2010 Next Wave Festival

Text Camp Reader 2010

Edited by Dylan Rainforth and designed by Something Splendid, Text Camp Reader 2010 is an online publication of critical and creative responses to the 2010 Next Wave Festival, No Risk Too Great.

Tuesday 17 August 2010 to Tuesday 17 August 2010
Opening: Tuesday 17 August 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Mercy Street

Mercy Street is an exhibition that responds to the emotive public conversations concerning justice, punishment and fairness that take place in the media in the wake of tragedy. The polarised responses that often surface during such debates are rarely examined, yet can play a powerful political role in informing criminal legislation.

Sherry Mc Lane Alejos Nicholas Waddell Alanna Lorenzon Kaori Kato Cj Conway Sherry Mc Lane Alejos Anusha Kenny Cj Conway

Saturday 15 May 2010 to Saturday 12 June 2010
Opening: Friday 14 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The World is a Text with Several Meanings

The World is a Text with Several Meanings presents a multilayered program of texts and moving images that come from open and solicited sources.

Saturday 15 May 2010 to Saturday 12 June 2010
Opening: Friday 14 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Big League Balls

Big League Balls is a new body of work by Papua New Guinea- and Brisbane-based artist Eric Bridgeman. Featuring a dazzling array of new performance, installation, video and painting works, Big League Balls playfully and provocatively undresses Australian Rugby League sporting culture.

Eric Bridgeman

Thursday 20 May 2010 to Saturday 05 June 2010
Opening: Thursday 20 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

please give: it a moment

It’s probably high-time that you sorted out your problems the old fashioned way, by following the path we made. Cairns artists Elizabeth Dunn and Jessie Hall present [please give: it a moment], an interactive installation of heart/brain advice and obstacles that straddles the gap between two places.

Jessie Hall Elizabeth Dunn

Thursday 20 May 2010 to Saturday 05 June 2010
Opening: Wednesday 19 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Film that will end in Death

Film that will end in Death follows a variety of individuals as they discuss their passion for, and relationship to, risk. Dunkeld artist Trevor Flinn conceived this documentary-based project as a series of evolving interviews, interwoven with passages of 8mm film. The resulting multi-channel video installation explores this compelling subject from a range of styles and perspectives.

Trevor Flinn

Saturday 08 May 2010 to Monday 31 May 2010
Opening: Friday 07 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

BROMANCE

BROMANCE is a dance work about the antics of men’s relationships. From childhood mischief through to adult relations, brotherhood is a lifelong negotiation of trust and honour laden with competition and responsibility. Brotherly love has a huge impact on men’s lives and their understanding of love.

Lee Serle Jay Robinson Lee Serle Adam Synnott Alisdair Macindoe Paula Levis

Wednesday 26 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Lost Living

The Lost Living unveils an interconnected series of environments in purgatory. Scenes of exile and futility are presented in a performance installation weaving sound, image, movement and sculpture.

Martin Hansen Volker Haug Andy Hutson Simon Charles Benjamin Hancock Martin Hansen Alexandra Macdonald Cobie Orger Benjamin Hancock

Wednesday 26 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Territory Time

‘Territory time’ is a maxim for life in the Northern Territory. Isolation and extreme seasons, particularly in the state’s northern capital, Darwin, limit one’s activities and daily achievements, and create a sense of time that is fluid, warped; marked by waiting.

Catherine Mc Avoy Rebecca Arbon Kris Keogh Joshua Bonson Siying Zhou

Sunday 16 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Saturday 15 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Residency

During this two-week residency, notorious Melbourne-based performance collective The Black Lung will work behind closed doors to develop a brand new work. Every few days, however, the group will open its studio doors to the public, providing audiences with a snapshot of their work-in-progress.

The Black Lung Whaling Firm

Friday 14 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Shine on You Crazy Diamond

In this performance, projection and installation, artist Lauren Brincat attempts to valiantly harness the power of the sun, reflecting its energy and warmth back towards the viewer.

Lauren Brincat

Friday 14 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Structural IntegrityA 2010 Next Wave Festival Keynote Project

Transforming the Arts House Meat Market complex, Structural Integrity is a monumental and melancholic, World’s Fair-styled exhibition and residency project. Exploring independent arts cultures from across Australia and Asia, Structural Integrity includes the work of six Australian and five Asian Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs).

Friday 14 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Thursday 13 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Dachshund U.N.

Bennett Miller’s Dachshund U.N. is both a large scale architectural installation and a performance work that examines the role of the United Nations as a risk management organisation.

