ACTIVATE 2750

Activate 2750 (named after the Penrith location of the work) is contemporary art project by artist Ash Keating and is supported by the MCA and several Western suburb galleries and council which makes up C3. The project consists of eight days of sculptures, processions and performances and is created out of commercial and industrial waste from the 26th February until Friday 6th March 2009 in front of the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre.

C3 West cultural partnership is between the MCA, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Casula Powerhouse and Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Climate Cars

Images and link Via Inhabitat

Climate Cars are picking up a lot of attention amidst the recent reports of the redesign of London's iconic buses. Climate Cars are a fairly new company trying to tackle the pollution that the other London transport icon Black Cabs (the Tube would probably be the third) is contributing to London's carbon footprint. The Cabs are hybrid cars and are carbon off-set.

Renew Newcastle launches with Marcus Westbury's help

Renew Newcastle launches this weekend with an event at Renew Newcastle HQ, 3 Morgan St Newcastle this saturday 21st of February at 11AM. Marcus Westbury will then lead a tour of the first of hopefully many projects taking place in and around Newcastle's Hunter Street Mall with Lost At E Minor, Gallery Raw, Emerald Arts and Loop Space some of the arts groups involved.

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Guerilla Gardners

Image: Wolloomooloo Guerilla Garden by Mickie Flick - Flicker

Guerilla Gardeners premiered last night on Channel Ten but is getting some not so great reviews from local councils. As I mentioned in a previous post the Guerilla Gardening phenomena has been around for quite a while although has recently had a revival. It seems once again Channel Ten is trying to make money of cool and dangerous activities (similar to breakdancing on SYTYCD?) and The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Marrickville Council is not happy with the structure that was build is a Newtown park, many other Councils have already complained. Below is an image of the Guerilla Gardeners attempt at cleaning up the start of the Express Way in Woolloomooloo - its certainly educational is term of spelling but the cynicism from people responses seems to be more to do with Channel Ten than the gardens themselves.

ABUNDANT: Highlights from the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Image: Abundant at Venice Biennale 2008.
Courtesy tom$ Flicker.

Abundant showcases contemporary Australian architects who exhibited in the 2008 Architecture Biennale in Venice with the theme - Beyond Building. Object will be the only Australian gallery showing the exhibition which demonstrates the breadth of architectural work in Australia and the way in which architects can both problem solve and push forward conceptually.

Until 5 April 2009 at Object Gallery in Surry Hills.

Joel Sternfeld - Photographs of the High Line

Joel Sternfeld, Looking South on an Afternoon in June, 2000, Negative: 2000, Print: 2009
Digital C-print, 40 x 50 inches, Printed in editions of 7 with 3 APs. Luhrig Augustine Gallery.

Luhrig Augustine Gallery is presenting photographer Joel Sternfeld's images of the High Line in New York before it is redeveloped. The works will be presented at the Art Dealer's Association of America's, Art Show in New York whom with the gallery has a long relationship with, this month. The work represents the preservation done in an attempt to save it by The Friends of the High Line who engaged Sternfeld to document it. As I mentioned in a previous post the project is currently in its second stage and as you can the photographs are a nostalgic look at why the magical location was saved in the first place.

NewPark Station wins Live the BOX competition

Felix Heidgen and Thomas Nagy from Princeton, New Jersey have won Live the BOX with the scheme NewPark Station . The competition by AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum looked to find "innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for container constructed multi-family mixed-use project". The use of shipping containers is not an entirely new design invention and has been used as a space for displaying art and architecture for several years now. Recently Art Basel Miami used them to present the Art Positions - Young Art by The Beach however in this case the construction material is a great starting point for the architects who have created a scheme with the local community and keep their real needs in mind.

Terra Nullius Now Showing in Germany

The German Federal Cultural Foundation has funded an exhibition of Australian Art which begun on Australia Day. Terra Nullius: Contemporary Art from Australia is curated by Deborah Kelly (Australian) and Frank Motz (Germana) and has an amazing array and quality of artists and mediums and is an example of the increasing relationship between Australian and German contemporary art galleries. The exhibition will be showing at ACC Galerie Weimar until 22 March 2009 and then move on to Halle 14 in the Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig from 1 May - 26 July 2009.

The artists participating are:

Vernon Ah Kee
Tony Albert
Richard Bell
boat-people.org
Jon Campbell
Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser
Julie Dowling
Tina Fiveash
George Gittoes
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
Gordon Hookey
Dianne Jones
Mike Parr
pvi collective
Tony Schwensen
Merran Sierakowski
Soda_Jerk
Squatspace
Natascha Stellmach
Judy Watson

40 x 40 x 40 at Dickerson Gallery Melbourne

40 x 40 x40 is a group show of you guessed it works with dimensions 40 cm by 40cm (2d) and 40 x 40 x 40 (3d). With a mix of gorgeous mediums this looks like a fun and enticing show to start off the year and a smart but not totally subtle way to create affordable works for the current temperamental market.


40 x 40 x 40
4 February - 22 February, 2009

Dickerson Gallery
44 Oxford Street
Collingwood Melbourne VIC 3066