Scrapertown

California is a place

18 May, 2010

 


"In order to become a member of the Original Scraper Bike Team, you must: Be a resident of Oakland, CA. Be at least 7y/o or older. Retain A 3.0 Grade Point Average (GPA), Create your own Scraper Bike…(It Has To Be Amazing, Or Else You Can’t Ride.) A single-file line when riding.

After 10 rides The Scraper Bike King and his Captains will decide if your bike is up to standards and if you can follow simple guidelines. After your evaluation we will consider you a member and honor you with an Original Scraper Bike Team Shirt. Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming Scraper Bike Rides..." -- The Scraper Bike King</p>

Unreal, handcrafted films by Cooper and Canepari, see more here http://californiaisaplace.com/cali/

 

Plus81 Magazine

Plus81 Magazine feature

Citylights

10 May, 2010

Great layout on Citylights and Until Never in latest issue of Plus EightyOne magazine from Japan. Thanks!

For further reading, check out the full article here

GMO

New art in Hosier Lane - GhettoMakeOver

GMO

10 May, 2010

Mother's day special, Deb, HaHa, Monkey, Russia and friends in collaboration with the gentlemen from Arte Moris, Xisto, Alfeo, Etson, to celebrate the Peace of Wall exhibition now showing at Until Never.

See more of the GMO here
See more of Arte Moris here
And Peace of Wall - Street Art from East Timor here

Current Project

Peace of Wall - Street Art from East Timor

Chris Parkinson

8 May, 2010

Now showing at Until Never. Until 29 May 2010
Chris Parkinson spent four years living and working in East Timor. Throughout this time, he documented the changing political and social climate in the country through the graffiti expressed on the country’s surfaces. His first book, Peace of Wall: Street Art from East Timor, showcases some of the images and stories from this documentation.

 

Current Project

This city has gone to the rats Or oops, there goes a Banksy

Banksy

27 April, 2010

Once upon a time there was a little Banksy rat in Hosier lane. Now there isn't. 
More pics and an article archive on the whole business here

Keith Haring - Deitch Projects Houston St NYC 2008

Keith Haring Forum

Keith Haring

17 April, 2010

Forum: The Keith Haring mural – yesterday, today, tomorrow.

"In 1984, American artist Keith Haring visited Australia and painted a mural on the side of the Collingwood Technical College in Johnston Street. Since then, Haring has become internationally recognised as an artist of great significance and the Collingwood mural has been placed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

A legacy of Haring’s visit to Melbourne and his life’s work, this mural has become a local icon. This forum is an opportunity to find out more about this work and discuss the mural’s history and its future. The forum will feature a special presentation of information from The Keith Haring Foundation."

Thursday 29 April 2010, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Neighbourhood Justice Centre, 241 Wellington Street, Collingwood
Free Entry

Panel:
Geoff Barbour – Councillor, Yarra City Council
Ted Gott – Senior Curator International Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Lachlan MacDowall – Centre for Cultural Partnerships, University of Melbourne
Hannah Mathews – Freelance Curator
Andrew Thorn – Conservation Specialist

source: www.yarracity.gov.au 

Hosier Lane Latex

Rubbergirl

9 April, 2010

Rubbergirl in her inflatable hobble bobble skirt & strait jacket. As much fun as you can have in Rutledge Lane.
Brilliant work from SlinkySkin

Victor Lancaster

Live at Horse Bazaar

Victor Lancaster

31 March, 2010

In the first of Stutter's ''Four Sets With...'' 2010 series, iconic Melbourne street drummer, Victor Lancaster, appears in collaboration with some of Melbourne's finest avant-improvisers. Will be unreal.

Armed with fiery vocal abstraction and a feline companion, Earle Stuart (from the legendary outsider Hip Hop collective, Curse Ov Dialect), joins Vic for a special collaboration of beats and blurts. Followed by a percussion duo of absurd gravitas, featuring Victor with internationally renowned avant schlagwerker, Sean Baxter.

Victor will then be joined by MaxMSP/real-time processing genius, Marco Cher-Gibard for a performance where the street-drummer sounds are twisted and transformed before your very ears. Capping it all off, a keenly anticipated collaboration between Victor and radical sonic tricksters, Bum Creek, for a wildly transcendental, dada-inspired sound performance in the musique brut tradition.

+ Victor Lancaster (genius) with Bum Creek, featuring: Sam Karmel (multiple sound devices), Trev Clay and Tarquin Manek (multiple sound devices)
+ Victor Lancaster (genius) with Marco Cher-Gibard (laptop processing)
+ Victor Lancaster (genius) with Sean Baxter (drumkit and junk)
+ Victor Lancaster (genius) with Earl Stuart (raps) and Tripod AKA Chicken the Cat (contact mic purrs and growls)
+Visual Aktions by Amac (Citylights Projects and Until Never) 

$10 (full) / $5 (conc)
8.30pm onwards March 31 2010
Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne


 

Current Project

Whats on your mind?

Citylights

28 March, 2010

Whanna get with our gang on Facebook?
Well you can.

Current Project

Sheep Scene

Blek le Rat

8 December, 2009

The man who walks through walls, the godfather of street stencils, Blek le Rat. Flocking Melbourne.

Knitta Litta in Hosier



Very cool.

