Anode

Over 100 artists across Sydney and Melbourne are involved in the anode 2009 season of events and experiences. Some you will have heard of, others are emerging out of their studios and bedrooms for the first time. Here is a small taste of what is to come - the first release of artists connected through anode.

Speakeasy Cinema launches with Aaron Rose’s documentary Beautiful Losers, a portrait of the former nerds, freaks and outsiders who coalesced around New York’s Alleged Gallery in the ’90s, and became accidental art-stars. Rooted in the DIY worlds of skate, surf, punk, hip hop and graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led, and in doing so created one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation.

Event Details | Melbourne & Sydney

BOWER is a new collective of creative practitioners. We bring together vast amounts of experience from diverse disciplines. Our work responds through ideologies, materiality, form and function whilst understanding the context through appropriate site, situations and events. BOWER’s design outcomes aim to create experiences that stimulate thought, engage opportunities for delight and offer new and exciting design possibilities.

Event Details | Melbourne

Craig Schuftan is the author of The Culture Club and Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone. He is also currently working on an upcoming comedy series for the station in collaboration with Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen of The Chaser.

PictureNow its sixth season, Electundra 2009 will present thirty eight live audio-visual performances, installation pieces and video works from 40 artists involved..

Event Details | Melbourne

Boss Films presents Figures and Loops, a documentary exploring the world of artistic roller-skating. Directed by David Regos and Walter Matteson. A delightful look into the little known sub-culture that is artistic roller skating, Figures and Loops follows a group of competitors throughout the course of a skating season. From local competitions in small town California through to the highly competitive World Championships in Germany, this is a glitter-filled snapshot of what it takes to make it in this incredible underground sport.

Event Details | Melbourne & Sydney

Flutter Lyon creates lyrically emotive, visually luscious audio visual moments. A uniquely engaging live musician, Lyon plays improvised sets that employ vocals, electric guitar and effects to create stunning, unexpected performances. Having recently returned from a New York City tour in August 2009, Lyon will play an audio visual tour in Sydney and Melbourne this coming Summer 2009/10.

Event Details | Sydney

A mindbomb that reverberates with distinctive Aussie spirit. Better than a double macchiato.” [Kalle Lasn, editor of Adbusters, author of Culture Jam and Design Anarchy] Made in Melbourne, Going Down Swinging (GDS) is an international literary journal publishing short stories, poetry, comic art and spoken word, all in the one book/CD package. Independently published since 1980, GDS now makes two issues a year, and also commissions new spoken word performances and graphic novellas for each issue.

Event Details | Melbourne & Sydney

If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now is a black and blue pseudo-comedy exploring the tender space between truth and recollection, (alleged) crime and (self) punishment. Prepare to be taken on a confounding trip down no-memory lane. This live performance is presented by the brand-spanking new Melbourne theatre collective, I'm Trying To Kiss You.

Event Details | Melbourne

The Melbourne InDesign User Group is a volunteer-based user community, managed and run by Adobe InDesign users. The group provides a forum for users to share, learn and grow their InDesign knowledge. With over 1000 members, from design students to creative professionals to printers and educators, there's plenty of knowledge to go around.

Josephine Rowe's poetry and short fiction have been widely published and performed, and broadcast on Radio National, 3RRR and Vision Australia Radio. Her most recent collection of short stories is 'How a Moth Becomes a Boat'. Performing with Judith Hamann, cellist and composer, member of new music project Golden Fur which blends improvisation and experimental elements with classical music, and also performing solo as Paper Tiger.


Event Details | Sydney

Lars Chresta explores the undergrowth of music and sound via a radio show on 2SER, audio collage, DJing, contributions to FBI's avant garde space "Sunday Night at the Movies", sound art collaborations, a record collection to make you gasp, and involvement with Sydney electronic entity ollo.

Make: Do covered issues affecting Australian creative producers. Make: Do. filled the sizable gap in Australian media landscape - arts coverage for normal people over the age of sixteen and under the age of sixty. Make: Do may have ended but the program's ethos continues in Public Broadcast's two upcoming series - Will You Buy Me Lunch? and The Occident as well as one off documentary shorts at www.publicbroadcast.com.au

Natalie McQuade is a Melbourne-based artist whose work intersects sound, sculpture, installation and performance - engaged with questions of perception.

Exhibition Details | Melbourne

PictureOBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. Not only was he the first American publisher of acclaimed authors Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X, but he also battled the government in the highest courts to overrule the obscenity ban on groundbreaking works of fiction such as Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch.

Event Details | Melbourne

Pulse is an exclusive short season of site-specific multimedia performances on a breath taking Melbourne CBD rooftop. Pulse seeks to reveal new relationships between body and architecture, by reframing the city rooftop as a neglected plateau, a second street were new forms may emerge in the urban landscape, elevated and and transformed through multimedia mutations of sound, image and flesh.

Event Details | Melbourne

Rachel Joy's work is concerned with the constructed nature of space, place and history in the collective consciousness. She is a Graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts and has exhibited at the Counihan, George Paton, and Margaret Lawrence Galleries.

Exhibition Details | Melbourne

Sharingstories is an online digital media project that has been designed to ignite positive engagement in the digital realm for students in remote and marginalised communities, throughout Australia and across the world. It facilitates creative self-representation through digital media and provides a platform for content sharing. The project also works to strengthen important, culturally appropriate, generational knowledge bridges by supporting young people in the recording of songs and stories with elders in their own communities.

Event Details | Sydney

Renowned Australian recording studios, Studios 301, have recently commissioned three Australian contemporary artists to complete major wall works within several areas of the studios. As the first of the artists engaged, Flutter Lyon invited Ben Frost and Kyle Jenkins to collaborate on two visual pieces that have revitalised and reinvigorated the spaces that have played host to recording sessions for some of the world’s biggest recording artists including Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Snoop Dogg, Coldplay, Silverchair and Lady Gaga

Event Details | Sydney

MEnU - Token Imagination's Jess Cook and Honi Ryan

Me’n’u invites you and me to explore gastronomic relationships through a gallery of public poetry. Token Imagination performs a multi – venue degustation of poetry camouflaged amongst the menus of a handful of Sydney Food Establishments. Take a walk, digest it, or see the final documentation.

Event Details | Sydney

Keith Haring's legacy is all around us. His images are everywhere: on walls, posters, T-shirts, watches - in our memories and imaginations; modern icons. "Art is for everyone!" - this is how Keith Haring put it when he summed up the meaning of his stylized silhouettes with which he decorated streets all over the world. A veritable soul who revolutionised contemporary art over the space of a single decade (1980-1990).

Event Details | Melbourne

Making connections between the node of Brooklyn New Yor, USA with those of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia this project titled "From The Outside Looking Inside Out" is a series of video art projections, collectively known as - "Video From The Borough". Curated by Sydney artist and performer, Robyn Wilson on her recent trip to New York.


Full Details | Melbourne & Sydney