Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Y3K set-up


Still setting up the space, the studios are almost done, floor painting, setting up storage, having tea, smoking, lunch, mopping, moving, sitting at the round table.

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'TIME AFTER TIME'


Y3K Gambia Castel version

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Fiona Connor and Tahi Moore PACKAGE 001


Fiona and Tahi have sent us some developement for their ythreek show in September.

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Fiona Connor and Tahi Moore PACKAGE 002


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Fiona Connor and Tahi Moore PACKAGE 003


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Monday, June 22, 2009

DESKTOP BACKGROUND WITH KAIN PICKEN

RM ARCHIVE PROJECT

RM Archive workshop, Thurs 25, 6:30‏
From:RM (nick@rm103.org)
Sent:Tuesday, 23 June 2009 9:26:20 AM
To:jamesdeutsher@hotmail.com
Hello James

Please join us for a workshop this Thursday

The RM Archive Part 1

// Thursday 25 June 2009, 6:30pm start.

And since it's a dinner time talk we will be providing food and drink

/ room, ground floor, 295 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland, New
Zealand.

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With over 12 years worth of images, exhibition invites, publications
and artists ephemera sitting in boxes in our storeroom, RM decided
that it was high time that we establish a better and more accessible
archive. An archive that enables us to give new life to this old
material, but one that can also be shaped by the artists and arts
community with a vested interest in it. 

Whilst in South Korea for the SAP residency
<
http://saptap.egloos.com/955577> William Hsu introduced us to the
InsaArtSpace Archive, an incredible facility that has become a model
for the approach that we might be able to take:

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The IAS aims to stand for making an active archive with the help of
(Lee Mi-kyeong's) 'Live Archive' and 'Pidgin Collective', a radical
archive that seeks out highly creative and innovative projects, a
collaborative archive between artists and researchers, an open
archive with a loose and intermittent network that enables public
participation; in short, an experimental, flexible and evolving
archive. The IAS Archive has sought and professed to unfold dynamic
activities so that it is not simply a 'reservoir' of reference
materials. In other words, the IAS Archive sorts, collects, applies
and utilizes reference materials. To speak of it metaphorically, the
IAS Archive is a watermill that grinds and reshapes the reference
materials so they can be ready for later uses.

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(Some of you will perhaps have seen part of the IAS archive in the
exhibition Activating Korea at the Govett-Brewster in 2007)

Whilst talking with artists about our plans for the new space we
realised that many of you have already seen similar archive projects
to the one we have in mind. For this workshop we have invited a
number of people to share their reflections on these projects, so
that we can begin the discussion around how we might make our archive
a more useful and dynamic resource. 

We would also like to invite you, dear reader, if you are in the
neighbourhood on Thursday evening, to share your thoughts and ideas
so that we can begin to develop what we hope will be a critical part
of our new space.

We will be providing food and drink to help stimulate the
conversation and hopefully warm up a winter's evening at the gallery.
And don't forget it's late night at the ARTSPACE reading room, and we
should be done in time for those who'd like to catch up with those
journals.

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Many thanks to Otto von Busch and all of the participants at the
recent workshop, it was a phenomenal success. And thanks also to
Asumi Mizuo and Akiko Diegel for their recent show. Documentation of
the exhibition, Otto's workshop and of Cellulite Rose's work will be
coming to our website soon.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Heman Chong


Singaporean artist Heman Chong at Gertrude Contemporary in the group show 'And The Difference Is...'

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ACW 001


New video work by acw in some collaboration with Heman Chong, currently on show at Gertrude Contemporary. Burn the social contract! Melting plastics and twisted ecologies x

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ACW 002


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Y3K SITE VISIt 001 16/06/09


Getting plastered!

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Y3K SITE VISIT 002


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Y3K SITE VISIT 003


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Y3K SITE VISIT 004


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

REMOTE STUDIO 001


World Food Studio has closed as a grounded space. In the three weeks until we are ready to move into the Y3K studio there is still some project to be completed. Chris and I did this work at the State Library of Victoria. Hot-Desking!

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REMOTE STUDIO 002


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REMOTE STUDIO 003


The work is for the Joint Hassles show :

Host:
JOINTHASSLES
Type:
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 12:00pm
End Time:
Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 12:00am
Location:
HARRIET'S HOUSE
Street:
148 SMITH STREET THORNBURY
City/Town:
Melbourne, Australia







WORK FEATURED BY

ALEX VIVIAN
ROSE NOLAN
MASATO TAKASATA
JAMES DEUTSHER AND CHRISTOPHER LG HILL
JOSH PETHERICK
GEOFF NEWTON
KATE SMITH
KAIN PICKEN
BEN RAYNOR
SEAN BAILEY
PAT FOSTER AND JEN BEREAN
JESSICA LUCAS
SIMON TAYLOR
DAMP
MATT GRIFFIN
JARROD RAWLINS
JOHN NIXON
A CONSTRUCTED WORLD
HELEN JOHNSON
HARRIET KATE MORGAN
NICK SELENITSCH
NATHAN GRAY AND JULIE BURLEIGH
MATTHEW HOPKINS
SIMON DENNY
WILL MACKINNON
NICK MANGAN
ROB MCHAFFIE

PERFORMANCE BY GUGG AND JKFULLER

FOOD AND DRINK



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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING BLESS UPDATE






BLESS  are involved in Too Much of Everything curated by ffiXXed (our first show). There is discussion about the inclusion of a custom piece, a Mirror curtain with a BLESS No.29 Wallscape on the back. These Wallscapes are totally transformative and create 'more' through some dynamic of sincere illusion. It is an incredible piece of interior design. It overhauls space and creates something new, expanding and contracting, playing with what already exists and extending.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Y3K SITE VISIT 04/06/09


Fiona Connor taking photos from the outside of the space. Fiona is doing a show with us later in the year with Tahi Moor, great to have Fiona out from NZ.

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Y3K SITE VISIT 04/06/09


Helen Johnson is taking a space in the studios, also has a show opening this Saturday at Sutton Gallery at 4. Josh just chillin and getting ready to open his show with Nick Austin (NZ) at Neon Parc later that night. A beautiful show.

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Y3K SITE VISIT 31/05/09 001


Mmoovviinng MDF from Uplands Gallery storage unit, heavy, lots of stairs etc... Hot fridge from Tara and Jarrod too, with Ester Partegas stickers, hot.
Deleuze was right!

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Y3K SITE VISIT 31/05/09 002


Framing and yellow young going up, the space is taking shape!! Chris looking Ponocchio.

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KATSU CURRY 001


Jarrod made Zkatsu Curry from scratch, I opened beers and dug through Ester Partegas stickers, Tars fell asleep to jazz and called world flag quizz apps for us (and pulled out a real birthday surprise!) Stuart got some fatty beef and carrot offcuts.

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