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Everywhere But Here

BLINDSIDE Festival

With artists Natalie Abbott, Laura Batch, Iain Bonner, Mary-Jane Caswell, Rebecca Daynes, jon hewitt, Kate Just, Bonnie Lane, Nic Low, Amanda Morgan, Hoang Tran Nguyen, Jon Mark Oldmeadow, Hannah Raisin, Dominic Redfern, Claire Robertson, Zoe Scoglio, Jessie Scott, Carl Scrase, Kate Shaw, Tania Smith, Hanna Tai, and M T Walker

And also featuring artists: Santina Amato, Kartini Bell, Naomi Bishop, Nick Chin, Blaine Cooper, Martina Copley, Xanthe Dobbie, Brodie Ellis, Lucy Farmer, Greg Fullerton, Chelsea Hopper, Pearl Knitandrun, Ashlee Laing, Daniel Stephen Miller, Muduppy Infusion, Lauren Murphy, Pange, Dianne Peacock, Lynne Rahill, Samantha Riegl, Nellie Rogerson, Carol Rowlands, Richard Rowlands, Demelza Sherwood, Jenna Stacey, Jacinta Stevens, Adam Stone, Kate Teebe, Sandra Tobias, Jian X Yi, Britt Salt, Naomi Troski, Louisa Wang, Claire Anna Watson, Laura Williams, Eliza Adam, Karen Cromwell, Neil Delaney, Jen Fullerton, Sue J. Krucker, Yasmin Masri, Carolyn McKenzie-Craig, Sally Ridge, Stephen Spurrier, Kris Suparka, Jean Tai, Henry Jock Walker, Kate Wheeler, Hugin Por Arason, Syed Faraz Ali, Anna Fawcus, F. Pegaz, Eva-Marie Raab.

2 Aug - 11 Aug 2012

Launching Thu 2 Aug, 6pm

Galleries One and Two

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

 

BLINDSIDE wishes to thank City of Melbourne, Candy Mitchell, Australia Council for the Arts, Emma Blong, Visual Arts & Craft Strategy, Xanthe Dobbie, Nicholas Chin and all the artists, presenters and posties involved in this project.

Escape with AirBLINDSIDE is an ArtsClub event hosted by BLINDSIDE

This project has been curated by the BLINDSIDE Committee Claire Anna Watson, Shae Nagorcka, Natalya Maller, Andrew Tetzlaff, Blaine Cooper, Adele Macer and Elise Murphy.

A special thanks to our festival interns Xanthe Dobbie and Nicholas Chin.

 

Is there somewhere you would rather be? The inaugural BLINDSIDE Festival themed Everywhere But Here is a multi-platform event where artists and the audience can connect, discuss, and imagine alternate destinations together.

Festival Program

Thursday 2 August
12.00-6.00pm: Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW Exhibition
6.00pm: Festival Launch
6.00-8.00pm: Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW Opening

Friday 3 August
12.00-6.00pm: Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW Exhibition
6.30-8.30pm: Escape with AirBLINDSIDE

Saturday 4 August
12.00-6.00pm: Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW Exhibition

Tuesday 7 August
12.00-6.00pm: Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW Exhibition
12.00-6.00pm: At the outpost beside the rapids Exhibition
6.00-8.00pm: At the outpost beside the rapids Opening

Wednesday 8 August
12.00-6.00pm: Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW Exhibition
12.00-6.00pm: At the outpost beside the rapids Exhibition

Thursday 9 August
12.00-6.00pm:Return to Sender Exhibition
12.00-6.00pm: At the outpost beside the rapids Exhibition
6.30-8.00pm: Anywhere But Here! Forum
8.00-9.00pm: Return to Sender Exhibition Opening

Friday 10 August
12.00-6.00pm:Return to Sender Exhibition
12.00-6.00pm: At the outpost beside the rapids Exhibition

Saturday 11 August
12.00-6.00pm:Return to Sender Exhibition
12.00-6.00pm: At the outpost beside the rapids Exhibition

Destination: HERE & Destination: NOW
Two major video screenings by Australian contemporary artists

Natalie Abbott, Laura Batch, Iain Bonner, Mary-Jane Caswell, Rebecca Daynes, jon hewitt, Bonnie Lane, Amanda Morgan, Hoang Tran Nguyen, Jon Mark Oldmeadow, Hannah Raisin, Dominic Redfern, Claire Robertson, Zoe Scoglio, Jessie Scott, Kate Shaw, Tania Smith and M T Walker

Opening & Festival Launch: Thursday 2 August, 6.00-8.00pm
With guest opening speaker Jen Mizuik, Director, Experimenta

HERE is where you want to be --> NOW is the time --> Australia's most innovative artists come together at BLINDSIDE to consider travel, transition and place through experimental video --> Separated into two reels, Destination HERE and Destination NOW, the screenings provide a vehicle for thought that is parked out front and ready to take you were you want to go --> The clock is ticking though so take a seat and enjoy the ride.

