michael farrell
patrick jones & meg ulman
nathan curnow
ekphrastic agency
even books
toni bartlett
Archive for September, 2008
some artist pics
September 15, 2008aunty jenny’s tent city at tina 2008
September 15, 2008This Is Not Art has set up a temporary Campground to provide festival goers with the cheapest accommodation option for the festival – $10 per person per night, open on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. The Campground is for those in tents, swags, vans and trucks, or those who wanted to sleep under the stars.
So, if you were unsure whether you could afford to stay for the whole five days of the festival – we’ve just answered your question! Other budget accommodation options in Newcastle usually book out over the festival period – but you can guarantee yourself a place to sleep by booking into Tent City – there is room for up to 500 people.
Its lo-fi and BYO everything, but Aunty Jenny and her team of lovely volunteers will do their best to make it feel like your home away from home – hot showers, cups of tea, and happy campers all around!
This year the Campground is located just a short distance outside of the Newcastle city centre at a new location – Adamstown Oval. It was chosen for its excellent amenities, its secure and safe grounds, and its proximity to shops and public transport. It is approx 25 minutes bicycle ride, 15-20 minutes on a public bus and 10 minutes by car/cab to the Festival Club.
Aunty Jenny is so excited to be hosting the Campground again this year, and looks forward to meeting you to make it another awesome Tent City.
To register, go here.
critical animals program ; oct 2 – 6 ; 2008
September 10, 2008see the full this is not art program here
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Thursday Oct 2: 9.00 – 9.30
City Hall Hunter Room
Forum
CRITICAL ANIMALS WELCOME
Come & meet fellow Critical Animals & make a home in our nest for the next three days. Tea, bickies & introductions.
Facilitators: Astrid Lorange and Britt Guy
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Thursday Oct 2: 9.30 – 11.00
City Hall Hunter Room
Panel
ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS & IMAGINED HISTORIES
A discussion on the processes, techniques & eccentricities of the artistic archive & collections. The preservation of a local zine history, the fetishised curiosities of Post-It notes hidden in library books & the secret, mythologised collections of the unknown subject.
Facilitator: Tiffany Hambley
Featuring: Jessie Lymn, Astrid Woods-Joyce, Britt Guy
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Thursday Oct 2: 11.30 – 13.00
City Hall Hunter Room
Artist Presentation
PATHOLOGIES OF CIVILISATION
A matter & fact panel on how progress is killing us. Three papers track the gratuitous, invidious or unwitting violence of the civilised: the habitat of YouTube, bottled water & militant heirloom gardening.
Facilitator: Nick Keys
Featuring: Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman, Peter O’Mara
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Thursday Oct 2: 14.00 – 15.30
City Hall Hunter Room
Artist Presentation
A POETICS: QUIDDITY, CONTEMPORANEITY & ‘THINGITUDE’ IN AUSTRALIAN POETRY
A radical history in three papers: experimental, pre-Malley Australian poetry with Michael Farrell; notions of failure in the work of Christopher Brennan & Michael Dransfield with Derek Motion; & catachresis in Gig Ryan’s poetics with Sam Langer.
Facilitator: Astrid Lorange
Featuring: Michael Farrell, Derek Motion, Sam Langer
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Thursday Oct 2: 16.00 – 17.30
City Hall Hunter Room
Performance
THE WANDERER
A collective performance of Christopher Brennan’s most well-known sequence of poems, ‘The Wanderer’. Fourteen writers will each be reading a part of the sequence followed by their own creative response. The performance will question the creative ‘self’ functioning within poetry. But it will not be an isolated quest & this is where the difference lies. At stake are issues not local to one particular ego. And therefore: what is the nature of a poetic ‘performance’? Are there answers?
Facilitator: Derek Motion
Featuring: Ivy Alvarez, Fiona Wright, Patrick Jones, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Nick Keys, Tara Mokhtari, Peter O’Mara, Tim Wright, Jenna Gill, Astrid Lorange, Nathan Curnow, Tom Lee, Derek Motion
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Thursday Oct 2: 23.00 – 24.00
Lock-Up Exercise Yard
Reading
THE GHOST POETRY PROJECT: A LATE-NIGHT HAUNTING
“Language is how ghosts enter the world.” Nathan Curnow reads from his Ghost Poetry Project, a collection of poems he composed during nights spent in haunted spaces. His poems play with the sensuality of masochism, the memories of his childhood night paralysis & the project of the poetic ‘I’. Meet outside Festival Club 22.30 to walk in convoy to the Lock-up.
