| May 16, 2008 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The crew at the Next Wave Festival 2008 are set to take over the entire Platform site for all of May and this is your chance to come along and rub up to some of Australia’s SNot-iest emerging art talents! The opening extravaganza at Platform will feature a number of the festival’s KickStart artists who have been busy working with mentors at Next Wave to develop major projects. The night will also feature a special presentation of ESKY – a new project from CHRISTIE PETSINIS + CAROL DE SOUZA that offers an event bar unlike anything you’ve ever seen before! Other main shows to open on this night will include: TREVOR FLINN + CECILIA FOGELBERG – “The Puma, The Stranger and The Mountain” @ Platform; HIROMI TANGO – “Absence” @ Vitrine & Sample; OBJECTS IN SPACE – Majorca Building, Centre Place Melbourne
| May 15, 2008 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Incorporating the launch of Membrane, the 2008 Next Wave Festival begins here with a gigantic over-done punch in the air at Fed Square’s Atrium in the city on May 15. Enjoy two hours of the world’s best music, a roomful of attractive artist-types and really tasty drinks in one of downtown Melbourne’s great party spaces. Then, post-party, you are invited to roll on to the completely refurbished Mercat Cross Hotel, the site of the 2008 NWF Club, at 456 Queen Street (near the Vic Markets). Membrane is a series of site-specific installations and interventions in and around Federation Square, presented by artist run initiatives (ARIs) from around Australia. Occupying the alternative and not-oft used spaces of Fed Square, Membrane is one of the 2008 Festival’s key note projects. All are welcome, but RSVP is essential, to nextwave@nextwave.org.au.
| May 14, 2008 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Until Never presents
RUS KITCHINTake the long way home…
OPENING :: UNTIL NEVER
6PM to 8PM :: Wednesday May 14 :: 2008 (until June 14)
2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane :: Melbourne CBD :: AUSTRALIA
On the back of a sell out VCA Grad show and the recent exhibition of his video work in Berlin, Warsaw and Rotterdam, Rus Kitchin’s latest show, Take the long way home, continues the evolution of work that Kitchin partially locates in his active involvement within Melbourne’s graffiti culture of the late 80’s, and early 90’s. Rus is part of an influential and pioneering group of artists who exhibited in the seminal First National Aerosol Art Exhibition – Pump up the Can! in 1991, and his work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria and is held in a number of private and public collections. Whilst Kitchin’s work embodies the spontaneity and expression of street culture, he doesn’t confine himself to the often generic aesthetics and expression that have come to be recognised as the visual landscape of graffiti today. Through his exploration of counter-cultural voices and ancient and contemporary humanist philosophy and icons, Kitchin presents an individual outlook on the human condition.
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