The Garden of Interior Delights
Some people see genitals in everything. The vegetable aisle, certain 'art' sculptures in Port Melbourne or simply their boss's face; the world is funnier for its phallic objects. Kate Just is one who can spot a sexual organ from miles away. When examining Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights she looked past the nudes with multiple legs and people stroking giant fish in the foreground and went straight for the pink fountain in the left panel.
Matt Griffin
I don't know art but I know what I like, and that's the work of Melbourne-based artist Matt Griffin. You might have seen his work in the first installment of the Life.Death.Thereafter exhibition trilogy. The first one (Life, duh) was at that Silvershot gallery? I missed it. I heard Matt's stuff was pretty cool though.
'Unearthing The Hawke', Lane Cormick
Alcohol will be available at this opening. (This will become relevant later.)
Lane Cormick is really into the Eastern European body artists from the 1960s and 70s. There was a group of 'Viennese Actionists' who were most known for their rather violent and fucked up 'trangressions' of the body. Their stunts were pretty bloody and shocking.
'Head Case'
If we didn't feel weird typing it, we'd say Head Case will blow your mind. So we won't say that. We'll just tell you that it's an incredible exhibition put together by Skye Luckins of Buro North, and it's designed to raise awareness of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
The show includes art, design, illustration and photography by 30 creatives from around Australia, including Jamie Daddo (an awesome dude who used to come into the ThreeThousand staff cafe in South Melbourne all the time and apart from that has to put up with being related to Andrew and Lachlan).
Room to Live Again
A couch, sleeping bag, lamp, guitar, laptop and a hermit crab tank. These are Ian Wadley's belongings furnishing Bus Gallery's tiniest nook. After a three-year world trip, Ian will be living in the gallery for the next three weeks. He isn't just installing his personal life into the space, however.
Flux Capacitor
Time travel. Not real. Someone really ought to tell the nerds who wrote the Wikipedia entry on Back to the Future. Along with an explanation of how the flux capacitor powers the DeLorean, there's a diagram on there explaining the inter-connected chain of effects of Doc and Marty's eight interventions in the space-time continuum.
Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad
Lonely Planet writers have set the precedent for fictional travel writing - who needs to visit a country when the chick you're dating has been there? (His travel guide was probably way better than the usual fact-bogged ones anyway.)
In a natural extension of this logic, nine artists including Dylan Martorell, Nathan Gray, Tai Snaith and Amber Wallis come together for Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad, putting a creative spin on what travel means to them.
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