The indefatigable Stephen Jones has curated This is Video
at Artspace from May 30th until 16th June

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The result of extensive archival research and remastering of key historical material, this project revisits the 1981 exhibition Video Art from Australia presented in Venice and subsequently toured through Australia (before disappearing in transit). Works from the original exhibition have been supplemented by some key additions, creating a unique insight into early video practice in Australia.

Stephen Jones is an Australian video artist, curator and electronic engineer. He is author of Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956 – 1975 (Leonardo Book Series, MIT Press,2011)

Featuring work by: Pam Brown, Warren Burt, Peter Callas, David Chesworth, Malcolm Ellis, Mick Glasheen, Miles Green, Marr Grounds, Stephen Jones, Peter Kennedy, Eva Krczag, Gilly Leahy, Bob Pollock, David Perry, Paul Pholeros, Jill Scott, Bush Video, Bruce Tolley

Visit Artspace here

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If you like Etta James or if rhythm & blues, soul and funk are your kinds of music then you should not miss this brilliant show. Vika Bull is totally stunning. She is a fantastic singer. And the seven piece band with piano, horn section, drums, bass and rhythm guitars is wonderful too - plus, the musicians sing. It comprises twenty-three songs - it's a totally generous show. It's only on for one more day in Sydney, but they're travelling to Brisbane and Perth soon.

Sydney details : here
Brisbane, Perth and more info from Room 8 : here

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A bumper issue of Mark Young's Otoliths magazine has just been published. Click here to read the 'many e-things' it contains.

                                                                        Happy May Day ...

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Anna Gibbs at the Parkview Hotel, Alexandria, 28.04.13

Thanks to everyone who came to the launch party for Home by Dark yesterday afternoon. There are lots of photos of the event taken by Nola Farman and Anna Gibbs, plus one image by Astrid Lorange - just click here to view them.

And thanks to Anna Gibbs for delivering such a wonderful talk.

Today Anna and her co-editors, Barbara Brooks, Moya Costello and Ros Prosser have announced the publication of their selection of Australian women's experimental writing - Mud map - in a special edition of TEXT. Click here to read the work.

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You are invited to celebrate
a new poetry collection

by PAM BROWN

to be launched by
ANNA GIBBS

3pm
Sunday 28th April

at
Parkview Hotel
corner Mitchell Road & Harley Street
Alexandria

everyone welcome

Home by Dark is published by Shearsman Books
Click here for further information

How to get to Parkview Hotel
Mitchell & Harley, Alexandria
transport & map click here

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Pam Brown's work is fearless, acutely observant, witty and wry. She delights in the curiosities of the the everyday, in notational sprezzatura, in the penetrating encapsulation of layers of time, chance and meaning with her twists of lexicon, diction and line break. This is a work of quotidian consternation, breaking through from irony to sheer fondness and painful shadows. She sees askew - and Home by Dark has its own poignant look at decades, bodies, and changes. Pam Brown is a wonderful writer, one of the scintillating wizards of Oz poetry.
                                              Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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Pam Brown's Home by Dark is plainly beautiful: a subtle, moody daybook, warding off darkness and 'counter-revolutionary' boredom. Brown's engaged intelligence and light touch draws us into the flows and eddies of 'a poetry world' where 'everything is providential,/or not'. Reserved and intimate, swift and immersive, these poems are 'right here', in the midst of precarity: 'strike another match, go start anew'.
                                                                                                     Kate Lilley

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Last night, Sydney-based sound poet, Amanda Stewart, and Jaap Blonk, who's visiting Australia from the Netherlands, made an exceptionally wonderful performance of theirs and others' energised and complex sound artistry (including Jaap's presentation of Kurt Schwitters''Ursonate'). The well-attended private function was held at Nick Shimmins' warehouse home a.k.a. 'The People's Republic of Camperdown'. It's difficult to find highlights to talk about when performances are so good that everything works - no stumbles, no slips, no technical mishaps. The unique part of the evening though was the finale when Amanda and Jaap presented a series of improvised pieces as a duet. They both were, in a word, fantastic.

For a photo album of no-flash grainery click here

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New Steamers : Volume 4
Thanks Sam Langer & friends

Covers: details, paintings by Amber Wallis

click on the contents pages to enlarge & read the happy lists:

steamereditorATgmailDOTcom

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