floor talk Sat 27 March 3pm

Make Do Garden City Workshops
Saturday 10 April 11am-1pm &
Saturday 8 May 11am-1pm (CLOSING EVENT)

April 17, 2010

Love, Space, and Other Big Things

Yep, that's right, Sospeso Readings is back after a short suspension.

This time Rhys Rodgers, the pink-haired poet-boy, and Kristin Henry, one of Melbourne poetry's leading ladies, will tell you all about love, space, and other big things.

Yep, that's right, Sospeso Readings is back after a short suspension. This time Rhys Rodgers, the pink-haired poet-boy, and Kristin Henry, one of Melbourne poetry's leading ladies, will tell you all about love, space, and other big things. Once again we're privileged to have Deb Vanderwerp, poet, singer, fiddle player, actor, deity, and creative writing course coordinator, as our MC. It's going to be a fantastic night, hope to see you there!

April 17, 2010

The Cad Factory on Tour - Mick Turner

We are re-activating the currently disused School of Arts Building in Fitzmaurice St Wagga Wagga and holding an exhibition downstairs, performances upstairs.
All Ages welcome.

We have invited Mick Turner (guitarist from The Dirty Three) to play and to exhibit some of his prints (he paints all of the Dirty Three album covers).

We have invited 2 local artists to exhibit along side him Christopher Orchard and Sarah Mifsud

Plus performing will be Grace Before Meals

March 5, 2010

LIVING SPACE - and exhibition curated by Tom Isaacs

"Living Space" explores the reciprocal relationship between the body and space, and the process through which the one is defined in the defining of the other.

Curated by Tom Isaacs (under the ATVP Emerging Curator Mentorship Program)

OPENING: Thursday March 12, 2010

At The Vanishing Point Gallery 565 King st. Newtown.

February 25, 2010

European Cinema and Its Role in a Globalising World

Marion Doring, Director of the European Film Academy, will give an insight into the work of the academy and filmmaking in Europe in a talk at Screen Australia's Sydney office in partnership with the Goethe Institute.

European Cinema and Its Role in a Globalising World will be held on Tuesday 2nd March 2010 at 5.30pm.

Free but RSVP essential to: marketing@screenaustralia.gov.au

February 25, 2010

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Popcorn Taxi Sydney presents The Men Who Stare at Goats with audience Q & A with award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and author Jon Ronson live from London!

Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 7pm SHARP, Event Cinemas, Bondi.

February 18, 2010

THE NAURU ELEGIES: A PORTRAIT IN SOUND AND HYPSOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE

The Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru. The work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. It has been realised through the collaboration of composer Paul D. Miller, best known as DJ Spooky, and architect Annie K. Kwon.

Start Time:	Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 6:00pm
End Time:	Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 5:00pm
Location:

February 12, 2010

SPECIAL FUNDRAISING SCREENINGS FOR HAITI

On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th of February, the Sydney Latin American Film Festival in partnership with the Cervantes Institute & Uncommon Productions will host a two-night screening of Bill Haney's award-winning documentary "The Price of Sugar" to raise funds for the people of Haiti. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Infante Sano's Help Hispaniola program www.infantesano.org and the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund: www.yele.org

January 19, 2010

Rockin' The Boat

A diverse art exhibition contributing to the debate on refugees, asylum seekers and fear politics in the age of terror and climate change.

At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art

565 King st. Newtown

www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au

Opening night: 29 January. 6:00pm..

January 15, 2010

Management by Gallows at The National Art School

The silence is deafening.

So, the gallows are working again at the old Darlinghurst Goal and the Sydney art community is abuzz with the collective silence that surrounds the radical overhaul of one its major institutions. It’s true that Jacques Delaruelle wrote a letter, at once eloquent and toothless, The Australian published a non-committal story basically reporting that Jacque had written a letter, and Vasili Kaliman tweeted a barbed good riddance. Aside from that, there is an abiding silence and an almost complete lack of public dialogue around the forces playing themselves out at the Nat

January 14, 2010

Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption: Joe Sacco Interview

A selection of the world’s most compelling graphic novelists and comic artists are to collaborate with experimental youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to create a limited edition comic book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it.

Comprising original work from leading comic artists, satirists and creative figures from around the world including USA, South Africa, India, Sweden, Serbia and the UK, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption will engage and challenge the issues of social injustice in a bid to politicise a new generation of activists through the medium of popular comic culture.

January 10, 2010

OLAFUR ELIASSON TOOK MY TIME

and I want it back...

I went to see Olafur Eliasson the other day. I'm sorry, but this is beginning to look like another fucking art blog.