Hidden A Rookwood Sculpture Walk 2011
7 MARCH – 8 MAY
OPEN SUNRISE TO SUNSET
STARTING AT NORTHERN END HAWTHORNE AVE
ENTRY IS FREE
With the support of ArtsNSW The Anglican and General Trusts have partnered with Auburn City Council, Sydney Olympic Park Authority and The GroundSwell Project to create the third annual Rookwood Sculpture Walk.
Hidden is an on-site sculpture exhibition revealing artists’ responses to Rookwood, the largest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere. Rookwood is a place rich in heritage, history and culture, its beauty and splendour distinctive. With such a thought provoking subject matter, Hidden invites
audiences to explore the iconic site whilst admiring the 36 evocative works that feature amongst the graves.
This year’s exhibition will also feature a new media work in the All Souls Chapel and an extensive public program that includes a writer’s workshop, cemetery tours, dusk ceremony and a high school education program.
For the first time since the exhibition started, a $5,000 non-acquisitive award has been given to one of the artists whose work is exhibited in the outdoor sculpture exhibition. Congratulations to Michael Neddham for his ‘haunting’ sculpture!
On top of the $5,000 award, Auburn City Council will have offered Benedict Ernst a one-month residency at the Peacock Gallery and Auburn Arts Studio at no cost.
Sponsored by The GroundSwell Project, this years exhibition also features a $500.00 People’s Choice Award. Go to http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au/hidden/hidden-peoples-choice-vote.html to cast your vote!
ARTISTS
Cathie Alexander
Lee Bethel
Kylie Bowles
Pamela Lee Brenner
Will Coles
Cassandra Daw
Kate Dorrough
Margaret England
Benedict Ernst
Kath Fries
Linda Galbraith
Anne Gaulton
Jenny Green
Serena Horton
Melissa Laird
Ad Long
Dillon MacEwan
Sandra Marker
Nerine Martini
Mills & Morte
Ro Murray
Michael Needham
Miguel Olmo
Kay Orchison
Al Phemister
Stephen Ralph
Celine Roberts
Sue Roberts
Tracy Smith
Petra Svoboda
Jane Theau & Mandy Pryse-Jones
Peter Tilley
Annette Tzavaras
Jacek Wankowski
NEW MEDIA INSTALLATION IN THE ALL SOULS CHAPEL
Jennifer Teo & Shannon O’Neill – Messages
Go to www.rookwoodcemetery.com.au/hidden for more information about the exhibition and the public program.
Thank you to all our sponsors:
Arts NSW
Auburn Council
Sydney Olympic Park Authority
The GroundSwell Project
The Friends of Rookwood
Avant Card
Globe Memorial
Galaxy Funerals
Art of Ice Sculptures
Jewish Cemetery Trust Necropolis
Rookwood Necropolis Trust
Design79
DRO CAREY // ANGEL EYES // HAIR HOCHMAN // STITCHED VISION
7pm, 10th April
Serial space
33 Wellington St, Chippendale NSW
$10 entry at the door
Spring Break’s first ever Sydney show brings together Not Not Fun released Melbourne artist **Angel Eyes** on his Totally Autumn sideshow with buzzy-as-fuck Sydney producer **Dro Carey**, the first ever appearance of new Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Hochman & Hopkins) synth project **Hair Hochman**, and a rare appearance from Newcastle synthscape project **Stitched Vision**.
http://drocarey.bandcamp.com/
http://dialangeleyes.blogspot.com/
http://holybalm.tumblr.com/
http://www.stitchedvision.blogspot.com/
Spring Break have presented weekly shows in Newcastle since 2008 and present the Spring Every Season Festival Series including Summer Vibes, Totally Autumn, Winter Chills, and Spring Break Festivals.
http://www.totallyautumn.org/
http://www.facebook.com/springbreaknewcastle
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Serial-Space/55884544312
Ladyz in Noyz Sydney
6pm, 10th April 2011
Daisy Buchanan
Festive Jackals
Kusum Normoyle
Onnie Art
Oranj Punjabi
Rites Wild (SA)
+ Dj Corporal Leper
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
The Silent Hour: Session V with HelloSquare Recordings
8pm, April 9th 2011HellosQuare is a small DIY label based in Canberra, Australia that began in 2004. We are delighted to present a live showcase of what hellosQuare Recordings has to offer “The SIlent Hour”.
