Structural Integrity Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Opening Thursday May 13 from 6:00PM
Arts House, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Exhibition Times · Friday May 14—Sunday May 30
Duration: 12 to 8pm. (Sunday 30 May 12 to 5pm)
Exploring independent arts cultures from across Australia and Asia, Structural Integrity includes the work of six Australian and five Asian Galleries. The exhibition will be open every day of the Festival, and is Next Wave’s biggest and most ambitious engagement with the Asia-Pacific region in the Festival’s 25-year history.
Working on-site at the Meat Market in the month leading up to the Festival, each artist group will create a large-scale structure, or ‘pavilion’, inside this vast historical building.
Y3K presents an architectural structure of no-structure to establish and define a space-exhisting-within a space. Involving work from Tahi Moore, Joshua Petherick, Lizzy Newman , Nick Mangan, f f I X X e d, Fiona Connor, Free School, Alex Vivian, A Constructed World, SPEECH and What Archive?, ames Deutsher and Christopher L G Hill. With Freshly released publications from Fiona Connor + Kate Newby + Simon Denny, Y3K and Free School.
Supporters: Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, Arts House, Australia Council for the Arts, Sidney Myer Fund, Australian Indonesia Institute, Australia Japan Foundation, Asialink, Harold Mitchell Foundation
Other art space include: Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan; Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, Australia; FELTspace, Adelaide, Australia; House of Natural Fiber, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Locksmith Project Space, Sydney, Australia; Post-Museum, Singapore; Six_a Artist Run Initiative, Hobart, Australia; Tutok, Manila, Philippines; Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China; West Space, Melbourne, Australia; Y3K, Melbourne, Australia
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No Soul For Sale TATE Modern, London
14th-16th May 2010
To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. The festival will bring together over 70 of the world’s most exciting independent art spaces, non-profit organizations and artists’ collectives, from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro, to take over the iconic Turbine Hall with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film on 14-16 May 2010.
Ranging from monumental structures to witty interventions, epic performances to interactive installations, participants will exhibit alongside each other without partitions or walls, creating a pop-up village of global art for visitors to explore. All participants will host a live event of their choice on the dedicated performance space on the Turbine Hall bridge, ranging from talks and screenings to performances (schedule will be announced soon).
Christopher L G Hill will talk about Y3K, and perform vocal abstractions as Moffarfarrah between 1-1:30 on Saturday 15th ON the stage area of the Turbine Hall.
Y3K will be presenting a chair, a cloth, a sculpture, a publication, a video,, a business card and a flower.
Involving Tahi Moore, f f I X X e d, James Deutsher, Christopher L G Hill and publications from Y3K, Matt Hinkley, Dan Arps, Fiona Connor + Kate Newby + Simon Denny, Josh Petherck + Christopher L G Hill + Evergreen.
