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MARCH 2005
poster image by Chris LG Hill
Clubs re-opens for the year with a one-day music festival; CLUBBED TO DEATH organised by Chris LG Hill and featuring White Horse, Bohemian Knights, Morlock and Agents of Abbhorence.
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SALVAGE
curated by Lizzie Newman
including the work of Mikala Dwyer, Mick Douglas, Lena Douglas, Nevada Duffy, Hu Fang,
Sally Marsland + Scott Mitchell
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PLASTICINE SKETCHES
Nikos Pantazopolous
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APRIL 2004
A TRACE OF TINNITUS
Luke Adams
A trace of tinnitus was an event based installation. Over the course of two
weeks a series works was be created with the use of electrical household
appliances. The act of making was documented and the documentation displayed.
The installation consisted of three distinctly different
rooms which incorporated the key elements of being a practicing artist - the
making, the showing, and the recording. This work is influenced by action
based art, minimalism and the historical reproduction of ephemeral art. By
exhibiting these elements together I aim to open a dialogue between the
original and the reproducible; the calculated and the incidental; the actual
and the trace left behind.
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artist forum around tts:ROUTE 30
pvi collective
Founded in 1998, pvi collective are an independent arts group based in Perth, Western Australia. Artists in the group have backgrounds in visual art, sculpture, new media, performance, psychology and live art and each contribute their skills towards creating site specific artworks for galleries and alternative spaces. Works are generated from a group process of extensive site-specific research, conceptualisation and experimentation. As a result, the company produce performance, video and installation artworks that often include eccentric acts of intervention. Works question various forms of social control that we live under in an increasingly anxious cultural climate. pvi seek to actively engage viewers within their artwork - encouraging interaction, participation and debate.
For more information on PVI, visit their
website
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WITH
developed, curated and produced by Spiros Panigirakis
POURED – THE BAKE OFF with Terri Bird, Anna Fern, Ruth Hansen, Andrew McQualter, Scott Mitchell, Helen Radloff, Saskia Schut and Fiona Symons.
Culminating in a cake tasting on Saturday afternoon of April 30th at 5.00pm
MICHAEL FARRELL’S A TO HE read by Fiona Gurney, Seb Harris, Ben Haskin, Louise Irving, Adam Scott and Michelle Ussher. Set and costumes by Joe Hill, Dimitra and Spiros Panigirakis.Performed on Saturday April 30th at 3.30pm
LUMINOUS FOUNTAIN WORK with Andrea Maksimovic, Spiros Panigirakis, David Prater, Sarah Roberts, Dominic Redfern and Jonathan Symons.
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MAY 2004
STANDARD APPARATUS
Alicia Frankovich
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EULOGY FOR A BLOWFLY
Phil Edwards
based on the poem of same name by Marco Timerez involving 13 minutes of looking at and listening to a gaudy death
Sound Recording by Tony Woods with painting installation by Phil Edwards
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TO CALL IT A GHOST
Olivia Dwyer
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NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW
Helen Johnson + Kylie Forbes
We have travelled by road in a car with a caravan. We have trodden up hill and down dale, with soaking feet and prickly gaiters. We have subsisted on powdered milk and dried noodles; wild animals have robbed our supplies. Source material has been collected, objects have been sent via mail to our homes for re-assessment upon return. We have collected information with an awareness that recording our experiences makes them fixed and tangible, whilst confining them within the limits of our media. We have utilised these processes of reduction and substitution as common tools of cultural production, without relying on them to perform their usual function – presenting slivers of information as though they are entire facts. The installation acknowledges that any recording process inevitably involves compression, meaning that an experience can never be reconstituted from it. Where information was lost, pockets of emptiness offer receptacles to be filled with the memories and imaginings of the audience (and ourselves). The installation plays with, and in turn de-constructs the invisible shields which have been erected around nature. The pane of glass between you and the nature display, the television through which you are presented with ‘Australia’, the security guards at the gates of the Flower and Garden Show, the lookout from which you photograph the valley, the frame of the car window which shows you daydreams held within the passing landscape. Each is a means by which the present is displaced into the impenetrable realm of imagination, future and past. In actuality there was no journey at all.