Shoeb Ahmad (live)
+ 3ofmillions
Ahmad / Klumpes
$10
Coming soon to your local general store!
Kind Regards
Chris, Ben & Jasmine
TOTALLY AUTUMN FESTIVAL
11am – 11.30pm, saturday 9th April 2011
CROATIAN CLUB, NEWCASTLE AUSTRALIA
TIckets $25 from Oztix, Vox Cyclops, Emma Soup and the Croatian Club;
or $30 at the door if available (you wanna gamble that?!)
SPRING BREAK’S SPRING EVERY SEASON SERIES PRESENTS
WWW.TOTALLYAUTUMN.ORG | TOTALLY AUTUMN FESTIVAL 2011
EAT SKULL (USA) + SLUG GUTS (QLD) + ANGEL EYES (VIC) + HOLY BALM (SYD) + THE LAURELS (SYD) + ELECTRIC JELLYFISH (US/VIC) + ALPS + TV COLOURS (ACT) + DEAD FARMERS (SYD) + SECRETS (NZ) + THE HOLY SOUL (SYD) + WHORES (SYD) + CRAB SMASHER + WOOLLEN KITS (VIC) + RITES WILD (SA) + BARE GRILLZ + RAT KING + SLEEPWALKS (QLD) + COCK SAFARI + THE FIGHTING LEAGUE (ACT) + THE NUGS + CISTERN CORRUPT + PHOBIAC + BAT YOGHURT + DJ ANGELA BERMUDA (CIRCLE PIT) + “LADYZ IN NOYZ” SHOWCASE FEAT: | DAISY BUCHANAN | FESTIVE JACKALS | ONION | ONNIE ART | ORANJ PUNJABI | BONNIE MERCER |
TICKETS EXTREMELY LIMITED $25 + BF BUY NOW: http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=19894
Yeah, you probably enjoyed Summer Vibes, so we’re gonna do it again in the new season. Spring Break!! are proud to announce the second installment for 2011 of the Spring Every Season series:
Refraction Showcase
Featuring:
CLEPTOCLECTICS (Syd)
WARBONDS (Syd)
6pm, Tuesday, 8th March 2011
Level 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo
Free Entry, food and drink provided
Cleptoclectics (Syd)
Cleptoclectics is Tom Smith – Cleptoclectics channels sonic detritus, plays various instruments, and extrapolates via granular synthesis to create dense, idiosyncratic music. Warm textures, a distinctive tonal range, and staggered rhythms develop into a subtle form of reverie.
http://soundcloud.com/cleptoclectics
Warbonds (Syd)
Warbonds is the name Justin Tam hides behind when he makes music. Beginning in the uni break of 2010, Warbonds is an exploration of maximalism in music, combining dense and widely sourced samples with live electro-acoustic sounds and fuzzy beats. Through samples, Warbonds marries the sounds of musicians from different genres, disciplines and periods with each other, and improvises with the result.
http://soundcloud.com/warbonds
Refraction is proudly supported by Sound Travellers and assisted by City of Sydney and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Graphics by Jade Cantwell.
Great Opportunity: ANYPLACE/SERIAL SPACE : 3 MONTH ARTIST RESIDENCIES
WHAT: 3 MONTH ARTIST RESIDENCIES
WHERE: 118 Terry St, Rozelle
WHEN: Applications due COB 04/03/2011
Serial Space & Anyplace Projects are offering 3 month residencies at our complex in Rozelle, beginning March 7th, ending May 31st. Studios are open to application from individuals, OR groups of people who would like to share a studio. Costs will be divided among studio inhabitants.
Successful applications will be required to pay a $100 security bond in addition to a $20/week participation fee.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Applications are to be submitted as a 1 pg PDF containing the following;
– Description of the work you intend to undertake over the period
– Possibilities for public outcomes from your work, whether performance, exhibition, online, or other forms of mediation.
