VIDEO INTERNSHIP POSITION AVAILABLE AT ARTEREAL GALLERY

The opportunity is available for an ongoing video internship at Artereal Gallery. The successful applicant will work with the Artereal team approximately 3 days a month. The successful applicant will work on video projects including artist interviews and the documentation of exhibition installations / openings.

Click here to view a video made by our previous video intern (Lachlan Nicholls) documenting Ken + Julia Yonetani's 2012 Crystal Palace Exhibition.

The successful candidate must be someone with a proven interest in film making or contemporary visual arts and who is currently pursuing a career in these areas. Experience is not necessary however previous study or involvement with the arts, in particular film making will be looked upon favourably. Current Fine Arts or Film students with an interest in video work are also encouraged to apply. (Please note that applicants will need to have access to their own filming equipment and editing software).

Benefits of this position include attending fun opening nights, a location only ten minutes from the city centre and a personalised reference which can be added to your CV and portfolio.

The candidate should ideally be available to work flexible hours including night time exhibition openings. If you are interested in this position please email a brief CV and cover letter along with your contact details to: rhianna@artereal.com.au

COLLABORATEURS / SYLVIA SCHWENK INTERVIEW

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Every day throughout the Collaborateurs exhibition, we will be sharing an interview with one of the exhibiting artists...

SYLVIA SCHWENK

How did you and The Gravedigger first meet?

I was working on an art commission in Europe and most days I would ride my bike past a cemetery close to where I lived. One day I got off my bike and went for a walk in the cemetery. It was such a beautiful tranquil space with green grass and blossoming flowers.

I sat on a bench in the cemetery listening to the quietness of the space, watching people tending graves, watering plants and spending time with their loved ones.

I was transported while sitting there and felt I needed to do a work of art about death - so I approached the Director of the graveyard and talked about my ideas of making a short film about what happens in preparing a grave for a burial.

Why did you choose to collaborate with The Gravedigger?

Death is such an important part of life and for many people it is a part of their everyday lives. Yet as a society we generally feel uncomfortable talking about death, funerals and grief.

I thought it would be good to make a work that looked at all these things in an accessible way and so I worked with two gravediggers, filming them as they prepared a grave for a burial.

What is it about collaboration as a process that appeals to you as a contemporary artist?

Sharing experiences, ideas and time with people.

What is it that you hope to realise through this collaborative project?

I wanted to make death more accessible. However, when I filmed the gravediggers an unusual thing happened, which changed the nature of the work.

I was unsure what to do with what transpired, but ended up presenting what I filmed, because this too is a part of life. 

Sylvia Schwenk will be exhibiting today, Sunday 7 July, from 3pm-9pm. 

Click here to learn more about the Collaborateurs exhibition.

COLLABORATEURS / BRIDIE CONNELL & BRIAN CHASE INTERVIEW

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Every day throughout the Collaborateurs exhibition, we will be sharing an interview with one of the exhibiting artists...

BRIDIE CONNELL & BRIAN CHASE

How did you first meet?

Brian: We met cuz we were there at the same place at the same time. She stood out from most of the rest and I knew she knew what others didn't. I wanted to talk.

Bridie: So we ditched the party and went to the 24 hour screening of The Clock.

Why did you choose to collaborate?

Brian: I’m a fan of her work.

Bridie: Ditto. I’m a fan of his work.

What is it about collaboration as a process that appeals to you as a contemporary artist?

Brian: I have me but, there is only so much of me I can know without the help/guidance/challenge from someone else.

Bridie: I’m stubborn and independent and more than a little shy about collaborating but I’ve found opening up to the right people is often the push I need to keep moving forward.

What is it that you hope to realise through this collaborative project?

Brian: That if you throw it up in the air someone else will catch it.

Bridie: I wanted a challenge and this project fell into my hands. I originally assumed we’d do a sound/installation split (best of both talents) but this track took me in a different direction… Hopefully it translates to an audience.

Bridie Connell will be exhibiting today, Friday 5 July, from 3pm-9pm.

Click here to learn more about the Collaborateurs exhibition.

