Saturday 17 August
10am–1pm
Join us for a one-of-a-kind, practically-focused, no budget filmmaking workshop for educators and interested people to make and create.
Working backwards from finish to start, this workshop aims to impart knowledge and methods about raising cinema from the ground up. A workshop for teachers, tutors, practitioners, and mentors alike, Garden Reflexxx (Jen Atherton + André Shannon) will provide an entry point to engage deeply with film artistry as it relates to exhibitions and screening opportunities. Artist and writer Andy Butler will join the workshop to discuss process and involvement as it relates to their video commission currently showing at ACCA as part of the 2024 Macfarlane Commissions.
Open to all educators and the general public, ACCA Education is offering special ticket prices for teachers and student teachers. Places are limited so get in quick!
Tickets:
Student Teacher $25 + GST
Teacher $35 + GST
General Public $55 + GST
For regional teachers, we’re pleased to be offering a limited number of free spots! To secure a free ticket please email education@acca.melbourne and tell us a little about yourself and your school community.
About the artists:
Andy Butler
Andy Butler’s practice employs moving image, performance, painting and text to consider strategies for maintaining hope and optimism at a time of political upheaval. With a focus on the political currents of the Indo-Pacific region, his work probes the machinations of power, imperialism, capital, and the cultural narratives, structures and institutions that maintain them.
Andy has undertaken several international residencies including with Asialink, Manila, Philippines; Jogjakarta, Indonesia; Powerhouse, Sydney; Artspace Aotearoa, New Zealand; and the Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Recent exhibitions include This is the house that jack built, Artspace Aotearoa, New Zealand2024 (forthcoming); Collective Unease, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 2022–2023; Housewarming, Arts House, Melbourne, 2021; All-in-One Solution for Glowing Fairness, Bus Projects, Melbourne, 2019; Hyphenated, The Substation, Melbourne, 2018.
Andy’s art practice is complimented by his work as a writer and curator. His writing on art and politics has been published to wide acclaim, including in frieze, Art + Australia and more. He was previously curator and Artistic Director (Acting) at West Space, Melbourne, with recent independent curatorial projects at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and UTS Gallery, Sydney.
Garden Reflexxx
Jen Atherton and André Shannon (b. 90’s) are Garden Reflexxx, two film artists playing all the parts. Their amass of media – from moving-image, to curatorial programs, to broadcast criticism, to video art installations, to music videos – search for nouveaux practices of (taste)making theory. GRXXX collaborate across projects through links/tabs of movie making uncertainty under the guise of realistic cinema; this operation has appeared in festival selections and underground events internationally.
They have produced two feature length films including the Fiji-set Mood Ring (Sydney Festival 2024) and one clip for Perfect Actress. Notable screenings include Film at Lincoln Centre, Spectacle Theatre, VAG, Carriageworks, Blacktown Drive-In, Slamdance Channel, ACMI, Cement Fondu, and AGNSW. Garden Reflexxx are based en route.
