BETHUNGRA

2011-10-12T11:04:00.000+05:00

2011-04-04T10:17:00.001+05:00

2011-03-29T08:05:00.000+05:00

2011-02-19T15:48:00.000+05:00

Coming Up

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current shows

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at TCB

level 1/12 waratah place

melbourne VIC 3000

Runs until until Feb 19 2011

ANOTHER YUMMY FANTASY II (A brief survey on some ideas behind Melbourne sculpture right now)

James Deutsher ‘Orange design’, Galvanised steel, powder coat, 120cm by 90cm, 2011

Liv Barrett ‘+13103596017’, ‘Hotel Theory’ letterhead, telephone number, Mateo Tannatt’s recording of piano falling from 80ft, Hammer Museum, A4, 2011

Christopher L G Hill ‘Title unknown’, various materials and dimensions, 2010-2011 NFS.

Ash Kilmartin ‘The travelling mime’, Leather and silk, 61 x 31cm, 2011

Joshua Petherick & Liv Barrett ‘Conceptual Midori (from arrangement series)’, Scanner, glass resin, glass, water, foliage, 29 x 36cm2011

Kate Smith ‘American hobo culture’, Oil on linen, 32 x 56cm, 2011

Alex Vivian ‘Scally (squashed against) glass”, Motorcross t-shirt, glass, 17cm x 3cm, 2011

2011-01-27T13:10:00.003+05:00

2011-01-27T12:54:00.002+05:00

minnie the moocha II

2011-01-27T12:37:00.001+05:00

minnie the moocha

2010-11-06T08:30:00.000+05:00

2010-10-23T05:41:00.000+05:00

'Freda Cimmons is hungover' 2010

2010-09-27T12:57:00.000+05:00

2010-09-15T06:35:00.001+05:00

Yummy Fantasy
(a brief survey on some ideas behind Melbourne sculpture right now)
Curated by Kate Smith and Alex Vivian.
Studio 17
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

For two days.

Works by: Ash Kilmartin, Joshua Petherick, Christopher LG Hill, James Deutsher, Alex Vivian and Kate Smith.

2010-08-11T10:26:00.002+05:00

Kate and Alex past / into recent work being sent os

towel collabs and individuals, plate collabs,

have a show in the 'west wing' feb next yr

post 251

2010-07-13T08:26:00.004+05:00

2010-07-05T09:27:00.001+05:00

images from 'monkey makes a painting' at y3k

2010-06-14T14:37:00.002+05:00

Kate Smith 'monkey makes a paintings'
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Dan Bell 'pwdre slurr '

Y3K
205 Young street
fitzroy

OPENNING
19/6/2010
6-8PM

OPEN 12-6PM
Thurs-Sat
19/6-10/7

2010-05-16T09:20:00.001+05:00

All In the Mind ABC Radio National 2010

Natasha Mitchell: But there's also a fear of nature. A point that you make , which is slightly paradoxical, is that the rise in environmental education and this generation's awareness of global environmental issues has perhaps compounded that kind of estrangement from nature.

Richard Louv: Certainly I hear folks who have camps et cetera, kids come on school buses field trips, they tell me that over and over again the kids get off the school bus and they're terrified to get off the sidewalk, terrified of the lions and tigers and bears. they really believe there are lions out there. In the mountains of San Diego there are, but...but there's another kind of fear though. Glenn Albrecht in Perth has come up with a phrase for that, 'solastalgia', which is a kind of deep homesickness for nature itself. We miss it at some deep level, and the fear of that loss of that nature is always there. There's another phrase for that that David Sobel at Antioch in the US uses, 'ecophobia', that's the fear of environmental destruction. Sobel makes the point that we are programming our kids way too early to believe that the Earth is over, that nature is at an end, because...

Natasha Mitchell: Well, kids are carrying a sort of sense of impending doom into their future.

Richard Louv: And there's nothing wrong later with talking about those things, but in their formative years...these children haven't even had a chance to go out and have that sense of joy and wonder and just playing in nature, just digging a hole in the backyard just for the fun of it, or finding a turtle. Those kinds of experiences, they're having less of those and they're being told more and more at the same time nature is dying. So if we do that too much too early, for the rest of their lives they associate nature with what? With fear and destruction and the end. That's not exactly going to produce good conversationalists and environmentalists in the future, it's not going to create really happy people in the future either.

We're missing two-thirds of the story, and the two-thirds of the story that we're missing is that, because of climate change et cetera, everything in the next 40 years must change. To any self-respecting creative 16-year-old, that could be good news, and we better be entering one of the most creative times in human history. That's exciting.

2010-05-14T05:49:00.003+05:00

RALPH LAUREN

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST NOVEMBER 2002

The designer's sprawling double ranch RL ranch in Colorado

Driving from midtown Manhattan to Montauk to see the man himself, I was thinking that it is hard to tell where Ralph Lauren ends and the real world begins. I was a pretty good example of the conundrum. Out of an innocent wish for comfort and hot-summer urbanity I was wearing a Polo shirt, a polo seersucker jacket and horn-rimmed Polo eyeglasses. Without even trying, on this little visit, I was unintentionally patronizing the creator. But if I had the look, so did everyone else. I could see Hamptons Casual: summer sportswear, the Ralph Lauren world splendid this summer morning on Long Island, Observable even from a moving car.

Later he would tell me, "Sometimes, something needs to be redesigned to bring out the interest in it. I was inspired by all the Old World things , but I gave them a little juice, and all of a sudden it brought back the essence of what was exciting about them."