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TRANSFORMATIONAL SURFACE
Sean Bailey
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TRAGIC
Dominic Redfern
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AS IS
Kain Pickin and Pat Foster
Kain Picken and Pat Foster made a show out of partially stolen IKEA products. There is an ‘As is’ section at IKEA which has broken, marked, scratched or remaindered goods. In the 'As is' section, prices are written on the item with a black felt tip marker. The artists took their own markers to IKEA, they said, 'We discovered that we could nominate our own prices'. Before the show opened though, they got caught. Kain Picken describes the situation, 'We’d been getting more ambitious about what we were getting, more expensive items, and we’d been going a couple of times a week. This one day we were kinda being blasé about it and getting a lot of stuff, and we aroused suspicion. We came back two days later and this big security guard guy came up to us and said, ‘Are you here to shop?’ and I said ‘Well of course I’m here to shop’. He said, ‘I’m not accusing you of anything, but you have to leave the store’.'
An exercise in how the artist might start to negotiate as the customer. As art and design interact with an expanded form of writing, it reveals a way for the consumer to speak through the object.
text by Rob McKenzie, originally written for the SPEECH blog for reviews and comments. For more dialogue around this project go to SPEECH
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DRAWING MACHINE
Simon Ingram
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WRITING A SONG IS EASY
Laresa Koslof and Lee Walton
Lee Walton and Laresa Kosloff present two recent collaborative video works; one made in New York city, the other completed via post. These works explore publicy performed gestures, and overlaps created by simultaneous actions, and subtitled video footage.
For more information on Lee Walton, visit his
website
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IN THE LAND OF ICECREAM
Cate Consandine
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TEMPORARY OFFICE and PRODUCTION OF VOLUMEVERYTHING_05
CLUBS committee
CLUBS participated in the celebrations of the Gertrude 20th anniversary by setting up a production space and reading room in the back kitchen. From there, we constructed our 5th publication, VOLUMEVERYTHING. It comprised of text and images from the meshwork of people connected to and from CLUBS. Each committee member organised a ‘chapter’, asking their participants to respond to a chosen idea or proposal. We organised and compiled this publication on site, while hosting our archive there in collaboration with Sandra Bridie.
100 editions of VOLUMEVERYTHING were made available towards the end of the project, and will be published on our website as downloadable PDF's in early 2006.
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BONE
Fiona McDonald
BONE is a study of the exhibitionary reflex. Responding to exhibition as a received idea, BONE is a study of the decorums and economies of the artist-run-space, and is a continuation of the exhibition series Hidden/Modern, (Store 5 1990), Notes on My Painting, (Circular 1992), and Gratuitous, (Penthouse and Pavement 2000).
BONE positions itself within a liminal abstraction, raising the sublimated residues and displacements of reductionist aspirations to new failures of visibility while erecting a new dialectic of surplus.
Fiona Macdonald is an artist.
As one critic has written, the refusal to claim the viewers attention is not only regrettable, but displays an obsession with theoretical models that are both outmoded and irrelevant. This kind of work is just not interesting...
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ASLEEP IN THE DEEP
Shaun Kirby
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE
going under_come down_rapid fire style
Kate Fulton
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WORKS AND DAYS AT CLUBS
2X4 Sculptural Propositions
Alex Pittendrigh
In two sets of four Alex worked in the space
with the aim of producing a sculptural idea at the end
of each respective day. Choice of materials were
decided as the sun rose each morning and at days end
the piece was be left in whatever state it arrived.
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PROJECT EUDEMONIA
Jude Walton + Rachael Fensham
Eudemonia is Aristotle’s term for the conception
of happiness as a condition that derives from the value of moral action.
Project eudemonia is a moveable bazaar trading
in economic facts, goods that embody happiness, maps of consumerism, statistics,
and local stories.
This collection of information, games, and things; are to be bartered,
played with, and exchanged at CLUBS.