Featuring: Nathan Curnow
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Friday Oct 3: 9.00 – 10.00
Uni House Round Theatrette
Reading
BREAKFAST READING: COFFEE, CROISSANTS & POETRY
Michael Farrell, one of Australia’s most interesting experimental poets, reads from his newly published collection, a raiders guide, joined by fellow Melbourne poet, Sam Langer. Come & join this breakfast reading with a coffee, croissant & some radical language innovation.
Facilitator: Astrid Lorange
Featuring: Michael Farrell and Sam Langer
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Friday Oct 3: 10.30 – 12.00
City Hall Hunter Room
Panel
FEMINISM, AESTHETICS & THE BODY
Three artists engage in various nuances of feminist discourse: the woman in literature, postfeminism, queer verse, the comic woman, the female body, motherhood & the performances of gender.
Facilitator: Sarah-Jane Norman
Featuring: Holly Zwalf, Toni Bartlett, Miriam Hall
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Friday Oct 3: 13.00 – 14.30
City Hall Hunter Room
Panel
AGE, SEX & THE NEGOTIATION OF SELVES
A discussion about sexuality, gender performance, age & the experience of the self: Educational institutions, the academy, masochism, paralysis & the many negotiations of the self in the artistic project.
Facilitator: Miriam Hall
Featuring: Ianto Ware, Emma Elita, Nathan Curnow
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Friday Oct 3: 15.00 – 16.30
City Hall Hunter Room
Presentation
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS & THE SPACES BETWEEN
Contemporary artists talk about their work: installation, experimental film and performance converse with the experiences of the everyday. The dialogue transcends the traditional, aiming to open up notions of art, thought & experience, to engage with a wider narrative.
Facilitator: Britt Guy
Featuring: Renee Tamayo, Nicolas Vogelpoel, Sarah-Jane Norman
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Friday Oct 3: 17.00 – 18.30
City Hall Hunter Room
Panel
COLLECTIVITY, COLLABORATION & SOLITUDE
A conversation about the various compositional tensions of collaboration & solitude. Artists discuss the nature of collaboration & talk about collectively composed works, as well as the solitary project & the curious experience of the ‘hermetic closet’.
Facilitator: Tiffany Hambley
Featuring: Jane Kreis, Janet Starr, Jane Naylor, Christelle Davis
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Friday Oct 3: 17.30 – 18.30
Lock-Up Exercise Yard
Special Event
BOOK LAUNCH: HOW TO DO WORDS WITH THINGS
Patrick Jones & Peter O’Mara launch their new collaborative publication, How to Do Words with Things. The book – printed on wood-free paper with vegetable inks – is in two parts. Jones will read from his ‘Freedragging Manifesto’, an exploration of slow text, pop-fascism & the compositional process of chance procedures. O’Mara will read from ‘subtext’, a collection of work focused on intermedia environments for word & image.
Facilitator: Nick Keys
Featuring: Patrick Jones, Peter O’Mara
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Friday Oct 3: 21.00 – 23.30
View Factory
Special Event
EVEN BOOKS PRESENTS: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
LISTEN: Come unstuck in time as Even Books and a particularly trixy tribute band re-enact the interactive Slaughterhouse 5 show! Part musical, part actor-action, part audience jumping about, part porn, it was written by proto-seminal band The Colors, in rumoured collaboration with Kurt Vonnegut himself. Get reading in preparation for a night of time-travel and other treats. Poo-tee-weet …
Facilitators: Angela Bennetts and Alice Fenton
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Saturday Oct 4: 10.00 – 11.30
City Hall Banquet Room
Panel
RADICAL METHODOLOGY, DECONTEXTUALISATION, BROCOLAGE & (UN)CREATIVE PRACTICE
A discussion on the dynamic practices of the artist-as-researcher. Non-traditional methodology is investigated in terms of multiple, convergent, contiguous & anarchic discourses that gather together across creative inquiries. Also noting the role of traditional quantitative & qualitative forms, while maybe considering a guerilla make over.