He greeted me on the deck of his low, sprawling, shingled house of rustic elegance, sited on a bluff over Montauk's blowy ocean. "Have a look around," he said, but I was looking at him, with the scrutiny a man about the same age sizes another up. He was sturdy, deeply tanned, with all of that well-known white hair and the compact physique of a cyclist and tennis player. He was wearing khaki shirt and khaki shorts held up by an old leather belt. I was wondering why the founder of a company with annual sales of $2.4 billion, now celebrating its 5th anniversary, would wear such a sensationally scuffed belt, but later he told me of his love for the way leather becomes more interesting as it grows old. He also wore a new digital bombproof Suunto watch, Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses and running shoes. You would not have taken him for the billionaire he perhaps is, but rather for a trustworthy helicopter pilot.

One excellent definition of happiness - it is Freud's - is the fulfilment of childhood dreams in adulthood. The trouble with childhood dreams is that they tend to be unattainable fantasies. Over lunch on his deck (salad, chicken, vegetable terrine), I mentioned this to Lauren, and he nodded in agreement and said how as a boy he had wanted an MG sports car. After the war, his brother brought one back from England, and "I used to shine his shoes so that I could drive it the next day," he remembered.

He now owns a fleet of classic and contemporary cars. I asked him which ones he especially liked. "the new Aston Martin", he said without hesitation, and let drop the fact that he had just bought a new McLaren, a sleek and almost impossible-to-find British car that is better known as a triumphant entrant on a noted British Formula One racing team. But he values his old Ford trucks and classic Jeeps as highly as his sports cars.

"I'm fulfilled," he said. "I am more than fulfilled. I went beyond my dreams."

He uses the house in Montauk off and on in the summer; he also owns a shorefront villa in Jamacia, a mansion in Bedford, about 45 minutes north of his Manhattan town house, and a ranch in Colorado. Each one has a full staff, so he can stay at any time, though he tends to apportion his pleasures-July at the ranch, some winter months in Jamacia, shuttling among the New York houses and Maine. "I'm thinking, What about a lighthouse?"

In the Profiles of Lauren a great deal is made about his humble origins, his notion of fashion as role-playing, his self-invention as a result of his self-improvement. But these are peculiarly American qualities of this intensely American Man. It goes almost without saying that he lives through creations, which are dreams fulfilled.

"I designed safari clothes before I went on safari, English clothes before I went to England , the Russian look before I went to Russia." He has often been disappointed in his travel-England was not quite English enough, French youths have adopted American Rap fashions, and the Colorado he first saw had lost many of the traditional trappings of the Old West.

"We started out with an idea of what the West was like," he said. "But what we thought was there wasn't there. No Large houses, no hunting lodges - not even a fence, like a split-rail fence."

But he found the place he was looking for , a half hour from Telluride. He has since added to his acreage and now owns "15, 000 or 16,000 acres" - he is not sure. "It was a little bit like pioneering," Lauren says. "Someone told us about a barn that was 100 years old on this property. We saw the barn. We fell in love with the place.

"Colorado was for us an escape. It wasn't about being in fashion. It wasn't about saying, 'Wouldn't it be nice to have this cute ranch!' It was about a life that would be different, that would be freer - that would have nature and trees and animals and big sky."

He built the ranch from scratch, and it reflects his active life and sense of style, his wish fulfilment. When I asked him about his routine, he became very specific. "I get up in the morning and run. I come back, take a swim, work out. I built a very good gym for myself. Then we go horseback riding or take a drive. I have sports cars there and some old ford trucks, some Jeeps, a red Ferrari. I like the diversity of speed and also riding an old pick-up truck in the mountains."

The place is more than a ranch with horses and cattle; it is, like all of Lauren's houses, a design opportunity and a source of inspiration. He admits he has only the most modest education. "I never went to fashion school, I never studied design, I dropped out of college."

Plainspoken, he is an un-boastful, earnest and intensely watchful person. And he is helpfully concise about his trajectory, from reimagining his first necktie in 1967 to designing just about everything these days - 'a one-man bauhaus,' as he has been called, though the word Bauhaus might not have entered his vocabulary until rather late.

Although he is an enthusiast and has a powerful visual sense and is relentlessly creative, he can be somewhat inarticulate. Ask him what he likes about the West, and he mentions an assortment of physical objects - the cetury old barn, "animals, trees," and also "saddlery, old leathers, oldness." You know what he means, but you cannot quite see it.

His verbal imprecision seems to have given him an instinctive connoisseurship for the texture of the world, the pulses of the air, a feeling of atmosphere, for the mood of physical objects. He understands that the things we wear and the things we use and the places we inhabit cast a spell on us, as well as making an impression on others. when I hinted at this he did not disagree. He said I write through my clothes."

On the way back to Manhattan, talking with Carrington Wiliams, Lauren's personal chauffer for the past 25 years, I said, "He knows how to live." Williams said, "He do."

2010-05-02T10:15:00.002+05:00

http://y3kexhibitions.blogspot.com/

Alex and I are in

stolen library at Y#K

2010-04-25T10:07:00.004+05:00

hey this blog is dead

I'm putting this puppy down

I kinda hate it don't you

I can't be arsed casue I feel like I have too

and I hatesssssss 'have too' so bye bye Bethungra pants, you suck.