– How you and your practice will benefit from the space, and vice versa (we aim to create a vibrant, active space)
Projects with the following characteristics are highly sort after:
– We would like to maximise use of the space, so applications from multiple artist wishing to share a studio will be highly regarded.
– Working with experimental and unconventional creative practices
– Willingness to collaborate with other artists in residence
– Projects that will have a tangible outcome at the end of the residency period.
Support material (required)
– 2 pg maximum artist CV (one for each artist in a group)
– 5-10 digital images and/or if you wish to provide multimedia examples of your work please provide a URL.
All applications are to be emailed to serialspacegallery@gmail.com with “Anyplace Application_Your Name” as the Subject header.
Applications that do not have the required information, or do not adhere to our application guidelines will not be considered.
March Refraction
ANONYMEYE (bris)
TEXTILE AUDIO
MIKE MAJKOWSKI
CASPAR JEFFREY & SHAUN PREMNATH
7.30pm, Wednesday 2nd March, 2011
Serial Space
33 Wellington Ave, Chippendale
Entry by donation
ANONYMEYE (bris)
Anonymeye, the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle from Brisbane, Australia,
reimagines post-Federation Australia and secessionist micronation movements within a search engine generated abstract musical Esperanto. Utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units, Tuttle’s creative output under the Anonymeye guise straddles and blurs boundaries between improvisation and composition, experimentation and song-form, rural landscapes and urban constructions and melody and dissonance.
http://anonymeye.wordpress.com/
http://www.myspace.com/anonymeye
TEXTILE AUDIO
Between ambient electronica and classical music lies Textile Audio, a project by operatic mezzo soprano and electronic musician Eve Klein. Working with scores, field recordings, and operatic-pop composite vocals to weave rich melodic soundscapes and textures this music is unashamedly romantic.
http://www.myspace.com/textileaudio
MIKE MAJKOWSKI
Mike Majkowski is a double bassist working in the broad field of improvised/exploratory music as a performer, collaborator and organiser. Solo work has been a particular focus of his since 2008, where he investigates how the use of refined self-devised extended techniques develops the sound and style of the work. Other projects include: Roil (with Chris Abrahams + James Waples), Blip (with Jim Denley), Strike (with Jon Rose + Clayton Thomas) and the Splinter Orchestra
CASPAR JEFFREY & SHAUN PREMNATH
Caspar Jeffrey is a Sydney based Indian percussionist. After a trip to India in 2004, he picked up a Tabla and since been trained in northern Indian, Hindustani, classical music. Caspar will collaborate with Shaun Premnath, fellow Indian musician to showcase a fusion of contemporary and traditional rhythmic styles, with an emphasis on improvisation.
Refraction is proudly supported by Sound Travellers and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Graphics by Jade Cantwell
DORKBOT-SYD : GROUP SHOW
Opening 6-8pm, Tuesday February 22nd
Open 12-5pm, Wednesday 23rd – Saturday 26th February
Artist Talk / Sausage Sizzle – Sunday 27th February 12pm
Serial Space – 33 Wellington St, Chippendale (www.serialspace.org)
Who: Luke Calarco, Jiann Hughes, David Kirkpatrick, Ross Manning, Wade Marynowsky, Michael Petchkovsky.
