The UNIMA Congress and World Puppetry Festival in Perth is drawing close; tt runs from April 2 -12! Check UNIMA 2008 for information and the latest updates; the most recent is here. You can also keep an eye on Unima Australia’s news and events page for updates. The Puppet Caravan, comprising several parties of […]
Category Archive for 'arts'
Why doesn’t Digg recognise the arts?
Posted in arts on Jul 7th, 2007
Taking a closer at Digg, I noticed that they have no catagories for the visual or performing arts, books, literature, or craft. The catagories under entertainment are: celebrity, movies, music and television. Why are they so impoverished?
World Refugee Day 2004
Posted in arts, politics, visual art on Jun 25th, 2004
World Refugee Day 2004 was held last Sunday, June 20th. In Canberra the day was celebrated with the installation of a Field of Hearts on the lawns outside Parliament House. The hearts had been sent in from all over Australia, and with messages of support for refugees written on them, were symbolic of a […]
Nice to see the first issue of Artlook, Canberra’s snazzy new free arts monthly, out in theatres and cafes. Artlook takes over from Muse, featuring interviews, reviews, and a calendar of gigs and exhibitions, all now in a glossy magazine format. It also has a full online version of the current issue. I […]
Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Dying’ Sparrow
Posted in arts, creatures, video, visual art on May 23rd, 2004
An exhibition by two Scandanavian artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, is causing a bit of a stir at London’s Tate Modern gallery this month. In an otherwise empty new gallery space 25 metres by 7 metres, a sparrow is trapped between the panes of a double-glazed window, apparently dying. The sparrow is, however, animatronic. […]
Here’s an unusual concept: Kirsten Johnson’s touchy-feely galleries of oil paintings of sock puppets, each one expressing a different emotion. They remind me of emoticons.
I’ve been sculpting with clay the last few days, a favourite activity. I love the feel of it, and how malleable yet solid it is. These days it always makes me think about an interview with Paulus Berensohn that I heard a while ago on the ABC’s Earthbeat program. Berensohn is a Deep Ecologist and […]
‘Offering assistance to the obsessed’
Posted in arts on Feb 27th, 2004
Thats the attractive by-line on a flyer I just received from Auspicious Arts Projects Inc, based in Melbourne. The assistance comes in the form of ‘financial management and advice for small arts companies and arts projects, including qualified financial management for unincorporated associations, individual artists and arts projects, allowing artists to manage their […]