Gravity in Launceston

2009-02-07T02:03:00.001+11:00

amazing animation painted on public walls by blublu, made in buenos aires and baden. also recommend that you have a look at the artists website its really nicely made.

October Electronic Drawing Jam

2008-11-19T09:14:00.007+11:00

October saw many of the Drawing Jam crew dispersed: Nic had just got back that day from the Northern Territory, I was on King Island, Jared was in Africa. So we cancelled the meet up and I proposed a digital drawing correspondence, and set the task of drawing something related to evening meal for the night of October 15th. Below are the results from Chay-Ya Clancy (in Berlin), her friend Adelaide Rief (Melbourne), and myself.

Adelaide Rief - It is not you that bends

Chay-Ya Clancy - Beetroots from the market near the Canal.

Sarah Howell - Sunset on the West Coast of King Island accompanied by trombone.

Back at the house Emma and Gavin cook chicken noodle soup.

Drawing Jam @ The Perpetual Party Collective

2008-09-25T15:53:00.010+10:00

September's Drawing Jam took place amongst the growing cardboard walls of the Perpetual Party Collective's bump-in at Arts Alive. Matt and Themis very kindly let us use one of the cardboard rooms in the labyrinth; it glowed with the light of the data projector.

Casting coloured shadows and insulated from the world we had our best night yet.

Eat the Wall

2008-09-20T19:28:00.002+10:00

An interesting report on two "eat art" exhibitions in Berlin, which explore the use of food as an art language. If you click here the video will open in full screen.

in issuu

2008-09-06T10:17:00.002+10:00

"Signal Periodical: Volume Two"

This is a project which i produce in Melbourne at ArtPlay with awesome young people

the periodical blog

"A perfect stillness where everything moves," by Chay-Ya

this is a sampler of one a 36 page exhib catalogue

the stillness in flight blog

Issuu is a pretty wonderful and easy to use website that allows you to create your own online publications. and the neat thing is once you can made them you can embed them in other sites, and experiment with electrical world wide distribution. (For a bigger view click on the small ones above!)

Photos from the July Drawing Jam

2008-09-02T11:45:00.007+10:00

The first drawing jam was full of wonderfulness, oranges, subtle confusion and excitement.
The sense of adventure was running rife in the air and it was intriguing to be apart of something that moved and changed. It is so fun to draw with other people in the room!
This jam will be a regular event at Arts Alive in Launceston. In fact the second has already happened and the third will be soon.

These photos are only a subjective view of what happened through the lens of my particular camera. To see the rest of the photos I took, please click on this album:

Drawing night July

Zine from the first drawing night is coming soon. Edited by guest editor Chay-Ya Clancy (me).
The zine from the second drawing night is also in progress, edited by guest editor Jared Irwin. If you would like to sign up to the mailing list to receive zines and information on the gravity project, please contact Sarah Howell

The Notebook Project

2008-09-02T10:22:00.002+10:00

The Colors Notebook Project is something you would have surely heard about by now.
Here is some photos from the construction of my entry, its almost finished, and almost ready to post off. How is yours going? Have you started? Have you nearly finished? Send in any photos you have and we will post them up on this blog.

Black Box

2008-09-02T09:51:00.005+10:00

The Black Box event presented by the Manic Productions Crew was over a month ago now. Here are some of the photos that I took whilst they were setting up the Installation and Performance event at Arts Alive, and whilst it was happening.
Being a drawer the definite highlights were "buying squares on the blank canvas to create in" and Nic drawing and writing over almost the entire venue with white chalk.

For the full collection click on the album below:

Black Box

August Drawing Jam

2008-08-21T15:46:00.009+10:00

Activities undertaken:

* Exquisite Corspe game

* 1 x 3 m collaborative drawing

* Observational drawings of pears, mandarins, and each other

* Sharing and discussion of artbooks and strange seventies illustrations

This month's guest zine editor is Jared Irwin who gathered up our drawings at the end of the night to create the next zine to share with us in September.

Take my Word for it...

2008-08-15T14:49:00.002+10:00

Opening: Thursday 14th August at 5:30pm
11 August – 16 August Tue to Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat 10am to 2pm , Arts Alive, 178a Charles St, Launceston.

Artsts: Sonja Brough,Tim Chatwin, Samuel Eddy, Vika Fiffta, Mairi Ward, Rowena Watson, Themis Wood, Janine Wright, Steven Wright

For this show, nine contemporary artists have been asked to provide works with no title or statement that would reflect the intention of their work, with writers then being invited to view one of the works each and to give a description or possible ‘meaning’ of the artwork.