Bennett Miller

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Saturday 22 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Doomsday Vanitas

Between dusk and dawn, in a series of twisting alleyways in the city, an array of objects for survival appear. But there’s more to them than meets the eye…

Nicole Breedon

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Saturday 15 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Evolution

Evolution Explosion! Safari Team fast track a hyper-un-real human evolution. This is a projected outlook for the next phase, jamming together science and imagination, fact and fiction. Across a series of projection screens in Birrarung Marr, a number of likely and unlikely scenarios for the future of the species play out nightly.

Safari Team Lillian O’Neil Blaine Cooper Jon Oldmeadow

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Next Wave Festival 2010: No Risk Too Great

The 2010 Next Wave Festival will explore the role of risk in a risk-averse culture. Under pressure to conform, we have all become experts in micro-managing our own behaviour. But is this self-surveillance distracting us from the bigger risks, the more un-manageable ones which are increasingly – and radically – changing our world? Just what does ‘risk’ actually mean in these volatile times?

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Risk TalkersLecture, forum, workshop and residency program

Risk Talkers presents a lively series of discussions and public programs that explore the 2010 Next Wave Festival and its theme, No Risk Too Great. Risk Talkers includes a series of keynote lectures, discussion forums, skills-based workshops and a two-week artist-residency.

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Chicken Stampede

In 2009-10, in an absurd and fantastical attempt at emphasising the sterility of contemporary culture, George Egerton-Warburton endeavoured to organise a stampede of 500 chickens down Smith Street, Collingwood.

George Egerton Warburton

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Wednesday 12 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Infinity Tube

The Infinity Tube is a public light sculpture that uses an infinite mirror illusion to create an endless tunnel, allowing viewers to stand still and psychologically enter a space that doesn’t exist.

Yake Weiss

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Sunday 30 May 2010
Opening: Friday 14 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Sports Club 2

Sports Club 2: The Arena takes place at Australia’s spiritual home of sport – the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Luring audiences into the underbelly of the MCG, the participating artists explore the monumental physical and cultural environments that fuel and produce elite sports and their champion athletes.

Bindi Cole Brooke Amity Stamp Julie Traitsis Brooke Amity Stamp Carl Scrase Michael Ozone Rennie Mc Dougall Jordana Maisie Kasia Lynch Keith Lim Madeline Kidd Martin Hansen Sasha Margolis Luke Hand Atlanta Eke Corey Castle Coda Joseph O’Farrell Kyle Kremerskothen Jeff Khan Ulanda Blair Thea Baumann Atlanta Eke Martin Hansen The List Operators

Saturday 29 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Opening: Saturday 29 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

And That Was The Summer That Changed My Life

In 1997, Zoë Coombs Marr started High School, broke her cheekbone with a hockey ball, taped every episode of Buffy and Xena, wrote mean graffiti about herself in the girls’ toilets just to be noticed and sat on Santa’s lap for the last time. This show is about all that.

Zoë Coombs Marr

Wednesday 26 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Folding Wife

Writer Paschal Daantos Berry creates a series of narrative fragments drawing on the selected memories of Grace. In the folds and creases of her possessions, in the images and anecdotes about Clara and Dolores, she is able to unravel her own identity.

Urban Theatre Projects Neil Simpson Anino Shadowplay Collective Andrew Cruz Datu Arellano Valerie Berry Paschal Daantor Deborah Pollard

Wednesday 26 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Thousands

Thousands is a dance performance inspired by the silence between acts. It is a dance that starts in the middle and pushes against the forces of past and future in order to open up the possibilities of the present.

James Brown Matthew Day

Tuesday 25 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism

The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism pairs eight writers with eight artists to explore new feminist ideas and their influence on emerging arts practices. The participating artists and writers have worked together in dialogue over the past year, and their different perspectives on feminism are manifested in the publication and exhibition.

Clare Rae Hannah Raisin Parachutes For Ladies Brown Council Jessie Scott Jessie Angwin Emilie Zoey Baker Laura Castagnini Madeleine Donovan Rachel Fuller Tamsin Green Anna Greer Mariam Haji Kiera Brew Kurec Jo Latham Dunja Rmandic Daine Singer Nella Themelios

Saturday 15 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Opening: Friday 14 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

After the Rainbow

After the Rainbow is a single-channel video remix which investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Through a reimagining of the initial sequence of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s sad life collide in much the same way as the worlds of Oz and Kansas in the original film.

