Herbal tea - Look - Melbourne Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Melbourne's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Melbourne's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
'You Were In My Dream', by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine
Nothing kills a conversation better than someone starting a story with, 'I had this crazy dream last night...'. Watch as eyes glaze over and minds wander across the world. A few things, however, can be interesting when it comes to dreams: 1) when I'm in other people's, and 2) someone once told me about how, one magical night, they controlled their own.
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').
NEWRAFAEL
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, writing about this site is like...miming about James Earl Jones? In any case, please just go to this website instead of reading this lame description.
But if I must... His name is Rafaël Rozendaal. He's an internet artist, I guess, or something - creating site upon site, each a one-hit wonder, simultaneously silent and playful, austere and organic.
Victory Over the Sun
Language is like the sun. Every day, without fail, it is there, unquestioned. It even burns you sometimes. Victory Over the Sun, curated by Melissa Loughnan and Helen Hughes of Utopian Slumps, is an exploration of the limitations of language and its relationship to progression, evolution and revolution.
Fever Dreams
From the dense foliage, Leah Fraser's forest creatures emerge. Peering out with eyes at once wistful, knowing and vulnerable; they invite us to join their secretive, lonely world.
Leah's first solo show marked the opening of Black & Blue Gallery in Sydney. For her first Melbourne show, the Sydney artist has moved beyond 2D imagery on the gallery walls and introduced an immersive space, with large-scale watercolours sitting alongside a kinetic installation of 100 clay birds suspended in flight.
P.A.M. presents PAMBOOKS
What is a PAMBOOK? I was stumped. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to bump into a wise man who, on a break from setting up the exhibition upstairs, was pondering a dumpling menu on the street and who had clearly pondered the PAMBOOKS with equal or greater intensity.
"It's like a crazy friend with a bunch of wise backyards in a really punk professor, with an amazing lecture playing.
Grow Wild
Escaping the city for a weekend in the bush can be hard, but no wonder. Cities were built to keep nature out, dummy. And, for better of worse, they do pretty good job of it. This Friday, however, a little bit of nature comes to town in the form of Grow Wild, a group show curated by Sleep Club (Adam Cruickshank and Dell Stewart).
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