STROBED
a calendar for emerging artist exhibition openings in sydney + a few exhibition reviews
Underbelly Arts [Kensington Street]
when: Underbelly Arts runs from 8-17 July 2010. Lab Saturday is 10 July 2010 and The Festival (ticketed) is Saturday 17 July 2010.
cost: Public tours throughout the Lab are FREE. The Festival on Saturday July 17 is a ticketed event. By purchasing a ticket you will be invited to view work throughout the afternoon and evening across a range of spaces along and around a closed Kensington St. Tickets are $18/$22+bf presale.
where: The Lab – FraserStudios, 10-14, Kensington St, Chippendale. Lab Saturday - The Clare Hotel, 20 Broadway Ultimo (on the cnr of Broadway and Kensington St).
From Underbelly Arts:
Underbelly Arts: Public Lab + Festival is back in 2010 with a new home in Chippendale. From July 8 – 17, in various spaces next to the site of the old Carlton United Brewery on Broadway in Chippendale, over 100 of Sydney’s most exciting, experimental and emerging artists, will develop works and performances that will be presented on Saturday July 17 at the ticketed Underbelly Arts Festival.
Part fringe festival, part band-camp; this is your chance to get behind the scenes of art in the making.
From creating pop-up gallery spaces along Kensington Street to transforming the Clare Hotel into a theatre, Underbelly Arts Lab + Festival will offer a rare opportunity for people to scratch the surface of Sydney and discover some of the art and ideas that are ripe in warehouses, bedrooms and makeshift spaces throughout the city. Expect interactive installations, a DIY 3D film project, brutal 1900s street dance, voyeuristic engagement with the online world, random performances by a mass a cappella choir and much more!
In the lead up to the Festival, the public can get behind the scenes of the creative process with daily tours of Fraser Studios and even get involved by attending Project Participation Sessions for artworks that require public input.
On July 10, the Lab Saturday Program will take place from 2-7pm, putting artist, audience and process under the microscope.
Just 5 minutes walk from Central Station, Underbelly Public Arts Lab + Festival will take place in the thriving arts precinct around Chippendale.
See www.underbellyarts.com.au for details of the Underbelly Arts Public Lab Tours, Project Participation Sessions and updates for the Lab Saturday Program.
Tickets to Underbelly Arts Festival are strictly limited so don’t miss your chance to let Sydney’s creative underbelly seize your imagination.
actingUP [ATVP]
when: Opening night Thursday 15 July 2010, 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday 25 July 2010.
cost: Free.
where: At The Vanishing Point, 565 King Street, Newtown.
actingUP: a showcase of performance based & inspired art
Growing out of the avant-garde and conceptual art of the 1960s, performance in visual art – performance art – now more-than-ever is being utilised by artists in communicating and developing their ideas across a number of mediums, platforms and places.
Performance based and inspired visual art stretches across the gamut of emotions, sensations and affect. From the intimate, to the gestural, the manic to the meditative, it can take place anywhere, anytime – lasting seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and sometimes even years.
From the artist as performer, to the audience as performer, performance based and performance inspired contemporary visual art often challenges audiences to think in new and unconventional ways about art, self, culture and the world around them.
actingUP offers a diverse smorgasbord of performance treats; from the live to the documentary, the abject to the interactive, the critical to the comedic. Featuring 15 local, interstate and international individual and collaborative artists, the performance based and inspired art of actingUP draws upon such disciplines as sound art, theatre, painting, drawing, video, documentary, photography, and, critical & conceptual discourses.
List of Artists: Alexandra Unger (UK), Ana Nusdorfer Carter, Cuntstruct (VIC), Goran Tomic, Hayley Hill, Irnin Khan, Jan Cornall, Jeffrey Hamilton, mark dahl (CAN), Marya Elimelakh, Michelle Cox, Pineapple Park, SandS through the hourglass, Susannah Williams, The Academy of Emergency Art – Sydney.
For more information on individual performances check the Facebook Event or ATVP’s website.
Beata Geyer + Dani Marti [Breenspace]
when: Thursday 15 July 2010. 6pm-8pm.
cost: free.
where: BREENSPACE. 289 Young Street, Waterloo.
See the FB event – click here.
Beata Geyer, DRIFT, 2010, detail, acrylic on MDF
Dani Marti, Bacon's Dog, 2010, video still, HD 2 channel video projection, 11 minutes and 30 seconds
Point of Control [Mils]
when: Thursday 15 July 2010. 6pm-9pm.
cost: free.
where: Mils Gallery. 15 Randle St, Surry Hills.