Soda Jerk

Saturday 08 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Opening: Friday 07 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Candlelight Protestival

Political protesting is a highly risky activity in Korea. By contrast, festivals, which are typically understood to be celebrations, have minimal risk. DongWoo Kang’s multi channel video installation hints at the possibilities and the limitations of these new social movements in Korea, where extremely serious celebrations have hit the streets…

Dong Woo Kang

Saturday 08 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Opening: Friday 07 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Heterodoxia

Heterodoxia is a one-night-only performance spectacle, inspired by the artists’ fascination with rodeo culture and the pageantry of masculinity. After attending rodeos around Victoria and recording their exploits, the Heterodoxia artists have created a twisted version of the rodeo experience through digital, new media and performance technologies.

Alex Gibson Jonathon Hutchinson Alex Gibson Joel Gailer Michael Meneghetti

Friday 28 May 2010 to Friday 28 May 2010
Opening: Friday 28 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Mirror, Mirror

Mirror, Mirror is a solo work of dance on film, choreographed and performed by Mildura-based artist Sally Hederics in collaboration with Adam Hobbs (film) and Kim Chalmers (composer).

Adam Hobbs Kim Chalmers Sally Hederics

Thursday 20 May 2010 to Friday 28 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe

100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe is a live art installation and guided performance that is part science project, part religious intervention. Infiltrating the Victorian Space Science Education Centre, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to navigate the improbable and sail to the frontiers of misunderstanding.

Jessie Scott Zoe Scoglio Eugenia Lim Michael Prior Tanja Milbourne Lee Anantawat Cait Foran Tape Projects

Wednesday 19 May 2010 to Friday 28 May 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Great HeightsA 2010 Next Wave Festival Keynote Project

Great Heights is a series of immersive events across various Melbourne rooftops. Great Heights elevates artists and audiences high above the city to explore the possibilities of rooftop spaces: locations which are often hidden from the public eye and inaccessible to the passerby, but which might reveal exhilarating new perspectives and re-cast our surroundings in an extraordinary new light.

Bababa International

Wednesday 19 May 2010 to Friday 28 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

I’m Fine

I’m Fine is a site-specific installation located in the cafeteria of Orygen Youth Health Centre. Conceived from collective experiences of mental illness, the work reflects on the nature of the self in relation to sickness and health.

Laura Delaney

Thursday 13 May 2010 to Friday 28 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Dangerous Melbourne

The Dangerous Melbourne community information evening will provide you with the things you need to know to survive the terrors of our fair city. Be informed, not alarmed. Cups of tea and biscuits also provided.

Nicky Fearn Paula Van Beek

Monday 17 May 2010 to Thursday 27 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Workshop 4: Crossing over and hooking up

Cat Jones will lead artists in crossing artforms and collaborations.

Cat Jones

Tuesday 25 May 2010 to Wednesday 26 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Comfort Zones

Ever wanted to see an opera singer hula-hoop? Ever wanted to hear a dancer … talk? Well, now’s your chance! Taking place inside the legendary Witches in Britches theatre restaurant (home to Melbourne’s only full-sized polystyrene dragon), Comfort Zones features the curdled cream of Australia’s performance underground.

Ed Gould Karina Smith Elbow Room Sisters Grimm Forty Forty Home The Suitcase Royale Richard Higgins The List Operators Simone Page Jones Safari Team Lillian O’Neil Blaine Cooper Jon Oldmeadow Telia Nevile Bron Batten Thomas Henning Max Milne Claudia O’Doherty

Tuesday 18 May 2010 to Tuesday 25 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Keynote Lecture 2: EVEN MY BEST WORKS DASH THEIR HEARTS ON ROCKS

For her keynote lecture at the 2010 Next Wave Festival, celebrated Sydney-based artist Deborah Kelly will take audiences through the ways she has tried to fight – the useful struggles and the dumb, lost, scratched and weeping battles with titans and, alas, with midges.

Deborah Kelly

Monday 24 May 2010 to Monday 24 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Forum 3: Down and Dirty: Sex/Gender/Media

This forum will explore extremes of gender and sexuality in contemporary art, and the representation and construction of femininity and masculinity within contemporary culture more broadly. In the age of digital representation, what are the new tools for the construction of gender and sexual identity, and what new possibilities are emerging?

Max Attitude Zahra Stardust Rinske Ginsberg Eric Bridgeman

Sunday 23 May 2010 to Sunday 23 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.