Curated by Dorkbot Syd ‘Overlord’ Pia van Gelder
What: An exhibition of different people doing strange things with electricity
Auraltered State Finale
7pm – Saturday, 26th February, 2011
Performance Space @ Carriageworks
Rev Kriss Hades
http://www.revkrisshades.com/
Origami Girls
http://www.lesstalkrecords.com/origami/
FUKNO
http://www.667u.com/fukno.htm
Chris Abrahams (the necks/ laughing clowns)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Abrahams
Louis Burdett + Patrick Kavanagh
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s862629.htm
Jamie Leonardo (Mu-Mesons)
http://www.mumeson.org/
PERFORMANCE SPACE CLUBHOUSE : BAY 20
CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON STREET EVELEIGH
music begins 7:00PM sharp til 11PM
FREE *LIMITED CAPACITY* ALL AGES (bar service available to 18+)
http://www.performancespace.com.au/
Set Times
7:10 Origami Girls
7:30 Chris Abrahams
8:15 Rev Kriss Hades
9:05 Louis Burdett + Patrick Kavanagh
9:50 Jaime Leonardo
10:30 Fukno
Avantwhatever Presents … Alex White
8pm, 19th February 2011
Serial Space
Sophie Hutchings with Raven & Tony Gorman
8pm – 18th February 2011
Ravel – 1st Floor Macquarie Hotel
42 Wentworth Ave, Sydney
Sydney’s Sophie Hutchings made a lot of best-of lists in 2010 for her exquisite debut Becalmed – the biggest coup being a top 5 spot on music bible MOJO Magazine’s lists of best releases for the year. The pianist returns to Raval after performing over two nights there in October with a full band that includes her brother Jamie Hutchings.
Special guests on the night will be Raven, otherwise known as cellist Peter Hollo for FourPlay performing solo, and in a rare appearance, jazz legend Tony Gorman (Clarion Fracture Zone) begins what is sure to be a fabulous night of beautiful music.
**Get tickets here! Limited capacity (very limited, in fact) so get in quick!**
Microbudget Filmmaking Symposium
Are you a filmmaker with on a tight budget?
Then you should definitely head to the Microbudget Filmmaking Symposium in Sydney.
The Microbudget Filmmaking Symposium (MFS) is aimed at early-career filmmakers, academics, screenwriters and film and video students, attendees will be given a rare opportunity to advance their professional development from an array of leading International and Australian filmmakers in the field.
It will be an opportunity to explore emerging digital filmmaking technologies, from the rise of the DSLR as a shooting format to emerging acquisition options from Red Digital Cinema and Panasonic.
12pm, Saturday 19th February 2011
University of Technology, Sydney
Ages 18+
To find out more information or book your place, visit http://www.fass.uts.edu.au/research/conferences/microwave/
ART START
If you’re a recent or recentish graduate of a creative arts degree, be sure to put in an application for ARTSTART. A program which (in their words):
… provides financial assistance to recent creative arts graduates who are committed to establishing a career as a professional artist. Graduates who plan to earn an income, start a small arts business or gain employment as a professional artist in the visual arts, hybrid and media arts, performing arts, literature or as a community cultural development artist may apply via the online application process
The applications close on the 2nd March 2011. Visit http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grants/artstart for more information and to get started on writing your application.
Good luck!!!!!!!
Holy Balm/Mark Barrage/Angel Eyes
8pm, 4th February 2011
Serial Space
33 Wellington St, Chippendale, Sydney
Take a trip down the eternal dance floor sculpted by harbour city natives Holy Balm. You’ll find it difficult not to cut a rug as this self proclaimed psychedelic, dance, jam, band pull us audience types down onto their perpetual thudding planet. Wavering and woozy synths cut in and out of the mirror balls in our minds, while a strutting drum machine metrically thumps out, syncing with the slightly clanging percussion. Out of th…is world, full tilt into the night with Holy Balm.
Melbourne’s own urban lurker Mark Barrage blazes out a path of crafty numbers that sound born out of future machines, and conjure images of a radio play on some loner ship out there in the cosmos. Sometimes pointillist, sometimes swelling, the icy synths cover the sharp end of the spectrum, while processed bass and jilted (sometimes phat) beats cover the smooth and the deep. Somewhere in between are the embedded vocoded melodies that sing like a mournful robot, once human. R&B&SCI FI
http://home.iprimus.com.au/barrage/
Another lone creator of the Melbourne sort is Angel Eyes. His heavily refracted guitar lines twang and echo in the foreground while tranced keyboard tones shimmer like the northern lights above a plodding, rusted minimalist drum machine march. Eventually stepping to the mic, the vocals boom out, low and somber and smeared across a shadowy reverb chamber dome.
http://dialangeleyes.blogspot.com/
Be there, with them.
