Trails, forepaw’s free monthly Drawing Thing, 7pm til whenever next Tuesday the 24th. Not quite an opening – way better coz you can do stuff if you are so inclined. Or just look over peoples shoulders & criticise their art instead…
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| June 20, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
CHRONOX Opening 6pm Friday June 20 through Sat/ Sun 1pm – 11pm. Forepaw, 275 High St. Northcote – forepaw.org
Carefully constructed geodesic domes to focus thought, allowing time to slow and hover. 3 locked groove acetates to make sound within. Performances Fri 8pm by Eamon Sprod and Matt Brown. Art by Lachlan & Mr Priority is on over the course of the weekend, but apparently it’s best seen/scene at night…
Northern Exposure festy-ville stuff is also on up and down the street. There will be MULTIPLE (F)ART OPENINGS from 6-9pm Friday all up n down High St…11 all up i think (nice!). For gallery addresses & details, have a squizz at www.northernexposure.org.au – events will continue throughout da weekend, with markets on 12-4pm saturday.
Bar 303 will also be having (f)arty projections & art stuff that night. Check out the delightfully acerbic hottie/spicy bar wench – for entertainment (read extreme sports & danger) give her shit to fire her up & shield yourself from the fallout… i think she’s one of these people who are soooo professional she won’t even spit in your drink when your back is turned, no matter how much grief you give her.
| June 20, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Digital Media Street Festival, 20-27th June 2008 is a A week of projected media spanning Gertrude Street, Fitzroy in Melbourne. Viewers can access our outdoor gallery at any hour to gain an insight into how we see our relationship of living, working and playing in an urban city setting. Visit Gertrude Street after dark… The program runs a6.00pm – 11.00pm from the 20th to the 27th June 2008, incorporating the shortest day of the year for maximum viewing time. Be apart of Australia’s 1st projection street festival. Showcasing artists and our community. Celebrating projection art. Launch party – 7:00pm at Danté’s on 20th June.
| June 21, 2008 9:00 pm | to | June 22, 2008 3:00 am |
DYSPHEMIC DARKSIDE DRUM AND BASS -
21 Jun 2008, 10:00 PM – 50 johnson st Firzroy, Melbourne, Victoria – Cost : $5…DJ WASABI, TERMINAL SS, BRIZTRONIX, AOI, DYSPHEMIC, DARK ORGANICS(ITCH) & DJ AFFIKS AT THE LAUNDRY Five local sonic manipulation units showcase their best home-studio crafted production downstairs at Laundry on Saturday June 21. Get ready for dark Melbourne-made drum & bass, experimental hip-hop and dubstep flavours with local audio-warlocks DJ Wasabi(live d&b), Terminal Sound System, Dark Organics(AKA Itch), Dysphemic(live d&b) and ex-Brisbane award winners, Briztronix. DJ Affiks(Tall Man Sound System) spins earth-shaking dubstep and grimey hip-hop to keep things nasty between acts. $5 door tax, six hours of heavy trax! 9pm-3am.
| June 21, 2008 10:00 pm | to | June 22, 2008 7:00 am |
lineup of live acts, dj’s & vj’s hammering out the …[insert shameless promotional blurb & non-descriptive wank here]… From big beat & breaks to darkside d&b, through to IDM & breakcore, drums drums, drums! mc’s, synth stabs & organ rupturing bass. At RUSTY LOUNGE (formerly Ace Morning club) with 2 stages, new sound system, new set up and beer garden, prepare for an all night audio visual assault on the dancefloor for 5 bucks u cant go wrong, finishes 7am. Including VANGUARDE (syd), PROJECTER (perth), LEX , XEHPA, XIAN, CATGRRL, TOUPEE, JAYEMDEE, MANDRAX, DAVE QUANTISE & visuals at Rusty Lounge (old ace mornings) 791 sydney rd, brunswick/coburg…
A network with a fiendishly simple plan to aid the evolution of music, multimedia arts, culture, and the human experience. And we forgot the gory fish and exposure any, some or all of the following things; ourselves, gory fish, other people, you, photos, talent, including djs – their dj skills, not their physical talent. we are a very motivated group of artists confident that we have a unique sound along with plenty of experience to provide listeners with quality.
