The launch of un Magazine issue 2.1

Platform presents Runway fashion...

COLLECTIONS IN THE UNDERGROUND 2

When: Saturday 1st March
Time: 7pm sharp
Where: Platform, Degraves-Flinders St. Subway

That's right, it's that time again and we would love you to join us next Saturday for our very special runway event! Once again Bird Girl is teaming up with our partners in design, a name is a label and Queen, transforming the Platform subway into a unique snakes and ladders runway to present our newest creations.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Anita and Sophie xx

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www.birdgirl.com.au <http://www.birdgirl.com.au> 

155 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
mon-sat 11-6, sun 12-5

ph: (03) 9419 5209
mob: 0415 114 195 

Bianca Hester at the Showroom

projectprojects

5 March - 13 April 2008 
Opening Tuesday 4 March 

The Showroom is delighted to announce that it has invited Melbourne-based artist Bianca Hester to present her first solo show in London between March and April this year. In Australia, Hester is gaining a reputation for her collaborations and projects that collect activity around temporary structures, public situations and live events. Using a range of prosaic materials (such as plasticine, carpet and miscellaneous building supplies) she creates scattered installations of partial-objects and quasi-architectural constructions. 

Hester has been in residence at The Showroom since January forming projectprojects, an evolving sculptural installation that has transformed the gallery into a base-camp for the generation and presentation of collaborations with a range of practitioners from Melbourne and London. projectprojects experiments with constructing situations that provide opportunities for the viewer to have a variety of different levels of engagement with the work. Hester approaches art as a ‘proliferating event’; a fragmentary, multi-layered and unfolding process that is context specific. For projectprojects she has plugged into the local knowledge and practices in Bethnal Green and as the project has developed, the installation has functioned as a setting for a series of events ranging from the planning of a raft to navigate Regent’s Canal to the recording of experimental performances on home-made 

musical instruments.

Bianca Hester is a founding member of CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne, an artists initiated project and has shown in group projects at ACCA and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and MCA, Sydney. In addition she has been awarded a number of residencies and prizes across Australasia. For more information see http://www.biancahester.net

As part of projectprojects a special weekend of activities has been planned for 15 and 16 March, including a panel discussion, plus an event culminating at Laburnum Boat Club. For further information please contact Natasha Tebbs at The Showroom on 020 8983 4115 or by email at natasha@theshowroom.org

The Showroom is financially assisted by Arts Council England, Moose Foundation for the Arts and the many members of the gallery’s Friends Scheme. Bianca Hester’s commission is supported by Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria. Bianca Hester would like to thank Olivia Barrett, Phillipe Ciompi, Ari Dyball, Ella Gibbs, Kris Kimpe, Daniel van Cleemput, Jude Walton and Paeces whose participation has formed parts of projectprojects.


The Showroom
44 Bonner Road
London E2 9JS
T. +44 (0)20 8983 4115
E. tellmemore@theshowroom.org
W. http://www.theshowroom.org
F. +44 (0)20 8981 4112
Wednesday - Sunday 13.00 - 18.00 hrs

Bianca participated in the South Project's Wellington Gathering in 2005, and with Clubs Project collaboratively ran a workshop on artists working collectively, co-hosted by Ocular Lab and The South Project.

Elida Tessler at ARCO

The South Project is pleased to announce that Elida Tessler's Test Tubes <> Tubos de Ensaio have made it to ARCO'08.

Elida first made this work during her South/RMIT residency in 2006.

See: http://www.cultura.gov.br/brasil_arte_contemporanea/?page_id=37)

Lucreccia and Quintanilla and Jason Heller at Bus Gallery

see www.bus117.com for further details

South enCOUNTER at Craft Victoria

   

In partnership with Craft Victoria and the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, The South Project is proud to present 

MELBOURNE: Bond from the Inside Out

Claudia Beyancourt and Ricardo Pulgar
3 - 23 March  2008

Craft Victoria

A humble – while simplistically bold – reflection of cultural icons within Melbourne's local life, a project and consequence of an intercontinental bridge along the Southern Hemisphere. Latin America's WALKA conceptualizes Melbourne's daily journeys of life via contemporary jewelry, an intimate game between the local self-looking glass and 21st century fashion. 

This event is part of the 2008 L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program

 

  

ART AND FAMILY: Singapore Fringe Festival 2009

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2009

8 January - 18 January 2009

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival of theatre, performance art, film, dance, visual arts, mixed media, music and forum created and presented by Singaporean and international artists. Based on a different theme every year and curated by The Necessary Stage, the festival aims to bring the best of contemporary cutting-edge and socially engaged works to the Singapore audience.

The application form - as well as more information about the selection process - is available via  www.singaporefringe.com. Please note the closing date for submissions is 14 March 2008.

text courtesy of Alvin Tan

Text Camp at Next Wave: applications now open!

Next Wave is delighted to announce that applications are now open for TEXT CAMP, a mentorship program for emerging arts writers as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.

TEXT CAMP, presented by Next Wave in association with Express Media and un Projects, provides an opportunity for emerging writers to work with and learn from established writers, to build networks and contribute to critical and creative discourse around the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and contemporary art practice more broadly. Comprising two parallel teaching streams which explore either creative writing or critical writing methods, TEXT CAMP will explore the many ways that artworks and performance projects can be responded to through writing.

TEXT CAMP is a three-stage program involving a workshop, a mentorship and a publication outcome. The program will be led by two prominent young Australian writers, Rosemary Forde and Nic Low.

Applications are due 5.00pm on Friday 14 March 2008 (post-mark date).

Please contact Next Wave for an application form.

Next Wave Festival Inc.

Office 4, 5 Blackwood St

North Melbourne VIC 3051

Ph: 03 9329 9422

www.nextwave.org.au

text courtesy of Ulanda Blair, Special Projects Coordinator ulanda@nextwave.org.au