Performance - 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.
Last Tuesday Society, The Plagiarism Edition
Listen, Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Whoa oh, oh. Oooh craps. (Ever since we got a copyright lawyer in here, writing stuff has been a real date with the downers.) Hang-on. Okay. When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go, Jesus, all bloody right.
Tonight's Last Tuesday Society is 'The Plagiarism Edition', hosted by Richard 'Dick Dastardly' Higgins (pictured waist up) and featuring artists such as Bron Batten, The Suitcase Royale, The List Operators, The Caravan of Love and Thomas Henning (The Black Lung) - ripping stuff right off.
JP Incorporated
Anyone smart enough to have gone out to the Northcote Social Club for the Neil Hamburger show, was treated to a revelatory night of anti-comedy. And the real highlight for me (all respect Neil) was singing-comedy-variety act JP Incorporated. It felt like watching a live action Tim and Eric Awesome Show, in song.
The Hayloft Project
When it comes to art, it's easy to feel isolated down under. Everything edgy and new in art/music etc seems to sharpen its edge elsewhere. Also it seems we're never really validated until we get some sort of overseas (usually American) endorsement. Not only that but theatre (outside of the broadway musical version) is often seen as the drier intellectual cousin of music, film, visual art and dance.
Land's End
Philippe Genty's puppetry sure has changed since the '80s. Now, instead of a flirtatious exchange between a feather boa and an old camera, there are women with scissors for legs and giant humanoid dragonflies.
And while Genty's creations still manage to make HR Puff'n'Stuff look like a bastion of normalcy, Land's End (a collaboration between Genty and wife Mary Underwood) has a distinctly sober tone.
Interplay
Demystifying the creative process can be a dangerous thing. Sometimes it's nice to think artists are rarefied beings, periodically struck by bone-shaking bolts of inspiration, rather than slobs like the rest of us, makin' stuff in their underwear amongst toast crumbs and fallen armies of takeaway coffee cups.
d.v.d at Aphids Reel Music Festival
Comprised of two human drummers and a visual artist, d.v.d piece together live animations triggered by the musicians' drumming. They push music/gaming boundaries by reworking the ‘80s arcade classic, ‘Pong' (You all know, Pong, yeh?) with their own unique tribute. These guys are just one of the groups performing at the Aphids Reel Music Festival - four nights of live performances combining music with the moving image.
Yelling at Stars
When I'm not working out on my Bullworker or transcribing the voices in my am radio's static I like to spend my nights at the Roberts Street park screaming at the stars. Little smug shiny fuckers, shining all bright with their little smiley lightypants and all. Hate em! But you know apparently that don't count for jack because the folks at Yelling at Stars reckon they're sending the first Australian interstellar message to hyper-wonk it's sciencey way into deep space.
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