2.30pm Sat 11th September
Johannes S. Sistermanns !n t!me !s trans !t!on
In his SoundPlastic at Queen's Theatre INTUITION Room 2010, Adelaide, Johannes S. Sistermanns will perform his ongoing engagement with Oratunga in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. His residental stay at Oratunga is the motivator for what promises to be another compelling soundplastic/performance.
Johannes S. Sistermanns (*1955, lives Bornheim/Cologne, Germany) stages his composition as multi channel electroacoustics, soundplastic, radiophonic soundart, new music theatre and soundimage cityspace. From 1976-84 he studied at the Musikhochschule Köln subjects as 'Piano’, 'Rhythmik’ and 'New Music Theatre’ with Mauricio Kagel. Performances, exhibitions, lectures and fellowships took him to Japan, VR China, Australia and the USA. Sistermanns has been performed many venues and international festivals, including Knitting Factory 1995, Melbourne Festival 1997, Worldexhibition EXPO 2000 Hannover, Adelaide Festival 2000, 'Germany in Japan’ Festival 2005, Donaueschinger Musiktage 1996/1999/2005, ISCM World New Music Days Stuttgart 2006/ Sydney 2010, Electroacoustic Festival Shanghai 2006. 2004/2006 he was lecturer at the 'International Summercourses’ in Darmstadt, Germany.
http://www.sistermanns.eu
when:2.30pm 11th September
where: Queen's Theatre, Playhouse Lane, off Light Square, Adelaide
how: Entry is free
Johannes S. Sistermanns has been supported by the NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal ‘International Cultural Relations’
image: Johannes S. Sistermanns, Oratunga 3, photo by the artist.
5.30pm Friday 3rd September
Mike Mullins: Australian Experimental Art Practices 1973-1986
A multi-media lecture that looks at the performing arts in Australia during the years 1973-86. The material presented in the lecture comes from the archives of Mike Mullins, who is the founding director of The Performance Space in Sydney. The presentation looks at the battles that were fought for greater support and recognition of new form practices in the performing arts. It aims to create a measure to what is happening these days.
For many in the audience, it was a moving experience to see ‘our times’ played out, and to see the treads and trends emerge. For the ‘younger people’, both in the audience and those who were involved in the production, it was informative and educational, especially as so much of the work represented continues to be relevant today as 'innovative' Professor Andrea Hull (former Dean, Victorian College of Arts and Music)
Mike Mullins’ Politics of Change should obligatory viewing for everyone with a key role in arts funding and arts administration, and who wish to understand what it takes to build a genuine life in art. Certainly, Mullins reveals with great clarity and poignancy, something of what it means to pursue the fraught and insecure journey of the professional artist and creative visionary; it is a solitary vocation, more likely than most to suffer unrewarding critical oppositions, derision and penury. This archetypal journey of artists is suited only to warriors and believers, if not inspired madmen.Ross Wolfe, former director of the Anne and Gordon Samstag Program
when:5.30pm
where: venue: Room H6.12 Hawke Bldg, UNISA. Enter from North Terrace end (Samstag Museum). Take the lift/elevator to the 6th floor. Enter the doors and turn right. Enter the first room on the right
Free event
8pm 23 July
Live Performance
John von Sturmer & Slawek Janicki + Domenico de Clario
Slawek Janicki and John von Sturmer have developed an improvisational and experimental practice, which seeks to create a total art event. Their work is situational and responsive, seeking to work with immediate and locally-relevant concerns. They are concerned with matters of language and questions of translation across cultural and other divides.
For this performance they will be collaborating with sound artist and Director of AEAF Domenico de Clario.
Slawek Janicki comes from a background in musical improvisation generally involving the double bass. He is also a filmmaker and cultural events curator, working also with a number of Art TV channels in Europe and Australia. He operates the legendary performance space ‘MOZG’, based in Bydgoszcz, central-northern Poland.
John von Sturmer has an academic background, and an extensive involvement in Aboriginal affairs. In more recent years he has centralised the notion of performance in his practice, often combining performance texts with a strong visual arts element.
Domenico de Clario has presented improvised piano performances since 1977 as part of his multi-disciplinary practice.