2010-04-11T10:58:00.001+05:00

http://www.gertrude.org.au/studio_artists_template.php?id=257

2010-04-11T10:14:00.003+05:00

2010-03-25T06:29:00.005+05:00

mustang sally

TCB art inc

17 march - 03 april

wed thurs fri sat

12-6pm

2010-03-08T10:58:00.003+05:00

Ralph Lauren-tough name

Ralph is Jewish, what do you think about it boarding school

"My given name has the word shit in it. When I was a kid, the other kids would make a lot of fun of me. It was a tough name. That's why I decided to change it. Then people said, 'Did you change your name because you don't want to be Jewish?' I said, 'Absolutely not. That's not what it's about.'"

Ralph Lauren-keep it real

'It goes almost without saying that he lives through his creations, which are dreams fulfilled.

"I designed safari clothes before I went on safari, English clothes before I went to England, the Russian look before I went to Russia."

He has often been disappointed in his travel-England was not quite English enough, French youths have adopted American rap fashions, and the Colorado he first saw had lost many of the traditional trappings of the Old West'

I find travel very disappointing too. x

2010-03-07T12:39:00.008+05:00

'Mustang Sally'
17 march - 03 April 2010
opens wednesday 17 March 6-8pm
TCB Art Inc
Level 1/12 waratah pl melbourne

Dan Attoe, Jesse Albrecht, Brandon Buckner, Possie Currin, Rebecca Steele, Katherine Parker Bryden, John Dilg, Jeremy Willis, Crystal Schenk, Gordan Barnes, Selby Davis, David Dunlap, Keven Hooyman, Jeremy Tinder, Diana Cooper, Cece Cole, Katherine Parker Bryden, Ji Yong Kim (all US) and Brendan Dwyer (Melb)
Done by Bill Donovan and Kate Smith

'Mustang Sally' is a collection of small works on paper and little sculptures, posted by Bill Donovan to me. Bill is my bestest blog fan ever. The exhibition brings together who Bill likes in his America and brings Bill and I a little closer together. Mwahhh! For my part I've put in Brendan Dwyer. We've never met either, But I've had some Mad intranet emails. I got in touch cause I liked his Victoria Park show. It was Mad.

The exhibition includes a drawing swap box by Katherine Parker Bryden, Katherine says "I don't know if the 'Have a penny, leave a penny. Need a penny, take a penny' dish exists in Australia, but they are common here in Iowa and generally have penies in them, spare change left next to shop tills for people in need by people with extra (or people who hate pennies).We shall see if the gift economy flows"

So if you hate yr drawings come and leave one behind and get a better one by Katherine. I'm hoping to bag a couple of these sweet bunnies me self.

2010-02-23T07:28:00.002+05:00

boob t-shirt in cross colouring at Gambia Castle, Auckland New Zealand

2010-02-23T06:16:00.003+05:00

"Bill I was thinking of calling the show MUSTANG SALLY like the song from the movie commitments, becasue its the grossed thing I can think of.

It's a big karakoe favourite here in Oz, wel it was with the local punters, the normal pepes, who drank at the canberrrra bowling club because it was there true watering hole and not because it was ironic or funny to drink there, like it was for us kids, I don't really like going there, I found it a bit ... or it was just uncomfortable with me at that time hanging out people who were gobbling up the eightes, buying shit at opp shops, grosssNboring. I found it sad as well, that this bowling club and singing mustang sally really was the locals life, the place was fucking ugly with plastic chairs and fat people and scrubbers, bra straps and massive king size packs of Holiday cigarettes. So I am a snob, well I know I am, I can feel my nose curl. so Mustang Sally has all of that wound up in it for me. does that work for you? I might extent the letter in sally eg sallllllly just to keep it a bit kool for the kids, cause I like the kids and stick up for them all the time, but i can't shit on someone's real life.

....familiarity contempt not sexxy, like you don't want be re-heated and re-heated left over vegetables you have to be oysters or something... ha ha pfffffffffffft!

so I've never met you and one australian dude brendan dwyer, I'm going to put in, internet communication, I really liked his appraoch to materials when he had a show here 4 years ago when I first moved to town, he just squirted clear gap filller on to raw canvas and then has this fish tank full of cotton wool and above it 'I am a paedophile' written in those colourful frindge magnet letter, backwards, balm for me when I found Melbourne stuff all slick same 90's colours, there is ninja motorcycle green that's everywhere..."

2010-02-23T06:05:00.002+05:00

alex vivian

2010-02-07T13:36:00.002+05:00

scum manifesto . good word use! I like the squishing of all the words/terms together, it makes them all contradict or exchange partners, this thing is a gem, perhaps not for the reason's it intended, nor exactly the opposite, but somewhere in between or from the future and not really about men, inherently, of course not, jeepers, but just how things a set up for us, if they are. I kinda like it

'...to be sure he's a "Man", the male must see to it that the female be clearly a "woman", the opposite of a "man", that is, the female must act like a faggot. And Daddy's Girl, all of whose female instincts were wrentched out of her when little, easily and obligingly adapts herself to the role...'

therefore I am a faggot, awesome.

2010-01-31T14:59:00.002+05:00

you're the cunt,donut

2010-01-23T08:22:00.002+05:00

has photography rendered figurative art pointless?

