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By: Penny Modra
Date: 26th Apr 07
Format: Book
Motivation: Pimp your coffee table
What:
Making Space: artist run initiatives in Victoria
Where:
STICKY and selected ARIs
When:
Launching at Platform Fri Apr 27 6pm-8pm
How much:
Book $24.95
Launch free
There's a lot to take in where this Making Space event is concerned, so it's lucky that someone's published a book to go with it.
The first thing to know is that Making Space is a festival of Victoria's Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs). That's 21 galleries featuring more than 80 artists in 50 exhibitions, running in Melbourne until June 15. Some people, at this point, are thinking about all the new art they'll see, plus the workshops, performances, forums and various meaningful exchanges that are in store. Others are reeling at the prospect of a launch party marathon to rival a Black Sabbath tour but with better clothes. Whatever your perspective, now's a good time to get on the ARI trail.
The event is being coordinated by the best, pinkest online ARI guide around, via-n. The book is a mammoth hardcover edited by Din ‘The Art Pimp' Heagney and designed by Brad Haylock. It's 272 pages of ARI info and histories. With pictures too, it transforms from a mere resource into a hangover companion.