Performing @ Serial Space on the 4th day of Febuary
Anla Courtis and Peter Blamey
8pm – 10pm, Tuesday 1st February 2011
$10
Serial Space
33 Wellington St Chippendale
Acclaimed Argentinean experimental guitarist, Anla Courtis’s discography is an epic collectors dream/nightmare featuring numerous solo works and a long list of collaborations including KK Null, Birchville Cat Motel, Bruce Russell, Lee Ranaldo, Damo Suzuki and Yoshimi (Boredoms) to name but a few. In addition, Anla co-founded REYNOLS who themselves have created over 100 releases.
Supporting Anla will be local star Peter Blamey whose work currently revolves around notions of open electronics, where recovered and re-deployed electrical components are used in simple open-, short-, and long-circuit situations to explore ideas of connectivity, feedback and re-use. It can get quite noisy.
For further information please contact; alexewhite@gmail.com
Alan Courtis
www.myspace.com/courtis
for listening music online:
http://www.lastfm.es/music/Anla+Courtis
http://www.lastfm.es/music/Anla+Courtis/Tape+Work
http://www.lastfm.es/music/Birchville+Cat+Motel+with+Anla+Courtis
Peter Blamey
www.myspace.com/pblamey
Thanks to the Now Now Festival and Serial Space.
The Code of Sound – A SuperCollider Workshop
12pm, Sunday, 30th January 2011
Serial Space
33 Wellington Ave, Chippendale, Sydney
A gentle introduction workshop into the sound programming environment SuperCollider. Starting at the basics of programming and working up to some fun sound toys/instruments you and tweak and morph into whatever you can imagine! Will also introduce basic concepts of audio and how the computer fits into the picture.
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. I…t provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
Presenter:
Alexander Whillas who has been living and working in Berlin since 2006 and hanging around the arty experimental sound/noise scene and the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). He has been programming since 1996 and did a Bachelors of Science in Computing Science (1999) at UTS.
You will need:
– Laptop with working sound.
– Headphones.
– Download and install SuperCollider 3.4: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
Duration:
3-4 hours depending on turnout and enthusiasm.
Booking:
FIRST IN BEST DRESSED
Serial Space
33 Wellington St
Chippendale
www.serialspace.org
The NOW now Festival – Day 2
@ The Red Rattler
6 Faversham St
Marrickville
6.00 //Doors//
6.30 Peter Blamey (open-circuit electronics = computer motherboards, copper wire)
7.00 John Blades (dragon generation word salad)
7.30 Rosalind Hall (prepared sax) *MELB* & Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (extended vocal technique) *MELB*
8.00 //BREAK//
8.30 ROIL
Chris Abrahams (piano)
Mike Majkowski (double bass)
James Waples (Drums)
9.20 UNTERMORAST *TAS*
Tim Panaretos (processed/looped electric bouzouki) +
Matt Warren (processed vocals)
10.00 Cleptoclectics / Peon / 48/4 / Jenson Brewster (beats, beats, beats, beats)
SATURDAY 22nd January
@ The Red Rattler
6 Faversham St
Marrickville
6.00 //Doors//
6.30 Peter Blamey (open-circuit electronics = computer motherboards, copper wire)
7.00 John Blades (dragon generation word salad)
7.30 Rosalind Hall (prepared sax) *MELB* & Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (extended vocal technique) *MELB*
8.00 //BREAK//
8.30 ROIL
Chris Abrahams (piano)
Mike Majkowski (double bass)
James Waples (Drums)
9.20 UNTERMORAST *TAS*
Tim Panaretos (processed/looped electric bouzouki) +
Matt Warren (processed vocals)
10.00 Cleptoclectics / Peon / 48/4 / Jenson Brewster (beats, beats, beats, beats)
The NOW now Festival – Day 1
FRIDAY 21st January
@ The Red Rattler
6 Faversham St
Marrickville
6.00 //Doors//
6.30 e m b e d d e d
Monika Brooks (accordion)
Rishin Singh (trombone)
Jim Denley (sax)
Sam Pettigrew (bass)
7.10 Reuben Derrick (sax) *NZ*, Simon Ferenci (trumpet+electronics), Milica Stefanovic (bass guitar) & Evan Dorrian (drums) *ACT*
7.50 Natasha Anderson (recorder) *MELB *, Ben Byrne (electronics) *MELB * & Amanda Stewart (voice)
8.30 //BREAK//
9.00 YAN JUN (electronics) *BEIJING*
10.00 SKY NEEDLE * BRIS*
Joel Stern – leg horns
Alex Cuffe – wooden speaker box
Ross Manning – elastic dust shovel
Sarah Byrne – vocals and percussion
Dorkbot Sydney – January with Tim Boykett and Pippa Buchanan
Where: Serial Space, 33 Wellington St Chippendale
When: Thursday 13th January, 19:00 for a 19:30 “Speakoff”
This month we are happy to have two guests from the other side of the globe!