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MOUNT
full moon at noon
Lou Hubbard
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PHOTOSHOOT
Rebecca Anne Hobbs
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UNTITLED
Mary Peacock
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3 MINUTE FILMS
Moya McKenna
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mixMEDIAtrip
3015 artist space in association with CLUBSproject + Melbourne Festival
3015 is an artist initiative from Paris, which is organised by Laetitia Bourget and Philippe Charles. 3015 presented 2 projects at CLUBS; the video Triptych TULIP by Philippe Charles, and mixMEDIA which comprised a wide selection of current video works from European artists. This was presented in conjunction with an archive of artist publications and editions.
For more information regarding the projects of 3015 visit their website
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PROGRAM OF VIDEO SCREENINGS
13/10/05
Thierry Lagalla (France)De la capitala partida 1, partida 2
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14/10/05
Franz Hoefner (Germany) Utrechter Huette
Philippe Charles (France) Cooking Eggs
Jérome Ruby (France) Digiland
Julie Morel (France) In Absentia
David Ortsman (France) I love my Sister
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15/10/05
Laetitia Bourget (France)
Manipulating your body
Shellfish and Crustaceans
Recycling
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7121 images of someone else's sex
The fight
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17/10/05
Messieurs Delmotte (Belgium) Compilation of actions
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18/10/05
Valérie Pavia (France)
Pregnant
About Seduction
The Dream of Bear
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19/10/05
Pirjetta Brander (Finland) and Teemu Maki
Family Values
Shicksallssymphonie
The Motherhood Itch
As It Is
Reynald Droughin (France) Rom-mor
David Ortsman (France) My Father (1)
Philippe Charles (France) L
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20/10/05
Augustin Gimel (France)
Extra-corpus
Radar
The Heavy Eye of the Mechanical Journey
I do not mean to sink at all
Din 16538/39 (Paris)
1305
90 degrees
There Is Nothing More Useless Than An Organ
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21/10/05
Patrickanddredepuis66 (France) Untitled
Julien Prévieux (France) Rolling
Brigitte Zieger (France) Serial-self
Nicholas Berthelot (France) Liquids
Philippe Charles (France) Martin's Dream
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22/10/05
PROJECTION OF REQUESTED PROGRAMS
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TIME AND TIME AGAIN
Mira Gojak
An old work from 1998 is used as a starting point for a new piece made in
situ during the course of the exhibition. A passage is made through the
herd of unending blue into a realm of circular ruins.
This project was the first of a series of 'peer productions' in which CLUBS dedicates funds to supporting the work of a local practitioner. CLUBS developed this program to acknowledge their generous contribution to the local context. Miras' project has been supplemented with a catalogue with an essay by Andrew McQualter.
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HAPPY HARD HAUNTED HAUS
Christopher Hill
Featuring special guests:
james deutcher,
kain picken& rob mckenzie,
bianca hester,
sean bailey,
matthew griffin,
nick selenitch,
jane caught,
nick mangan,
annie wu,
masto takasaka,
cove of the ken can kant,
and moffarfarrah
download essay by Bianca Hester
some thoughts on the practice of Chris Hill posted on January 2006
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HARVEST MOON
James Deutscher
Harvest Moon presented a plastic terrarium of plant life cultivated over time. A zine was produced to accompany the work which documented a 7 month process of growth, harvest and reflection. James Deutscher writes:
...I want to make a micro-cosmic environment. One inspired by the wish to capture a spiritual depth resonance through the dedication of my personal customs. I think to obsessive hydroponic weed growers, computer sim. games, manicured naturalism, self-sustainability and immediacy in personal action to make my HARVEST MOON TERRARIUM. I like the idea that this might be a personal project in a bedroom closet. The idea that a youth would dedicate them self to the cultivation of a farm, jungle, hydro-setup, moss garden and area for cultivation, consideration and contemplation on a deeply personal scale from easily obtainable material put to transcendent use. A truly explosive environment!!!...
THIS TEXT IS DOWNLOADABLE AS A PDF DOCUMENT posted on January 2006
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CLUBS GOODBYE TO GORE STREET PARTY!
featuring a performance by Ardi in which he locked himself in the office and at an unannounced hour cut through the sliding door with a jisaw!