Urban Matter

Exhibition runs December 10th till 31st, 2011

OPENING Saturday Dec 10th 6 - 9pm

Urban Matter

BEN TARANTO & CHERIE WINTER

Photo: Cat Drysdale

Ben Taranto & Cherie Winter's URBAN MATTER draws on the abstractions surrounding built and natural environments. Autumn leaves are seasonally collected and disposed of, seen as unsightly bio foul detrimental to both urban waterway constructions and tram activity. Using these urban tree leaves as matter, this work returns them to their original urban environment whilst completely filling the gallery's window spaces. The artists see this action as one that explores notions of waste material and urban maintenance.

Mattress of Pagan Horror is an experimental music group formed by the Brothers Kavanagh in mid 2010 to explore their joint interest in free and improvised music. Utilising non-conventional instrumentation, the duo creates spontaneous sound scapes with the emphasis being on interaction and dynamic and textural interest. Recently the duo have been focusing on the introduction of thematic ideas into their compositions as a way of creating stepping stone like melodic and rhythmic points amidst their improvisations.
http://www.rollerdoorperformancespace.blogspot.com/

Cara Fox & Douglas Pope

While We Watch You Sleep
Cara Fox & Douglas Pope
Nov 12th to Dec 3rd, 2011

While We Watch You Sleep

November 12th to December 3rd

OPENING Sat Nov 12th 6 - 9pm. 

‘While We Watch You Sleep’

DOUGLAS E POPE & CARA FOX

‘While We Watch You Sleep’ combines the writings of Cara Fox and photography of Douglas E Pope in a series focusing on sleep, vulnerability and trust. Through intimate extracts of that most vulnerable human state, sleep, the collection documents the subjects' nocturnal experiences, creating short stories around them.

Both the artists have approached this body of work with different processes. Cara has been going to friends and friends of friends’ houses to share their beds with them. Noting interesting habits and patterns in their nocturnal hours, she is experiencing a side of people that she would of never have previously known and writing prose about it.

Douglas on the other hand has opted to approach his works with stealth, asking the sleeper to leave a key out and a light on in their room before creeping into their abodes in the early hours of the morning and taking photos of them while they sleep. The result is a uniquely intimate collection of media.

The exhibition is a collection of photographs and writing as well as a self-published zine of the same content (in progress).

Peter Warden

Chorus of Sediment
Peter Warden
Oct 15th to Nov 5th

Luke Kempster

Statis

Luke Kempster

Oct 15th to Nov 5th

After the Stasis comes the chorus of sediment

October 15th to November 5th 

OPENING Sat 15th 6pm - 9pm

Stasis

Luke Kempster

Luke Kempster is a Melbourne-based video artist who has recently completed the Honours program at Monash University. His recent work involves utilizing the methods developed by gnostics and mystics from around the world to delve into the psyche in an attempt to produce insights not only into the self but to life as well.

Chorus of Sediment 

Peter Warden

Pete’s parents built him out of dirt. Pete spends his time collecting sticks and bits of tin. Sometimes he hits things with sticks. Sometimes he glues the sticks to the bits of tin."

onionengine.blogspot.com

REhearse at window99

REhearse at window99

September 10th till October 1st, 2011

https://rehearseproject.wordpress.com/

Over the next three weeks video artist, performers, puppeteers, dancers, actors, musicians and visual artists will embrace the studio as their rehearsal space in an attempt ...to perfect their practices.

window99 gallery sits amidst the commision flats, pubs, cafes, retail, craft/design stores and community centres of Fitzroy. For this month only the window boxes have been removed and the studio is bare. Kicking off on Saturday, the REhearse project is an exhibition that explores the idea of the artists' practice as a 'rehearsal'. Inside the window99 studio the artists will be influenced by the synergy of the surrounding urban landscape allowing the site to become material for the development of works to be created and performed within the space.

Video footage from each rehearsal will be broadcast on the REhearse project page with the schedule available at the start of each week. To view bios for all the artists involved see 'artist bios' on the REhearse site.

THE ARTISTS:
Barking Spider Visual Theatre
Chimene Steele-Prior
Chris Rainier
Elanor Jane Webber
Emmily Caspi
Laura Licciardi
Leo Kavanagh
Letitia Sutherland
Melanie Chilianis
Mel Dodge
Michelle Robinson
Nickk Hertzog
Real Hot Bitches 

Renae Shadler
Sheena Colquhoun
Tess E. Mckenzie
Tom Curitore

REhearse runs from SEPTEMBER 10th till OCTOBER 1st with the closing exhibition/celebration at ODESSA, 395 Gore St, Fitzroy on Saturday the 1st, 6pm.

http://rehearseproject.wordpress.com/

Curated by Marie Schoenmaker & Ann Fuata 

Thanks to Aussie Rentals for their generous support!

Marianne Diaz

Paco Park 
Marianne Diaz
August 13th to Sep 3rd

Sue-Ching Lascelles

Smell You Later
Sue-Ching Lascelles
Aug 13th to Sep 3rd

Smell You Later Paco Park

August 13th to September 3rd

OPENING: 13th Aug 6pm till 9pm

Smell You Later
Sue-Ching Lascelles

SMELL YOU LATER is a site-specific installation centred around the adolescent saying. Because of its childish nature this old ... adage is humorous, endearing and charming all at once. The absurdity of this installation seeks to bring the viewer the same sense of naivety that comes from children’s perceptions within the context of the everyday. That humour can exist in the banal and that novelty within inanity can be paramount.

The universe of Sue-Ching Lascelles is one which is both commonplace and out of place at the same time. She dreams like a juvenile delinquent of two separate worlds, a place where childhood obsessions are validated in the transition to adulthood. It’s a universe where make-and-do marry the outlines of reality and then smudges those outlines a little bit, making it hard to tell where the ordinary ends and the extraordinary begins.

Paco Park
Marianne Diaz

PACO PARK attempts to re-create the aesthetics and branding of an imaginary fashion brand. It comprises a series of jackets (26 x 42cm) in riotous colours accompanied by a fashion brand logo, Paco Park. Paco Park invites audiences to question the distinction between art and fashion. Is window99 a store window or a gallery space? Are the jackets for sale, as fashion or as art?

AT ROLLERDOOR PERFORMANCE SPACE

MAKA KHAN is a new instrumental three piece starting to make in roads into the Melbourne improvised and experimental music scene. The group comprising MARCOS VILLALTA (guitar/effects), PARIS FAVILLA (Alto saxophone) and SARAH GALDES (drums) all finished their improvisation degrees at the VCA at the end of 2010 and since then have been involved in a wide variety of music from experimental duos to folk, gypsy, funk, neo-soul and straight ahead Jazz. In Maka Khan they explore the baseless trio format with dynamic, textural and wide ranging original compositions and thoughtful reworkings of jazz standards from the past and present.