Part of Tasmanian Living Writers' Week

Arts Alive contact: Damien Quilliam 6331 2777 or 0447 874 117

CALL FOR LAUNCESTON COLLOBARATORS!

2008-08-15T14:18:00.003+10:00

From early September Wide Angle Tasmania will be trialing having regular monthly screenings of films and we are going to develop a mini-movie-makers weekend!

If you are based up north, and would like to be involved or contribute your skills, please contact Bev directly on bev@wideangle.org.au or by phone on 6223 8344.

We would like to have a northern based email contact list, so just send Bev an email with “Count Me In” and she will update you directly.

Showreel for Launceston's Diemen Media

2008-08-15T13:47:00.003+10:00

http://www.diemenmedia.com/

Gee Whiz

2008-08-15T13:24:00.006+10:00

Works by the Access Arts Link artists from Launceston, Tasmania

21^st – 8^th August @ Smithton Library

18^th – 12^th September @ Deloraine Hospital

Photo by Sarah Howell of a sidewalk chalk drawing by Arts Access Link artist Matthew Viney.

Chay-Ya's Travel Blog

2008-08-15T13:18:00.004+10:00

http://stillnessinflight.blogspot.com/

6-9pm Wed 20th August

2008-08-15T13:07:00.002+10:00

Ater the success of the last Drawing Jam we bring you the next Monthly Drawing Jam Night!

Arts Alive, 178A Charles St, Launceston.

6 - 9pm Wed 20th August.

Stack of paper supplied, bring own drawing implements.

First Drawing Jam

2008-07-17T12:28:00.003+10:00

The first Drawing Jam at Arts Alive took place last night in the surrounds of the NAIDOC week Tasmanian Aboriginal Artists Project exhibition(on until today, the 18th).

Many of us struggled with drawing again and discussed this strange process of coordinating our eyes and hands.

There was a very orange theme to the night as you can tell from the photographs.

Next Drawing Jam: 6-9pm, Wed 20th August.

I keep Thinking of Your Beautifully Ugly

2008-07-17T12:02:00.005+10:00

"Positive things often overlay negative things"

Artist: Jamilene Tan
www.jamilene.blogspot.com

Opening: 6pm Thursday 24th July
Arts Alive, 178a Charles Street
10am-4pm Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm Sat
until 31st July.

Opening Speaker: Penny Mason

Preview(different works): 23rd June - 19th July, K&H Cafe Restaurant, 106 George St. 7.30am-6pm Mon-Thu, 7.30am-late Fri-Sat

bridge art

2008-07-16T13:06:00.005+10:00

I noticed these pieces pop up in the last few days under the overpass near Penny Royal in Launie. Obviously the themes reocurring, and done by the same artist. It was a lovely surprise to come across this strong work. I was also attracted to the curves in the metal barrier alongside the brige.

A invitation to draw walking

2008-07-16T12:01:00.005+10:00

the gravity project invites you to join melbourne based artist Chay-Ya Clancy in a workshop of walking and drawing. we will be exploring physical movement and creative expression with a focus on sense of place. meet at the kings cottage for a cup of tea and warm up before we set off on the walk. bring lunch, warm things to wear and drawing implements (also if you want to bring a journal that would be good, else there will be some loose paper provided). all those with an interest in drawing, writing or movement are warmly welcomed.
where: kings cottage, at the beginning of the walk to the cataract gorge
when: Saturday 19th July
time: 10-2pm
cost: free
more info: please call Chay-Ya on 0432 672 899

parking: tram line carpark at Penny Royal then walk across the bridge to the cottage.
Supported by Tasmanian Regional Arts and Launceston City Council.

Sarsparilla Art Show

2008-07-16T11:00:00.009+10:00

12 July - 10 August, The Hub, 1 Tamar St.

The Sarsaparilla Art Show is a monthly commission free art exhibition featuring Launceston’s top emerging artists. The exhibition's role is to give local artists from all walks of life an opportunity to showcase and sell their work, and share ideas.
The energy behind this exhibition is Justin Chapman,
contact on: 0447 400 230 or justinchappy@hotmail.com
The inaugural Sarsaparilla Art Show was supported by The Hub owners and staff, Interweave Arts Association, Tasmanian Regional Arts, and opening speaker Karen Revie, who said some very sweet and beautiful words.