" no art is pointless. I had that Immanuel Kant round for a bit of a chin-wag the other day and he told me that the meaning of art was that it had no function " charles saatchi

2010-01-23T08:17:00.002+05:00

http://thisissaturday.tumblr.com

2010-01-22T09:52:00.000+05:00

well you can sometimes, what's even the problem, human solutions are ad-hoc, fadish and trickled down, and that might be ok enough, revolutions don't start until they cut of the bread n' cigarettes, plastic bags can't really be the problem, is wooder better that plasticer, perhaps in selfishness there is freedom, with true liberalism you can be unconservative, and even optimistic, but if you represent yourself, do you ethically reflect something broader or reinforce shit, is my experience unique or generic or both, i'm a whitey, girl from a farm, have a couple of degrees, went to boarding school, I've been to Europ, I've rebelled, have I, why do I feeel so damn s p e c i a l

2010-01-21T16:34:00.002+05:00

"'death of a scenester is a quarterly zournal (a cross between a zine and a journal) mad in Melbourne that maintains a punk, DIY underground edge, as well as upholding a slicker style. Its ethos is that it would like to strike the ground squarely between a grass-roots zine that promotes the freedom of artistic and individual expression and Realpolitik publications that refer to issues such as the generation gap, design, architecture, music, art, and a host of counter-cultural activities.""""""""""""

whatevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvver

2009-12-31T17:15:00.001+05:00

2009-12-06T10:33:00.002+05:00

'you're the cunt, donut'

Ocular Lab Inc.

31 Pearson St., West Brunswick

opens 12 Dec 3-5pm

continues 13, 19, 20 Dec !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-12-02T14:14:00.005+05:00

perhaps the most fucked thing about the world, is the fucked-ness of those trying to fix-it-up. but these are both kinda awesome. gay hat gay doof. x

2009-11-26T08:44:00.001+05:00

2009-11-19T10:07:00.001+05:00

http://www.threethousand.com.au/look/tastes-self/

2009-11-15T07:43:00.003+05:00

STUDIO'S AVAILABLE

Mattthew, sorry to treat the as my secretatryyy but. If yuo fresh litle pupils just popping out into the art would like little tadddies into a muddie pudddle neeed an inspiring setting to create it would be a delight if you could encourage them in teh Kerr St direction. 'CHeap n' cheerful' thats our motto x
$160 per month
$160 bond

2009-11-07T05:00:00.002+05:00

I finally said Hi! to Mirka on my last day at swan st, she asked if I was a painter I said yes (pffffft!) and if I had a studio at home I said no etc. She said*** Tres Bein*** (awsome! hilary!) she said a mistake is a wonderful thing, when you accidently slide the brush on canvas ( I imagined her turning to pick up a cup o tea or vino in a cluttered pit o painting, but I thinking mashing with a picture of Margaret Olley I have seen, also I miss the Margaret Prestons at NGA) this is a wonderful thing, she said turner had said it. (As romantic as this sounds, its still good, I want all my paintings to be side ways, like I wasn't there looking at it, its not personal vision, but it is, but just not even near the height of passion or crisis, its way after when you can retell the story as a gag, entertaining missery, dry as, its slippery, its not poetic accident or giving away self determination to chance, but just off centre, not artist as silo, its a nod to self awareness and the best of Po-Mo and Modernisssyism) I was a bit weird from having not eaten and had my mind on the mission of moving, I wanted it to go better i wanted to become her assistant come companion, but she sort of fobbed me off in the end and I'd run outta converssion puff, because she doesn't need it! And this is very cool, she doesn't need younger fans/faux friends to mix her tints or hand her shit and pump her up on praise, fuck that gas, she's just damn fine with her life and not needy, It is I who is theee idiot. I've been looking at her lop sided mural in the cafe all this time imagining her to want to swaddle into her life any proteeejjjaa she could find, but she is not so doey, nor run out of all the things to paint or do. You can be older but not softy. This is a good old lesson. I wanna bee woman ****comme ca****.

2009-11-06T18:30:00.000+05:00

2009-11-06T09:12:00.003+05:00

*tastes self*

This type of work is a play between signs and form - the signs are the lost substances of a selection of objects and images, real things made into weightless surface effects; and the form, the arrangement of selections that creates some newer, flatter, smoother meaning from them. It’s a complex game of sensation and feeling, on the one side melancholy, on the other light.

The playfulness of the interaction of these elements is animated by a something like a sexual tension between viewer and work – it gathers the selected material into erogenous zones where meanings are concentrated, or separates them out where imaginative input from the viewer is required. If you find yourself liking it, coming up with a description to communicate this feeling might make you want to run your words together in breathless, advertorial style, as if trying to mimic the heightened concentration of the flow of associations. If you don’t, it’s easy enough to dismiss the selections as ‘meaningless’, and the work as a collection of random junk.

With Tastes Self the associations take on a humanoid form – sometimes male, when it’s reminiscing over gay men’s classifieds or thinking about Corinthian columns, and sometimes female, a bit obsessed with handwash and the Garnier Fructis range, forgetting that it has left its lube lying around. But Smith and Vivian also put the work in a rural setting, a spacious society of animals and machinery. Being uninhibited, kitty litter, multi-coloured fish-tank gravel and possum shit become just as valuable decorations as glossy photos advertising the latest tractors and harvesters, or a beautiful R.M. Williams model in a ten-gallon hat, partly obscuring the view of a four-wheel farm bike.

In the rarer moments where material elements have been physically altered in some way, not just picked off the shelf and put in position, for example, when a row of dishwashing sponges has been glued together, or an empty Perrier bottle is given a lick of pink paint, these additions look more like make-up than construction. The overall effect is that the work takes part in a beauty competition with and against itself – a flaying, bucolic fantasy that is seductive because of its narcissism, making you want to uncritically affirm that assemblage is the form of art and desire for a networked world.

