Author results: Kirsten Law
Team Australia launch
What:
Team Australia launch
Where:
The Carlton Hotel & Studios, Lvl 2, 193 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
TONIGHT! Gallery opens 5pm, drinks from 6pm
Description:
Just where does Australian art stand on the world stage? Are we part of an international community? What is the Australian aesthetic? How do we see ourselves? Are we suffering an inferiority complex? Is it our fault that our Dads couldn't cry? The artists in Team Australia mutate Australian icons such as the gumtree, the kangaroo, the dead sheep and Peter Weir.
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: Popcorn & Beer
The Greasers, The Hondas, Yeo And The Fresh Goods and The Harpoons
What:
The Greasers, The Hondas, Yeo & The Fresh Goods and The Harpoons
Where:
The Evelyn, 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Dec 4, doors 8.30pm
How much:
$10
Description:
The Greasers and The Hondas are united by their various claims to be dirty, kinky, chinkie, jock-hating, devil-may-care, homosexual, voodoo and bad. But we know better - like Matt Dillon in 1983's The Outsiders, The Greasers and The Hondas are deranged, but they are also cute as a bleached smile over double denim standing next to a guy named Ponyboy.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Cordial
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Long awaited, and well worth that wait, Nobody told me there'd be days like these is the debut short story collection from Sydney-based New Zealander, Amanda Maxwell. Steeped in coming-of-age debris, these tales chart a deft course through landscapes that are interior and exterior, foreign and local, man-made and natural.
PHILOS-o-FACE
Philosophers come big and small, male or female, little known or well known, and in all colours. They come in structuralist, existentialist, futurist, fascist and pragmatist varieties. They come living or dead, in MA Degree form or For Dummies form. And now they come in badge form.
In creating PHILOS-o-FACE, Prudence Rees-Lee saw a gap in the market that could be filled only by a leathery, creased old face mounted on a pin.
Like I Give a Frock
Hey, I meant to ask you; you know Michi, don't you? I saw you with her at that party - she was the one in the Marc Jacobs pumps. Yeah, the ones with one broken heel. That's her! Come to think of it, I saw you in Journal with her just last week. You, I recall, were wearing a skort (of all things), which would have been all right had you been sitting on one of the low tables and not an extremely high stool, hanging your butt over the edge.
Stuff White People Like
Sure, you're an unassuming, left-leaning gen-X or Y-er who goes to the occasional independent Czech film showcase, has flirted with vegetarianism and secretly likes Kathmandu products. So what, eh? You're just trying to get on in the world, you're not bothering anyone - you believe in social justice, yeah? Of course you do.
Pornocracy
Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan you might have attended last year's Focus on Catherine Breillat at ACMI. In this case, you will know that her films portray a world that is more disquieting than reassuring, more intimate than objective and more corporeal than cerebral.
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