Group Therapy at Immersion Therapy

GROUP THERAPY

OPENING FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER, 2008, 6PM > 9PM

EXHIBITION: SATURDAY 6TH DEC > SUNDAY 21 DEC

@ IMMERSION THERAPY ARTSPACE, 420 HIGH STREET, NORTHCOTE

HUA CUN CHEN
SHIAU-PENG CHEN
ALAN COTTON
BENEDICT ERNST
ANDREA INNOCENT
DAMON KOWARSKY
JESSICA MAIDEN
FATEMEH VAFAEINEJAD
NAOKO YEHENARA

Part and parcel of the modern experience is the sensation of duality; the underlying feeling that one never truly belongs in one time or place.

The competing pulls in our lives; geographic, emotional or temporal are symptoms of a world in which our borders are crumbling and our boundaries are constantly on the move. For many, the reality is that whilst we remain rooted in our daily existence we do so without the same level of grounding we once might have expected.

Articulating the sensation of these oppositions, Group Therapy brings together nine of Australia's most interesting emerging artists in a show which explores the push and pull between cultures and times that are now so prevalent in modern life.

The artists undertaking Group Therapy are united in that they all to some degree juggle the influence and pull of multiple cultures although their individual approaches and use of media adds another layer to the equation.

Immersion Therapy is a non profit art space, committed to exploring contemporary art by artists in Australia and beyond. The program emphasizes artists whose work is either directly or indirectly inspired by Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American themes.

Darmasiswa scholarship program

DARMASISWA is a scholarship program offered to foreign students from
countries which have a diplomatic relationship with Indonesia.
Participants can study Bahasa Indonesia, arts, music and crafts and
choose one of 44 different universities located in different cities in
Indonesia. This program is organised by the Ministry of National
Education (MoNE) in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs
(DFA).

The DARMASISWA program began in 1974 as part of an ASEAN (Association
of South East Asian Nations) initiative, admitting only students from
ASEAN. However, in 1976 the program was extended to include students
from other countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany,
Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and
USA. In early 90's, this program was extended further to include all
countries which have a diplomatic relationship with Indonesia. To
date, more than 75 countries have participated in the program.

The main purpose of the DARMASISWA program is to promote and increase
an interest in the language and culture of Indonesia among the youth
of other countries. It has also been designed to provide stronger
cultural links and understanding among participating countries.

There are two Darmasiswa programs:

REGULAR PROGRAM (one year). Courses are conducted from first week of
September 2009 to the end of July 2010. Students must be in Indonesia
a week prior to the commencement of the course for an orientation
program.

SHORT PROGRAM (six months). Courses are conducted from first week of
September 2009 to the end of January 2010 OR from first week of
February 2010 to end of July 2010. Students must be in Indonesia a
week prior to the commencement of the course for an orientation
program.

HOW TO APPLY

Prerequisites:
1. Be able to communicate in English
2. Be not more than 35 years of age
3. Be in good health, demonstrated by a medical certificate
4. Have a basic knowledge of the field they're applying for
5. Have completed secondary education or its equivalent

Interested Applicants should first register online at
http://darmasiswa.diknas.go.id After registering online, you MUST
inform the closest Indonesian Embassy/Consulate General to be
approved. Completed application forms and other documents should be
submitted to the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in
Sydney for applicants in NEW SOUTH WALES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA &
QUEENSLAND.

The deadline for applications to be lodged with the Consulate General
in Sydney is MONDAY, 30 MARCH 2009.

For more information about the program & application procedures,
registration and forms please visit http://darmasiswa.diknas.go.id/

Information Section
Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia
236 Maroubra Road
Maroubra NSW 2035
Tel. (61 2) 9344 9933
Website. www.indonesianconsulatesydney.org.au

Team Australia at The Carlton Hotel & Studios

Techno Park Studios

You are invited to drop into the launch of

TECHNO PARK STUDIOS

a new concept in project spaces
29 NOVEMBER 2008 from 4 pm


BLUE Room
Small, Medium and Large Moving in Sale
KIM DONALDSON

YELLOW Room
'The makeover team'
INCLUDING
NICOLE BREEDON, SUSAN LONG, SEAN LOUGHREY, TAREE MACKENZIE, FIONA MORGAN,
LUCRECCIA QUINTANILLA, UTAKO SHINDO, DYLAN STATHAM, JANE TRENGOVE


