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Renew Newcastle at This Is Not Art festival [02.10.2009]
If you are interested to know more about Renew Newcastle and how it works, we’ll be talking about the nitty gritty, the successes, and the opportunities to get involved - at the following This Is Not Art events, this weekend, held at the Renew HQ, 3 Morgan St:
Saturday 03 October
2.00 - 3.30pm Mall rats unite: Renew Newcastle walking tour
The Hunter St Mall ain’t what it used to be … come see Newcastle’s creative community making city revitalization their business. Join us for a tour of the 24 spaces which are changing the feel of the city, all local and all unique: galleries, retail, offices and studios – there’s even a Tea House.
With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson
Sunday 04 October
3.00 - 4.30pm Vacant buildings = temporary cheap art space: Renew Newcastle
Last TINA this was just a crazy idea. Twelve months down the track there are 37 creative projects in 25 otherwise vacant properties. But it is more than just a bunch of artists & empty shops, it's a series of strategies, legalities & activities that has made once unavailable space available cheap. Find out how it works, the thinking behind it and how similar ideas might work in other areas.
With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson, Roderick Smith
This Is Not Art in Renew spaces
Plus... Renew Newcastle spaces are playing host to This Is Not Art events and presentations across the weekend. So, you get to see more of the festival program while simultaneously checking out how the Renew Newcastle initiative works:
At Totoro’s Tea House
Location: Shop 1, 111 Hunter St Mall
Saturday 03 October
2.30 – 4.00pm Distro How-To (NYWF Rountable discussion)
A roundtable for all of us who make book-shaped objects to discuss the best way to get them into the hands of people; even new, exciting ones we haven’t met! Share your experiences or ask questions of representatives from Australian small press publishers, online distributors, zine shops.
Sunday 04 October
4.30 – 5.30pm Curatorial How-To (NYWF Roundtable discussion)
Wranglers, hoarders, dropouts, show-offs, very talented circle of friends! Wanna figure out how to get all gallery on that shit? CURATORIAL is part of NYWF’s new series of informal, abnormal, but very, very practical roundtable how-tos.
Featuring: Ianto Ware, Anthony WP O’Sullivan, Lev Diatschenko, Nimble Fox Trappings, Emily McCulloch Childs, Maddy Phelan, and Natalie Aylward.
6.00 – 7.00pm The One Hundred and Fortieth Birthday of the Postcard
Participate in the collective penning and posting of 140 postcards plus eating cake and other regular birthday party activities. The event will double as a book launch for ‘from sometimes love beth’ a postcard compendium by Beth Sometimes.
Presented by Beth Sometimes: misssometimes@gmail.com
Monday 05 October Come rest your weary head as we serve up some hot brews and cool tunes. Let’s just take it easy today.
At ArtHive
Location: Level 1 / 111 Hunter St Mall Newcastle (Access via Morgan St)
Sunday 04 October
3.00 – 5.30pm New Weird Australia/Sound Summit
In borrowing terminology, New Weird Australia shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle.
Artists: Lucia Draft, Brutal Hate Mosh, Go Genre Everything, Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts
About: New Weird Australia is a radio show on FBI and a free compilation series of new, eclectic and experimental Australian music. Compilations will be made available to download on a bimonthly basis. Australia has a long and vital history of experimental music, however until the birth of the internet age, this rich seam of avant-garde audio remained largely confined to its geographic borders. Over the last ten years, emerging Australian artists have found new avenues and new audiences thanks to international digital distribution, and New Weird Australia seeks to continue and extend that paradigm with a regular release schedule and accessible format.
www.newweirdaustralia.com www.soundsummit.com.au
At Loop Space
Location: 109 Hunter St Mall
Friday 02 October **
6pm ** Exhibition Opening: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS
The exhibition runs through to the 24th of October and will be open from the Friday night, Saturday, Sunday & Monday (12 - 5 pm) during the TINA festival.
Saturday 03 October
2.00 – 3.00pm CURATOR'S TALK
THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS curated by Neil Jenkins, exhibited by d/Lux MediaArts as part of the Electrofringe festival.
Artists: Laurie Anderson (USA) with Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Andy Deck (USA), Anita Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), Jaron Lanier (USA), Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (UK), Tale of Tales (Belgium)
An exhibition of historic and contemporary artists' computer games. Jorge Luis Borges' 1941 short story "The Garden of Forking Paths" predates the Internet but its notions of non-linearity, the storyline surrounding an infinite, labyrinthine book that realises multiple paths and futures are echoed in the information age with hypertext, the World Wide Web and the form and structure of computer games. Just as Borges and his contemporaries pushed the envelope of the narrative form, so too artists have been creating and modifying computer games, experimenting with the notions of what a game is and exploring alternate approaches to interaction and play methodologies. This exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary examples of games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules.
Also featured at Loop Space Project Gallery is K-COUNTRY - A Sci Fi Comic turned single channel video installation, adapting comic narrative with sound and music in a post Brechtian fusion. Written by Mark Hobby, Illustrated by Stephen Colloff, Music by Solange Kershaw.