Michael Ascroft.

2009-10-29T11:01:00.004+05:00

*tastes self* by Alex and I is open dis Sat from 12-5. Michael A. has written a thing about it that is avail at TCB. Jim snd Dan are on at TCB. it good. Show at William Mora good at moment. John Kelly at Niagra should punch himself in the nose, twice. Lucien can draw I guess, doubled sided works in hinged frames keeewl. I regret that I will leave swan street having never had the guts to say hello to Mirka Mora. oh well. x

2009-10-25T05:41:00.003+05:00

Maybe my blog is a weird place to ask for a place to live.

But I need one, do you have one?

2009-10-23T09:39:00.000+05:00

tonight

Type:	Music/Arts - Jam Session
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Friday, October 23, 2009 at 6:00pm
End Time:	Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 1:00am
Location:	Hell Gallery
Street:	5a Railway Place
City/Town:	Richmond, Australia
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Description

"Vivian and Smith's show is about shit youf influences, and how good they are. The two met at smith's first Melbourne exhibition Whoops Kibbutz, at Utopian Slumps, Vivian introduced himself and they got talking about growing up in the Riverina, they were interrupted, Vivian said 'that's okkkaaaayyyy were just having a rural bitch'. *Tastes Self* is about the ripped bod under a rip-curl T-shirt, coloured in with a rotten country road. the something something something and the something." Vivian and Smith, 2010

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2009-10-01T09:59:00.000+05:00

2009-09-27T20:20:00.004+05:00

there is a better one than the one above of eva standing in the studio in her socks blows up an silly long sausage cock phallus balloon. undercut by that same cheeky grin. dirty innocent good. below me in my Elders shearers singlet at studes...

2009-09-22T17:48:00.002+05:00

dude sitting on a toilet.
stuff found on a bit o' paper

'doing work want to be a homo. way to a new world without divisions where social group on gropu struggles are a big der and over. its not like you don't want to not grow up get married and have kids. but you wanna let it slip out your own way. homo. not tidy up. daggy egalitarian disco grouse. sex is sweeeeeeeet and not dominating. no more fighting friends. its the only group i wan to belong to - local*slippery*nice.'

2009-09-16T12:36:00.000+05:00

off to tcb to give Grestest Hits ma stoopid cd.

2009-09-14T16:21:00.001+05:00

CROSS COLOURING
An exchange between Gambia Castle (NZ) / Joint Hassles (MEL)
Curated by Harriet Kate Morgan and Sarah Hopkinson
Opening Friday 18 September, Hell gallery, 6 til late
September 19 – October 10, 2009

Josh Petherick / Alex Vivian / Jess Lucas / Kate Smith / Harriet K Morgan / Christopher LG Hill / Lane Cormick / Rob McHaffie / Helen Johnson / Kain Picken / Nick Selenitsch / Sean Bailey / James Deutsher / Dan Arps / Nick Austin / Andrew Barber / Fiona Connor / Simon Denny / Daniel Malone / Tahi Moore / Kate Newby / Tao Wells

2009-09-12T10:25:00.002+05:00

spaces avail at Kerr st. two at $160, one space $120. come along now lady.

2009-09-06T13:49:00.002+05:00

Eco-jaded
'we are all fucked' Alex baker. or fucked up or thinking about fucking. snorting pigs. it makes me feel so free. Fatalism is freedom. Freedom is a corny word but I still wants is. But not just 'Freedom', freedom to do, freedom to say.I guess I'm trying to say Murphys law will always win, so I gonna stay cheap and cheerful and getting on wid it. The fuckedness is only encouraging.

2009-09-03T09:34:00.001+05:00

xo empty ing my giant diaframe on the comunity garden. nipping some parsley for my eggs xo

2009-08-30T19:40:00.003+05:00

sweeeeet little gran a poos. sick with flu a woos. tied her hair up a woos to go to the hairdressser a woos. so stubborn didn't tell she was sick a wooos. had piggy flu a woos. and still lives. so vain so hair. still don't know her agey wooo wooos. studied ikebana a wooo wooos. has mums year twelve pottery out a woo woos. kiss kiss xx

2009-08-29T14:41:00.000+05:00

http://www.utopianslumps.org/previous_exhibitions.php?viewShow=33

2009-08-28T04:54:00.000+05:00

2009-08-23T09:53:00.004+05:00

peta! will look into it for you, the remains are with mel at utopian so I dunno. will get on to courier next week, I keep wanting to paint on pipi/yayoi, but I guess that's imorallle cause you already paid yo clams. Today I'm doing a thing for a greatest hits publication for TCB soon. sean has a show there next week. wish yo could of been here for his release the other soir, was swell. Alex and I are are on it, but space is already fully, we have two week install, so maybe we should sit on our hands till then. There is a gambia castle swap comming up-Harriet kate is organising it an wrote a good thing. the drawing up there is from the joint hassles poster show. Egon schiele , no glove no love , rub. will get pip to you soon pup. xx

