Author results: Dylan Rainforth
Hi God People on the Astral Plane - Melbourne Music from the Late '70s to Last Week
Lou Reed famously said, "One chord is fine, two chords is pushing it, three and you're into jazz." Hi God People on the Astral Plane celebrates DIY music flyers of the one colour, photocopied kind. The appropriate aphorism would be "One colour is fine, two colours is pushing it, offset CMYK and you're into Eurotrance.
ACCA Bookshop
Taking a tape measure, determine the dimensions of your coffee table. Proceed with tape measure to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Turn left through the door towards shelves where catalogues are displayed. Note the drastically reduced sale prices. Take in hand a catalogue by Barbara Kruger.
Air Guitar
Dave Hickey is the love child of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Giorgio Vasari, Anais Nin, Mark Twain, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and, still skimping on his alimony, Lenny Bruce. To wit, he is: promiscuously inclusive, as humanly warm as pee-pee on denim, smarter than a dagger, as serious as your life and funnier than a muthafucka.
A Minor Place
A friend of mine just invented a new social manoeuvre. Check it: bumping into Said Friend he talks-up a great new-but-old dining venue. He's meeting two mutual friends and I'm welcome to join them. Peachy. So I call and tell them I'm dead keen. I don't hear anything more from Said Friend but assume he's definitely in.
RUN Melbourne Museum, The Movement Movement
The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rowe organise large groups to participate in ‘choreographed jogging expeditions through the world's major cultural institutions.
In Order of Appearance
Did you ever find out you’ve got a word completely wrong? Like saying “malapropism” when you mean “melanoma”-this would be an embarrassing malapropism. Anyway, I thought “peripatetic” was a fancy way of saying “all over the shop” and if an artist was “peripatetic” they had wide ranging interests and used a broad range of materials.
World's End
In On the Beach, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner fall tragically in love as they wait for the nuclear fallout that has already wiped out the Northern hemisphere to blow its way down here. Nearly fifty years later that same melancholy vibe of atmospheric doom pervades World's End, an exhibition of thirteen Melbourne and UK artists who aren't here for a good time, or even for a long time - they're here for the End Times.
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