This Thursday!
Posted by Andrew on the 3rd of April, 2012
Traianos Pakioufakis
Natural Mystery
at the Museum of Natural Mystery
(268 Charles st, North Perth)
Thurs 5/4/12 from 6PM to 10PM
Traianos Pakioufakis
Review in the West Australian, Saturday 31st March
Posted by Andrew on the 1st of April, 2012
High res (more legible) version available HERE.
Topical
Posted by Gemma on the 29th of March, 2012
Joseph Wright, "The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers". 1771. Possibly based on the discovery of phoshorous by Hennig Brand, whom Patrick Miller has devoted a work to as part of Tribute Night (it's the one with the fog machine). Not visible - the 5000 litres of urine that Brand boiled down to find it.
Sneak Peak: Pat Miller's Tribute night
Posted by Gemma on the 25th of March, 2012
Opening Wednesday, 28th March at 6pm.
It's looking SLEEK.
Give Me something to listen to
Posted by Gemma on the 20th of March, 2012
One night only at OK Gallery:
Lauren Brown presents Give Me Something To Listen To, an open invitation listening party for two. GMSTLT formalises the intimacy and potential awkwardness of sharing music: armed with only a set of headphones, Lauren is ready to listen to whatever you're willing to give.
"Choose something for me. Is it insightful? or punishing? Does it tell me something about you? or something about me? For that three minutes, or 30 seconds, we will be connected by what i'm listening to and what you imagine i'm listening to. Like a single-moment mix-tape, Give Me Something To Listen To is a shared moment between artist and audience, and between fellow listeners."
Bring your songs on Wednesday, 21st March.
6PM to 9PM
Catalogue and Artist Talk, The unknown by the more unknown
Posted by Gemma on the 15th of March, 2012
Wall text cheat notes from David Egan's artist talk for The unknown by the more unknown. The talk also launched the catalogue for the exhibtion: texts from Thomas Jeppe and myself.
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography From Australia and the UK
Posted by Gemma on the 17th of February, 2012
The third installment of Hijacked opens tonight (Friday, Feb 17th) at 6pm at the Perth institute of Contemporary Arts.
This one includes contemporary UK photographers alongside their Australian counterparts. Exhibition runs until April 8th and is part of the Perth International Arts Festival.
In connection with Hijacked, PICA is also running a competition for local photographers - Hijack the Streets - with a 1st prize of $300 worth of digital printing. More details here. Entires close March 20th.
Sarah Pickering, Land mine, 2005. Courtesy of the artist, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Current Interests
Posted by Gemma on the 8th of February, 2012
1: Project: track down this book/the rock Brian Blanchflower poured honey over for seminal performance piece Leedermeg. Honey ritual at Leederville. Megalith on the 24th February 1979.
2: Matthew Hunt's The End of The World (2006): an intervention/performance in 'John Oldham Park', a freeway bordered piece of reclaimed swampland named for an eminent Perth town Planner. James Baker, former drummer for the Beasts of Bourbon/current drummer for the Painkillers plays on a platform overlooking a manmade waterfall, the sounds of his drumming combining with the roar of water and traffic to produce the perfect Perth whitenoise. (Thanks to Clare Lewis for hosting the only documentation of/text on this I can find on the internet)
3: The simultaneous pulldown/throwup of the Entertainment Centre/Perth Arena on Wellington Street during 2011 as boomtown analogy.
4: Artist's impression of Perth Railway Station - due to be completed in 2014 - buried in a Time Capsule beneath the construction site on January 31st, 2012. Time Capsule also contains a letter to the Premier of 2031. Reasons for selection of this date unknown.
1.
2.
3.
4.
A MAGNIFICENT WORLD
Posted by Jamie on the 8th of February, 2012
OPENING THURSDAY 9TH OF FEB
at Venn Gallery.
"A Magnificent World brings together four Western Australian artists, Pia Bennett, Thea Costantino, Joshua Fitzpatrick and Anna Nazzari, to explore tales of sorcery, medieval miracles and the grotesque. Through varied media, each artist revisits these imaginings to uncover an evocative and fertile history of the absurd, fantastic and sublime."
See more here
Thea Costantino Portrait I, (2011), graphite and gesso on marine ply.
Anna Nazzari, Fateless never Faithless, detail, (2011/12), pyrography on maple.
GUEST LECTURE: CHRIS JOHANSON
Posted by Jamie on the 8th of February, 2012
'It doesn't have anything to do with what i'm going to say, except everything'
Words of Advice starring Chris Johanson (of Encinitas Realization fame) by Aaron Rose, for Comme de Garçons SHIRT and The Generic Man.
via TWBE
© OK Gallery 2012. Site by Studio Robot.