Author results: Dylan Rainforth
Jon Campbell, 'Folk Songs'
Artist and musician Jon Campbell has a delicate constitution and a nose for the important things in life. First felony: prima facie and to wit, commenting on his new painting Cheap Perfume and Fried Dim Sims Mr Campbell says, "At Flinders Street Station you can buy take-away food from a little kiosk on the platform.
You're the *Cunt*, Donut.
"Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women..." (from the spoken word ‘breakdown' of the Patti Smith Group's cover of 'Hey Joe').
The Shilo Project
Will the real Shilo please stand up? I'm not just talking to the ninety artists involved in "covering" Neil Diamond's join-the-dots album cover for The Shilo Project at the Ian Potter. Or the fact that the song itself is an ode to Diamond's imaginary childhood friend. Imaginary. Not real.
*Tastes Self*
Goin' up the country - still don't give a fuck. *Tastes Self* is psychocowpunkhorseshitmentaldrama dredged from the childhoods of the sprite-sized Kate Smith and the benign sorcerer Alex Vivian. Introduced at Kate's first show at Utopian Slumps, Whoops Kibbutz, the pair got chatting - just like the yokels they aren't - about growing up in lower NSW's bucolic Riverina and all that pastoral goodness.
Tomorrow The World
Call it THE OTHER Melbourne International Arts festival - West Space are putting on a three-week festival of sound, performance, and audiovisual art. And the most you'll pay is $20 - can't say that about the German opera can you? If it makes noise or it's got images that move then you'll find it in Tomorrow The World.
'TS2' by Slow Art Collective
Eighties kids TV series Fraggle Rock always was ripe for Marxist analysis. The Doozers are obviously the proletariat, and the Fraggles represent an apolgetic for first world capitalism (Doozers LIKE being exploited). Gorgs are a stupid (inbred) Old World aristocracy. The wise, all-knowing Trash Heap is none other than Mother Earth, representing historical inevitability - the environment and the in-built obsolescence of an unsustainable capitalist economy.
MIFF - Arts and Minds
Appearances can be deceptive. Or at the very least, seductive. As a photographer, Anton Corbijn made images of rock stars - then he made a movie about a rock star (Control) to become a star himself. Documentary isn't always a mirror to reality. Sometimes it's a mirror to another mirror. To another mirror to another.
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