2009-08-16T08:06:00.000+05:00

2009-07-14T15:57:00.001+05:00

Up on the wall at Utopian Slumps and in a stacky on the floor at Sutton

rectangular, no triangular

2009-06-28T14:01:00.004+05:00

posting off a copy of 'Heavan and Earth' to the farm. will make for some interesting discussion when I go home I bet. I like Lisa and Sam's show at Hell, I like that they went little, less gawdy, Greatist Hits video of some shearer install dude putting up there work is hell swell. Install dudes, gangs of shearers. Jock is in QLD managing a portfolio of Cattle properties. Beff is going 'ganbusters' he says. Agri-business hey? I wanna go up and get stoned with beef giants sons. I am pretty stuck into my ideas of the old money high life, polo and drugs please. Art does seem to ignore sex. I have stolen this idea, because I think it's a good one. Fiction is up in it, but not exhibitions. Dirty shows would be nice. I heart the white-cube, turns things into art, don't like sight-specific, it's a bit daggy, whiter than white thanks. didn't like Cockatoo Island, nothing in that show really dealt with that space, just borrowed its cred, forget history, forget local and forget community that feeds into whitey patriotic, get Liberal, don't join a team, not even the anarchists, the world will obnly fix up perhaps if we are allowd to not join teams, that we don't have to homogonise to sought out the environment, but that environmental decisions be a system infastructure underneath to just get the hell on with he we be over the top. Perhaps 'Heavan and Earth' has something, of course we will be wiped out one day, and so we should, hey why not, perhaps 'saving the earth' doesn't have to be about saving our own arses but more about not being jerks hey, there is something so consumer about how we are going about it. Just remember, I'm not the phoney your the phoney, jerk xx

2009-05-06T17:39:00.002+05:00

I should write cause you look and ther is nothing new, I'm a bit drunk, have been out with mum and dad, am listening to Gugg think they have secret track, really want to send dad to listen to matt griffin at ACCA, i think i just latched onto the bits that are about me. everytime he says my dad, dads farm i LISTEN, food hey, my vegan friends say Singer is a fuck.

2009-04-30T16:57:00.001+05:00

dan's grandma from a nursing home at byron bay said, dan be a peacenick, war sux

2009-04-30T10:00:00.006+05:00

2009-04-21T05:29:00.000+05:00

Hi Kato,
That looks familiar!!!
Can you act like old money???
Reminds me of Grandma somehow!!
Are you excited about your exhib!! Hope the installing goes well - looking forward to seeing it & you - think it will be that week of 4th May - more later.
Just got to help Dad move out the back paddock.
Love you, Mum

2009-04-11T19:14:00.004+05:00

Hey Bill!

!Come see some shit paintings!

can't you act like old money

by kate smith

Opens Wed 22 Apr 6-8pm

22 Apr - 9 May 2009

2009-04-03T16:41:00.001+05:00

its a play off between creating and not making. The counterweight is more important. are artifacts to ideas o k. there in lies the rub.

2009-03-10T05:30:00.003+05:00

ugg lee old thingg

dudes in training

2009-03-07T08:13:00.002+05:00

hey there is a studio space free at Kerr Street if anyone needs an awsome one. xx

po mo bo ho

2009-03-06T07:48:00.002+05:00

I have been reading a bio on Francis Bacon. Not sure why. Cause it was on the studio floor and I was busting to read. It's called Anatomy of An Enigma. I can't even laugh, jesus christo! But he's growing on me, I love his dirty fagness, his 1930's ness, sado-boho queen......"Bacon certainly made a lasting habit of 1930's Bohemianism. Even as an old man, he would lather his face for shaving with an old sock if he had no brush to hand". I must be Bohemian after all. Trying to locate the next show around a certain time frame, I want all the times, today its can be the 30's, I think all of bo-ho modernism is up for grabs....I grabs...

In between Anais Nin, found this

2009-02-28T06:26:00.005+05:00

we keeps talking about irony...maybe I have had enough of that? But is the peak of it (the prick of it) or the everyday of it, the sunday newspaper magazine article on it ( i stole that idea) where it ends up something like this...

::::: The apartment is full of furnishings I find individually ugly - silver candelabra, tables with nooks for trailing flowers, enormous mulberry satin poufs, rococo objects, things full of chic, collected with snobbish playfulness, as if to say, 'We can make fun of everything created by fashion, we are above it all.'

everything is touched with aristocratic impudence:::::

this is not enough, but a start.

little tip dump stuff

2009-02-22T11:19:00.003+05:00

Doing a twelve day working week. I think it's making me a bit gushy... It's good too. I feel efficent like I'm saving for something. And I am saving to cover rents and pay for my show. Which is now today starting to scare the bejesssus outta me. Not scare, well yes scare. I went to texticles (good) the other night and realised that space aint as little as I thought, perhaps I am not just going to be able to sneeze it out over a weekend!! and feel a bit flaky, at openings an stuff I'm the same saying """ Yeah I have a show comming up in april at TCB"" blargggggggggg cause cause I feel like I talk talk but don't do do. I keep thinking "privacy!". I know I feel like a liar cause I have been away from the studio for all these days, and The show so far is a few things I like on the floor. This show is going to be vaguer and kinda more 'beyond me' to exlain than usual perhaps.

Last year was very easy. I just need time at the studio coal face and it will solve.

I want to thank SHANKS! the peps who do blog, It can feel indulgent, it is, but reading honest stuff makes me feel closer to being in the studio. I just felt a bit 'believed in' last year and now I could trippppp/disappoint.*cry cry*

I wrang my brother and asked him to take a photo of the farm tip and send it too me. I was walking out to see it while home for xmas and collecting scraps like a little one, bring them back to my room that has been repainted, bieged out, by my mum and all my old trinkets, rocks and posters are gone. I am allowed to decorate again. But thats weird like pretending I am fourteen again. It was pre boarding school shrine.

