Co–respond is a SEVENTH publication exploring the possibilities of collaboration and conversation between visual art and writing.
Featuring written works by fifteen emerging writers, Co–respond critiques, expands and documents SEVENTH’s exhibition program from June 2011 to January 2012.
The launch will feature DJ sets from Lagoona Fronds (Lisa Stewart), Ravey Gravey (Jay Lewis) and Simon Winkler (RRR). As well as art installations and live performances
The launch will feature DJ sets from Lagoona Fronds (Lisa Stewart), Ravey Gravey (Jay Lewis) and Simon Winkler (RRR), as well as a series of performances, installations and projection works from SEVENTH artists.
Come celebrate Melbourne’s newest and hottest arts-writing publication!
Doors 7pm - $5 entry (includes a copy of the publication)
WED 18TH APRIL
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
PechaKucha Melbourne Vol. 19 will be held next Wednesday night at The Workers Club in Fitzroy. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has hit our town this month of April, and we’re joining in on the fun with the theme: Are You Serious?
Well, are you? Is it possible we’re taking things and ourselves a little too seriously these days? We want to make you laugh…or at least make you think. Yes, life has a serious side and many of us design with it every day, but how about taking a step back for a moment? What do you take seriously? What shouldn’t we take so seriously? What needs an injection of un-serious?
Our guest speakers range from Melbourne’s serious creatives to some of our not-so-serious comedians… and everyone in between! The night will feature Anna Blandford from Able & Game – who make cards!, Megg Evans, an interior designer and the owner of Benetts Lane Jazz Club, cartoonist Oslo Davis, known for his weekly ‘Overhead’ featured in the Sunday Age, and young photographer Jade Cantwell and designer Angela Woda from Beate Adfectus who will be talking about their latest project at This Is Not Art in Newcastle.
With DJ Tom Drake spinning some hilarious tunes during the beer break you’ll also find The Workers Club does a mean burger on a Wednesday night. Come over with your mates for some serious fun!
Doors 6:30PM, $10/$7
Tim Buckovic
30th Nov – 18th Dec
‘Reliefs’
Reliefs examines the act of observation between artist and material, and subsequently, the traces drawing leaves behind on temporarily documenting these inquiries.
‘Night Plains’
7th Sept – 24th Sept
Eugene Howard works with video and drawing, his practice investigates human trace and exists in journeys and wanderings. Eugene practices across Australia and resides in Melbourne.
Adrift in the Void
Adrift in the Void stems from video footage recorded by a miniature camera hidden inside sunglasses, developed during a residency at Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia. The footage was filmed in public spaces without people’s knowledge or consent, then transformed into fiction through narrative voice-over. The narration adapts quotes from Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick and Paul Auster in combination with writing by the artist. Unsuspecting people become actors and “reality” becomes “fiction” through imagining small episodes in people’s day-to-day life.
January 27 – February 27
Designed by new kids on the block Hammocks and Honey, and painstakingly crafted by accessory label PHILOS-o-FACE, the sculptural pieces featured in The Art of Fashion straddle the art, craft and fashion trajectory in a unique, and kind of creepy, way.Using repetition to engage with the tensions between mechanical reproduction and the post GFC preoccupation with the handmade, the work also plays with ideas of fan culture, image saturation and memorabilia while challenging the once static categories of wearable jewellery and art object. This is the first in a series of collaborations between the label and band.
December 17 – January 26
Inventioninnovation is an absurd window cleaning device that questions the influence of technology on the traditional notion of the ‘worker’. The themes of logic, economy and masculinity are carried through to the accompanying series of drawings. Madeleine Brady is an Australian artist currently living and studying in Germany. http://www.madeleinebrady.com/Launch:Thursday December 17, 6pm sharp for complimentary drinks!