a visit to Melbourne

September 18th, 2007

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Graffiti walls in the Lanes.
I love going to Melbourne. It’s like another country - familiar but strange. They have trams. They have a city centre full of cultural stuff to do. Like Experimenta’s Playground – which was really great. The exhibition was dense with people when we arrived — mid-afternoon. In fact it was so crowded you had to wait your turn to play on some of the exhibits, in particular Philip Worthington’s Shadow Monsters which was a nice variation on the projected shadow interactive like Rain. One of my favourite works was Eugenio Ampudia En Juego/In Play where Robert Hughes tome Shock of the New was kicked around by World Cup soccer players — the artist had replaced the soccer ball with the book. funny with a twist. June Bum Park’s Puzzle wasn’t interactive, but it nevertheless caught the spirit of the digital- students become 2 dimensional puzzle pieces.viagra
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Exhibition Announcement

June 24th, 2007

The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response
co-curated by Jacqueline Bosscher, Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark

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David Haines Study for Hydrogen Alpha Series, 2007, digital image. Courtesy of the artist

UTS Gallery
Level 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007
Opening night 3 July
Exhibition 4 July – 3 August 2007
Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 12-6pm

Exhibition to be opened by Luca Belgiorno-Nettis Tuesday 3 July 6-8pm
Vic Simms will do welcome to country and sing open the exhibition

Changing weather has spelt trouble before. But now we don’t quite know what to make of it, and it feels urgent. As the media, climatologists, environmentalists and politicians vie to shape our understanding and emotional responses, global warming reverberates through every level of culture. The uneasy relationship between technology, nature and culture is unsettled once more.

This exhibition brings together artists from Australia, the South Pacific and South America to respond to the unsettling effect of climate change.

Further Information: Anneke Jaspers, Assistant Curator: (02) 9514 1652 | utsgallery@uts.edu.au
http://www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au/gallery/index.html
http://www.weathertrouble.net/

1001 nights

March 24th, 2007

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I’m back. If anyone is still out there reading this, I’ve decided to reboot my blog… and I’m very excited to announce that tonight on Barbara Campbell’s 1001 nights I will be writing no. 642 tale - and my prompt is “not without talent”. so if you are in the vicinity of a computer tonight in Sydney at 7.pm, you can tune in to Barbara’s online performance.
1001 nights cast

Walk Against Warming

November 5th, 2006

walk against warming march
Lots and lots of people turned up to walk against warming. The weather was wild. But nice warm feelings in the crowd as we strolled down George St to the Botanical Gardens. More photos

Whose space?

October 25th, 2006

Coogee

Mike Davis’s City of Quartz is dense with details about who owns and controls the City of Los Angeles - from 19th century Boosters to 20th century gated communities, and ’space police’. It’s relentless. But it does make you think about who owns and controls one’s own cityscape. And it made me think about the local fight for public space in my own neighbourhood of Coogee Beach- where millionaire Hoteliers seek to control and own much of the public space.

Talking About the Weather

July 9th, 2006

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“The air you just exhaled has already spread far and wide. The CO2 from a breath last week may now be feeding a plant on a distant continent, or plankton in a frozen sea. In a matter of months all of the CO2 you just exhaled will have dispersed around the planet.”
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers

Talking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media project exploring our own response to the terrifying spectre of global climate change. Sheer terror at the possibilities that are being talked about led us to ‘talking about the weather’. The weather, once a safe way for strangers to connect, is now fraught with an edge of danger as ominous signs of global warming multiply. In this project weathertalk is no longer a banal exchange of local weather forecasts, but instead we ask people to donate their breath - the breath which they would normally use to talk about the weather and the same breath that is spread far and wide as described by Tim Flannery.

This is an ongoing project where we are collecting breath as widely as possible. For more info go to our collaborative blog called Talking About the Weather where we invite you to donate TEXT breath - describe the breath you are taking right now, especially with reference to the weather that is conditioning it.

Talking about the Weather involves performative encounters, where we perform two Australian visitors asking for donations to our breath collection (to be the largest in the world) with which we will blow back global warming. These performative encounters continue our work with the ’pataphysical mode of an imaginary solution for an actual problem… in this case – global warming.

Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier

June 15th, 2006

invitation

Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier is a video-sound installation by Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda, it is part of a cross media project that also includes the Internet site Le Quatrième étage :: The 4th Floor. The project was begun in Paris in 2004 while doing a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts. The work takes as a point of departure the experience of being Australians in Paris and reading George Perec’s book Life a User’s Manual. In this book Perec creates a puzzle of a novel set in a building located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris at number 11 rue Simon-Crubellier.

The work poses the question: is it possible to bring something that does not exist into existence by searching for it?

Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier is on at Cité Internationale des Arts : 18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville Paris :: 7th -17th June 2006

for more info on the project see our website here

Big thank-you to Mickaël Moine (lemiroirblanc@yahoo.fr) for the great photographs taken at the opening and after. To see more photos go to our Flickr site here

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Photo credit: Mickaël Moine

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Photo credit: Mickaël Moine

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Photo credit: Mickaël Moine

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Photo credit: Mickaël Moine

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Photo credit: Mickaël Moine

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Photo credit: Mickaël Moine

Seasons

March 27th, 2006

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Snow Dome season

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I can Smell the Earth again Season

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Swaying Birches Season

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Big Blue Cloudy Skies Season

MacDowell Colony

February 9th, 2006

macdowell colony

I think I’ve died and gone to heaven. The MacDowell Colony has to be the closest thing to heaven that I’ve ever experienced. A beautiful location, deep in the New Hampshire woods; a very comfortable studio to work in; and nothing to do but work on our project. They cook for you. Breakfast at 7:30am. They deliver lunch in a lunch box. And it’s good. And then dinner at 6:30pm in the company of some really interesting, stimulating but always warm and friendly artists.

palais de tokyo

February 4th, 2006

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Wang du, luxe populaire from 2001.

The best time to visit the Palais de Tokyo is after all the other museums have closed 10pm - midnight. The night of our all too brief visit, the place was buzzing. It felt good. The first show of the year, Notre Histoire, billed as a “show of tomorrow by looking back at yesterday,” it was a packed show with 29 artists representative of the contemporary French art scene. It was a really wonderful show.

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Adel Abdessemed, Habibi, 2003

This is the end of an era for the Palais with a new director and the departure of Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans, and this show really conveys what the last ten years have been about.

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more here