Thursday 3 September 2009

The big Next Wave news item for this week is tonight's screening of Sam Smith's beautiful new work, Into the Void, at Federation Square. It's the fourth work in the Next Wave Time Lapse program and it will screen every Thursday between 5:30 and 6:30pm through September. Details below.

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Image: Sam Smith's Into the Void at Fed Square, as part of Next Wave Time Lapse. Video still.

Into the void AT Fed Square

Sam Smith's new work Into the Void premieres tonight at Federation Square at 5:30pm.

Presented on Fed Square's Big Screen, Into the Void is a beautifully cinematic work that uses video special-effects to wryly critique romantic and anachronistic ideas about the transformative power of art. Shot on location in New York City, the work responds to Yves Klein's seminal 1960 work Le Saut dans le Vide(The Leap into the Void).

Into the Void traces the journey of a young man (the artist) around New York City. We follow the man as he visits the Museum of Modern Art and Gagosian Gallery. The artist uses video special-effects to give the illusion of him physically immersing himself in Klein's famous blue paintings and suspending himself in a sublime realm.

Sam Smith's Into the Void
On the Big Screen at Federation Square.

5:30 to 6:30pm
Tonight, Thursday 3 September
then

Thursday 10 September

Thursday 17 September

Thursday 24 September

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Image: Sam Smith's Into the Void, 2009. Videostill.

Primavera 2009

Next Wave is thrilled to tell you that Jeff Khan, our Artistic Director, is this year's Guest Curator of Primavera, the Museum of Contemporary Art's annual exhibition of work by new and emerging artists.

This year Primavera comes of age as the annual exhibition celebrates its 18th anniversary. With a reputation for uncovering new talent in the visual arts, Primavera provides valuable exposure for emerging artists aged 35 years and under.

Jeff has selected nine of today's most exciting young contemporary artists from across the country to explore the relationship between art and the viewer. You are invited to discover highly experiential works that engage you through humour, emotion, performance and immersive experiences both inside and outside the galleries.

Working across a range of disciplines, the Primavera 2009 artists are Andy Best, Christine Eid, Michaela Gleave, Christopher LG Hill, Ross Manning, Wade Marynowsky, Roderick Sprigg and spat+loogie.

Primavera 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art
140 George St, The Rocks, Sydney

From Wednesday 9 September to
Sunday 22 November 2009

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Ross Manning, Sad Majick 2009. Mixed media.

Pete & the Tar Gang, in Brisbane

Current Next Wave Kickstart artist Pete Reid features with his band The Tar Gang in the Brisbane Festival later this month.

Pete and the Tar Gang tell their stories from far-flung lands through enchanting poetic song. Combining music with strong performance elements and atmospheres, the tales are woven into songs as diverse in style as the stories themselves: from sodden shanties, to Dada-esque absurdities, ghost story waltzes, junkyard hoe downs and gritty colonial cabaret.

Pete and the Tar Gang's Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon
Brisbane Festival 09 - Under The Radar

Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September 2009, at 8:30pm
Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September 2009, at 1:30pm

SueBenner Theatre, Metro Arts
109 Edward Street, Brisbane

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Pete and the Tar Gang, in full flight.

Red Moon Rising Fundraiser

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Image courtesy Red Moon Rising.

New Exhibitions at Conical

Conical presents two new exhibitions opening tomorrow: Rendall & Spier's How the Dead Live, and Andrew Gutteridge's A Linear Construction.

How the Dead Live is an experimental ouija board workshop, in which Rendall & Spier propose to prototype the perfect paradox. Of course, only independent testing can determine whether these prototypes have succeeded. Conical invites you to grab a friend, pull up a seat, and place your hand lightly on the planchette. A Linear Construction is Andrew Gutteridge's new optical intervention. The installation expands the field of abstraction through a numerical and linear response to the interior architecture of Conical.

Opening tomorrow, Friday 4 September 2009
6 to 8.30pm
Exhibition running until 26 September 2009
Conical Inc
Upstairs3 Rochester St, Fitzroy

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Suitcase RoyalE album launch

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Slow Art Exhibition

The Slow Art Collective invite you to their current exhibitionTS2,featuring 2008 Next Wave artist Ash Keating with Tony Adams, Dylan Martorell and Chaco Kato.

Since mid-August, a site-specific environmental event has been unfolding at the Incinerator Arts Complex in Moonee Ponds. The project, titledTS2(Transfer Station 2), is a collaborative art installation by the Slow Art Collective in partnership with Moonee Valley City Council Waste Transfer Station.

Opening party this Saturday 5 September 2009
2 to 4pm
Exhibition until Friday 11 September 2009
Incinerator Arts Complex
180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds

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Bus Gallery Call Out

Bus Gallery are now accepting proposals for their 2009 - 2010 program.

Artists, art collectives, curators and writers are encouraged to apply. Bus will respond favourably to proposals for solo or group exhibitions with spatial qualities,or works that include performative elements or take a cross disciplinary approach in their presentation.

Applications close next Monday 7 September 2009.

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Voiceworks wants more blood

Express Media's much-loved Voiceworks magazine, which features great writing by young Australians, is looking for enthusiastic young writers and editors to join the Voiceworks Editorial Committee.

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Indigenous Art Awards Call for Entries

The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards are one of Australia's richest art awards and entries are now open to all Victorian Indigenous artists living in Victoria. With a total prize pool of $35,000 the Awards celebrate and showcase the rich diversity of Victorian Indigenous art from traditional to contemporary works in the form of ceramics, weaving, painting, sculpture, photography and installations.

Entries close 25th September 2009
Application forms art@bosciagalleries.com

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Medeain Prahran

Courthouse Arts' Medea, Euripides' classic tale of murder and betrayal ... with puppets, opens in Prahran later this month.

In this new production directed by Johannes Scherpenhuizen, Medea's story of isolation and retribution is told through a combination of modern and traditional puppet forms. Exploring themes of power and transformation, the theatre itself comes to life to tell Medea's story: her greatest victory, her greatest tragedy - and the price paid for both.

Opening 27 September 2009
6pm
Then 1 October at 7.30pm, 2 and 3 October, at 7.30pm and 9pm, 4 October at 6pm
$17.50/$14.50 plus booking fee
Chapel Off Chapel
12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran
03 8290 7000

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TOYS, in the Melbourne Fringe

Since 1999 Japanese dance artist Yasuko Kurono has been replicating herself. This Melbourne Fringe (23 September to 11 October 2009) small clusters of her clones will infect our city over one week culminating in a large-scale dance/performance on Friday 2 October. You are invited to be part of this global viral public performance work.

Take Off Your Skin (TOYS) traces the movement of public behaviours in a commodified universe and intervenes using mass choreography in common places. You can beinvolved as part of the mass or a select team of lead clones. Volunteers are also sought to travel with groups of clones, providing support and documenting the performance.

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