Monday August 3, 2009
For the past two years Extra Cheese has aimed to integrate and encourage re-use within Australia’s emerging creative practice.
This years show requires contributors to include ‘retired’ art and/or design materials. Lots of creatives love to forage, collect and hoard, filling their studio corners and cupboards up with various creative materials that never again see the light of day. It’s time to dig some up again and put them to good use!
The horsehair of old paintbrushes. Perhaps some forgotten canvas frames. Maybe even a defunct computer mouse. Whatever the medium of choice, you will be sure to see some interesting outcomes from some of Sydney’s best emerging creative talent.
With each submission consisting of one emerging Australian artist and one emerging Australian designer, the artwork/design on display will be a unique marker of the thoughts and expressions that Australia’s next creative generation have to say about re-use within creative practice.
FEATURING COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN
Adam Paquette + Dave Foster – Alexandra de Bonis + Ezequiel Cortez
Amanda Cutlack + Fiona Yap – Beastman + Steve Tierney
Daryl Prondoso + Sean Batchelor – Del Lumanta + Tulsi Cutajar
Elliott Bryce + Nikki Dorey – Emily Parsons-Lord + Jo Shin
James Harney + Luke Storrier – James Jirat Patradoon + Kim-Anh Ho
Jin Hien Lau + Victoria Garcia – Jordan Clarke + Nicholas H Pike
Kate Ferguson + Natalie McWilliam – Katherine White + Will Loeng
Laura McKellar + Laura Morgan – Lucas Tipene + Tina Salama
The Groop – TheRipeCollective – Tully Arnot + Various Artists
And after numerous weeks of researching, adding, subtracting, drawing, hording, printing and painting, here is a sneek peek at our submission….
Opening Night is this Thursday August 6, from 6.30. Saatchi Gallery, The Rocks. We hope to see you there!
Words by Sarah
Friday June 12, 2009
Black Meteoric Star is the latest project by Gavin Russom of Delia and Gavin fame. The project is inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America’s Midwest and an always present fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock.
Russom expands on the music and concept behind Black Meteoric Star to Kiran Sande of Fact Magazine.
“Later I became very interested in the thematic elements of early Detroit and Chicago electronic music and the cultural environments that surrounded the Warehouse. Of particular interest was the way that a piece of music technology (specifically the Roland TB-303) generated an entire musical aesthetic because of its characteristics and its limitations. The post-apocalyptic vision of a new society, armed with electronic technology, emerging from the post industrial wasteland resonated with my own political ideals, my experiences growing up in Providence and my interest in the post-WWI European avant-garde who had similar ideas.
Words by Sarah
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