January 2007

News and Events List

Contents

  1. ZERODOLLARS 20 January
  2. Devolution – Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) 24-27 January
  3. Creative Media Exhibition Tours in Germany 8-28 February
  4. Urban Fabric 1-24 March
  5. The Ghost Writer 2 March – 21 April
  6. Tech Services Opening Times

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“ZERODOLLARS”

Date: 20 January
Time: 11pm onwards
Venue: Revolver, Chapel St, Prahan

ZERODOLLARS (aka Dale Nason, TAFE Design teacher) will be presenting his Video Art, including Live VJ Mix at MECCANOID (an electro party).

To see Dale's video be sure to attend between 12.00am – 3.00am.

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D e v o l u t i o n
Australian Dance Theatre (ADT)

Date: 24-27 January
Venue: Sydney Festival, Carriage Works, Bay 17.
Website: www.darrinverhagen.com/news.html

Composition by Darrin Verhagen (RMIT School of Art)

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Creative Media exhibition tours in Germany

Australian Gothic: video art now  (curated by Shaun Wilson)

  • 8-28 Febuary
    Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne
  • 8-18 Febraury
    Directors Lounge, Berlin

Future international tour dates will be announced soon.

School of Creative Media's Shaun Wilson will be curating a selection of emerging and established Australian video artists presenting work that explores the idea of a 'gothic mode' and presented at both Project Space/Spare Room in Melbourne and the Directors Lounge in Berlin. This exhibition is presented by the Digital Cinema Research Group in the School of Creative Media.

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Urban Fabric:

Greige is being exhibited as part of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

Opening Night: 01 March
Time: 6.00-8.00 pm
Exhibition Dates: 1–24 March
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm
Venue: West Space, 1st Floor, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne
Website: www.westspace.org.au

Urban Fabric: Greige is a conceptual photographic installation of Melbourne’s mid-twentieth century corporate architectural façades by Peta Carlin that explores the relationship between architecture & textile design in the construction & representation ofthe city.

In the 1950’s, with the advent of prefabrication of building profiles, the curtain wall was rendered ubiquitous & the multi-storey office tower, the skyscraper, became the icon of new-found corporate wealth & prosperity. The neutral aesthetic of the International Style was established as the urban attire in cities across the world. According to Gottfried Semper, tapestries & rugs were hung by early nomadic peoples to generate spatial divisions prior to any permanent structure being erected. As such, it was the ornamental surface, the portable screen rather than the fixed wall that defined space.

Through Urban Fabric, the photographic medium recontextualises the architectural façade & generates a critical dialogue between textile design, architecture & photography, resulting in an installation of contemporary cultural artefacts that document the changing nature of our city’s streetscape, & the craft implicit within its production. The representation of the buildings as swatches indicates that future & further applications are immanent, regardless of surface or form. This is alluded to in the subtitling of the exhibition via the term ‘greige’, a textile production term, which refers to the unfinished nature of cloth, despite the fact that it may be brightly coloured.

The physical siting, the very installation of the images that constitute Urban Fabric, is reminiscent of a Guild Hall, a Mechanic’s Institute or Masonic Lodge. Operating as a microcosm of the city, through the invitation of practising architects, designers, artists & craftspeople to use the space during the course of the exhibition, the role of the city not only as the place of transaction, but more importantly of interaction is heightened, as the collaborative nature of creative enterprise is bought to the fore. The practitioners’ use of the space highlights their role in the design, construction & representation of the city, & demystifies their activities to a certain extent, as they are rendered public, & open to view.

Through Urban Fabric: Greige, the city, our city Melbourne is celebrated, the role of the arts in its design & construction is heightened, & the city’s status as the centre for creative investigation is reaffirmed. With graphics by AM Editions and embroidery by Robbyn McDonald.

For further information, please contact:

Peta Carlin on 0422 528 117 or email her at peta.carlin@rmit.edu.au

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The Ghost Writer

Melbourne Theatre Company

Date: 2 March – 21 AprilVenue: Fairfax TheatreMore information: www.mtc.com.au/whatson.aspx?eventID

Written by Ross Muller
Directed By Julian Meyrick
Composition & Sound Design by Darrin Verhagen
Lighting by Paul Jackson
Starring Margaret Harvey, Belinda McClory, Raj Sidhu, John Wood

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AudioVisual Technical Services

AudioVisual Technical Services - Building 8, Level 7, Room 92

has limited opening hours until the 5th February 2007.

Our current open times are:
Monday – Friday 10:30am -12:30pm and 3:30pm - 5:30pm.

Any equipment bookings or enquries can be made via phone 9925 3419 or email miranda.hunter@rmit.edu.au .

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