CRYSTAL PALACE: THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NUCLEAR NATIONS...

Our current exhibition Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations by Ken + Julia Yonetani closes this Saturday 3 November. Their concurrent exhibition What the Birds Knew at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art also closes on the same date, so make sure to come in and see both exhibitions whilst you still can!

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH DAS PLATFORMS

In the lead up to their exhibition Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations, which opens at Artereal Gallery on 3 October, Das Platforms recently interviewed Ken + Julia Yonetani aboutt their current exhibition What The Birds Knew which runs until 3 November 2012 at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

In this interview the artists discuss social and cultural education, the ‘green ant dreaming’ from the same region as the infamous Nabarlek Uranium mine in Australia’s Northern Territory, changing attitudes to nuclear power and the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Join us for the exhibition opening of Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations on Thursday 4 October from 6-8pm.

GARY SMITH / VIDEO

A huge thanks to our video intern Lachlan Nicholls who has worked tirelessly to create this great video documenting Gary Smith's current exhibition Littoral. Catch Gary Smith's work at Artereal Gallery until 1 September 2012.

LIAM BENSON: FREE FALL

Liam Benson recently performed as part of the Free Fall line up at Oxford Art Factory over two nights on Friday 29th and Sat 30th June.

"Introduced in 2011, Free Fall transformed the glass cube of Oxford Art Factory into a series of live art installations. These installations, performed between the glass of the multi-roomed live music venue, interacted with the gig-goers and audience members, incorporating the use of colour, endurance, movement and other experimental processes...

The Free Fall concept is a fresh approach to art making using spontaneity and imagination to connect with  audiences outside of the generic gallery space and into the bustling night time environment of the Oxford Art Factory.

For Free Fall 2012, Benson presents an empathetic performance about masculine emotion titled ‘Threshold’ which is part of the artist’s broader exploration of contemporary masculinity.

Part of Benson’s exploration considers masculine sub-culture, how men communicate, bond together and find their sense of belonging. By embodying characters based on archetypal masculine figures within masculine sub-cultures, Benson acts out and explores patterns of behavior which define their identity and place within the community.

The performance ‘Threshold’ features a character dressed in dark clothes, shrouded by a hoodie. Despite it being a common silhouette on the streets, the hood bestows a sense of mystery and anonymity to it’s wearer, who when placed within a darkened space becomes a person of suspicion. Through the illumination of fairy lights and graffiti, the otherwise hidden characteristics of the figure are made visible. "  (John A. Douglas - Curator).

THE GREATER ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE VIDEO INTERVIEW

A huge thanks to our new video intern Lachlan Nicholls who has worked tirelessly to create this great video documenting Artefacts From The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The exhibition is currently showing at Artereal Gallery and features work by Abdul Abdullah, Casey Ayres and Nathan Beard.

Catch Artefacts From The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere at Artereal Gallery until 28 July 2012.

LIAM BENSON ARTIST TALK - SAT 19 MAY

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Join us for an artist talk with Liam Benson this Saturday 19 May from 3pm at Artereal Gallery. Liam will be speaking about his latest body of work Motherland and the ideas behind this series of video and photographic works.

The Motherland series of multi-faceted performance and photo media works is Liam Benson’s first major solo exhibition with Artereal. Liam Benson has been exhibiting and performing since 2002. Benson also regularly works in collaboration with Naomi Oliver as the performance based duo, The Motel Sisters. His works are held in significant public and private collections and he was recently awarded the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award judged by Ben Quilty and the Contemporary Award in the Fishers Ghost Art Award judged by MCA curator Glenn Barkley.

AZIX + CUCHER AT THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART

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A solo exhibition by Artereal artists Aziz + Cucher has recently opened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Entitled Some People the exhibition features a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Working together since 1992, Aziz + Cucher are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital imaging. 

Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situates recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area. This conflict, in addition to witnessing firsthand the catastrophic events of 9/11, inspired Aziz + Cucher to embark on a new body of work exploring a cycle of tragic and absurd inevitability begun in antiquity that continues today. Some People was inspired in part by the late Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska's poem by the same name first published in 2001.