For full details see Loop website and the d/Lux MediaArts website
At Renew Newcastle Church
Location: 3 Morgan St
Friday 02 October
1pm – 3pm Mouth Camp
Think OTHER people read crappily? Well, wait until they get a load of you. Bring some work down to our intensive readings coaching/boot camp, where our panel of experts runs your reading right through the gauntlet. It's like Idol, except these people really want to help you. Like Scientologists!
Featuring: Sally Breen, Josephine Rowe, Thomas Benjamin Guerney, ... and everyone else (including you!)
6pm – 7:30pm Quiet Appreciation
In the serene surrounds of the Renew Newcastle church TINY VIPERS (Sub Pop, US) and GUY BLACKMAN will deliver reimaginings of folk through captivating performance. This will be both free and incredible.
FEATURING: Tiny Vipers, Guy Blackman
9:30PM – 11PM BLESS ME READER, FOR I HAVE SINNED
Keep your flaws and fears shrinkwrapped in a room behind an iron door? Writers of confessional work don’t. They write them down, read them out - share them in a shine of honesty. Tonight let’s cringe, and bask in their insightful and embarrassing splendour! Or grab a mic and CONFESS my child.
Facilitator: Stop Drop and Roll’s Sean Wilson. Featuring: Patrick Pittman, Simon Cox, Amber Fresh, Matthew Lowe, Tom Cho
Saturday 03 October
2.00 - 3.30pm Mall rats unite: Renew Newcastle walking tour
The Hunter St Mall ain’t what it used to be … come see Newcastle’s creative community making city revitalization their business. Join us for a tour of the 24 spaces which are changing the feel of the city, all local and all unique: galleries, retail, offices and studios – there’s even a Tea House. With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson
3PM – 4PM SUBURBAN GIANTS
Suburban Giants is a large-scale projection that turns buildings into blank canvases. In this talk its creators will discuss the work and research involved in its development.
Featuring: Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, Jo Kerlogue
6pm – 7:30pm Quiet Appreciation Mark 2
Settle in for the calm before the storm, as Christian Haines pays homage to Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and Steve Reich via mobile phone interface, and Pimmon presents lush electronics in a rare intimate setting. Free admission – this one’s on us.
Featuring: Christian Haines, Pimmon
Sunday 04 October
11am – 12 noon CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENT - CONCLUSION
Dancer Alison Currie talks about her experiment in public performance to unsuspecting audiences, where dancers perform a choreographed solo to a specially-composed ringtone.
Featuring: Alison Currie
12:30pm – 2pm So I married a struggling artist
Going out with another creative person would be totally ideal, right? They forgive you when you wake them up at 4.30am after working late on yet another of your all-consuming projects. And they never get jealous or feel neglected, ever, EVER. ... Wait. Let's all double-check this. On a stage.
Featuring: Marieke Hardy, Dion Kagan, Christopher Downes, Dion Kagan, Ira McGuire, Matthew Lowe
2.00 – 3.00 pm MOBILE PHONE ART: RESTRICTION AS POSSIBILITY
A discussion of the philosophy driving various works developed using mobile phones, their aesthetic goals and issues associated with developing the mobile phone platform. Particular emphasis is placed on sound works and the idea of developing participatory spaces, collective contribution to artistic process and the ubiquitous technology of the mobile phone.
Featuring: Christian Haines
3.00 - 4.30pm Vacant buildings = temporary cheap art space: Renew Newcastle
Last TINA this was just a crazy idea. Twelve months down the track there are 37 creative projects in 25 otherwise vacant properties. But it is more than just a bunch of artists & empty shops, it's a series of strategies, legalities & activities that has made once unavailable space available cheap. Find out how it works, the thinking behind it and how similar ideas might work in other areas.
With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson, Roderick Smith
5.30 – 7.30pm New Weird Australia
In borrowing terminology, NWA shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle.
Featuring: Go Genre Everything, Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts, Brutal Hate Mosh, Lucia Draft, Alps, kyü, Moonmilk, Castings, Blastcorp, smRts, Gugg, Holy Balm
Monday 05 October
11am – 12:30pm Moving Units
Pushers of good writing everywhere! Forget SHOULD we sell - ask only HOW. Take some marketing tips and tales from people who have the smarts and the souls. By the time they're through with you, you'll be able to sell the whole thing right back to 'em.
Featuring: Angela Meyer, Geoff Lemon, Krissy Kneen, Ryan Paine
12:30pm – 2pm Writing The BIG One
So you've dabbled in mini-masterpieces and now everyone’s wanting you to beef up, go BIG. How do you begin piecing together research? How does a novel happen? Writers discuss how they bridged the gap between ‘Uh-oh’ and ‘Opus’.
Featuring: Caro Cooper, Michaela McGuire, Christopher Currie, Patrick Cullen, Thomas Benjamin Guerney, Christelle Davis
This Is Not Art is supercharged convergence of writers, performers, thinkers, independent and industry musicians, creative researchers, electronic artists, dilettantes, and DIY culture makers in a showcase featuring over 400 local, national and international artists. Happening in Newcastle 01 - 05 October 2009.
Full program online www.thisisnotart.org.
