I usually get asked “why” I have such a fascination with abandoned buildings, and I can’t really answer this questions. I guess the people who ask this are the people who don’t understand, and probably are never going to.
It’s the dank coolness you feel walking into those dark enclosed rooms, devoid of light and heat for so long.
It’s the leftover furniture (motel), kitchen utencils (asylum), jars of yeast (brewery), and other bits and pieces that are a reminder of the people who used these spaces and the functions they performed.
These places once had lives of their own.
It’s other bits and pieces – mattresses, burnt-out drums, empty spray cans, broken beer bottles, bits ... read more
A special event on the 9th Anniversary of September 11th. Electronic Musical mayhem with Live Video Jam, featuring Captain Satan and Mute Freak making sound and Abraxas 69 and Eyecandy doing their multi projector / anti-indoctrination video.
Early start, so if you’re fashionably late, then tough shit if you miss the bands. Though we will be jazzing along DJ VJ softly stylee til the early AM…xxx
Be warned, this is not a mainstream event. Be in possession of a very dark sense of humour.
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c3 contemporary art space opens it's new show on:Wednesday September 1st at 6 - 8pmExhibition runs:September 1st to 19th
“It’s kinda hard to put into mere mortal words, but I guess I should say that being righteous mean you’re more or less on the side of the angels, waging Armageddon for the ultimate victory of the forces of Good over the Kingdom of Death (see how perilously we skirt hippiedom here?), working to enlighten others as to their own possibilities rather than merely sprawling in the muck yodelling about what a drag everything is.” Lester Bangs
(Lester Bangs “The Clash” Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, 1987, p226)
There is a lot of political graffiti, there always has been. Graffiti was one of the first tools of politics from back in the ... read more
GALLERY 1Foyer SpaceSYSTEMS TO POINTINGCorinna BerndtThe objects I collect and photograph, or use in my installations are fake, kitsch artefacts, Ifind at op-shops, like plastic diamonds, christmas decoration and plastic roses. Their tackinesseasily stirs my imagination, and I am interested in creating some kind of logic between objects.My work is mainly driven by the idea of spreading microcosms and the wish to establish a sort ofpseudo-science between groups of found objects.
Space APHYSETER FABLEJulian SmithIn Physeter Fable; the bloated carcass of a Sperm Whale is a child’s plaything. Dogs must be kept on a leash lest they be decimated by gastric juices. One must learn that laying claim to something is pointless without knowing how to plunder it. Boys may not like being bleached or burnt but their friends find it hilarious. The emergence of a massive dork may offend some viewers. These paintings on paper, by emerging artist Julian Smith, elude as much as they elucidate the narrative details. The result is a skewed story with lessons implied but unclear. It’s a morality tale without a moral.
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Space BNEW WORKS BYNatasha CordasicNatasha’s practice engages personal history with the propaganda of nationalism and commercialisation.She creates images and uses materials in such a way to generate a friction between properties or production and symbolism.
Project roomRITUAL GARDENNoriko NakamuraNoriko is a Japanese-born artist based in Melbourne. She believes that spirits in animals and inanimate objects are a natural part of ordinary life. This interest in Shinto (and other) primitive religions and her personal experience influences installation works that utilize various media. They include organic materials, domestic objects and DIY items.
GALLERY 2GOLDEN MOUNTAINRenato Colangelo - Mark Connors - David van Royen - Vivian Cooper Smith - Ian TippettGolden Mountain is an exhibition by five Melbourne photographers exploring the concept of imagination.In spite of the complexity of the theme two fundamental questions form the basis of the inquiry.“What is ‘imagination’ and what part does it, or did it, play in my life?”The five photographers meet monthly to discuss these questions and develop an exhibition. It is a process of review and critique but also one of bonding and inspiration.The result is an exhibition that breaks traditional notions of authorship by presenting the resulting images as a single body of work. New
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GALLERY 3
Fear of a Tech PlanetAnthony Sawrey - Kieran Stewart -Nick Waddell - Ross Taylor
In this exhibition, 5 artists examine how the presence of techno phobia influences and informs their works, from a gleeful embrace of uncertainty to one of cautious optimism or suspicion.
From ancient times to the present day, the emergence of new technologies has produced both anxiety and exhilaration in the cultures affected by it. Such developments can upset our habitual familiarity with society and the environment, making the very ground beneath us appear to melt into air.
Consequently it brings about a broad range of reactions; from a strident rejection of the new ... read more
