Clubs re-opens for the year with an indoor ROCK-FETE to raise funds for future projects, publications and a web-site. The event includes the launch of upcoming projects, a feature wall by Damiano Bertoli, bands (the Lakes, Slamdunk, Teenwolf) a raffle and second hand book/clothing/ plant stalls.

Michael Graeve
Length, Width and Depth

Two longer sound performance/ installation works in which Michael performs in solid 3 and 6 hour chunks, building and dissolving layered textural sound zones: "…To be immersed not only in the depth of space but also the continuative width of time…"

Tim Fleming
JIMMY

A shifting surface service object designed and built for CLUBS. The system comes with laminex sections for the application of stickers, blackboard surfaces for text, and is fully dis-assemblable and open to reconfigurations. JIMMY has been donated to CLUBS for future bar/info set-ups and is available for appropriation by others who work with CLUBS in the future.

Elizabeth Newman
SOUL

Linda Erceg
URBAN LEGENDS

A woman opens her wheely bin and sees a pile of letters which she doesn't recognise sitting on top of her rubbish. Surprised at how explicit they are she takes them up to her flat where she can read them in privacy. These are letters from men in response to a personal advertisement and are addressed to Sexy Asian Lady, Lisa and Kim who all seem to be the same person. She feels certain that these have been sent to the Asian woman who lives in her block of flats. She is uncomfortable knowing this about her but reads all the letters and keeps them. She buys the amateur pornography magazine in which the advertisement was placed. She watches her neighbour's flat for male visitors but doesn't see any. As she finds more letters in her bin she becomes increasingly intrigued.

There’s a Hole in The Bucket
Co-ordinated by Spiros Panigirakis

A cast of 5 artists are each assigned a character from the children's rhyme: Henry, Eliza, Failure, Fix and the Bucket. Each character collaborates with a ‘working bee' of five or six artists who are given kits that become a springboard for their work.Each artist and working bee choose their own method of collaboration that reflects their own practice and the work's thematic concerns.  Their dynamic, ranging from consensual to directorial must navigate issues of authorship, the discrepancies between concept and production and the impact of production upon reception. The result is a curatorial experiment. It seeks to construct a group show, not through aesthetic or thematic unity, but from a shared conceptual lineage and the instant collegiality of the working-bee sausage sizzle.

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multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances
Co-ordinated by Bianca Hester

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CLUBS in the pines
(incorporating ‘24 hour love’)
Organised by Nadine Christensen, CLUBSproject members travelled to the art school in Gippsland to work on a collaborative zine; made with the assistance and contributions of students from Monash University, Gippsland campus.  This zine was based on the theme '24 hour love'. Running parallel to this was an installation made for the Switchback gallery, which involved the setting up of a temporary  library for the display of the CLUBSproject archive. All materials and objects in the installation were scavenged together from the surrounding class rooms, based on the idea/process of a bower bird building and improvising a nest.

Development and performance of choreographic works
by Simon Ellis, Pea Leach + Shannon Bott

>> "Four acts of violence leading up to now" devised by Simon Ellis go to www.skellis.net

Launch of Slave mag edition 2
Co-ordinated by Rob MacKenzie

Nick Selenitsch, Kain Picken, Chris Hill and Jane Caught produced wall drawings for the launch of issue two of Slave Magazine. The works covered diverse terrain. Hard edged abstraction in the form of op infused red triangles, bookshelves rendered tromp l'oeil style in black paint and moss graffiti, drawn on with calligraphic flourish. These works talked about different things, but the distance between the works, as well as their insistence, produced a dynamic.

Pumpkin soup, a couple of different salads as well as tea and coffee rounded out the show. People sat and chatted and ate and the wall drawings hovered around.

Say No To Nothing Campaign
Off-site project!

A national day of artist action
Co-ordinated by Sydney Art Seen Society

Melbourne sit-in in the foyer of NGV contemporary
Saturday August 14th at 2pm

Smash Your Own Windows
Co-ordinated by Spiros Panigarakis and Starlie Geikie

Involving Helen Johnson
Christopher LG Hill
Spiros Panigarakis + Starlie Geikie
Christian Thompson

Supported by Gertrude Contemporary Spaces
This project was a part of the RES ARTIS program

CRITICAL MUD 3 AGAINST ARCHITECTURE

screen printing workshop/installation
with Julian Holcroft, Blythe Neave and Georgia Harvey
plus: what is folk? A videoscreening event

UNPAINTING Anna White

JA!
Matt Hinkley

Playing House
Michelle Ussher

This project involved an archive of sketchbooks on loan from Toni Anne Kenna Dowd and Rob McHaffie. A Drawing workshop, run in conjunction with Laresa Kosloff, was held every Saturday afternoon for the duration of the show.

Tulle Love
Eugenia Lim + Kevina Jo Smith

A video/performance collaboration bewteen Eugenia Lim and Kevina-Jo Smith exploring the tradition of the White Wedding. In a culture in which marriage is increasingly fetishised by media and celebrities,  Tulle Love offers all the glamour of a J-LO wedding, without the pretence of "forever". Come and share in profiterols and party frocks.

Historical Nature: Ruin
Mike Conole