October | 2013

EXIST @ Metro Friday Nights – November 2013

October 23, 2013 Leave a comment

On the first Friday night of each month Metro throws open doors and invite audiences into the Artists’ space. Each month we showcase works in development; rough, ready, and full of potential. Take the opportunity to step into studios, participate in talks, see the unseen, give feedback on new ideas and have a glass of wine with Brisbane’s artist community.

EXIST curates a performance video program for the November edition

Performance> This month you will find Eleanor Jackson performing a work “specifically created” for you!

A Timely Act of Intimacy and is a series of poetry based, proximity focused performances that consider the qualities of closeness, forced intimacy and genuine disclosure.
The audience is invited one by one to sit for a short, individual performance. The 20 poems that form the suite have been specifically created for the EXIST @ Metro Arts program and look at issues of secrecy, disclosure, the privacy of the home, the unspoken ugliness of those we know closely, as well as the kind of cinematic beauty that comes from ungarnished view of those we love.

BIO
Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and radio broadcaster. As a poet and performer, Eleanor has been described as capable of creating, “powerful quiet”.
Eleanor has performed at the Overload Poetry, Queensland Poetry, Sydney Writers, Melbourne Writers, Brisbane Writers, Anywhere Theatre and Woodford Folk festivals.
She is the co-creator of several extended poetry works, having collaborated with fellow poet Betsy Turcot as The Belles of Hell and with multi-disciplinary artist, Doubting Thomas. These works include the two-woman poetry dialogue, She Stole My Every Rock and Roll; an audio visual remix and tribute to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, DJ Thought Fox vs MC Lady Lazarus; and Chosen Family, which premiered at the Anywhere Theatre Festival in 2013. www.eleanorjjackson.com

Film> Kaye Stuart

BIO \ KAYE STUART

Recent graduate from a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons), Brisbane-based artist Kaye Stuart works with video and new media, mixed media and 2-D art forms. Through her own personal experiences of loss and grief she has created a body of work that explores the roles of women in modern society where certain stories of pain are unseen. She investigates issues of accessibility and visibility through a feminist lens, questioning the dominant patriarchal paradigm of accepted societal norms. Using a non-subversive approach to her work, she creates a video piece that reclaims the ancient art of storytelling to expose the raw, honest narratives of her subjects that reveal a hidden side to the world of women.

Using a documentary-style approach to her filmmaking, she interviews several women, asking them to recount past traumatic experiences related specifically to taboo issues of the female body. The women’s faces are unseen, just as the stories they tell are generally unseen or unheard outside a close circle of friends or family. The women were filmed in a domestic area seated at a table. The space opposite the speaker is open and permits the viewer to be invited into the conversation. The invisible boundary between the viewer and the viewed in breached, allowing the audience access to a very private world. Through this work, Stuart questions why these stories are invisible and thus opens a debate about the status of women and the prominence of personal female experiences in a contemporary society.

Be sure not to miss this one of a kind and FREE event!

EXIST@ ROOM60 Barbara Rosenthal (NY) in converstaion with Tara Heffernan

October 8, 2013 Leave a comment

TOMORROW 9 October 2013 6:30pm

Don’t miss Barbara Rosenthal in conversation with Tara Heffernan

As well as presentations of “BOGGLE AND OTHER PERFORMANCE VIDEO SHORTS – humorous conceptual photo-poetry-performance shorts
*** 22 videos in 45 mins, plus discussion with the artist ***
All at Room-Sixty Bar, 22 Carraway St, Kelvin Grove

Free entry

Image courtesy of the artist Barbara Rosenthal “Existential Interact, Brooklyn 2011” photo by Jung Nam Lee

For full Room 60 Program check out BR BrisbaneRoom60VideoPROGRAM-print

NY Artist in Australia > Barbara Rosenthal

October 1, 2013 Leave a comment

Image courtesy of the artist Barbara Rosenthal in performance @ Grace Exhibition Space, New York 2013
“I’m Growing Up” photo by Bill Creston

Barbara Rosenthal touring in Australia Sept – Oct 2013
Having a career spanning over 40 years in Performance Art and Media, Barbara is currently an artist in residence at emedia loft in NY, currently exhibiting in three NY galleries: Stux, Central Booking, and Peanut Underground Art Projects. Her works are held at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Tate Britain Library.
Barbara will be in MELBOURNE, Sept 17-27 |SYDNEY Sept 28-Oct 3 |BRISBANE: Oct 5-12

The press is already in, please see articles below on her Australian tour.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/in-the-moment-with-originality-20130917-2tx2q.html

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/3824777

Full dates and places follow

MELBOURNE:

TODAY Thurs, Sept 19, 12:30, VCA Victorian College of Art,
Talk: “The Medium is NOT the Message, Pt 1, a Work, Career and Philosophy Overview. Video compilation: “Existential Word Play, Pt 1”:

Thurs, Sept 19, 5pm, VCA Victorian College of Art, .
Talk & Performance: “The Medium is NOT the Message, Pt 2: A Discussion with the Audience about Art in Relation to Form vs Content. Video compilation: “Existential Word Play, Pt 2”:

SYDNEY:

DLUX Media Arts – scanlines: the forum
“Join us for an informal forum facilitated by Kate Richards and in conversation with visiting New York artist Barbara Rosenthal.”

DATE: ! Monday 30 September, 6.30pm
VENUE: THE MEAT & WINE CO ! DARLING HARBOUR ! L1, 31 Wheat Road, IMAX Theatre Complex ! Cockle Bay, Darling Harbour ! Sydney NSW 2000
RSVP: ! Wednesday 25 September, 9568 1458 ! or via return email: ! scanlines@dlux.org.au

BRISBANE: – FOR THOSE IN BRISBANE – SAVE THE DATES AND STAY TUNED FOR FULL DETAILS ON ALL EVENTS NEXT WEEK!!!

Friday, Oct 4, 6pm.
Metro Arts,109 Edward St. METRO FRIDAY NIGHTS: Panel
Sun, Oct 6. 6pm
Audiopollen Upstairs at 199, 199 Boundary. Live Performances “I’m Growing Up” and “Existential Interact with Identity Theft Masks and Provocation Cards.”