27 November – 13 December

B-side

Curated by Andrew Tetzlaff

Daniel Dorall, Ruth Fleishman, Cecilia Fogelberg, Tim Silver

Opening on Thursday 27 November 6-8pm

B-side invites artists who have exhibited with Blindside previously to do something different to their normal practice.

Supported by the City of Melbourne.

Ruth Fleishman
installation

29 January – 14 February 2009

Debut 5

Curated by Natalya Maller

Opening on Thursday 29 January 6-8pm

Blindsides annual exhibition of 2008 fine art graduates.

19 February – 7 March 2009

Rhythm is a Dancer

Opening on Thursday 19 February 6-8pm

Rhythm of any sort is created by and relies upon recurrence. The works in this exhibition explore the repetition and rhythm of media and cultural events that pervade our everyday and fuel our desires. Does the unrelenting reproduction, commodification and repetition of our desires create an experience of engagement or understanding or an ongoing experience of evasion? Is the rhythm of the everyday reliant on popular culture's omnipresence as a backbeat – or a top note?

12 March – 28 March 2009

Tim Webster

Tim Webster

Opening on Thursday 12 March 6-8pm

Webster will consider how iconic landmarks of a scale to large to be encompassed in a single point of view are experienced only as durational fragments. Examining local and foreign experience, memory and perception via Christ the Redeemer in Brazil Webster reveals how these fragmented moments of experience are later re-experienced through memory.

2 April – 25 April 2009

Experimentation in the Limits of Tolerance

Janice Kuczkowski

Opening on Thursday 2 April 6-8pm

Kuczkowski focuses on investigating the genre of portraiture by exposing new representations of the self by facilitating models faces to react and documenting the reaction with digital video and photography. Pressurised air, water, instigated sneezing and electric shock are a few examples of how Kuczkowski uses to force the model to react instinctively. Through capturing the instinctive and intuitive motion of the face Kuczkowski removes the daily façade and presents a new unmediated representation of the self.

30 April – 16 May 2009

To boldly go where everyone has gone before

Rachel Ang and Mischa Baka

Opening on Thursday 30 April 6-8pm

This installation intends to take apart the traditional plinth and velvet rope arrangement of museum spaces. The viewer will experience a natural history museum in which the confined nature has run amok; escaping it’s confines, each micro system catalyses new possibilities, dimensions and connections. The effect will be that of a non-centralized web representing the physical world and it’s concurrent timelines and the connectedness of everything in the universe.

21 May – 6 June 2009

Dying to Time

Bree Dalton and Anikka Koops

Opening on Thursday 21 May 6-8pm

Investigating the technological and mythological concepts associated with the grotesque Koops and Dalton will transform Blindside into a grotto representative of a microcosmic immersive space.

11 June - 27 June 2009

It’s a wonderful life

Yvette King

Opening on Thursday 11 June 6-8pm

A large sceen tv shows live television, but the signal is wrong, everything sounds like robots. A small hole in a near by wall intermittently spits out a piece of freshly popped popcorn to the ground. Around the edge of the room a toy train circles on plastic tracks, showing no sign of stopping. It’s wonderful; it’s little like my lounge room.

2 July - 18 July 2009

The Never Ending Story

Sophie Knezic

Opening on Thursday 2 July 6-8pm

This exhibition, though minimalist, implies a narrative – a continuous story – but it’s non-objectivity refrains from making direct or figurative links with the world. Instead the simplified language of elemental shapes belies the complexity of possible meanings. The primary shapes of circles and squares spurs the viewer to contemplate the continuous logic of systemisation and the continuous forces that unravel order.