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Blood. Fishes. Liberal and unconventional application of talcum powder. This is what happens when a group of independent artists forget their manners en masse. Urban disparity meets 'let's not give a damn' in a three-day show, exploring NO theme in particular, and being a little rude whilst doing so.
So invite your friends. Tell them to bring their friends. Tell them to bring money or booze. Preferably both. There will be work for sale, work to amuse, work to shock and work to bore your date with. Most of all, bring yourselves.
Placed in the cracks where dream and time malfunction.
".and 4am knows all my secrets."
'Lost Souls', Poppy Z. Brite
Rachel has dipped her toe in the murky waters of journalism, porn and marketing. Exposed to the Moulin Rouge at aged seven, her mind has been in the gutter since. She's contributed her 'happy face' to the Beautiful Agony project and will partake in most foolishness. This is her first proper show-and-tell.
The Hours Between Night and Day
'One Hand Clapping' is a series of urinal lighting photographs by Melbourne artist Gregory A. Erdstein. All shots were taken with a Nokia 6230 mobile phone camera, and often-times whilst using said urinals.
The product of a short attention span and a curious mind, 'One Hand Clapping' is as much a glorification of modern urinal lighting as it is a study of the proliferation, accessibility and uses of mobile-phone recording devices, both for artistic purposes and beyond.
Having said that, 'One Hand Clapping' is at least one artistic exhibition where the patron can be assured that in creating the work, the artist both figuratively and literally had his hand on his cock.
One Hand Clapping
Late 2002, in an effort to curb her burgeoning collection of antique meathooks and decimated watches, Fiona Dalwood started assembling her neverending pile of junk into 3D collages via the oft-neglected medium of porcelain dolls. Since then, what started out an an innocent Sunday trip to a suburban op-shop has blossomed into an unhealthy obsession with childish violence and whimsical destruction. And while it can be said that the works themselves are not dangerous, they offer a glimpse into the perils of leaving grown-up kids to their own devices.
URL: egenerica.com
With a list of interests that includes shark attacks and air disasters, it would be an understatement to say that acclaimed digital artist Shannon Hourigan has a fascination with the macabre. Emphasising the isolated female form, Hourigan s art has often been melancholic, evocatively cold and at times, even quite violent.
Although her latest work sees Hourigan continuing to explore similarly morbid themes, her 'evidence', 'institution' and 'death' series' herald a more minimalist approach from the artist, which is free from digital reconstruction, and despite their calming simplicity, the photographs are by no means less provocative.
Swaying between clinical and disjointed, focus and out of focus, her new work seeks to isolate the viewer as much as the subject, and what it lacks in digital effects wizardry it more than makes up for in bullets, blood and eviscerated fish carcasses.
Evidence, Institution & Death
URL: shannonhourigan.com
Lauren Olney did graduate from a fine arts degree at some point in her life. She enjoys immensley taking photos of herself, by herself, late at night in her felix pijamas, in her street outside her house, she also enjoys getting naked in her backyard and photographing herself whilst her housemates sleep peacefully unaware, although she does not readily admit to that and will deny if questioned.
She likes to dress herself up in odd items and smear herself in talcum powder, whilst playfully moving throughout spaces and on floors, she is horribly messy. She likes to be contained, she scratches at surfaces and captures on film. She likes to talk and to play, but is rarely understood. With a love of all things bloodied, decaying and dead, she often tends to her wounds and revisits the scars. She likes to record and be recorded, re-enacting the space.
In my works I try to discuss isolation. I have always observed women as though I'm somehow an outsider. This is why my characters 'float' on a surface that is deprived of context and placement. They are locked in a space that defines a still and silent glimpse.
I paint because I love the act of applying, destroying and overlapping. It echoes what women do to themselves and it's dramatic by it's very development.
I have started introducing multiple characters and situations that are 'social' in nature. They are still about exclusivity but they ponder the strategies behind female friendships and interactions. Our fluctuating insecurities provide me with a sense of incompleteness and the notion that everything changes, always.
URL: abbeymcculloch.com
Sootie's distinctive design signature traverses the divide between costume and fashion playfully subverting conservative conceptions of style.
From designing for local hip-hop heroes 'Curse ov Dialect' and for an underground 'Metal Couture' fashion parade, for contemporary dancers and performers, Sootie's unique sense of fun and theatre is winning fans across town.
Sootie is a recent graduate of RMIT University's Bachelor of Fashion. Such was the enthusiasm for her student collection, Sootie was chosen to open the graduate year parade at The Forum Theatre.
Pip failed sewing in high school. However this has not yet stopped her from wielding a needle and cotton. Spray paint, thread, fabric, and red lipstick are used to create fleshy, tactile images and deface gallery walls. Mostly the work is narcissistic and you probably wont understand the joke. Sometimes people think that “some bloke did it”. You might want to lick it. She has also allegedly been known to do strange things with video cameras in public places. Pip likes small monkeys, the number 7 and the colour red.
NASTY ON THE RADIO!
fi's eloquent and thoughtful radio interview about the show on RRR » rrr_int.mp3
PHOTOS FROM THE INSTALLATION
The first few are the preparation and setting up of the show, followed by the complete installation. We were all too drunk to remember to take photos at the opening though. If anyone has any, please email us!
