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FRIDAY 13 APRIL

Big Audio Dynamight On Ice!

Admittedly long overdue, SYDNEY presents their SECOND challenging music appreciation night this Friday.

Whadda line-up!

The New Inspirationals Set!
The It's All Good Set!
The Earful o' Jism Set!
The Wild Turkey Women Set!
The Big Romantic Rooters Set!

And everyone's worst kept secret favourite wicked indulgence- "SHUFFLE!"

And much, much MORE!!

Come and do all those feelings in one tidy night with us... AGAIN! Roll around in them with us- Come and remember and then try to forget, and try to remember and then forget with us.

SYDNEY opens its doors to you all ($7 entry fee) at 8:30pm and, at 9:00 pm#, we'll be kickin' off with the first set of B.A.D On Ice!

PLEASE see the attached power-flyer for more explicit details of this exciting event!

Entry via the back lane.
302 Cleveland Street
SOUTH WEST SURRY HILLS

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This exhibition examines the notion of the border as a point of separation. A point of calibrated equilibrium represented as a border or demarcation line is both abstract and meaningless, yet at the same time a profoundly lived reality impacting on those it means to organise and separate. The problem remains for us: how to determine this border in our own terms?

Borders tend to be imposed, rationalised as a necessity, often determined arbitrarily – ‘drawing a line in the sand’. They can exist on an individual or collective level. What gives the border its sometimes terrifying and silencing ability to divide is its ability to confuse or totally obscure the view from the other side. But what about the view if we take up a position on the border itself? This collaboration takes this as its vantage point. We seek to inhabit the border, take it apart and put it back together; to see it differently – to disavow the border as a line of separation.

Todd Robinson approaches the border via a technics of suspense, orchestrating a material performance, which employs everyday artefacts of containment, transport, communication and play. This strategy explores the nature of making as a set of technical experiments which inhabit a line of separation; unifying two opposing forces or elements – lightness and weight, ground and air, open and closed, empty and full.

Maro Alwan reflects on the physical borders themselves, in as much as they are represented in maps. Posing the question: what is a border when it no longer separates anything? Coastlines without shores; roads without destinations; borders without countries. All these are presented as if viewing the border itself, and in doing so removing the line of separation so that identity is not altogether effaced but has to be renegotiated.

In this project we have been attentive to a tension that runs through these lines and actively utilize this tension to chart an alternative series of lines. These lines traverse a space that recognizes a vulnerability inherent when one is positioned on the other side.








Dissolution as a sound coming through the floor delves into the sounds of a building. In this installation in the project space, the sounds emanating from behind closed doors (of relentless economic activity) merge with the delicate sounds of leisure time and folly.


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In the world of theatre, comedy and tragedy often share the same space. Shakespeare brought the two together inviting us to laugh at events underpinned with macabre darkness. In the manner of a Shakespearean play or Burlesque theatre, these two elements entwine through the exhibition A Comedy of Errors. Drawing on the black humour typical of the British, three artists present new bodies of work through varied explorations that share tragicomic threads. Using the gallery like a stage or film-set, the artists' present sculptural installation and performance that blend Shakespearean antics with a touch of Tarantino.

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Kings ARI is proud to introduce the genius, wit and sex of Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley to Melbourne. This will be the first major solo exhibition (with over 292 works exhibited) of Shrigley’s work in Australia. Shrigley has a prolifi practice that spans various media from painting and photography to sculpture although he is primarily known for his scribbly drawings. David Shrigley has published numerous books, animated music videos
for Blur and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and recently released a spoken word album through the Late Night Tales series. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world.

For the Making Space – Artist Initiative event, Kings ARI will exhibit Shrigley’s entire Poster Project—all 292 of the individually designed posters refl ecting that slightly warped, darkly humorous and unmistakably Shrigley-esque perspective on the world. The Poster Project is the culmination of an announcement by Shrigley on his website that he would design posters ‘for free’. People from all over the world contacted Shrigley, with varied (and sometimes very odd) requests that included invitations to weddings, ads for dance parties and even a letter of resignation.

Also being exhibited is Shrigley’s award-winning short film Who I Am And What I Want, which was co-directed with Chris Shepherd. The film is based on a Shrigley book of the same title. The main character lives alone in the woods and is called Pete. In the booklet accompanying the DVD release of the fi lm Shrigley writes: "This film is about who I am and what I want. It’s not
about who you are and what you want. You always think everything I make is about you but it’s not. It’s all about me..."

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 10:23 am.