Facilitator: Britt Guy
Featuring: Anna Cooke, Linda Neil, Caroline Vains
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Saturday Oct 4: 12.00 – 13.00
City Hall Banquet Room
Presentation
MAPPING A POETICS OF SPACE: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, LIVED CITIES & REMEMBERED CITIES
Two papers explore the spatial dimensions of theory. One looks at the confusion & partiality of contemporary Rome, while the other uses the Situationists’ derive to produce an interactive, psychogeographic map of the shopper in the city.
Facilitator: Astrid Lorange
Featuring: Caroline Vains, Olivia Hamilton
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Saturday Oct 4: 14.00 – 15.30
City Hall Banquet Room
Performance
TIMEKEEPER ZERO
An experimental discussion/performance. A timekeeper issues small pockets of chance-generated air-time in an unknown order, with wildcard entries for voluntary improvisers. Time is used to meditate on the notion of poetics: its materiality and performativity. Drawing on the chance operations of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low, this dodecahedron of poetics will embrace the indeterminacy of ‘now’.
Facilitators: Michael Farrell and Astrid Lorange
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Saturday Oct 4: 16.00 – 17.00
City Hall Banquet Room
Presentation
DE-MYSTIFYING CREATIVITY
A joint paper looking at the nature of creativity and cultural production. The discussion will investigate the myths and realities surrounding creativity.
Facilitator: Tiffany Hambley
Featuring: Chloe Russell, Sarah Coffee
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Saturday Oct 4: 18.00 – 19.00
View Factory
Special Event
SWAMP E-ZINE LAUNCH
SWAMP is an online zine for Creative Writing Post Grads – a new publication brought to you by the Creative Writing Post Graduate Workshop of the University of Newcastle. Join us as we officially launch this new e-zine with readings from some of the best new writers featured in our first two issues of SWAMP.
Facilitator: Patrick Bryson
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Saturday Oct 4: 19.00 – 20.30
City Hall Banquet Room
Performance
LANDSCAPING AESTHETICS: A COLLECTIVE CONVERSATION
Artists in an experimental collaborative conversation, talking across the boundaries & textures of art, poetry, performance, film, theory & the aesthetics of experience. Allowing artists to talk in the language that they think in, their artform.
Facilitator: Britt Guy
Featuring: Renee Tamayo, Jane Kreis, Astrid Joyce-Woods, Nicolas Vogelpoel, Lauren Clelland, Ivy Alvarez
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Friday and Saturday: 12.00 – 17.00
Playhouse Foyer
Installation
FACE-LIFT
A video installation from a Masters project, ‘Divine Martyr’. A face-lift is performed on a dead pig’s head, in parody of contemporary cosmetic culture. The video face-lift is experienced in a hospital-room installation. The project looks at ancient & modern notions of the martyr.
Artist: Renee Tamayo
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Thursday to Monday: 24 hours
Playhouse Window Box
Installation
PRODUCT PLACEMENT
‘Product Placement’ explores the overwhelming & intimidating power of surveillance. ‘Product Placement’ is an installation consisting of rough transformation of domestic objects into ‘spy devices’ that capture an audience member walking into an installation & responding to the visual experience.
Artist: Astrid Woods-Joyce
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Thursday to Monday 12.00 – 18.00
Staple Manor
Installation
THE ROPE DANCER ACCOMPANIES HERSELF WITH HER SHADOWS, REVISITED. (2008)
A carousel of sharpened pencils, sharp shadow & nauseating movement. Materials used: Wood, metal, 604 HB pencils, Tigers Tail & threaded rod.
Artist: Miriam Chatt
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Friday, Saturday Sunday: 13.00 – 15.00
Civic Park
Performance/Installation
THE EKPHRASTIC AGENCY
A free art customisation service for all: The Ekphrastic Agency, a mobile office, specialises in boosting its clientele’s cultural credibility by carefully selecting & matching an artist’s practice to the client. The client then has custodianship of this information for the period of one month, & can describe the artist’s work to others at dinner parties, morning teas, bus queues or just ponder for quiet reflection & personal enrichment. Conversation starters are supplied in clients’ kits.
Featuring: Jane Naylor