| June 20, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
25 Easey St Collingwood Enter via side alley. ‘All Things Pass into the Night ‘Marcus’ art practice is concerned with the way we are constructed through social customs, histories and behaviours. What interests him most are the formative periods during our childhood and adolescence where we construct large parts of our ideas about who we are, where we live, and the fluid rights and wrongs between. All Things Pass into the Night is an extension of these thoughts and ideas carried on from previous projects. Through the use of decorative colonial objects, homo-centric signifiers, Freudian concepts (and a little bit of Silence of the Lambs), the work in this project looks at how we are trapped by the things we desire which then transform themselves into the objects of our fears. Since completing an undergraduate degree in sculpture, Marcus has been involved with CLUBS Project inc., AREA Contemporary Art Space and has worked as Director of Visual Arts for the Midsumma Festival. Marcus has been living and working in Melbourne since 2000 and plans to move to London in mid 2008
| June 19, 2008 | ||
| 9:00 pm | to | 11:55 pm |
Plug N Play Melbourne. A monthly night of free monthly electronic music, live video, live audiovisual, event @ the “Kent St Cafe”, 201 Smith st, Fitzroy.
From 8 to 11pm…Thursday 19th June has muzak from New Zealand, Japan & Richmond.
See http://plugnplay.skynoise.net for previous giglist…
Horse Bazaar is proud to present: STUTTER – A new, weekly night of experimental/unpopular/avant-tard/acoustic/electronica/call-it-what-you-will, music and performance madness. Every Wednesday night from 8:30pm (except the last Wednesday of each month which hosts Outpost). when: Wednesday evenings, 16 8:30pm at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street – Melbum Shity. cost: $5
| June 19, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The victorian college O’Farts presents monthly exhibitions at VC(F)A’s Margaret Lawrence Gallery 4 Dodds Street, SOUTHBANK VIC 3006.. parallel to st kilda rd, turn right then left after the fountains outside NGV on st kilda road. These exhibitions are generally good, but jam-packed and require elbows for access to the drink (n snacks?) tables. But, you know, art of upcomers is there too…such as:
Chantal Faust, Pleasure Machines, 2008 Opening night Thursday 19 June 6-8pm>? What happens when the digital optical scanner is used for the photographic reproduction of three-dimensional objects? The flatbed scanner seems an inappropriate technology for such a task. But what results is a complex aesthetic phenomenon that prompts a profound consideration of the differences between an analogue, lens-based culture of photography and an emergent screen-based digital culture. A relatively new technology, the flatbed scanner is generally not associated with the reproduction of tactile objects and it is not commonly used as a vehicle for artistic expression. This form of image making in relation to the history of photography and the current state of digital production is yet to be fully explored within contemporary art theory and criticism. Faust’s PhD aims to show that the scope of this enquiry includes a significant contemporary theoretical debate concerned with libido and the philosophy of desire, with its repertoire of new aesthetic concepts identified with “sensation” and “affect”.
| June 18, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
we are invited to the opening
of Betra Fraval’s painting exhibition “Unstable Ground” on Wednesday 18 June from 6:30 – 8:30 pm Victoria Park Gallery, 250 Johnston Street, Abbotsford. Nature is unpredictable, all matter is alterable, subject to decay and elements can be broken down and reconfigured to create new structures. This show explores the cycle of matter; how it forms, grows, breaks down, decomposes and reforms once again. There is a strange beauty in unstable and constantly shifting forms. How natural disasters expose the fragile nature of solid objects. What is left when a house is broken down by a hurricane or a sturdy ship fractured by a storm. These seemingly permanent objects are exposed as an unstable mess of particles. No matter how strong, objects are no match for the inevitable ravages of change. The exhibition will comprise of a series of paintings that explore how matter dissolves, shifts and yet even when blown apart, never completely disappears.
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