thursday 10 December 2009

For a non-Festival year Next Wave has been flat-chat doing stuff. A bigger and more expansive Kickstart has just wrapped, we co-toured Come on the Scene with NETS Victoria, we ran workshops in Bendigo and Mildura for Sweet Work, we launched Next Wave Time Lapse, and have begun the serious job of making the 50 or so projects happen for the 2010 Next Wave Festival.

Next Wave Donate was launched earlier in May too, and has so far raised tens of thousands of dollars; a significant amount, but, alas, still a fraction of the $150,000 we are still chasing down for our 2010 Festival artists. We've also brought on new staff and board mebers this year. Check out the biographies for Tom, Lara, Nat, Paul and Meg (staff) and Claire and Rebecca (board). AND, this very Pegboard has had a good going over (as has our website) thanks to the good people at the Golden Grouse.

We've got a few newsy items of news below, but if you take away anything from this Pegboard, please know that we've appreciated your generous support in 2009 (even if you've just taken the time to read these weekly emails!), and we can't wait to show you our new Festival in May next year, NO RISK TOO GREAT.

Merry Christmas and see you in 2010!
Next Wave

[Next Wave is closed from 24 December 2009 and will be open 4 January 2010.]

Image: Tape Projects, 2010 Next Wave Festival artists. Photo by Tim Herbert, timothy.herbert@gmail.com

Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart - ouR Time Lapse artist for December

This month, head to Federation Square and check out Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart's new Next Wave Time Lapse work, A Someone Else's Problem Field.

A Someone Else's Problem Field is fiction disguised as reality. It is a simple sleight-of-hand act that invokes the wonder and curiosity of childhood to re-imagine what the world is, and could be.

Devised and created by Adelaide-based artist Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, this Next Wave Time Lapse work takes Federation Square as its subject, and, through creative use of the Square's live camera, morphs and warps the space's surrounding buildings.

It is, as Lachlan himself describes, a work based on childhood fantasy and the extremes of imagination: "Within my public media arts practice I'm particularly interested in stimulating the imagination of people to help them to rediscover their urban environments. By doing this, I also look to facilitate collective communal experiences that exist outside conventional arts spaces. In the tradition of many digital and non-digital public intervention artists, A Someone Else's Problem Field is simply an illusionist magic trick that only exists as an artwork through the experience of its audience."

A Someone Else's Problem Field
On the Big Screen at Federation Square
5:30 to 6:30pm every Thursday, through December
(NOTE: Thursday 17 Dec's screening has been moved to Friday 18 Dec)

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IMAGE: Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, A Someone Else's Probelm Field, 2009. Video stills from a live feed. Part of Next Wave Time Lapse.

The Flood, at La Mama

Next Wave Kickstart artists the Sisters Hayes have contributed set and costume design to a new production at La Mama, on now.

The Flood has been written by Jackie Smith and, we've been told, is Australian Gothic at its most humorous, brittle, and disturbing.

The Flood
December 3 to 20, 2009
8pm (6:30pm Wed, Sun)
La Mama Theatre
205 Faraday St, Carlton
Bookings 03 9347 6142
$25/$12

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IMAGE: Cast members Maude Davey, Caroline Lee and Shirley Cattunar. Photo by Bronwyn Pringle.

Brown Council at Locksmith

Next Wave Kickstart 2009 artists Brown Council are currently presenting Big Show at the Locksmith Project Space in Sydney.

Big Show explores the slippages between art and entertainment, through a series of performative video works. Magic tricks, comedic routines and death defying stunts are combined with endurance performance and tasks designed to examine the malicious side of comedy and laughter.

Big Show
On now until 19 December, 2009
6 to 8pm
Locksmith Project Space
6 Botany Road, Alexandria, Sydney

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Kotoe Iishi's Masters showing

Next Wave Festival and Time Lapse artist Kotoe Iishi is currently screening a selection of her video works in Fitzroy until next week.

Kotoe's work is part of her Masters of Fine Art assessment for the Victorian College of the Arts.

Kotoe Iishi's video works
On now until 19 December, 2009
Open Wednesdays to Saturdays 12 to 5pm
Library Art Space
100 Barkly St, North Fitzroy

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IMAGE courtesy Kotoe Iishi.

Ladies want you for a photoshoot, in Sydney

Next Wave Kickstart artists Jessica Olivieri and Hayley Forward with the Parachutes, for Ladies want YOU for a photoshoot this Sunday. All you need to do is rock up, sit still and maybe smile.

Boys: wear black pants. Grrrls: white stockings (the Ladies can supply if need be) and white T-shirts of any denomination.

It's all for the photo that goes in the 2010 Next Wave Festival program relating to their Festival project titled I thought a musical was being made. We have been told it will be shot in the style of Busby Berkeley's extravaganzas.

Email the Ladies if you are planing on coming: parachutesforladies@gmail.com

Sunday 13 December 2009
2 to 5pm
IO Myers Theatre at UNSW in Randwick (the Ladies can help some with transport from the west, otherwise there is free parking and lots of buses down Anzac parade).

Treats will be offered to all involved.

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IMAGE courtesy the Parachutes for Ladies.

Bindi Cole wins Indigenous Art Award

Next Wave would like to congratulate photographer and artist Bindi Cole for winning the $25,000 Deadly Art Award, part of the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.

A Wathaurung woman and Melbourne-based artist, Bindi who presented a significant exhibition of her work in the 2008 Next Wave Festival (titled Not Really Aboriginal), was awarded the prize for her evocative photography series, Ajay, pictured.

The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards is an annual art award program developed for Indigenous artists through Arts Victoria.

An exhibition of the finalists' work is on now until 23 December 2009 at Boscia Galleries, Level 4, 175 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

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Bindi Cole's Photos on Flikr >

IMAGE: Bindi Cole, Ajay, 2009. Winner of the 2009 Deadly Art Awards.

THREE CAll outs worth Knowing about

West Space

Melbourne ARI West Space is inviting artists, collectives and curators to submit proposals to exhibit in their gallery between July and December 2010. Proposals must be received before 5pm tomorrow, Friday 11 December 2009.

For details, visit West Space's website.

Light Projects

Over summer Light Projects plan to screen a series of films on their exterior window in Northcote, for which they are currently looking for content. The thematic arrangement of these films will emphasise visual and material investigations, and unexpected turns. Filmmakers are invited to submit films before 22 December 2009.

For all the details visit  www.light-projects.com or email lightprjcts@gmail.com.

Laneway Commissions

The City of Melbourne is currently calling for submissions for its popular Laneway Commissions program. Concepts are regularly sought from artists for a series of contemporary public works. It might it be an artwork, project or an event. Artists are invited to explore sites within Melbourne's CBD and develop the work according to their own practice.

Submissions close Friday 22 January 2010.

For more info contact the City of Melbourne on 03 9658 9658 or vist their website.

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