Events
30 Jan 2010Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningFeminism Never Happened and Marina Abramovic Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful. Preceded by an artist talk by Anastasia Klose at 4pm. |
9 Feb 2010Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Lionel Bovier workshopA workshop for artist-publishers with Lionel Bovier of Swiss art-publishing house JRP|Ringier. Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. |
11 Feb 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | ScreeningDirector Alex Barnes introduces Not a Willing Participant, his documentary on Brisbane artist Vernon Ah Kee. There will be several screenings. View trailer. |
12 Feb 2010Friday, 2:00 pm | Lionel Bovier workshopA workshop for art publishers with Lionel Bovier of Swiss art-publishing house JRP|Ringier. Seminar Room, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Brisbane. |
18 Feb 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | ScreeningD. A. Pennebaker's film Town Bloody Hall documents a feisty 1971 public debate between Norman Mailer and four feminist writers, Germaine Greer, Diana Trilling, Jill Johnston, and Jacqueline Ceballos. Mailer had just published The Prisoner of Sex, a rejoinder to Greer's The Female Eunuch. 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. |
6 Mar 2010Saturday, 7:00 pm | microMONO7Melbourne art-hop renegades Curse Ov Dialect and Canadian laptoper Tim Hecker. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). |
10 Mar 2010Wednesday, 5:00 pm | Ninja GigAmanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) impromptu and unplugged. |
11 Mar 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | LectureAmerican artist Anthony McCall is known for the 'solid light' film projections he began making in the early 1970s. They emphasise the sculptural qualities of beams of light. A joint project with OtherFilm. Thanks to Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. |
18 Mar 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Conversation'For art to be art (a medium of numinous, sometimes symbolic power), it must maintain a distance from life. Without distance, art has no authority and is no longer special', argues curator David Elliott. Elliott discusses his upcoming Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, with IMA Director Robert Leonard. It opens 12 May. |
20 Mar 2010Saturday, 3:00 pm | Feminism Never Happened ForumA panel discussion on the show, in its final hours. Panelists are Rex Butler (University of Queensland), Courtney Coombs (artist) Julie Ewington (Queensland Art Gallery), and Amanda Howell (Griffith University). |
25 Mar 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Book LaunchPenelope Seidler launches Mirror Mirror: Then and Now. Tin Sheds, City Road, University of Sydney. |
27 Mar 2010Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningPeter Madden Come Together and Ken Jacobs Ontic Antics 2006–9 and Star Spangled to Death. |
27 Mar 2010Saturday, 4:00 pm | Artist talkPeter Madden. |
10 Apr 2010Saturday, 2:00 pm | ConversationLive from New York, Pioneer American experimental-film pioneer Ken Jacobs in conversation with OtherFilm via Skype, followed by a screening of the 2008 indie feature Momma's Man, starring Ken and Flo Jacobs and directed by their son Azazel. A joint project with OtherFilm. |
22 Apr 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | ScreeningKen Jacobs’s structuralist masterpiece, Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1969). 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project with OtherFilm. |
6 May 2010Thursday, 7:00 pm | microMONO8American-Australian Kraig Grady composes for microtonal acoustic instruments of his own design, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers, and reed organs. Steel guitarist and MONO regular Mike Cooper explores exotica. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). |
20 May 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Taboo Topics 3Scott Stephens on 'The Sign of the Cross: On Blasphemy and Christian Art'. Stephens taught theological ethics at the Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, and wrote for the online journal Eureka Street. He has just been appointed Online Editor of Religion and Ethics and Chief Writer on Religious Affairs at the ABC. He co-edited two volumes of selected writings by Slavoj Zizek and is completing a book on Christology and the political. |
26 May 2010Wednesday, 6:00 pm | AGMAnnual General Meeting. |
5 Jun 2010Saturday, 12:00 pm | OpeningShaun Gladwell MADDESTMAXIMVS: Planet & Stars Sequence, Scott Redford and Michael Zavros Scott Redford vs. Michael Zavros, and Semiconductor Brilliant Noise. Preceded by artists talks by Scott Redford and Michael Zavros at 4pm. |
10 Jun 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | LectureBranden W. Joseph discusses the work of American experimental filmmaker and musician Tony Conrad, followed by a screening of Conrad's legendary 1966 film The Flicker. Joseph is author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage. Thanks to the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne. A joint project with OtherFilm. |
1 Jul 2010Thursday, 7:00 pm | microMONO9Japanese experimental guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, with support from Ur Duo. MONO is curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). |
4 Jul 2010Sunday, 1:00 pm | LectureEyeline/IMA writer-in-residence Wystan Curnow on Unnerved. Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane. |
8 Jul 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | LectureWystan Curnow on 'Vito Acconci and the Conceptualist Pretext'. Curnow is Eyeline/IMA Writer-in-Residence. |
15 Jul 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Fashion Focus'How NOT to Make a Fashion Magazine'. Over the last eighteen years, fashion photographer Max Doyle has been in heavy demand, with clients like Vogue, The Face, Interview, GQ, Levis, Seafolly, and Wrangler. He also edits and publishes the ‘suitably pretentious’ fashion magazine Doingbird. Doyle talks with Suzi Vaughan (Professor, Fashion, Queensland University of Technology) about his photography, his magazine, and the future of fashion |
22 Jul 2010Thursday, 9:00 am | Writing Architecture Day 1Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank. |
22 Jul 2010Thursday, 7:00 pm | microMONO10American cut-up composer David Shea and Japanese iPhone conceptualist Craftwife. MONO is curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). |
23 Jul 2010Friday, 9:00 am | Writing Architecture Day 2State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, Southbank. |
29 Jul 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Urban Cultures 4French sociologist François Debruyne (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3) on DJ Culture. The Urban Cultures lectures are a joint project with the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University. |
7 Aug 2010Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningRonnie van Hout Uncured and Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2010 (with a Fiona Mail performance at 6pm). Preceded by artists talks by Sally Golding, Kelly Hussey-Smith, and Elizabeth Willing at 4pm. |
12 Aug 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Artist TalkThe master of slapstick existentialism, Ronnie van Hout, talks about his work. |
19 Aug 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | The First CutLily Hibberd (founding editor, Un Magazine) and Rosemary Hawker (Queensland College of Art) dissect Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2010. No holds barred. |
26 Aug 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Screening'Cine Blatz 1: Jeff Keen’s Delirious Pop-Trash Films’. 16mm prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; and Lux, London. A joint project with OtherFilm. |
2 Sep 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Screening'Cine Blatz 2: Transgressive Pop-collage', featuring films and videos by Jeff Keen, Stan VanDerBeek, Bruce Conner, Martha Colburn, and Michael Robinson. 16mm prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Lux, London; and Filmmaker's Co-op, New York. A joint project with OtherFilm. |