This exhibition runs from 2 to 8 August 2012. Exhibition hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 12-6pm.

 

 

Escape with AirBLINDSIDE
ArtsClub at BLINDSIDE

Friday 3 August, 6.30-8.30pm

Time to escape? Why leave town when you can travel the world through conversation? Meet other artists and art lovers and let your minds connect over all things ART --> In the style of speed dating guests are paired for a series of five-minute tête-à-têtes on the subject of art --> Fasten your seatbelts, cross-check cabin doors, it’s time for take off!

Bookings Essential – email artsclub@artshub.com.au with BLINDSIDE in the subject header. Please note this is an artsHub-members only event. To sign up for artsHub please visit www.artshub.com.au

At the outpost beside the rapids
An exhibition by Hanna Tai

Opening Tuesday 7 August, 6.00-8.00pm

Inspired by the idealised symbology of postcards, multidisciplinary artist Hanna Tai has created a new body of work for the BLINDSIDE Festival --> Postcards collapse experience, memory and desire into idealised landscapes, acting as signifiers of a real or longed-for experience --> Tai intervenes with this symbolic language, disrupting it by revealing the unnoticed and peripheral.

This exhibition runs from 7 to 11 August 2012. Exhibition hours are 12-6pm.

Anywhere But Here!
Art Residency Forum with Kate Just, Nic Low and Carl Scrase

Thursday 9 August, 6.30-8.00pm

Arts professionals share stories about undertaking an arts residency and the ways a different place and culture may impact one's practice --> Essential tools of the trade, including residency application writing, preparation tips, how to negotiate an artist residency, and some strategies toward achieving one's creative goals in a new environment will be provided --> The forum will coincide with the launch of works posted from across the world in the group exhibition Return to Sender --> This forum will be followed by light refreshments (a great networking opportunity) from 8-9pm.

Return to Sender
An Exhibition of Postables

Opening Thursday 9 August, 8.00-9.00pm

Artists from across the world, post their creative works based on notions of travel and destination --> This eclectic group of works documents the artists’ or the art work’s journey through time and place --> BLINDSIDE’s postal route will be lined with biro scribbles, collaged topographies, painted meanderings, strange imaginings and photographs from afar.

This exhibition runs from 9 to 11 August 2012. Exhibition hours are 12-6pm.

Victoria: Santina Amato, Kartini Bell, Naomi Bishop, Nick Chin, Blaine Cooper, Martina Copley, Xanthe Dobbie, Brodie Ellis, Lucy Farmer, Greg Fullerton, Chelsea Hopper, Pearl Knitandrun, Ashlee Laing, Daniel Stephen Miller, Muduppy Infusion, Lauren Murphy, Pange, Dianne Peacock, Lynne Rahill, Samantha Riegl, Nellie Rogerson, Carol Rowlands, Richard Rowlands, Demelza Sherwood, Jenna Stacey, Jacinta Stevens, Adam Stone, Kate Teebe, Sandra Tobias, Jian X Yi, Britt Salt, Naomi Troski, Louisa Wang, Claire Anna Watson, Laura Williams.

Interstate: Eliza Adam (NSW), Karen Cromwell (ACT), Neil Delaney (QLD), Jen Fullerton (ACT), Sue J. Krucker (NSW), Yasmin Masri (ACT), Carolyn McKenzie-Craig (QLD), Sally Ridge (WA), Stephen Spurrier (QLD), Kris Suparka (QLD), Jean Tai (SA), Henry Jock Walker (SA), Kate Wheeler (WA).

International: Hugin Por Arason (Iceland), Syed Faraz Ali (Pakistan), Anna Fawcus (USA), F. Pegaz (France), Eva-Marie Raab (Austria).

 

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