To hear Aziz + Cucher talk about their new work see the below video. The exhibition runs until 21 October 2012.

GARY SMITH AND FRANK THIRION FEATURED ON LATELINE...

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For anyone who has not yet seen the Archibald Prize in person, you can get a sneak peak at Gary Smith and Frank Thirion's work in this story by Lateline's Anne Maria Nicholson.

The Archibald Prize exhibition can be seen at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 31 March – 3 June 2012. Gary Smith's work can also be seen in the stockroom at Artereal Gallery.

NORTHERN LIGHTS AND CHARLES DENNINGTON ON SIXTOEIGHT.NET

For all our interstate and overseas followers who won't be able to come into the gallery and see our current exhibitions Northern Lights and Charles Dennington, you can do the next best thing and click through to see Fleur MacDonald's video tour and review of the shows at www.sixtoeight.net 

ART MONTH SYDNEY VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH GILES RYDER

Art Month Sydney recently sat down and interviewed Sydney based artist Giles Ryder about his own practice as well as his contribution towards Art Month Sydney 2012 via Northern Lights a group exhibition curated by Ryder at Artereal Gallery.

QUEST...

 

Thank you to everyone who participated in Nola Diamantopoulos's interactive performance QUEST. We have had an amazing response to the performance.

See what some of the participants had to say about being part of QUEST.

And don't forget to keep an eye out for Quest in 2012...

KEN + JULIA YONETANI AT RMIT GALLERY...

Ken + Julia Yonetani are currently included in 2112 Imagining the Future, a curated group exhibition at RMIT Gallery in Melbourne. The exhibition which runs until 28 January, 2012 taps "into general anxieties about an uncertain future and public concern about the consequences of climate change, 2112 Imagining the Future presents a range of images revealing how contemporary artists imagine the world might look in one hundred years’ time.

The exhibition responds to recent artworks that gravitate towards the realm of science fiction, a genre that explores ideas about the future and is highly developed in literature and film, but has hitherto been regarded as fairly marginal in the visual arts.

By resisting predictions of inevitable global disaster, or nuclear winters, the artworks explore the idea that although the unintended consequences of human actions have already begun to shape our future, the future is not fixed and is a domain that can shift and change according to human vision and consensus.

2112 Imagining the Future features works in a variety of media, exploring largely dystopian and occasionally utopian glimpses of a future world." Dr Linda Williams, curator

Artists include:  Philip Brophy, Justine Cooper, Keith Cottingham, Thomas Doyle, Lesley Duxbury, Kellyann Geurts, Stephen Haley, Kirsten Johannsen, Sam Leach, Tony Lloyd, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, Mariko Mori, Hisaharu Motoda, Lyndal Osborne, Patricia Piccinini, Philip Samartzis, Roman Signer, Superflex, Debbie Symons, Stephanie Valentin, Darren Wardle, Kenji Yanobe , Ken + Julia Yonetani.

To see a sneak peak of some of the work from this exhibition click on the below video...

LIAM BENSON AND THE AMAZING ROLLING PICTURE SHOW

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Join The Amazing Rolling Picture Show crew as they pull up in the recently closed Market Row off Druitt Street - right beside Town Hall. This week, until 17 November, they present the video work of Liam Benson.

The Amazing Rolling Picture Show connects video artists with our city, creating intimate installation spaces amongst Sydney’s laneways. The program incorporates 12 unique artists exhibiting on two rickshaw viewing screens in a new laneway each Thursday night.

These rickshaws have been converted into portable projection contraptions, which are cycled to selected destinations within Sydney's CBD. The unique projection hubs allow for video artists to exhibit outdoors with ease like they’ve never been able to before. The six-wheeled rolling guerrilla carnival is assembled and dismantled each exhibition night, self sufficiently able to display single or duel screen video installation artworks.

With the aid of these two cheeky rickshaws and a lot of pedal power, The Amazing Rolling Picture Show is created by Sydney’s custom bicycle creator Stallion Bikes (Sarah Langdon), 1/3 of international video art collective VIDEOKILLS (Emma Pike) and is supported by the City of Sydney Laneways Public Art Program 2011.