TIM BOYKETT
Laboratory for the construction of Experimental Situations.
15 years of building worlds and ways of investigating them, experimental net audio, mechanical devices and social constructivism. Too many things to fit in a paragraph: http://timesup.org/
Narrative Worlds: Living and Lived in spaces – This presentation will outline our experience with “exploration narratives” as a way of understanding an audience’s involvement with an interactive environment, then go on to examine the projects we are currently engaged in: “Physical Narratives” is the name we use. Spaces were the fictional inhabitant has disappeared, the audeience is invited to explore the objects in the space and their arrangement to explore the story of that character.
I will also talk about our developments of living spaces, mechanically enhanced garden systems and irrigation systems that we are using to enhance the harbour environment.
PIPPA BUCHANAN
Pippa Buchanan is project lead for the School of Webcraft, a partnership between Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). Born in Australia and currently based in Berlin, Germany, she worked in educational software, video games development and as a design educator before becoming involved in non-formal and open educational projects.
http://learninglearning.wordpress.com/
http://p2pu.org/webcraft
Drumbeat – How Mozilla is making a better web.Mozilla’s Drumbeat is about increasing the community of people who defend and build the open web beyond participation in software projects. Learn how Drumbeat brings filmmakers, educators, journalists and others together to help shape the future of the web.
http://drumbeat.org/
P2PU – a learning (non) institution
The Peer 2 Peer University is an online community of people learning together in an open, collaborative environment. Entering its second year, P2PU is developing partnerships with Mozilla around the School of Webcraft and exploring how peer assessment could change the way we learn.
http://p2pu.org/
the NOW now Festival PROGRAM LAUNCH
7pm Thursday 16th December
The Red Rattler
SUPER SET TIMES
7:00 //doors open
7:30 swill (Sydney)
8:20 Robbie Avenaim solo (melb) http://www.robbieavenaim.com/solo_weapons.html
9:30 HU (Wollongong) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leWQh0oZU5Q
10:15 Prophets (somewhere else) http://dalegorfinkel.com/collaborations/prophets/
Come for a free gig, stay for a cheap bear. (Music will be incredible too!)
Festival programs, tickets and a limited edition artists sampler mixtape/cd will be available on the night. Maybe also badges…
Stay posted and tell your friends.
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[The NOW now festival 2011 has been made possible through support of Marrickville Council, APRA, and the ongoing support of Arts NSW and Australia Council.]
Sound Series #10 New Weird Australia
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7pm, Friday 10th December Hardware Gallery 263 Enmore Rd, Sydney
Sound Series is a monthly evening of sound-based performance and installation at Hardware Gallery on Enmore Rd. Our final show for 2010 is curated by the wonderful New Weird Australia. #10 will feature: DUAL UZIS TAILINGS (Newcastle) AEMON WEBB BLAKE FREELE KIM ONO LUCIA DRAFT Please join the group for info about our 2011 program: Download free DUAL UZIS recording from ‘New Weird Australia Broadcast Two’ at http://newweirdaustralia.com/2010/08/new-weird-australia-broadcast-two/ |
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