The tip, has the faux brick cladding from my gran's house in it, like here house has been exploded into it. I would walk out and go 'hey life is a destructive thing and that's ok n' difficult'. I am always trying to come up with the summary of freaking everything! like the life is a uni lecture to summarise. But you can't, and that's good. Means there is lots to be done. The tip is a crack/ gutter in the creek with cheeky stuff poked into it.

Bro wouldn't take the photo, he said 'it shouldn't exist'.

SYDNEYtown

2009-02-19T12:59:00.002+05:00

2009-02-08T06:23:00.002+05:00

snakeoil
obsessssed with Alex Vivians Farking-beautiful smoodgy hangover at Neon Parc.

going through old diaries.
old MANIFESTO
...The farm is sawn outta optimism. All the inherited paintings are shit n muddy. Except for the the Parriultcha. Mum keeps asking me to get it valued.I can't get myself to follow that up. Mum is good at farm art rustica, poly pipe, wreaths, rust, rocks, she paints everthing black. This is typical, but everything is so brute macho and oversized its good.
Ripped up old lino that was over 50's womens weekleys.
There were articles about when plastic was invented. Plastic was awesome future. Snake oil to a po-mo hangover.

commune

2009-01-23T16:58:00.000+05:00

2009-01-15T17:28:00.011+05:00

being back at the farm for christmas was brat. I was petulant. I was 14. but kinda St Francis of a c c. getting up walking and listening to Nirvana, thinking about the grunge's take at Nature! driving through Wagga, noticing all the Co-operative, things supermarkets, farm supply business, being close to the farms but far from the city hippies, hippies does that word even count anymore, reading southern gothic, Carson McCullers the 'heart is a lonely hunter' thinking bout rural socialism. The National party, a weird mix of socialism and free-trade, romanticism and patriotism. We wanna make all the money, we like rich, but we wanna trades as Co-Ops, and but when we are poors support us cause we are the guts, balls and soul of the nation. Towns being put to sleep, having the fake water stopped, land wont sell. The grapes of wroth. It always feels like its coming to a head, coming to the break out there, that things can't move beyond this part and its gonna bust or revolt. But it don't.

To tunes, being angst and away from Melbourne makes what I can do when I get back so freaking possible! I spent the first bit of 2009 riding in the back of a car, I pulled up my hood and promised and promised, good ones not melancholy ones to come back and make better art about all I am confused about. I am surprised that I am thinking about these things, but I like thinking about human solutions to stuff and ourselves, But then the determination causes trying. Trying to hard. Banging up a manafesto! this trying is poetry and not like making. If i just gets the freak on with it, it will all be there. Those things are only base. But i thinks it will be ok, cause I've noticed. Over earnestness, failure.

2008-12-22T14:41:00.003+05:00

some one thinks bill donovan is me. its not true ! he is real and not me. living in the US and teaching. we got to be friends cause I wanted to quote his friend dan attoe in whoops kibbutz. x

2008-12-12T16:06:00.003+05:00

so the profile picture isnt really me. its chad morgan. my dad always goes on about him. buck teeth. ha ha. i looked up his lyrics sooo racist. but good for me me cause i like the sticky spots. I am looking at a pearl jam cover. I am drunk and thinking the discuss in art in australia was good and surprising. my friend sweetly sends me all the mags for free. maybe she thinks i need to get smart. x bless her. anyway i left art in aust last. but it had the best interview. and I heart alex baker for saying authenticity is racist. freaking banging and what i am thinink about. heart thazt. xx

chuckles 2008

2008-12-06T17:11:00.001+05:00

2008-12-02T11:17:00.000+05:00

your dead meat new space x

2008-11-29T09:49:00.002+05:00

x dear pedro almodovar thankyou for reminding me we a are all useless cool idiots x

2008-11-26T04:05:00.006+05:00

Rauschenberg *if you are dealing with multiplicity, variation and inclusion as your content, then any feeling of complete consistency or sameness is a violation of that attitude. I had to try consciously to do a work that would imply the kind of richness and complexity I saw around me*

2008-11-24T20:27:00.002+05:00

commune

'Comedy is crazy V's conservative' from Informal Rituals at TCB this year

Fairweather didn't need us

keith was perhaps an arsehole

Balla: frame

bit worried about my lack of scepticism at the moment. Perhaps its a plateau on to something new. New sincere? I keep thinking about that article in the last Un mag about new sincerity, it kinda endeared me to what Melbourne art is like and what I wasn't liking about mine. Pretty scared of irony or my own Po-Mo-ness at the moment. But not totally willing to back expression n sharing. Maybe the lack of wit is about making new friends. About not impressing new acquaintances. Maybe its failing a few things. And it could also be total disbelief instead. Total go away tooouuufffoussand and eight, I want two o o nine cause I am bored. I'm gonna do 200009 paintings till this ssucker is over.

