Category Archives: Art
Symmetry: Themes For An Imaginary Film
Originally thought to be Johnny Jewel‘s rejected score for neo-noir thriller, Drive, Symmetry: Themes From An Imaginary Film is, in fact, a “project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, and Desire‘s more abstract sides“.Nearly four years in the making, this two-hour, 36-track epic is an exploration of “space, rhythm and tone… Stripped to its most primitive and visceral core, this is music written for picture. Your life is the film and this is the soundtrack.”
Look out for this on triple-LP sometime in the future. Until then, buckle up for the full-stream below.
Matterhorn
Chris Hopkins and Emi Ueoka release their beautiful zine Matterhorn. This is the end result of drinking alot of coffee and spending a lot of time in Japan’s underground cafe circuit.Buy it now from Nieves.
Calligraffiti?
The man Fazwon from Kind Of – Gallery just worded me up about this Calligraffiti exhibition that opens on Thursday night at the gallery in Sydney. Pioneered by the Dutchman Niels Shoe Meulman, who started out in the graff scene as Shoe before working as Creative Director for MTV in Europe, calligraffiti is described as “Abstract Expressionism with a Calligraphic origin.” I’m not so sure about the name but I’m feeling the Japanese style handwork.Calligraffiti
January 25 – 30
Kind Of — Gallery
72 Oxford St
Darlinghurst, Sydney
Australia
End / Sayle
Christopher Day and James Eisen are having back to back shows at Melbourne’s Curtin House starting February 3.
Two weeks of photography and art!
End
Christopher Day
February 3 – 5
Open 12 – 4pm
Opening February 2, 6 – 9pm
Sayle
James Eisen
February 10 – 15
Open 12 – 4pm
Opening February 10, 6 – 9pm
Level 6 Curtin House
252 Swanston St
Melbourne
View a series we published from Chris back in February 2011!
Dreamland
Dreamland, an Exhibition of Artworks by Claudio Kirac.
‘Dreamland’ revolves around two key themes; the thrill of travel and the longing for home. While ‘on the road’ for periods at a time, and mostly without the leisure one would assume with travel or ‘holidays’, Claudio grasps the moments around him; wholly embracing local cultures and traditions, venturing ‘off the beaten path’ and stepping outside the comforts of everyday life. While befriending strangers and capturing those special moments one only encounters on ‘the journey’, work and play blur into one. Soon comes the challenge of missing the familiarity of home, the everyday norm, the common voices of close friends and the touch of a loved one. But it is this that makes us appreciate the everyday and helps restore our balance and soon we are home again where we can reflect on the journey and the places that became home for those moments in time. The works of ‘Dreamland’ express and investigate many of these notions.
Feb 23rd – March 6th 2012
Comb Space Gallery
Kirra Point, 23 McLean St, Coolangatta, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Two Films About Hands
Two films from the late ’60s, both about hands. The first is dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie (1966). I am going to post more about Yvonne Rainer soon. Apart from being a real tough guy, she is singular and prolific and performing at Dia:Beacon again next month.
The second is Richard Serra’s Hand Catching Lead (1968). You can hear Serra talking more about metal here.
The House Friendship Built
The house that friendship built is the latest collaboration between artists and friends Ben McCready and Nick Dorey. In this project they explore both the ethics and aesthetics of friendship. Betrothed by the sweat off thine brow, each artist takes the others respective gift of profitless expenditure; their labour –their sweat; literally storing it in a small vile. The slippery notion of friendship is bottled in an equally slippery vile containing the others sweat.The actual structure, the art, is built without any technical or industrial knowledge of home building and takes on a dual purpose, both an exhibition and an open for inspection. It marks the end of the project and the beginning of a residency program that will be granted to a successful emerging artist for a nominal fee. Expressions of interest are to be registered at the opening.
The House Friendship Built.
Ben McCready and Nick Dorey
Inspection times
Exhibitions Opening: 3pm ~ 15/ 01/2012
Address: 20 Arthur Street Bellevue Hill.
Transport: 327 Arrives a few doors up from 20 Arthur Street. Departs from William street (opposite the Museum) Kings X, opposite Huge Egos (Hugo’s Lounge), Edgecliff Station.
This is Mary’s Work
These little and not-so-little guys are by one of my favourite painters, Mary MacDougall.
A little while ago I interviewed Mary for an issue of The Blackmail and was bummed that we didn’t end up publishing pictures of her work. Luckily, she got a website. Here you can see works on glass from previous years and tiles from her recent show. Almost all of them are sold now so I am just glad the pictures are still around.
DJ YAMANTAKA EYE
Together with Bamboo Musik, we are proud to be bringing one of our all time heroes YAMANTAKA EYE to Australia in January for a special selection of DJ dates.
If you’re not making the connection, EYE has been the driving force behind Japanese psychedelic overlords Boredoms since the group’s inception in 1986. A versatile yet instantly identifiable mixed-media artist, he exists across a wide palette as a musician, performer and visual artist. Through his DJ practice, EYE extends the same creative brain that propels his iconic super group with an unpredictable mix of dance music, punk culture and popular retro rock, mastering a weird fusion of club experience and sound art performance. Releasing seven staggered studio albums, EYE’s highly influential and always evolving ensemble has stemmed various incarnations, spin-offs, collaborations and close associations with the likes of Sonic Youth, Matt Groening, Ween, Battles and Beck. On July 7, 2007, EYE famously orchestrated 77Boadrum which featured a synchronised drumming circle of 77 percussionists including many leading lights of modern avant garde rock.
Be witness to this next chapter of EYE’s illustrious history!
9 January – Keystone Festival Bar, Sydney Festival (w/ Deerhoof)
13 January – Bamboo Musik @ Mercat X, Melbourne
14 January – Sugar Mountain Festival @ The Forum, Melbourne
