29th November 2008
Public Improvisation
4 December 2008 - 15 January 2009
Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4
Milan, Italy
Epson FAR Award for Artistic Research – III edition
4 December 2008
More information about the exhibition here.
I made a short video, 'Every man wants to build something'.
For the catalogue I wrote this and for my artist's statement I wrote that.
8th October 2008
The drawings above will be part of
Adrift
The Studio
Queensland State Library
South Brisbane
Opening Friday 17th October
Exhibition and silent auction extends to Sunday 19th September 1pm.
Adrift is a group exhibition that seeks to raise funds for individuals and families seeking asylum in Brisbane.
Please see adriftart.org for opening night tickets and more information.
6th October 2008
Ghassan Hage,
Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory
- what an exciting title! -
at University of Melbourne
will holding a seminar titled,
"Taking Hegel To Cronulla Beach: From Recognition to Negotiation”
Friday 10 October
3-5pm
Room E319 Forgan Smith Building
University of Queensland, St Lucia
I've been to a seminar he presented before and enjoyed it immensely. He's wonderfully passionate and articulate and draws great pictures and diagrams.
(Entirely on a tangent, 'Future Generation Professor' makes me think of a character in Marguerite Duras' film, Destroy, She Said. He talks about how, since he is a professor in History of the Future, he has nothing to say to his students, so he says nothing and his students sleep during his class. I thought that was a lovely and funny moment about sleep, dreams and the future.)
28 August 2008
I've been terrifically excited about this, even though it's taken me so long to put this note up -
Currently at University of Queensland,
there are weekly French New Wave films screenings being held concurrently with a continental philosophy course
- on the political in French philosophy and film leading up to May '68 -
but anyone and everyone else is warmly welcome.
We engage in an informal discussion post-screening.
It's already been going for the past fortnight, the first Friday was
La Pointe-Courte - The Short Point (1954) – Agnès Varda
and the second week were the two shorts,
Les Mistons – The Brats (1957) – François Truffaut
&
La Jetée – The Pier (1961) – Chris Marker
(all of which I can't help but highly recommend)
and the rest of the programme is as follows:
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ST LUCIA
JAMES FOOT BUILDING 47A ROOM 141 (downstairs)
12-2pm
29 August Les Quatre Cents Coups – The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut
5 September Paris nous appartient – Paris belongs to us (1960) Jacques Rivette
12 September Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux – My Life to Live: A Film in Twelve Scenes (1962) Jean-Luc Godard
19 September Cléo de 5 à 7 – Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) Agnès Varda
26 September Jules et Jim (1962) François Truffaut
10 October Masculin, Féminin: 15 faits précis - Masculine, Feminine: 15 Precise Facts (1966) Jean-Luc Godard
17 October Tout va Bien – Everything's Fine (1972) Jean-Luc Godard
27 August 2008
Marty Bignell made this:
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Also, 'Underground' received a jury mention at Independent Exposure 2008.
12 August 2008
Later in the year, 'Underground' will be screening at
London International Animation Festival (2 to 7 September 2008),
AniMadrid (26 September to 3 October 2008)
Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, 9 to 12 October 2008)
&
Independent Exposure (Touring Festival, US).
4 July 2008
I am currently participating in a three-week international workshop,
XIV Advanced Course in Visual Arts
of Fondazione Antonio Ratti
in Lake Como, Italy.
The workshop is titled Public Improvisations
and the visiting professor is Yona Friedman, an architect and theorist who lives and works in France.
More information about Fondazione Antonio Ratti.
More information about the course.
7 April 2008
My work is part of
Blue Noir
An exhibition by the Griffith Printmaker's Club
7 April - 15 May
Redland Art Gallery
Capalaba
Floor Talk with artists 11am Wednesday 23 April
30 March 2008
Opening next Friday 4th April
6pm till late
Drawings of Love and Hate
Circle Gallery
3-10 April 2008
Upstairs from Art Factory @ 274 Montague Road West End
A group exhibition with works by myself, Jonathan McBurnie, Zoe Porter, Julie Fragar, Jo Diball and Carly Scoufos.