15 TECHNO PARK DRIVE WILLIAMSTOWN

FOR MORE DETAILS
CONTACT KIM DONALDSON
ON 9397 6344

Exhibition: I, HERE, NOW by Vivian Lynn at Adam Art Gallery

The Adam Art Gallery is proud to present a long-overdue survey of the work of artist Vivian Lynn. Curated by Christina Barton and Laura Preston, this exhibition canvasses the diversity of Lynn’s practice and brings to light works that have not been seen for many years. Vivian Lynn will be well known to many as the artist who used human hair in a series of 
large-scale installations in the 1980s, such as Guarden Gates (1982) and The Gates of Goddess: A Southern Crossing attended by the Goddess (1986). These are landmark works in New Zealand’s art history for their trenchant re-coding of materials and subjects that aimed to expose the binary logic of western patriarchal culture and its consequences. Perhaps less well known is the fact that Vivian Lynn has been a practicing artist since the late 1950s, working across a range of media – painting, drawing, printmaking, book-making, 
and installation – to develop a complex body of work that asks fundamental questions about the nature of being and the problematics of representation, especially if one is a woman. The curators believe that Lynn’s work should be better known, both for its technical virtuosity and its critical examination of the beliefs, values, ideas and assumptions that structure society and inform how women and the environment are treated. In refusing to develop a signature style and in her continual attempt to develop new modes of socially engaged practice, Lynn is an artist for our times. The exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme of talks, readings and a film screening to expand on the issues raised by Lynn’s practice.

Until 15 March 2009

For more information please visit: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/adamartgal/

Opportunity/Exhibition - I am the land & the land is me / ng woka, woka nganin

Presented as part of the 2008 Birrarung Community Exhibition Program, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum
Ng woka, woka nganin: I am the land & the land is me is an exhibition showcasing traditionally inspired Aboriginal works by four Victorian Aboriginal women - Lee Darrock, Debra Couzens, Vicki Couzens and Maree Clarke - illustrating their strong connections to country and to each other. Some of the traditionally inspired works featured in the exhibition have not been made for over 220 years and include kangaroo tooth necklaces, echidna quill necklaces, emu feather skirts, string and wooden women’s bags, feather flowers, and kangaroo and possum skin cloaks.

About the Birrarung Community Exhibition Program
Each year the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum hosts three Koorie community exhibitions showcasing the many artistic talents of our Victorian Koorie community. Call for entries: If you would like to be involved in this excellent opportunity to showcase an exhibition of your or your community's works during the 2009 program, make sure you get your application in by 30 November 2008.

Applications due 30 November 2008
Exhibition runs until 8 February 2009

For more information please visit: http://museumvictoria.com.au/I-am-the-land-the-land-is-me

7+1 Project Rooms

MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Spain
7+1 Project Rooms curated by Cuban curator Gerardo Mosquera, opened at MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo in Spain on the 10th of October 2008. The exhibition, which occupies the ground floor of the building, originates from the idea of using the spatial independence of the seven exhibition rooms at the Museum’s ground floor to present a different artist in each one of them. All these seven spaces, together with the Museum’s façade, constitute eight project rooms where the following exhibitors will develop their ideas: Teresa Margolles, Tania Bruguera, Monica Bonvicini, Fernando Sánchez-Castillo, Kendell Geers, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jorge Perianes and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.

Until 15 February 2009

For more information visit: http://www.marcovigo.com/

Exhibition: Collective Conscience, Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF)

HRAFF is a dynamic and vibrant national art and film festival featuring a variety of creative media aimed at raising awareness and generating debate on human rights issues in Australia.

The arts component of the Melbourne-based festival program is Collective Conscience, an exhibition that considers the recent shift in contemporary artistic practice away from individual experience towards inter-personal activity and social exchange. The artists in Collective Conscience represent, to varying degrees a re-humanising of artistic practices via an emphasis on participation, dialogue and collaboration. Through a variety of perspectives, approaches and forms, Collective Conscience explores issues of human rights, and the power of collective action.

12-30 November 2008
The Carlton Studios (upstairs)
193 Bourke St

Melbourne

Collective Conscience
curated by Andrea Bell & Romy Sedman

Artists:
Alex Martinis Roe, (Australia)
Culture Kitchen, (Australia), Taring Padi, (Indonesia), Gembel (East Timor).
Fiona Jack, (New Zealand)
Freedom Burmese Artists, (Burma)
MHUL Conversation Program, Christian Thompson, Helen Johnson (Australia)
Panther, (Australia)
PVI Collective, (Australia)
Richard Bell, (Australia)
The Long March Project: Chen Qiulin, Yang Shaobin, Jiang Zhi (China).