Manic Productions present The Black Box

2008-07-15T17:12:00.004+10:00

The Black Box
Full moon party and art installation
A sensory overload featuring a variety of visual and performance art
new text------->

Friday 18 July 8 - 12pm
@ Arts Alive
178a Charles Street
$5 entry - tix @ the door
---Cheap Bar---- 18+ event

Presented by Manic Productions

Drawing jam night this wednesday

2008-07-12T13:12:00.003+10:00

This Wednesday night, the 16th of July, Gravity is hosting a monthly night of drawing, simply because drawing is awesome and it is really nice to be in the same room as other people who are drawing too. We will hopefully make a little zine out of what happens on the night. Really hope you can come, paper supplied, bring your own drawing implements.
Arts Alive, 178a Charles Street Launceston, 6-9pm.

Weather exchange

2008-07-11T16:28:00.002+10:00

As part of her residency Chay-Ya is participating in an international exchange of weather photos with artist Marcel de Buck from the Netherlands.
For more on the project and to see the photos posted have a look at the Weather blog
For participation in the project contact weatherphotos@spamex.com

Kings Cottage residency

2008-07-11T16:08:00.005+10:00

As part of Gravity Project Melbourne artist Chay-Ya Clancy is artist in residence at the Kings Cottage at Cataract Gorge in Launceston, from the 8th until the 19th of July. Email chayya.clancy@gmail.com or sarahhowellprojects@gmail.com for updates or watch this space for special events.

Chronox

2008-06-25T20:25:00.003+10:00

Over the weekend I went to an exhibition at Forepaw by Melbourne based artists Michael Prior & Lachlan Conn, it was really good, like the best show I have been to in a long time. I pretty much hung out in there all day, til the outside lights got dark and the rainbow animations glowed on the cardboard surfaces of the geodesic domes.
This exhibition was wonderful for many reasons
1. for creating something you could hang out in (unlike a lot of gallery shows that you shuffle around in and then leave because its made not too hold you for too long) and wanted to hang out in
2. for its beautiful design and construction
3. for the complex rythmns of sound, animation and sculpture coming together seamlessly
4. for the cubby house utopian dream
5. there were three specially made " 7" dub-plate records that contained 20 locked grooves". what this means is that instead of being cut into spirals the grooves were circles, so wherever you put the needle on the record it would loop infinately on that one sound until you changed it. And because there were 3 records (each with 10 different loops) the possibilities of sound were large and enthralling .
6. the element of chance, of parts lining up, of combinations of loops and lights and of people and animals (quite a number of dogs visited the exhibition and they definitely added another level to the proceedings.
7. the animations (moving lines and shapes) were drawn directly onto the sculptures while projector and computer were hooked up together, meaning that the animations fell only onto specific shapes on the domes and was completely site specific. this blew me away, though i guess is quite a simple idea, to draw digitally in a three dimensional space.
For more about Forepaw

hand shadow puppetry

2008-06-12T13:59:00.003+10:00

This is a pretty amazing video of hand shadow puppetry, im not too certain on how authentic it is (in terms of hands making all the puppets and the composition), I suspect that there is some video editing and animation that has gone on, but it is still brilliant.

art is not terrorism

2008-06-09T21:17:00.002+10:00

"We visit art galleries, listen to conferences, cover art and design events, take a lot of pictures, interview creative people, and we document these findings in order to share them with you."
We make money not art
This is a really good website for finding out about interesting projects and happenings around the globe. Theres some great articles up at the moment, but I'll let you go over there...

Agents of Proximity

2008-05-16T18:51:00.004+10:00

Agents of Proximity is a local, artist-run travel service instigated and run by two melbourne based artists, Amy Spiers and Tori Stead. For the past few months the Agents of Proximity have been taking people from Brunswick on travels within their own neighbourhood, creating new encounters between people, and between people and places. An exhibition of photographic/textual works will be shown in a local coin laundry as part of Next Wave.

for more on the project and to see the rest of the postcards in this series go to Agents of Proximity

Paint piano

2008-05-16T15:36:00.002+10:00

This video shows French film-maker Michel Gondry (Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, Science of Sleep) experimenting with paint, motion and sound.
Some really interesting techniques and ideas are explored here. Unfortunately the video is not comprehensive and a little hard to understand, but it is wonderful to see the process of experimentation that has been refined in his films. It is also refreshing seeing people playing with handmade tactile mediums over the computer generated.