Hot Weddings in Hosier: No.1 in a series

April 2007

Hosier Action June 2007

Tony, waiting on a friend

Braddock at work on Movida tapas bar

Plans

Fafi, Vexta, Pets, Flox and friends, Hosier Lane

Phibs baby elephant, Rutledge Lane

Hiro and Too, elephants, Rutledge Lane

Tony and Russia meet under Nelio

RENCS, RETRO, Hosier Lane

Breakdown Press in Hosier Lane

Breakdown Press produce publications that explore creative, personal and political responses to our times. Experimenting in print, and all forms of mass reproducing technologies, Breakdown Press document artists and writers from across Australia. Based in Melbourne with a diverse background in the zine, poster art, poetry, street art and activist communities, BP work with individuals and collectives that have had little exposure, or arenʼt interested, in the mainstream media and publishing arena.

Happy paste up, Hosier Lane

Nice mummy
November 2006

Meatpackers Union get Kmossed at Centre Place



The Meatpackers Union, live at the launch of Kmossed by Rosie Kavanavoch. Citylights Centre Place, 27 April 2007. Enjoy.

FAFI and CURVY 4

Friday 6 April 2007 12-3pm
Live collaborative street production on the walls of Citylights Projects Hosier Lane presented by Until Never, Citylights, YEN Magazine and Adidas Originals
featuring
FAFI (France) Poise : Deb : Vexta : Miso : Pets : Cut : Flox (NZ) : Pascale Mira Tschäni (Switzerland).



Nalo and Pascal

Fafi and Vexta

Hosier Lane top down view

Fafi

Watching paint dry in Hosier Lane

Poise Deb Pascal dude Fafi Cut Pets Vexta Flox

CUT COLLECTIVE (NZ) in HOSIER LANE

Bandits in Hosier

Today in Rutledge Lane



SPOOKY ACTION at a DISTANCE

Spooky Action at a Distance - Band by Anat Ben David / 2008-9, Cowboy Style by Martin Bell / 2008-9 Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable

Anat Ben-David London/Jerusalem and Martin Bell Melbourne
Curated by Adi Nachman Tel Aviv/Berlin and Andy Mac Melbourne
In collaboration with Nectar Efkarpidis - NewActon

NEWACTON HERITAGE LINK
21-23 Marcus Clarke Street Canberra Australia
April 29 - August 31, 2009
www.spookyaction.com.au

Spooky Acton at a Distance is a site-specific temporary video/sculptural installation which has been created at NewActon in Canberra during April 2009 by artists Anat Ben-David and Martin Bell, with collaboration from curators Andy Mac and Adi Nachman. The project has been initiated and formed by Nectar Efkarpidis of NewActon.


During Early discussions about the collaborative basis for the project, curator Andy Mac was reminded of Einsteins's exasperated quote regarding quantum mechanics, which he derided as 'spukhafte Fernwirkung' or 'Spooky Action at a Distance'. Quantum Mechanics, specifically entanglement, suggest that particles which interact in some way become entangled, in a loose sense meaning that their properties become correlated. This is not an ordinary correlation in any sense of the word. It implies that there exists a strange connection between the particles that persists even when they are separated by great distances. In some sense, this connection is instantaneous, putting it in direct conflict with the special theory of Relativity. It was this strange connection that led Einstein to the phrase 'Spooky Action at a Distance'.

Multi-disciplinary artist Anat Ben-David presents Band, a new video works series, based on seven different musical group scenes constructed from video and digital fragments, cloning and multiplying the artist's image in such a way that all different members of each band are performed by the artist, who also composed and recorded the original music soundtrack. Band represents an ultimate virtual experience in terms of the construction of an invented reality. The installation aims not only to show the finished results - the completed clips - but to reveal the artistic process of creating a fictional world integrating digital technology and the body.

The members of Band are multicultural, multinational , multilingual and fictional. The characters serve as vessels that absorb culture and regurgitate a new language. Different national identities and cultures are mixed up. The intended effect is that of a parallel universe, where things seem familiar, but are nevertheless strangely and slightly rearranged.


Martin Bell's installation Cowboy Style is a cut-up sculptural collage that references and connects with a wide array of pop cultural and art historical moments, narrating a Western revenge adventure not unlike the 70's film West World, wherein a cowboy robot in a theme park goes crazy and starts killing visitors to the park.

Constructed of inkjet prints and mixed media, including live domestic plans, and supported by a timber 3d armature structure, Cowboy Style has a humorous relationship to Tatlin's unrealized and utopian revolutionary model for the Monument to the Third International, and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2. Like any good Western, there are heroes and villains, heroines and rattlesnakes lurking. Unashamedly nostalgic, Bell is something of a hardcore romantic. Cowboy Style is a dangerous and deadly ride.

The collaborative installation of the two bodies of work, experiments with the amplification of the chance, random elements shared by the artists, and the distinct world of visual superpositions unique to each one. Much of the understated, hidden contexts of each of the artworks surfaced during the intriguing process of discussion and installation, voicing a strong statement on the creative process amongst the artists and curators. This sorcery could most aptly be described as Spooky Action at a Distance.

NewActon Heritage Link
21-23 Marcus Clarke Street
Canberra, Australia
info@spookyaction.com.au
Tel: +61-2-61 26 1300



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