For more information please visit: http://www.hraff.org.au/

TAG Newsletter

TAG is a professional visual artists’ newsletter providing a global platform to the artists in residency at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa and also to art practitioners within the network of Triangle Art Trust. As a compliment to their regularly updated web site, TAG provides artists with relevant updates about the studios, artists’ work and opportunities in the art arena both locally in Cape Town, on the continent and abroad.

For more information and to subscribe please visit: http://www.greatmoreart.org/

TAG Newsletter

TAG is a professional visual artists’ newsletter providing a global platform to the artists in residency at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa and also to art practitioners within the network of Triangle Art Trust. As a compliment to their regularly updated web site, TAG provides artists with relevant updates about the studios, artists’ work and opportunities in the art arena both locally in Cape Town, on the continent and abroad.

For more information and to subscribe please visit: http://www.greatmoreart.org/

South-South Dance Project

Recently launched, South-South.info is a web-based resource on contemporary dance in South America. The website aims to offer an overview of the main contexts of exchange for contemporary dance in the countries of the southern hemisphere including information on the principal festivals, spaces, articulators, publications, etc. With this initiative South-South intend to stimulate and facilitate international exchange, cooperation and circulation of artists and ideas from South to South.

For more information and to upload relevant material please visit: http://www.south-south.info

2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe

The 2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe aims to explore and unfold the concept of the polygraphic into marginal and experimental creative practices working with contemporary art and graphic design. Over a dozen polygraphic platforms will be presented between June 2008 and June 2009, concluding in a large scale presentation opening in April 2009 that will consist of solo and group exhibitions, magazines, posters, artists' books, postcards, wallpapers, flyers, billboards, among others.

18 April - 28 June, 2009

For more information please contact:
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española
La Puntilla, Viejo San Juan
P.O. Box 9024184
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00902-4184
T: 1-787-725-8320; 1-787-724-1877
http://www.icp.gobierno.pr
trienalsanjuan@icp.gobierno.pr

Husi Bei Ala Timor Sira Nia Liman – From the Hands of our Ancestors: The art and craft of Timor-Leste - Arte no artesantu Timor-Leste

A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory exhibition in partnership with the national Directorate of Culture, Timor-Leste
This international exhibition will present the traditional and contemporary art and crafts of Timor-Leste. The national collection of Timor-Leste will be complemented with works from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. This comprehensive, collaborative exhibition of the textiles, ceramics, wooden carvings and body adornment of Timor-Leste will give insights into the distinctive living cultures of this young nation.

22 November 2008 - 12 July 2009

For more information please visit: http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/upcoming.html

Bienal de São Paulo

Director Isabel Garcia, Centro de Documentacion de las Artes, Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda (CCPLM) presents the work of renowned Chilean artist Juan Downey as one of four special projects in thee 28th biennial. Isabel was an active participant in the South Project’s Santiago Gathering in 2006. Southern countries represented in the biennial include: Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Mozambique and Colombia.

Until 6 December 2008

For more information on the Bienal de São Paulo please visit:
http://bienalsaopaulo.globo.com

For more information on CCPLM please visit: http://ccplm.cl/

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2009: Art & Family

Featuring 21 exciting works from 12 countries

The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is back with its fifth edition from 7-18 January 2009. Organised and curated by The Necessary Stage, this much anticipated festival showcases a wide array of artists from all over the world, covering various artistic genres that would appeal to any virgin or veteran of the Fringe. This year’s theme explores the relationship between Art and Family. The term “family” extends beyond the confines of biological affiliations defined by the traditional context of what a family constitutes. “Families” here refer to anything that provides us with references to and support for our own identity.

for more information visit:
Official Website: http://www.singaporefringe.com
Official Fringe TVC: http://www.vimeo.com/1908850

smashed to pieces at Gambia Castle (NZ)

Gambia Castle presents:

smashed to pieces
(in the still of the night)
gestures towards habitual actions while leaving the location vague and the event unpredictable

Amit Charan
Francis Alÿs
Michael Stevenson

Curated by Laura Preston

7 - 29 November 2008


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This month in Gambia Castle’s office we proudly present a selection of rare cards and catalogues by the totally wicked Ken Price. You should come by and have a look.

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Gambia Castle is also pleased to announce the release of a new publication documenting the 2007 program. Designed by The Wilderness. Now available in the office for a square $10.

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For further information please contact the gallery:

Gambia Castle
Level 1, 454 Karangahape Rd
PO Box 68782 Newton
Auckland 1145
New Zealand
Ph. +6493361601
Mob. +64212442243
info@gambiacastle.net
www.gambiacastle.net
Open: Thurs, Fri 12-6, Sat 11-4