Next Wave festival

2008-05-16T12:51:00.011+10:00

The biennial emerging arts festival Next Wave opened in Melbourne last night, and runs until the end of May. This years festival, involving nearly 400 artists across 61 different curated projects, is tagged with the theme Closer Together and questions the conditions under which we are encouraged or blocked from coming together.
There are lots of really interesting projects and I encourage you to have a look around on the website, here are a few of my recommendations

Polyphonic: the festivals lecture, forum and workshop series

En Plein Air, a site specific exhibition by Sydney artists Karl Logge, Tessa Rapaport, created through a month long residency in the Botanical Gardens (the images above are from this project, taken from the Makeshift website)

Agents of Proximity, a local artist run travel agency, encouraging new encounters between people and places

2020? an evolving installation lead by artist Ash Keating and a dozen collaborators, making art out of rubbish and investigating environmental issues in arts practice

Launceston by Lomo by Unknown Creator

2008-05-11T22:12:00.000+10:00

NEW LIFE BERLIN

2008-05-06T16:52:00.006+10:00

NEW LIFE BERLIN is a contemporary art festival dedicated to new modes of moving and existing. 01.-15. June 08 Berlin
This is a participatory arts festival that looks at ways of engaging artists with open ended ideas and with global arts communities.
In contrast to traditional art festivals and biennials, NEW LIFE BERLIN will not represent a set of cultural conclusions, but create a model for a fluid cultural landscape.
New Life Berlin webpage

One of the projects in the festival, The Sandwhich Box, involves sending a metal box to selected groups of artists throughout the world. Inside the box is a "Lysthus” a kind of tent, which artists are free to use for whatever artwork, or situation they might find relevant. The documentation of interacting with objects and interpreting into the context of an artists project becomes the work rather than a traditional outcome.
The experience of the project is considered to be an artistic process in and of itself, therefore it is the experience and hence, the documentation that becomes the artwork, rather than a singular artwork becoming manifest at the end of the project.
The Sandwhich Box

I Wish I Could Show You

2008-05-05T23:35:00.003+10:00

I Wish I Could Show You is a database of anonymous video messages sent via mobile phone. These videos are snippets of life: confessions, catharsis, love and hate letters, documentaries, anything you want them to be. They are being collected on a website and presented in a series of interactive screening events, as part of Next Wave festival and then later in the year as part of a national touring exhibition, Come on the Scene, that will take in Tasmanian galleries.

Screenings will run from 15-30 May at Horse Bazaar in Melbourne, for more information go over to Next Wave.
To view videos from the project and for information on uploading your own please go to I Wish I Could Show You.

10 percent pending

2008-05-05T22:45:00.006+10:00

10 percent pending is an Artist Run Initiative based in Hobart, it does not operate out of a permanent space, but rather brings art into non-conventional-living-breathing-public spaces. These images are from their "Guerilla Gallery" project.

http://www.10percentpending.blogspot.com/
and you can join the facebook group

Captain Vegetable

2008-04-20T20:03:00.006+10:00

What a good thing to be a captain of! This guy is pretty much my hero at the moment and Im working on being like him when I grow up. If you could be a captain of something, what would it be?
(This video is from Sesame Street from the 70's)

A.R.M. (Art, Ready-to-Make)

2008-04-15T20:09:00.006+10:00

This is a really interesting work that was made by New Orleans artists Kyle Bravo and Jenny LeBlanc as direct response to their situation as Hurricane Katrina evacuees and artists.

Check out this audio slide show about the project, definitely worth it.

A quick tour of the thriving city of Launceston, Tasmania - Creator Unknown

2008-04-15T10:16:00.003+10:00

Drawing

2008-04-14T21:29:00.007+10:00

While my little brother Noah was drawing in his sketch book today, I felt compelled to document this fearlessness and inspiring artmaking.

Self portrait exhibition

2008-04-14T20:43:00.008+10:00

image by Kareena Zerefos

Noise website have curated an online exhibition of self portraits by a number of artists working in different mediums. Worth having a look at. Click here to view ME , MYSELF, I

Stir-fried paper in ISSUU

2008-04-02T21:24:00.001+11:00

Lists of goodness

2008-03-31T18:08:00.004+11:00

On Saturday morning as a warm up and to set the scene, we wrote lists of our favorite things that made us happy.

Outside breakfast, cups of tea in china tea cups, swings, standing under trees and looking up through their leaves, standing on top of mountains, crunchy doonas, dark rain. (Jessie)

Singing sunshine of your love badly while driving, roasted pumpkin and fetta sandwhich at Salamanca Arts centre, David, Daniella and James, having meals and chatter with Nikki, hazelnut meringue, cat. (Sarah)

Juicy pears, the smooth crispness of unused paper, clean sheets, sleeping in, reading books while walking through the city, typing on typewriter in public places, the rain in any form, hugs especially when they are real and loving, new stockings, revelations. (Chay-Ya)

To come (Wening)

Sunday 30 March 3.30PM

2008-03-30T15:13:00.001+11:00

Received from Beaconsfield 02:40:50pm
A photo of Lily, Lawrence, Leah, Alison and Chelsea waving and smiling to camera from around a table as they work inside Beaconsfield House.

