SKY NEEDLE perform primitive pop improvised along hypnotic waves of clunk in the backwater of the cosmic junkyard on unstruments operated by Alex Cuffe, Joel Stern, Sarah Byrne and Ross Manning. Sky Needle live in Brisbane, Australia. “The music, well, let’s talk about the music. It’s stalking, eerie, the night stumblings of a pot addict; […]
TEN10 is an audiovisual exhibition designed to showcase the natural relationship found between sound and image. It pairs ten visual artists (filmmakers, animators, motion designers, and video artists) with ten musicians from the same city to create new work. Resulting in ten short film pieces that are creatively open and individual in approach.
minated/solitary/infinite/perfectly motionless/equipped with precious volumes/useless/incorruptible/secret Kieran Swann is a multidisciplinary artist. His work investigates notions of transformation and decay of structures and processes, and returns to themes of entropy, language, construction and demolition, and masculine behaviours. He is one quarter of Transparency Collective, a group of artists in dialogue around their solo performative practices.
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Gary Warner is an artist, photographer, writer, curator, musician and media producer who was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1957. His work across various visual media demonstrates Warner’s continuing fascinations with natural and man-made phenomena ranging from nature, cities, human interactions and Eastern and Western philosophies. Warner showed a precocious talent for media when aged
Seam, 2009 Carly’s sculptural and installation based practice focuses on bridging elements of the mechanistic and industrial to the organic patterns of growth and decay. Her work explores the translation of abstract and fleeting moments within fluid phenomena, into woven constructions of industrial wire. This process parallels textile traditions of needlework, lace making and knitting,
New Primitive: A Cappella – An acoustic homage to the unadulterated human voice. Presented by SPEC
exist ARI are running regular Live Art/performance art based events called exist-ing where artists are encouraged to try out new works, discuss and learn more about Live Art, view international live artist screenings, and present performance or live based artworks to an audience. exist aims to make spaces where artists, audiences and communities can engage
In conjunction with ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents a major survey of the surrealist sensibility in cinema. The Savage Eye: Surrealism and Cinema considers films made under the rubric of the movement alongside popular cinema highlighting the enduring fascination with surrealist tendencies, narratives and tropes. The program also charts how
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WHEN : 11 June at 10:00 – 07 August at 16:00 WHERE : UQ Art Museum -James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (Building 11) University Drive WAITING FOR ASYLUM: FIGURES FROM AN ARCHIVE Ten years since the Siev X tragedy, asylum seekers still provoke strong political, emotional and ideological responses across all ranks of Australian
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Operating as a quasi-archival artist, Brianne Mackinnon’s practice explores information systems and processes of publicity and dissemination that generate within the arts industry. Establishing large online and physical archives of exhibition publications, brochures and related publicity content and images, her practice endeavours to establish a self-generating system of production, where research into and participation
A Collection of works by Alex Gillies & Murdoch. The work of Brisbane based artist Alex Gilles draws on transient imagery to produce woodblock prints which fuse the past and present. Alex takes the humble act of carving into blocks of hardwood using processes unchanged for hundreds of years to form detailed prints, anchored in
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New Zealand based artist, Peter Madden’s sculptural installations begin life as flat imagery, which he carefully refashions into spiralling three-dimensional objects.Gleaning images from books, magazines and encyclopaedias – National Geographic magazines are a favourite – Madden slices out the illustrations, then reassembles them in fantastical constructions.The denuded books are kept – pages intact in their
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CROSS–STITCH: Without Apology is a two-night art event/nightclub/theatre/gallery/reality-tv/photo-shoot featuring theatre, music, visual art and that-which-cannot-be-coined in an accelerated-senses avant-garde experience that crashes head-first into Metro Arts’ backyard to kick off FR11. At-the-helm is emerging Artistic Director Steven Mitchell Wright who has invited a gamut of independent artists to develop new work based o…n myth, history
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this…(#9), 180.3 x 104.1cm, Unique Type C print, (2012) this… this… is a homage to photography’s disappearing materiality. this… is my lament for colour analogue technology. this… is a photogram; a photograph without a negative. this… is a crumpled piece of light sensitive paper. this… is an image of itself. this… is an abstraction. this…
As a part of the upcoming “Art on James”, Level artist-run-initiative will be staging Subdivision, a pop-up Art Fair located in an empty store on the corner of James and Arthur Sts from the 2-9 June 2011. Playing with the set up of a traditional art fair, each artist will be allocated a masked off
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First in line for a series of events for the New Primitive Festival Curated by SPEC. Performance and Installation Henry Mills (Bris) Alrey Batol (Bris) Ben Kolaitis (Melb) Wukir Suryadi & Rully Shabar (Indo) XinO (Katie Martain) (Bris) Program is supported by MAAP & Next Wave Festival
Image: ‘Mirage’ site-specific transparent digital print 2010
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While we are showing Peter Kennedy’s light sculptures from 1970, we will screen A Film of Real Time, which documents a parallel instance of pioneering light art from across the ditch. As a sculpture student at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts, Narbey was commissioned to create Real Time, a full-gallery interactive-light-sound installation, for
Minute gallery presents Canadian based artist and illustrator Ben Clarkson’s series of work ‘In The Woods” a series of digital images that explore the differences between imagination and reality within digital environments.
Flat White Spaces is proud to present the White Rabbits group exhibition at the new Gold Coast multi-arts hub, Rabbit + Cocoon.
‘committed to the development of innovative and experimental art to engage audiences’
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Brisbane Emerging Art Festival aims to engage a new audience into the Brisbane emerging arts scene, while creating a framework for creative producers and artists to present new and experimental works.
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SGAR aims to promote and support experimental practice and creativity beyond a traditional white box art space.
New work by Brooke Ferguson As a material manifestation of Brooke Ferguson’s ongoing performance works, ‘Incremental Maintenance’ is an exhibition that reflects the Brisbane artist’s continued interest in using simple materials, activities and gestures to generate potential artworks. For her solo exhibition at Boxcopy, Ferguson presents the outcome of vacuuming artist run initiatives. Looking to
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Featuring works by: Danny FORD | Cara-Ann SIMPSON | Tarn MCLEAN | Fiona COCKFIELD | Farhana AHAD | Liam KEY | Rebecca ROSS | Alexandra LAWSON in collaboration with Devon McKNIGHT (two parts of US based collective SPARE ROOM). We’re all doing it – texting, blogging, sampling, sharing and networking. Our generation exists somewhere in
KIRSTY BOYLE: CRUCIBLE EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT To be opened by Urban Art Projects. An exciting merge of high tech robotics and low tech materials creates a mobile interactive exhibition and an opportunity to participate in making a robot.
Tenterhooks is an upcoming exhibition that will showcase works from nineteen emerging Brisbane artists. The exhibition will explore the metaphorical connotations of this archaic term by creating a dialogue between traditional and contemporary art practices. The show will include two-dimensional drawings, prints and paintings, as well as video, installations and performance. Featuring: Kim Anderson, Nicola
Building community and art: How site-specific works can change artists and audiences. Fram Kitagawa, Japanese curator, publisher, art critic and community advocate, offers his thoughts on the role of art in contemporary society. Kitagawa will be joined by Soichiro Fukutake, Director of the Chichu Art Museum Naoshima and speak on his philosophy, projects, and the
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