See the Facebook event – click here.
from Mils Gallery:
POINT OF CONTROL
twelve works
painting / drawing: Jim Shirlaw
video / painting: Joel Burrows
The meeting point of two artist’s practices revolving around the common theme of control. Bled from the clutches of the urban underground; through interrogation, walks in the park, mysticism, dead ends and ignoring omens the exhibition produces the experience of a landscape utterly devastated. Jim Shirlaw’s studio based painting and drawing practice governs control while the impulsive gestural work of Joel Burrows seeks to destroy it.
RAW [Verge]
when: Opening night Thursday 15 July 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Friday 13 August 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Verge Gallery, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Road, Darlington.
From RAW:
Second Year students from the Sydney College of the Arts- University of Sydney, invite you to the opening of RAW, an exhibition at Verge Gallery, Thursday the 15th of July at 6pm.
From the SPI (Sculpture, Performance and Installation) Studio at SCA, Reuben Shipp, Tenille Wearne, Alex Reid, Lachlan Boyd and Georgina Wiber present new sculptural and other works with a RAW aesthetic, stripped back and let loose upon The Verge Gallery.
RAW is the result of our groups winning application into the Verge Gallery’s “Wildcard” slot, a timeframe made available to considered proposals. The gallery maintains a schedule of international events and outstanding and emerging artists, facilitated by the University of Sydney Union. RAW exhibits from the 12th of July until the 13th August.
The opening night is a celebration with entertainment and refreshments! Come and meet these artists. Be surprised by the artwork. DJ Yeah!! will be spinning the best of psychedelia and other gems from the collection, so be prepared to boogie. The Speaker is none other than, great Australian Sculptor, Ken Unsworth AM. The opening is a celebration that we hope to continue on the evening, after the gallery. All are welcome and indeed, suggestions toward after-events are thankfully requested.
GANG + J. D. Reforma [Gaffa]
when: Opening night Thursday 15 July 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibitions continue until Tuesday 27 July 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Gaffa Gallery, 281 Clarence Street, Sydney.
From Gaffa:
GANG is an exhibition showcasing the depth of creative networking between Java and Sydney over the last decade. Gang is a celebration of the past, present and future of a wealth of collaborative exchanges that have occurred through the creative networks active in ‘Gang Festival’ (Sydney) and its sister festival ‘Festival Mata Air’, based in Central Java.
This exhibition also marks the inaugural launch of ‘Gang Installations’, a new art installation company and the birth of the next phase in Gang Collaborations.
Gallery One:
Rudy Ardianto
A collection of works made during Rudy’s recent years living in Java-Indonesia (2006 – 2009). The works are an exploration into the realms of power with a re-occuring reference to seats: the seat of power, the devil’s throne, the wheel chair, the ‘Green’ chair. Through this work Rudy explores the undercurrent movements, both political and cultural, flowing in contrary directions to the mainstreams of power.
Gallery Two:
Clare Perkins
This exhibition of paintings is a collection of buildings – real, imagined and remembered: re-presented as slightly skewed likenesses in paint on canvas and board. Terraces, warehouses and other industrial spaces in the Chippendale, Redfern and Newtown areas inspire the paintings. History and the memory of life etched into the surfaces of the buildings present rich emotional and textural reference for paint application and as we witness the transformation and homogenisation of our urban landscape these paintings capture some of the character of our city’s disappearing history.
Gallery Three:
A Group Show of GANG Collaborations
Shannon Johnston, Clare Conroy, Johan Marais Piper, Deni Pancatritana – Taring Padi Collective (Java Indonesia), TUK Collective (Java-Indonesia), Elizabeth Russ, and Installation by Marty Jay.
Keeper Gallery:
CAPPUCCINO WILDERNESS SAFARI
A solo exhibition by J. D. Reforma
In Cappuccino Wilderness Safari, J.D. Reforma reflects upon the bourgeois tendency to “life-stylise” – re-contextualising the artificial construct of suburbia by extracting from within it specific elements for re-constitution into a fictionalised narrative of “the wild”.
He cites the celebrity-filled tabloid magazine, the idyllic model-home, and the branded takeaway-coffee cup as functional entities within this elusive “wilderness” safari, where the twin-concerns of celebrity and status are the designated and much sought-after “game”.
In elevating them to trophy-status, he proposes that through a totemistic (not simply consumeristic) dedication to such objects, the urban bourgeoisie attempt to transcend the supposed stasis of their position.