More info about whole project and artists on: www.jvs-janicki.com
when:8pm 23 July
where: EMU Space, Level 5 Schulz Building, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
how: enter through University of Adelaide gate 14, Kintore Avenue. Entry is free
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for theArts, its arts funding and advisory body
image credit: Tracey Lanesbury
6pm Wednesday 14 July
Artists reading/writing/talking: linda marie walker (anastasia klose will be present)
Linda Marie Walker - an artist of key influence in experimental art/writing/design/making practice will talk about her work, and read her writing. The artist's exhibition Room is the inaugural work in the noelsheridanprojectspace
Anastasia Klose will be performing in I thought I was wrong, but it turned out I was wrong…
Venue:AEAF Gallery Free event, bookings not necessary
enquiries:info@aeaf.org.au or telephone the aeaf
5.30pm Tuesday 13 July
cancelled due to illness - apologies for any inconvenience
talk: stephen sartarelli, the challenge of pasolini: language and dissent in an age of conflict
Stephen Sartarelli ‘The Challenge of Pasolini: language and dissent in an age of conflict'
Stephen Sartarelli will discuss the technicalities of translating Pasolini's verse, and apply his thought, sensibility and critique to questions of the art, politics, and morality of our time.
Translator/poet Stephen Sartarelli has published over twenty books of translation from Italian and French, winning prizes in both the U.S. and the U.K.
He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and has published three volumes of verse and several chapbooks. His essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of U.S. periodicals, including The Nation, The New Criterion, and The Guggenheim Magazine. He is the translator of the popular Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri as well as several 18th-century French classics. Forthcoming translations include a broad selection of the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Notturno, a book-length prose poem by Gabriele d'Annunzio, the fin-de-siècle Italian poet, novelist, and adventurer. He lives in France with his wife, Sophie Hawkes.
Thank you Donata Carrazza, Mildura Writers Festival; and Paul Kane, Professor of English, Vassar College, NY, USA.
Venue:AEAF Dark Horsey Bookshop Free event, bookings not necessary
enquiries:info@aeaf.org.au or telephone the aeaf
2.30-6.30pm Saturday 19 June
screening: arthur and corinne cantrill
The Room of Chromatic Mystery
50 years of experimental film
At our duetto presentation we shall show and discuss examples of our work, from the 1960s when we first engaged with film as a medium combining kinetic art with experimental sound composition, and then various strands of work such as filmed landscape, the ‘still’ moving image, concerns with duration, single-frame 24-images-per-second which challenge retinal retention and superimposition, and analysis of colour, using a similar 3-colour synthesis employed by the human retina and brain. We shall show films on which Ivor [Cantrill] has collaborated, and which benefit from his autism, in particular his attention to colour, detail and repetition. [artist's notes]
Venue: Mercury Cinema Free event, bookings not necessary
enquiries:info@aeaf.org.au or telephone the aeaf
image: Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, still from In This Life's Body, 1984, 147'
artist's website
Cantrill's notes to duetto screening program + duetto Media Release
9pm – 11.30pm Saturday 19 June
performance: futbol real 2010 (the first beautiful game)
Venue: Queen’s theatre / at the apex of Gillies Arcade & Playhouse Lane Free event, bookings not necessary
enquiries:info@aeaf.org.au or telephone the aeaf
2-5.30pm Saturday 26 June
performance: a list of positive things for later, when things may not be so positive
Join The New Spatial Economy Movement with Aleks Danko and Jude Walton in making a list of positive things for later, when things may not be so positive
at various sites within the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
A series of spoken word poems at sites within the Adelaide Botanic Garden,
1. on the steps of the Museum of Economic Botany at 2pm
2. walking in the Wisteria Arbour at 2.30pm
3. inside the entrance of the Palm House at 3pm
4. in the Summerhouse at 3.30pm 5. in the queen's theatre at
4.30 pm: an 'in conversation' with Linda Marie Walker that looks at how we live our lives together as artists, things we share, discuss, the spaces we inhabit and so on, with time at the end for questions and comments.
when: 2-5.30pm Sat 26th June
where: Adelaide Botanic Garden and Queen's Theatre
image: Aleks Danko and Jude Walton, The New Spatial Economy Movement, 2010
Saturday 26 June
performance: stephen whittington and domenico de clario
Stephen Whittington and Domenico de Clario perform the universe as mirror
Stephen whittington is director of the Electronic Music Unit, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide. He is an internationally renowned composer, pianist and interpreter of the compositions of Morton Feldman.
