Author results: Amelia Groom
Pretty Telling I Suppose
As Gert Jonkers (of Fantastic Man and BUTT) says in his introduction to Pretty Telling I Suppose, Sam Hodge's photography has an honest and candid quality about it that's not easy to come by.
His photographs offer fragmented memories of his daily life, including unmade beds, hysteric laughs, erections, peeling sunburn, ex-lovers and everything in between.
Animals Attacking People in Animal Costumes
Hobart Hughes (aka John Hughes) knows that animals have had it up to here with people in animal costumes.
He's seen birds attacking a gorilla impostor, a cow knocking over a pseudo moose, and a bear assaulting a well-known donkey masquerader.
The Sydney animator, performance artist, puppeteer, teacher and serial sculpture dropper can tell you all about it at the opening of his new exhibition ANIMALS ATTACKING PEOPLE IN ANIMAL COSTUMES, which will feature a live animal sound environment by Alex Kiers and George Nagle, and a strictly human dress code.
The Crystal Room: The Chapman Gallery
The first fact you should know, is that knowing facts about rocks makes you more sexually desirable. The next facts you should know, naturally, should be rock-related.Did you know that emeralds sweat when subjected to heat?
Warm things up at the crystal and mineral collection at The Australia Museum - take your date there and get sweaty as you share rock facts.
Double Bill at Performance Space
Lies lies lies! Fraudulence, delusions, masks, fakes, glitz, deceit, counterfeiting, dishonesty, manipulation! It's all happening in a double bill at Performance Space from Thursday (or is it?).
Performance artist Rosie Dennis returns from developing FRAUDULENT BEHAVIOUR in the UK, a work billed as a response to Nietzsche's assertion that "We need lies in order to live", for which she collected 130 lies from strangers.
649: The June Forth Incident
Beijing, June 5, 1989. Anonymous man armed with nothing but shopping bags stands alone before a line of tanks, preventing their advance. Virtually overnight, he becomes one of the world's most famous icons of rebellion, though we still only know what his back looks like.
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and the heroic ‘Tank Man', as he has become known, artist/curator Mark Gerada is presenting 649 at Serial Space.
Illume
WANTED:YOU, for various 'after dark' activities involving scintillating edifices.
The Light Walk wants you to travel from Observatory Hill through The Rocks and Circular Quay, so you can make friends with eco-friendly light sculptures by the likes of Andy Uprock and Francesco Mariotti. The walk culminates with Brian Eno's psychedelic lighting of the Opera House sails with continuously changing configurations, all of which want you.
There Goes The Neighbourhood
When homewear shops, high security apartment blocks, planter boxes, gelato and unsightly public art suddenly invaded Redfern, artists and long-time residents of the area Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg found themselves amongst many being driven out to cheaper suburbs.
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD arose out of a 10-year archive project they were undertaking to document the changes in the area, called 2016 (the title being the expected date of completion and the postcode of the hotly contested suburb).
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