Racket has been invited to participate in etcc – a remix exhibition sponsored by Creative Commons and an official sideshow to Semi-Permanent.
The first show (SYD) remixed photos found on Flickr. The second event (BRIS) remixed the 1st show. The final show, which we are involved in remixes works from both the previous shows and will be exhibited in Melbourne at Rancho Notorious 361 Little Lonsdale St, opening on Sept 23rd from 6pm
Last week we spent an interesting week in the town of Hay in Western NSW, working with some amazing kids to create images dealing within generational interaction. We were invited there by Mandy Field, the artistic director of Alive & Kicking, a community arts project based in Hay and facilitated by the organisation Outback Theatre for Young People.
We ran workshops on digital collage techniques and worked especially with Keiran, Max & Josh (years 4 & 5) to produce a fun series of images that interspersed photos of them with images of their ancestors and historical images from the town. You can see 2 of these images below.
Racket is having one of their collage works exhibited at the Libraryhack Forum which is being held at the State Library of Queensland.
Libraryhack opened up the vaults and invited the community to remix and mash-up data from Australian and New Zealand libraries – the end result being applications, photo collages and multimedia pieces.
Rachel has a series of prints showing in Melbourne at the moment as part of an exhibition on birth.
“The impassioned debates surrounding choices in childbirth continue to divide health care workers, scholars, governments and the community.
Despite ongoing media and community attention, birth continues to receive minimal representation in the world of art, over shadowed as always by its notorious and high profile primal counterparts: sex and death. Sensationalised media portrayals, ‘reality TV’ exposés, and fictitious accounts of birthing displayed in film or television often trivialise the process of giving birth with overtones of emergency, panic, pain or suffering…..
….lluminating birth through a range of media by a diverse group of Australian artists, the work in birth.art reveals the personal and political, exploring the intrinsic beauty, humour, power, fear, insight and inspiration that birth can provoke. “
Curated by two working mothers, this exhibition also tackles issues of work/life balance in its very making.
Who: Featuring artwork by Davina Adamson, Sarah Beetson, Violeta Capovska, Sally Davis & Selena Decarvelho, Tina Fiveash & Deborah Kelly, Rachel Peachey, Al Stark, Arlene Texta Queen, Anne Wilson and Anne Zahalka.
Curators: Tilly Morris and Jasmine Salomon.
When: 14 – 30 June 2011 (exhibition days Weds – Sun, 12noon-5pm) Official opening 14 June (6–8 pm) with guest speaker and author of the book ‘Art & Motherhood’ Rachel Power.
Where:
ACU Gallery, 26 Brunswick St Fitzroy, VIC, 3065
We have a print in the upcoming exhibition Drawn from Fashion, which uses photos from previous L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival runway events as inspiration for creating new works. Our image below is taken from an Alpha60 runway show, we chose it because we loved his mildly sinister attitude and the endless potential of what might be in the bag.
The exhibition, curated by Leeloo will run alongside the Finders Keepers market at Shed4, Docklands in Melbourne on Saturday March 26th and Sunday March 27th from 10am to 5pm.