Stephen Whittington and Domenico de Clario collaborated on an all-night performance on march 1, 2010,
titled 'journey to the surface of the earth'
when:5 10 pm (sunset/moonrise) until 9 31 pm (full moon apogee)
where:Queen's Theatre
Thursday 27 May 7.30pm, Friday & Sat 28-29th 7.30pm
performance: d&k The Stranger and his Friend
We met at art school in 1999. Talked of life, death, relationships, belief, pissing the bed and shitting in the shower. There were no boundaries to the discussions and no judgements made. Our art is the embodiment of these conversations. We seek to create an open dialogue acknowledging that we are all human. We were born, we are alive, we will die.
Venue: Queen's Theatre Free event, bookings not necessary
enquiries:info@aeaf.org.au or telephone the aeaf
d&k would like to thank the Department of Culture and the Arts, Western Australia for Artflight funding assistance
image:d&k 2010
2.30pm Saturday 17th; 24th April; 1st May
AEAF floor talks
Over three saturdays at 2.30pm, painthing artists talk about their work, their practice, their contribution to painthing (as one)
floor talks 1 Micky Allan, Adam Dutkiewicz (curator of Brothers in Arts, Nexus 2009)
floor talks 2 Ian North, Romi Graham
floor talks 3 Anton Hart, Brigid Noone
floor talks 4: closing Jason Smith
The Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art will present a closing address 5.30pm, Friday 14 May.*
Venue: AEAF gallery
Free event, bookings not necessary
enquiries:info@aeaf.org.au or telephone the aeaf
image: Anton Hart, Untitled (Tracks), 2010. Computer imaging on canvas, 270 x 180cm. The work is a reiteration of a painting exhibited at the AEAF in 1996
*the exhibition will run until 5pm saturday 15 May.
thursday 20 march
…explorations into place, space and time…
Tom Hall with Ambrose Chapel, Jason Sweeney and Tristan Louth-Robins
when: 8pm sharp
where: THE EMU SPACE, Electronic Music Unit 5th Floor, Schulz Building, University of Adelaide. (enter via the Scott Theatre lifts behind the Schulz building, Kintore Avenue, Gate 15)
Map: http://emu.adelaide.edu.au/contact/
$15 entry
Supported by the Elder Conservatorium of Music and the University of Adelaide
7-8pm Fri 19 March
Massimo Scattolin
Internationally acclaimed guitarist Massimo Scattolin will perform a series of works composed by himself and others. After a number of lessons with Andres Segovia, Massimo Scattolin began his concert career as a soloist, and has since developed his chamber music and orchestral activities to include some of the best-known concertos for guitar and orchestra.
Massimo is founder of the Paganini Consort and Guitarland ensembles.
Venue: Iris Cinema. Doors open 6.30pm
- gold coin donation - bar open
Bookings: SOLD OUT
email info@aeaf.org.au and include your name and phone number
inquiries: email above or telephone the aeaf
7.53pm March 1 - 7.04am March 2
journey to the surface of the earth (the idea of light and love)
stephen whittington (toy piano) janette ho (body) tony yap (body) domenico de clario (piano)
when: from 7.53 pm (moonrise/sunset) march 1 2010, until 7.04 am (moonset/sunrise) march 2 (full moon apogee 3.08 am march 2) where: Madley Studio and forecourt, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
how: enter through University of Adelaide gate 14, Kintore Avenue. Entry is free
the eye the moon, domenico de clario with dancer paula lay , december 1 2009 performance in high st northcote, melbourne
7pm Wed 10-Fri 12 March
Faceless: Dead & Desirable
A new work by Jason Sweeney & Fiona Sprott for the Fringe Festival.Three performances over three nights at the AEAF.
Tickets $15 through FringeTIX or at the door.
For more info contact info at unreasonable films or follow the links below.
6pm for 6.30pm Thurs 4 Feb
Ken Bolton The Circus
A small circus arrives near Trieste–Strong Man, lion, ballerina–from these elements is constructed a contemporary idyll of troubled beauty and humour …
Wakefield Press invites you to the launch of Ken Bolton's new book The Circus. Deb Welch, General Manager Radio Adelaide will launch The Circus at the AEAF bookshop. Books will be on sale and wines served courtesy of Fox Creek Wines.
Australian Experimental
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