Please come along!
25 March 2008
'Underground'
has been selected to participate in
Animafest - 18th World Festival of Animated Film
to be held in Zagreb
May 31st to June 5th 2008
Click here for the festival website.
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It has also been selected for the programme of
sehsüchte International Student Film Festival
April 23-27 2008
Potsdam-Babelsberg
&
Melbourne International Animation Festival
16th - 22nd June 2008
at the
Australian Centre of Moving Image
The film will also participate in
Australian International Animation Festival,
MIAF's regionally based touring festival.
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I'm really happy that 'Underground' has screened, and will screen,
in these different festivals and exhibitions to different audiences.
It is nice to be a part of a larger context of works and ideas
and to think that other people are seeing it.
9 March 2008
In early April I will be participating in a group show
with
Jonathan McBurnie, Zoe Porter, Jo Diball, Julie Fragar and Carly Scoufos
titled
Drawings of Love and Hate
at
Circle Gallery, West End
I'll post more details closer to the date.
1 February 2008
'Underground' has been selected to take part in
the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
The festival takes place from May 1-6 2008.
To go to the festival website, please click here.
17 January 2008
'Underground' will be screening at CinéRail Festival at the following times:
Friday 22 February at 4:00pm
Monday 25 February at 4 :00 pm
at the 7 Parnassiens Cinema Theatre - 98 Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris 14
as part of their International Competition: Fictions Programme.
22 December 2007
Underground is screening at 16th CinéRail
International Festival Train & Metro on Film.
20th - 26th February 2008
at
Parnassiens Cinema Theatre, Paris
Click here for the festival website.
The film is also participating in the exhibition, 'Heroes: A World Apart',
at Pinnacles Gallery in Thurigowa, North Queensland, from 19 January - 17 February.
19 December 2007
On the same evening of 12x12x12 I also had an exhibition with Krista Berga and Julie Patterson at Design Front.
Thanks to Tony for the photos.
18 November 2007
The bi-annual 12x12x12 is on again Friday week.
I'm so proud to have my image on the invite -
I really love this exhibition
there's such a diversity of images and ideas from everybody
it's so fun
it's like going to the record shop
rifling through the racks
and absolutely choosing something just because you like the cover
because that's all you get
the CD you will have to make yourself.
Hope to see you there.
(Polder & Amis is next to The Garage is eighty-eight steps towards QCA from Southbank Cinemas)
14 November 2007
Back to Brisbane:
The Otherfilm Festival begins this Friday 16th.
I've never been before but have heard rapturous reviews about previous years' screenings and sessions.
Screening avant-garde, experimental, abstracted and expanded cinema.
They are also holding some workshops
including one on moving photogram creations
delivered by Kerry Laitala (San Francisco)
this Saturday 17th at QCA.
5 November 2007
I had to compose a little statement about the work below for HK Graphic Art Festival, here it is:
I began drawing on the copper plate on the evening of the blood lunar eclipse in August this year.
It was made in response to the sadness of another
who pushed me away
because I could not comfort.
In hindsight, this is what I had wanted to say:
Loss and pain
is a shadow to be
treasured and caressed;
for it is a fleeting moment
in our orbits.
31 October 2007
'Blue Moon' is exhibiting at Hong Kong Graphic Art Festival 2007 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 1 - 16 November
27 October 2007
to clarify:
City Hall is presently sandwiched between two construction sites.
I am referring to the in-between-wall of City Hall and construction site that-is/used-to-be the city square.
26 October 2007
If you live in Brisbane:
Krista Berga's installation work,
at the wall between City Hall and construction site
on Elizabeth St
(I was a spaklemonkey)
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Site uploaded 26 October 2007.
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Site under construction October 2007