A Forest of Lines, Pierre Huyghe
Hidden amidst the first floor at the MCA, on a small patch of wall towards the back, there is a poster. Compared to the cobra-filled cotton fields and hammocked rooms of the Biennale showcase, it's a small player. Yet this petit paper alludes to something much greater.
Pierre Huyghe's poster is a calling card to a forest of sorts, one that will materialise this Wednesday on the stage, in the stalls and the circles of the Sydney Opera House.
Under Construction, Ai WeiWei
In case you haven't noticed, China is in our sights. And besides things like the Olympics, environmental degradation and Tibet, there is increasing focus on the nation's thriving contemporary art scene.
See Beijing Bubbles to learn about the capital's underground music world and next time you're passing through check out 798, an abandoned military electronics factory on the outskirts of Beijing that was converted to a hub of studios, galleries and performance spaces.
Bad Faith, Adam Constenoble
Imagine we could use chroma key greenscreens to get away from it all - just super impose ourselves onto a backdrop of choice, and be gone.
For his installation BAD FAITH, Sydney artist Adam Costenoble drew on ideas of self-imposed exile, transgression from civilization, and the notion of living an independent, self-sustained existence in geographic isolation.
John Aslanidis
"Don't you wonder sometimes, bout sound and vision?"
So went Bowie's withdrawn lyrics.
Melbourne-based artist John Aslanidis would answer Dave in the affirmative.
Preferring to call himself a sound artist rather than a painter, Aslanidis' work explores geometric abstraction and synaesthesia.
Adam Cullen
Pleasant, cute and edifying are not words used to describe the work of Adam Cullen. Garish, puerile and grotesque are closer to the mark. So it's no surprise that this attention-seeking bad boy has been enraging the art establishment with his dribbling, bogan-inspired canvasses and Archibald success.
Finders keepers
Remember Easter when you were little? The excitement of an egg hunt? FINDERS KEEPERS is probably as close as you’ll ever get to that feeling since your big brother ruined it all with a swift “The bunny doesn’t exist, dork”.
Now however, the stakes have been raised. Mambo have got their super crew of 15 artists together to create one-off works that will be hidden in secret locations around inner-Sydney.
Daft Punk's Electroma
The last movie from Parisian duo Daft Punk was 2003's INTERSTELLA 5555, a musical lovefest featuring tracks from their album DISCOVERY and a hefty dose of Saturday morning ROBOTECH nostalgia. Now comes Daft Punk's ELECTROMA, which replaces anime-fulled joy with a kind of brooding, apocalyptic melancholy.
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