For more information on Liam Benson's screening click here.

GARY DEIRMENDJIAN - 'CARBON INPUT'

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"This took place at the dilapidated Rozelle tram shed (next to Harold Park Paceway) before Easter this year. It was one of my favourite places to be In Sydney, but much less so now that its been fenced up by Mirvac, waiting for DA approval for more exclusive apartments.

I went there for a wonder late that day, saw the scattered soft toys and the trolley hiding in the bushes. On the spur of the moment, as is mostly the case with these micro vids of mine, I did what I did thinking only that it would be interesting to film the fire gobbling up the toys. Here we are in the cool of more than half a year (and several attempts at working with the footage) later ... it suddenly clicked into form and began to carry far more meaning in reverse than it ever did going forward.

It began to really say something about the sheer black energy that goes into their creation, which remains largely unaccountable." - Gary Deirmendjian (2011)

SYLVIA SCHWENK - STAN AND MAUREEN DUKE ART PRIZE

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Congratulations to Sylvia Schwenk, who is a finalist in the 2011 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize for her video work five Prison stories. The prize is an acquisitive art award and exhibition, open to all forms of art media except photography. In 2011 the prize will be judged by artist Davida Allen, with the winner announced on Saturday 10th December.

Five Prison stories relays 5 stories about life in prison in a relaxed, private and almost humorous way. The work gives an insight into a way of living and area of society that most people have no exposure to or experience with. The stories are told in the third person and are set against images and footage of the inside of a prison. The film makes the inaccessible accessible in a simple and highly engaging way, as well as looking at the notion of what performance in the everyday means for those who live in a space where private and public co-exist – sometimes simultaneously.

A preview of this video work can be seen below...

The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize runs from 10 Dec 2011 – 5 Feb 2012 at the Gold Coast Art Gallery.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI DOCUMENTARY...

The above documentary chronicling the journey behind Ken + Julia Yonetani's latest series of work, Still Life: The Food Bowl, was created by  documentary maker Damian McDermott for arts channel STVDIO.

STVDIO travelled to Mildura to meet Blue Mountains artists Ken & Julia Yonetani, who spent three months in the region studying the effects of salinity in the Murray-Darling basin. The result is an exquisite sculptural installation created entirely from Murray River salt as seen at Artereal Gallery in June 2011.

STVDIO is Australia’s dedicated arts channel, available on channel 132 on Foxtel and Austar. STVDIO invites you to see the arts up close, as it showcases the best of theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film and literature.



DLUX MEDIA ARTS AT ARTEREAL...

Artereal Gallery is excited to be hosting the launch of dLux Media Arts new  Deluxe dLux Edition #1 video anthology.

"Deluxe dLux Edition #1 was conceived to make accessible the work of some of the most important Australian artists working in video, film, and digital imagery today. This is the first commercially available anthology of its kind, serving as a point of entry for collectors, and as an ongoing project with 12 new artists annually, each of whom will be featured as artists of the month on the associated catalogue calendar and on the dLux website.

The funds raised from the sale of this edition will go a long way towards continuing the efforts of dLux MediaArts in touring, promoting and developing electronic art and education programs in remote and regional Australia as well as overseas and reduce the shortfall in our operational budget due to recent funding cuts.

The 12 artists included in Deluxe dLux Edition #1 who have generously donated their works are: Dani Marti, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Angelica Mesiti, John A Douglas, Soda_Jerk, Kate Murphy, Elvis Richardson, John Tonkin, Dennis Beabois, Hayden Fowler, Sue Healey and Julie Rrap.

Strictly limited to an edition of 100, these highly collectable sets by highly collectable artists are a must have.

Housed in a funky aluminum travel case, its a great addition to any budding or established collection and at only $295 each, represent great value." - dLux Media Arts

There will be a celebratory launch and screening at Artereal Gallery, from 6-8pm on Tuesday November 15, meet the artists, get your catalogue signed and join us for a  glass of wine!