2008-11-20T05:54:00.003+05:00

*when sitting on the floor cutttting up plastics*for their colours*issss still the best*this art thing wont be over soon*and is still angst at core

2008-11-10T15:02:00.000+05:00

look at neon parc projects "i dig your voo doo"

2008-11-08T08:54:00.005+05:00

!artist statement!
Yeah ! it's really mean with no stuff sometimes, just words, I heart words, or *My Art* is messy, making things grotty like they have gone through time. time. making "your rooms a brothel! ". The last bastiogggne of freedom n anarcky, The World is so square. Square. I like having lots of different mediums and not being very good at any of them. and groups of materials too, wood with plastic is important, it like the crux (crotch) of the problem n world n human beings. I really like painting becasue I am awful at it ! I make art about art becasue I heart art and have hung out with it so long its become my personal life too ! I make art about comming from a farm *cry cry* and going to university and going overseas and once was a hippie and being a white kid , a white daughter *cry cry*!

2008-11-05T15:55:00.000+05:00

Hi Kato,
How are you, just wondering if you have been successful with a seat home on Xmas eve - certainly hope so.
Nothing very much happening here - Dad busy spraying grasshoppers - havn't taken to the wing yet but lots coming out of the Bethungra Hills apparently where they laid in the hard ground in Autumn.
Did you back the winner yesterday???
Love u Mum

2008-10-30T17:46:00.004+05:00

drawing and priiiint gift show at NG massbbbive V.
Peter Robinson book 1999
oil and oilstick on cardboard

words include

'out getting fags

Boy am I scared hey

our place (over a schwazztisssticckerrr )

missionary position I'd rather fuck you

100%pure

fish + chips '

I heart that missionary position one, if you got off the frames of Margaret P's kookaburras or Ian fairweather drawing and mount boards this show would float now, heaps contemporary.

2008-10-25T11:02:00.004+05:00

are these some things wanted. To be included. To be included so much that your left out a bit and famous. Solo.

Maybe boys are included more often and end up being loners and famous more. What about the boys who feel left out, they are famous for feeling left out. But what do ladies do when they feel left out. They do all girl group shows. They work at community and not loners. this the elephant in the room sometimes become curatorial, the joiner, the habit of the show. In the community, is it ok to crit the work, or is the nobleness of the action to right to point out the crap. Does it all become shit because its being filtered through the elephant in the room. It seems to hurt some boys feelings. hetro. Hamish and Andy were outside my house yesterday. Hamish and Andy are attractive, not hotties, but attractive cause I like a couple of dudes cracking jokes, not that Hamish and Andy have the best jokes, but they fit that mould, the high school mould, I reckon the mould that helps girls get left out, but I am still attracted to it. I kinda want to be included in it, if we were at a party I'd probably try and hang some shit on them. I've been training for this since year seven maths. The jokers get cool and are included so much that they are left out and a bit famous, they are dude soloists and not a community. Serious ones can do it to, but I think the jokers are winning. Rebel Wilson is a girl joker. I wish her heaps well cause i schhoooolllleeed with her and she did some magic tricks for my mum and dad one time. But girls seem to have to crack jokes different. maybe.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I wrote the stuff above before girls girls girls opened. I sat the show Friday and it just became a show with work. I didn't really see the elephant in the room anymore. But did answer a couple of questions about it. on opening night some one said to me 'I should have been in that show' even all girls leaves out.

2008-10-19T08:01:00.001+05:00

2008-10-10T08:17:00.001+05:00

2008-10-06T11:36:00.005+05:00

brown Id holiday.

2008-10-02T18:27:00.004+05:00

may anarchy remain, this is how I think about Joint Hassles. this photo looks like angry freedom.

2008-09-27T12:14:00.003+05:00

2008-09-22T16:39:00.001+05:00

It was good, I want to shake Lane's hand, man to man.

2008-09-10T05:46:00.004+05:00

Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay and Denise Smith
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Kate Smith
To most of, but not all of
Mr. Rodney Graham
Wednesday, the ninth of September
Two thousand and eight
at six o'clock in the evening
Anglican Church
Bethungra

2008-09-08T16:41:00.007+05:00

went to see Dan Boyd's 'Lets stay together' at Uplands. I wanna name droppppp that I went to art school with the good guy - just to say that I wish him all the best cause I am about to say maybe mean stuff, or just make some awkward notes, I got reminded lately that maybe I need say that my 'tude comes from sometimes knowing someones work over a long time. Perhaps this isn't fair game, but I think its important. It's always a hard thing in making work between repeating yourself v's losing the 'thing'. But perhaps seeing similar imagery and allegorys form Dan here isn't even important, this is his introduction to Melbs, so guess there is room to summarise.

Dan's here to stick some Aboriginal history. I recall that Dan finds his white-no beard-pirates pretty funny. But maybe I find it not too funny, or just one funny, not enough funnys, too much of a one liner for a messy mess, but maybe I want to hideout in the multiples in the mess cause I am white as hell. But I don't think my problem with these works is guilt or accusation. I made a work once that said 'I'm white but I'm alright' perhaps not so funny either, but maybe. I wonder if thoughful criticism of 'indigeneous' work is always curbed by doubt or fear.

But I think the saving grace of the show is the exhibition title work, lets stay together. A lion goes to kill a gizelle, spring bok maybe, South African rugby, South Africa, Africa, Lions. It's dark as, with a lttle grin. I think it manages to house an update in race relations. Perhaps 'lets stay together' is what Rudd proposes with his Sorry speech to the stolen generation (I found Rudds speech surprisingly moving, but the stolen generation is just just a little bit of it). Perhaps Dan rekons its a sinister idea, along the lines of 'you want to build a relationship outta this house of cards?!' like a creepy crap boyfriend trying to get you back. I like this work a lot. No more pirates.

2008-09-07T12:15:00.003+05:00

'Ikebana holiday'

'Can't you act like old money'