Sent to Campbell Town 03:15:14pm
A text message with a sound recording of the pedestrian crossing ticker ticker

Sunday 30 March 2pm

2008-03-30T14:40:00.001+11:00

Received from Campbell Town 01:47:55pm

Three photos of a performance outside the cafe strip in Campbell Town involving wheelie bins and costumes of newsprint paper and hazard tape. The photos are accompanied by the text "Scary embarras people monsters"

Sent to Beaconsfield 02:10:15pm

Burning the bottom of the pot, smell lingering

Sunday 30 March 12pm

2008-03-30T14:32:00.000+11:00

Received from George Town 12:14:06pm
Yesterday afternoon i saw
1 lighthouse with a lipstick red stripe
2 a semaphore telegram about a ship wreck
3 my shadow on the grass
4 a bouy made from huon pine the size of a car
5 an old chair
6 some youths buying lollies
7 a gum ball machine.
i would send you pictures and sounds but i cant send.
Yolucy

Sent to George Town 12:03pm
Chay-Ya rang Lucy to exchange audible dialogue about how the project was going and feeding back from the day before. At time of the conversation neither Chay-Ya or Lucy were accompanied by other participants, and so were technically groupless but still held inside the gravitational embrace of the project as a whole.

Saturday 29 March 3.30pm

2008-03-30T14:18:00.000+11:00

Received from Beaconsfield 4:30pm
Hi Chay-Ya,
Thanks for your message.
After a day of not being able to connect e-mail, now
it works!!!
Bugger, cause it would be so good to be in touch by
e-mail and blogg rather than phones. I have poor
reception and often it says's it's sent, and then a
couple hrs later I get a message sying it hasn't
arrived!!!

I had three lovely kiddies today, and not sure how
many I will have for tommorow. All's well
Will ramp things up tommorrow I hope!!!
Enjoy the evening
Lucia

Sent to Campbell Town 03:45:42pm

there was a sound recording of Jessie naming each vegetable attached to this exchange also but not sure how to upload to the blog

Saturday 29 March 2pm

2008-03-30T14:02:00.000+11:00

Received from George Town 2:05:38pm
Alone in George Town. Was raining. Now sun shining. Tried to float letters in a puddle which reflected a yellow chicken and Chickenfeed. Letters to read MADE IN CHINA but the wind blew them into the mud too fast. Id email photo but internet is down. Afternoon George Town.

Sent to George Town 2:19:06pm
A task for your afternoon in georgetown: make a inventory of 7 things that represent your arvo using image or sound luv launie

Saturday 29 March 12PM

2008-03-30T13:15:00.000+11:00

Recieved from Campbell Town 12:14:17pm

two bottles of water. Dirt. Spines. Weeds. Rose petals. A bike on the wall. My hair. What happened.

Sent to Beaconsfield 12:02:26pm

My flurorescent pink spell caster, flashing its magic light across the room

Stir fried paper

2008-03-30T11:14:00.001+11:00

A day spent inside, sheltering from the rain, hand stitching the folded paper of concertina's into a hard cover.

The preparations for drawing took most of our time, warming our bodies up, stretching and drinking cups of tea while we cut and folded, stuck and sewed. Once our books were ready we began drawing the ingredients that would later become our lunch, spending plenty of time connecting with what we were drawing (curiously people noticed that they were hyper aware of the smell the particular thing they were drawing, emanated).
At the end we arranged our books together into a stir fry of paper, noting that as a whole it was far more interesting being the sum of everyone's drawings and not just a singular persons work.

Thankyou to Jessie Pangas and Wining Cheah for participating in the first Gravity workshop, look forward to have many more of you in coming installments!

A weekend of workshops

2008-03-28T21:33:00.000+11:00

over the Saturday and Sunday, 29th and 30th of March
with Chay-Ya Clancy, visiting artist from Melbourne (see her work here).

An opportunity to develop and challenge your own realities and creative practises whilst making sense of the cloud of technology above our heads as at tool for networking and creative exchange.

The weekend's workshops with Chay-Ya will focus on developing your own creative language through an exploration in drawing, writing, movement and speech.
Experience the familiar and ordinary with a different perspective.

We will look at ways to create a positive energised arts practice and moving ideas into actions. Creating for yourself and using documentation to share and exchange dialogue with other artists both here and faraway.

Stretch out, learn some new things and lay courses for dreaming. Hope to see you there.

Welcome to The Gravity Project in Launceston

2008-03-07T16:06:00.000+11:00

Starting Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th March (the weekend after the Easter long weekend)

Venue: The Studio, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk.

Artist: Chay-Ya Clancy

Cost: free