opensourceartschool.com

http://www.chippendales.com/

http://www.redwatch.org.au/

“ARE YOU A VISUAL ARTIST THAT NEEDS FREE WORKSPACE?

FraserStudios VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM will offer
free workspace in the old Kent Brewery development site, on Broadway.
From September 2008, three warehouses at 10-14 Kensington Street, Chippendale
will be temporarily transformed into a multi-disciplinary art space.

Applications are now open for the first two residency programs:

·        First Residency Program: 29 September 2008 – 21 December 2008
·        Second Residency Program: 5 January 2008 – 29 March 2009

Applications Open: Thursday 21 August 2008
Applications Close: Friday 5 September 2008
Applicants will be Notified: 17 September 2008

It’s a quick turn around, we know, so we have made the application process
simple.  For more information on eligibility and the application process….
go to www.queenstreetstudio.com/fraserstudios.html”

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Ash Bindon

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Two peculiar happenings in the last week. Firstly, official confirmation of something I have thought most of my life. A quick perusal of the thousand invitees to Rudd’s 2020 conference only turned up one artist, one dealer and two museum directors (I may have missed some), so apparently not many of Australia’s best and brightest are to be found in the art world.

Secondly John Kaldor has donated his collection to AGNSW. About ten years ago I went to a huge dinner to celebrate John Kaldor giving his collection to the MCA. I’m confused, how many tax deductions can you get for one collection?

MOP

22 NOVEMBER - 9 DECEMBER 2007

GALLERY 1 Making space Helen Smith, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward The work of Jeremy Kirwan-Ward and Helen Smith is non-referential and derives from a formal view-point. Whilst both artists are interested in the nuances of colour, optical ambiguities and simplicity of form, the technical processes involved in production result in two bodies of work that differ visually yet have elements in common. ‘Making space’ will include a collaborative wall-work and paintings that investigate the notion of a romantic geometry. Both artists have exhibited extensively and have work in many private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia. Jeremy Kirwan-Ward is represented by Perth Galleries and Helen Smith by Goddard de Fiddes Gallery. Image above:Jeremy Kirwan-Ward: Into Five		GALLERY 2 Even more So Kathryn Gray Just like gifts that keep on giving, why and how are always good questions. While answers may be more valuable in the end, figuring things out is a process of substance and portent. I like a good reason, an irrefutable argument, and even better is a plausible solution to the problem at hand. But I’m not really convinced. The means and ends of making sense are often dubious. Knowledge is a big enterprise of production and dissolution. What is made and lost while we’re busy learning and making ourselves understood, forgetting things and being confused? The detritus is almost as poignant as the reason it submerges. Here’s to the process of becoming clever and useful and wise; it is very hard work and usually admirable. Kathryn Gray works with narrative and research in her practice, conflating problems of art and intellectual labour. Kathryn is a Sydney based artist undertaking her Masters of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts, and has recently returned from studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Image above, Kathryn Gray, Expectations again, 2007

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SNO 33

Salvatore Panatteri and Kjell Bjørgeengen

SNO director Salvatore Panatteri collaborates with Kjell Bjørgeengen. Daniel Göttin presents his project Shift, a set of wall based works consisting of painted zones, tape and aluminium panels.

Sound Artist program: Matt Shoemaker (USA).

Daniel Göttin, plan for Shift.

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I hope this is a bit more than a blatant promo.

I’ve been wringing my hands about the UWS cuts and closures for long enough and I’m sick of it. I’ve decided that precarity is a condition for action - so in the spirit of public intellectualism and Pierre Bourdieu I’ve decided to pull my finger out and start jumping up and down.

I urge readers to follow! Join the e-list at least, and spread the word among colleagues and friends.

all the best

mayhem
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I’m writing to invite you to be part of an exciting initiative by a group of artists, researchers, teaching staff, academics, community groups and gallery managers. Concerned at the recent cutbacks to the performing and visual arts departments at UWS, we are forming a broad alliance to draw attention to the need for expansion of arts education in the most economically and culturally dynamic areas in Australia.

We are working together to:

A) Promote public awareness of the enormous amount of cultural activity that is occurring across Western Sydney and the need for this to be supported by a Federal commitment to tertiary arts education.

B) Promote public awareness of the significant role that the visual and Performing arts Departments at the University of Western Sydney has played in the cultural life of Western Sydney and further afield.

C) Promote public awareness of the links between University Art Education and the cultural life of the community.

D) Promote public awareness that maintaining and developing a vibrant tertiary education strategy for the arts in Western Sydney is a pertinent issue for all members of the arts, education, and government sectors.

We believe, that given the current political climate of cutbacks to tertiary education more broadly, this issue is not only relevant to staff or students at UWS, but to wider members of the Australian community. We also believe that given information about this issue, that most Australians would take an active interest in the preservation and development of University based Arts Education in Western Sydney. Members of our alliance have already met informally in order to organise an art exhibition and other events around this issue and we could like to expand our activities on order to form a broader alliance that can collaborate on creating and promoting a vision for Arts Education that will reflect the dynamism and diversity of Western Sydney.

We are holding a meeting
NEXT TUESDAY 26th JUNE at 2pm,
and we would like you to attend, and invite other people who you feel are concerned about this issue.

Since we are a community based alliance, we have been generously offered the premises of ICE: Information and Cultural Exchange, in which to hold out meeting. We hope that the meeting will generate some strategies for organising a public campaign around this issue, including drafting a letter to politicians, but also planning a media campaign to promote the significance of cultural activity and arts education in Western Sydney.

If you are not able to attend this meeting, then please lend us your support, in one of the following ways:

a) Joining our email list - and offering your suggestions and input.

b) Agree to be a signatory to our petition.

c) Notifying your friends/colleagues about the alliance

d) Participating in The Promoter Presents: Serial Boxes show at Mori Gallery.

More information about this issue is on the SAVE UWS ARTS blog, and the address is: http://saveuwsarts.blogspot.com/

Our meeting will be: Tuesday 26th June at 2pm Information and Cultural Exchange AMWU Building Ground Level 133 Parramatta Road Granville NSW T: +61(2) 9897 5744

the art exhibition will open on Wednesday 4th July at 6-8pm Mori Gallery 168 Day Street, Sydney Ph: 9283 2903

More information about this project, please email: autonomouspromoter@yahoo.com.au or ring Sari Kivinen on: 04 2172 8195.

if you have any questions or suggestions about the above, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.