EXHIBITION TOUR: Close Quarters
March 1999 – October 2000
This exhibition reviewed contemporary visual culture in a trans-Tasman context, promoting further dialogue between institutions and artists in Australia and new Zealand.
Tour details: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 5 – 27 March 1999; Canberra School of Art 2 July – 29 August 1999; Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand 16 September – 6 November 1999; Dunedin Public Art Gallery 19 August – 15 October 2000
Curated by Tina Barton, Zara Stanhope, Clare Williamson
Exhibiting Artists: L Budd, et al, Lyell Barry, Tony de Lautour, Destiny Deacon, Eugene Hansen, eX de Medici, Michael Harrison, Mikala Dwyer, Sean Kerr, Simryn Gill, Ani O’Neill, Gail Hastings, Natalie Robertson, Danius Kesminas, Marie Shannon, HJ Wedge, Terry Urbahn, Constanze Zikos
OFF SITE EXHIBITION: Bill Posters will not be prosecuted
12 May – 16 July 1999
Posters designed for the site hoardings at Federation Square.
Curated by Stuart Koop
Exhibiting Artists: DAMP, Pam Clements, Kate Cotching, Josh Gurrie, Susan Hewitt, Anthony Hunt, Jonathan Luker and Jennifer Mills, Lex Middleton, Vera Moller, Skye Raabe, Elissa Sedgrove, Renee So, Jack Sweetman, Darren Sylvester, Emma Wooley, Celeste Treloar
Bill Posters will not be prosecuted invitation
OFF SITE EXHIBITION: Facsimile @ LAC Gallery, Caracas Venezuela
29 June – 6 August 1999
A collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, this exhibition presented the work of six artists who work with preproduction and reprographic technologies.
Exhibiting Artists: Kate Beynon, Andrew Hurle, Matthew Jones, Christopher Langton, James Lynch, Callum Morton
Curated by Stuart Koop
PERFORMANCE: Live Acts – Chunky Move/ACCA at Revolver
23/24 September, 14/15 October, 4/5 November & 16/17 December 1999
Chunky Move Performers and ACCA artists including Lauren Berkowitz, Chris Langton, John Meade
Curated by Stuart Koop
OFF SITE EXHIBITION: Morning Star, Evening Star
Evening Star encompassed a series of projects between contemporary art organisations, curators and artists in Melbourne and Scotland between 1998-99. After the Scottish artists exhibited at various spaces in Melbourne in 1998, eight Melbourne artists travelled to Edinburgh and Glasgow to exhibit their works in 1999. The exchange strengthened and extended networks and relationships between the arts communities involved and built on shared artistic concerns. The project involved ACCA, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 200 Gertrude Street and the Museum of Modern Art at Heide. Morning Star was supported by Arts Victoria, the Australia Council, the City of Melbourne, The British Council, the City of Glasgow and the Scottish Arts Council.
Exhibiting Artists: David Noonan, Kate Beynon, Daniel von Sturmer, Danius Kesminas, Callum Morton, Jacinta Schreuder, Brett Valance
LECTURE: ‘Robert Macpherson: Three Decades’ by guest speaker, arts writer Ingrid Periz.
DATE: 9 March 1999
LECTURE: ‘Beware! In Playing the Phantom, you become one’ by guest speaker Johan Grimonprez, director of Dial History.
DATE: 22 March 1999
LECTURE: Peter Callas: Initialising History
DATE: 17 April 1999
PERFORMANCE: Francisco Tropa: Nuptial Shot, as part of the Melbourne International Biennial.
DATE: 20 May 1999
PERFORMANCE: PH2 (Philip Brophy and Phillip Samartzis), David Brown and The Couzinier Brothers (France)
DATE: 7 June 1999
PERFORMANCE: New York-based sample and turntable composer, David Shea, at the Continental.
DATE: 10 July 1999
David Shea performance invitation
LECTURE: The Guerrilla Grrls at RMIT Storey Hall.
DATE: 10 August 1999
Guerrila Grrls invitation
LECTURE/SCREENING: Stephanie Trembley: Hard and Soft/Besides Images.
French video curator, Stephanie Trembley spoke on the current state and future of French and European video art and presented a screening of select titles by artists including Sylvie Fleury, Pipilotti Rist and Claude Kosky.
DATE: 16 August 1999
LECTURE: 1999 Ian Burn Memorial Lecture: ‘Vernacular Photographs’, by Dr Geoffrey Batchen, teacher, writer and curator, focussing on the history of photography.
DATE: 23 August 1999
ARTIST TALK: Chen Zhen and Xu Bing: Washing Fire and New English Calligraphy. Asia Pacific Triennial visiting artists.
DATE: 4 September 1999
PERFORMANCE: Lucy Guerin
Australian dancer and choreographer, Lucy Guerin performed her recent work.
DATE: 8-9 September 1999
Lucy Guerin performance invitation
FORUM: ‘Art and Politics in Indonesia’
Speakers: Damon Moon, Agung Kurniawan, Mella Jaarsma, Rizki Zeelani, Julie Ewington
DATE: 27 November 1999
PERFORMANCE: Surround Sound Performance – Thomas Couzinier and Philip Samartzis: Atomic Fuzz, 6 Channel Surround Sound.
DATE: 29 November 1999
FORUM: ‘Queering Choreographies, Body Matters’
Speakers: Jill Orr, Suzanna Soboslay, Libby Dempster, Sally Gardiner; Coordinated by Dr. Phillipa Rothchild
DATE: 4 December 1999
LECTURE: ‘Memos for the Third Millennium’ by guest speaker Ihab Hassan, Egyptian-born, US-based, literary theorist and writer.
DATE: 16 December 1999