Urban Mesh Workhouse #4
If Melbourne were a work of art, what would it be?
To capture the textures, sounds and shapes that make up Melbourne, the Urban Mesh Workhouse brings together artists and young urbanites to mesh their creativity monthly, re-imagining our city through visual art, video, sound and space.
Come along to one or all of the Workhouses to make your mark on the final exhibition – the Urban Mesh Manifestation.
Workhouse 4: re-imagine Melbourne through sound, vision and space with sound artist Dan West, animator Kate Geck and new media artist Eugenia Lim.
Dates: Friday 9 August, Saturday 10 August and Sunday 11 August
Times: Friday, 6pm to 9pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 4pm
Bookings: by email or phone (03) 8696 5400
Bamiyarra Not So Still(s) Exhibition
Young Hazaras in Melbourne and Afghanistan collaborate with artists Werner Hammersting and Andrew Garton, to explore the art of the photo essay in a mixed media exhibition.
Forced migration, aspirations of youth and cultural transformations form core themes of the collaboration resulting in large-scale prints, paste-ups and video.
Exhibition: Saturday 4 August to Saturday 11 August, from 1pm to 5pm
Signal Screen: Saturday 4 August to Saturday 18 August. Screenings commence after dark.
Presented by Home Lands v2, a collaboration between La Trobe University, City of Melbourne Arts and Participation Program and the Cultural Development Network. Home Lands is funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, City of Melbourne and the Cultural Development Network.
Make Yourself @ Home
Explore the world of design, where you as the designer will create a piece of furniture or an item to keep.
What you design is up to you; maybe it’s a chair, a table or an abstract sculpture. Communicating through simple sketching, drawing and model-making, this four-week program focuses on your own ideas and creative thought.
Your design, once manufactured, will be exhibited at Signal in September.
Dates: Every Wednesday from 15 August to 5 September
Times: 5pm to 8pm
Bookings: by email or phone (03) 8696 5400
Exhibition: Wednesday 26 September to Sunday 7 October
Public Art Screen Commissions
Shadow Play
Levene Wong and Shao Xiong Chia
Shadow Play is an animated exploration of the popular childhood activity, where fantastical worlds are conjured from light and shadows. Through a series of moving silhouettes and colours, Shadow Play draws the viewer into a state of curiosity and reflection, sparking imaginings, dreams and memories of the urban environment.
Shadow Play is presented by the City of Melbourne as part of the Public Art Commissions 2012.
Signal Screens: Tuesday 14 August to Monday 20 August. Screenings commence after dark.
Analog Dayz
Chris Knowles
Analog Dayz is a reworking of three super-8 films shot by the artist in and around Melbourne in the early 1980s. The films are from a larger body of observational landscape and diary work, which portrays a personal engagement with the city of that time; a visual loving, estrangement, belonging. The accompanying soundtrack explores the relationships between sound and image.
Analog Dayz is presented by the City of Melbourne as part of the Public Art Commissions 2012.
Signal Screens: Tuesday 21 August to Tuesday 28 August. Screenings commence after dark.
SYN Workshop: Meet the Producers
SYN’s music department teaches you how to arrange an interview with your favourite local band, and how to prepare and conduct the chat.
Interview skills will focus on radio and TV formats, but there’ll be lots of chat about magazine and newspaper interviews too.
Date: Wednesday 1 August
Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Bookings: by email