producing poems we weave slippery Slopes

A limited edition print of my poem; 'Utter Slight Sentence Reform', 2013, is on offer to support the exciting new art space Slopes, the print will cost you $75 (a rare chance to exchange common currency for a moment of my practice) measuring 42 x 30cm in an edition of 50. Every contributor of $75 or more will also have their name published on the thank you page of the SLOPES website and will receive an invitation to the inaugural opening.

upcoming November MMXIII

Melbourne Now  
22 Nov 201323 Mar 2014 National Gallery of Victoria


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GERTRUDE STUDIOS 2013

16 NOVEMBER – 11 DECEMBER 2013
EXHIBITION OPENING: 15 NOVEMBER, 6 – 8PM
STUDIO ARTISTS OPEN DAY: SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1 – 4PM 

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FREE FEUDAL BARTER STORE  
-Studio 12-
GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY
200 GERTRUDE STREET FITZROY VIC 3065 AUSTRALIA
200 Gertrude street
26 July – 24 August
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY – FRIDAY 11.00 – 5.30PM
SATURDAY 11.00 – 4.30PM 
*Open exchange space/free store (feel free to take anything including furniture, or barter with me if i am in the space)
photos: Kate Meakin 

‘Group Exhibition: Artwork Documentation’


10-11 May 2013
Studio 6, Gertrude Contemporary
Participating artists (in order of documentation): 
Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Christopher LG Hill, Masato Takasaka, Dan Bell, Jackson Slattery, Clementine Edwards, Simon Zoric, Oliver van der Lugt, Holly Childs, Hanna Tai, Elena Betros, Margaret Goninon, Trevelyan Clay, Ry Haskings, Sanne Mestrom, Sanja Pahoki, Chloe Stevens, Nathan Gray, Eliza Dyball, Lydia Wegner, Giles Fielke, Ash Kilmartin, Christo Crocker, Matthew Linde, Adelle Mills, Kate Meakin, Luke Sands, Joshua Petherick, Brennan Olver, Greatest Hits, Eric Demetriou, Jaya Fausch, Matt Hinkley, Alex Vivian, Luke Holland, Harriet Morgan, Antuong Nguyen, James Barnett, Charles Green, Kieren Seymour, Patrick Pound, Sean Bailey, Rare Candy, Hugh Westland, Nick Selenitsch, Chris Sciuto, Andrew Truong, Annie Wu, Liang Luscombe
Install shots by David Homewood and Lydia Wegner
Short description I wrote for the Gertrude mail-out:
Each artist featured in this exhibition has nominated an object, a surface, and a light source. Together,
these three elements constitute a setup. Each setup has been photographically documented by the
curator from the same aerial vantage, using default camera settings. The exhibition will consist of
photographs of the setups accompanied by a list of the contributing artists, the specific elements of
their setup, and the date, time, and location of its documentation.













FREE FEUDAL BARTER STORE

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present a new project by 
Christopher L G Hill in Studio 12.

Free feudal barter store is an exploration of the processes and implications of redistribution, exchange, swapping, bartering and donation. Through  the exchange and gifting of ideas, objects and commodities, this project realises the inherent freedom within arts relation to Capital, with a relation to anarchist ideas and feudal sensibilities. While engaging with modes of display common among second hand and opportunity shops, Hill’s store in Studio12 operates as both a gallery/studio and as a striation of fiscal and gift economies.

Typically Hill’s work negotiates ideas of freedom as mediated through the self, others and objects. He uses the language of objects to undulate between the objective and the subjective in both a concrete and emotional way. Hill’s work explores the ways that anarchist ideas are present within inter-personal relations materialising within  free intellectual property, publications, performance, object dialogues, poetry, gestural interactions, hyper links and web interfaces. In his work debris and words float on floors and pages like a temporal mist, multi-directional and multidisciplinary, operating as a lived politic and art, active and in flux. Hill’s gestures, sounds, dislocated words and objects form a language, which is left wide open to multiple readings and dialogues.

Exhibition Dates: 26 July – 24 August
Opening: Friday 26 July 2013

GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY
200 GERTRUDE STREET FITZROY VIC 3065 AUSTRALIA
TELEPHONE +61 3 9419 3406  FACSIMILE +61 3 9419 2519
INFO@GERTRUDE.ORG.AU  WWW.GERTRUDE.ORG.AU
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY – FRIDAY 11.00 – 5.30PM
SATURDAY 11.00 – 4.30PM

Channel G and Higher Arc launch

 
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First show: movement and gesture, silent performance

 and then at 12:50
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http://channel-g.tv/
 

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third show: Conversation with people about movement and poetry. Open public living and Open learning as a way forward in life education.

fourth show : Spoken word, poetry and sound poetry


Third/Fourth Melbourne artist-Facilitated Biennial 31 May – 23 June, 2013

Lisa Radford and Sam George
 Taree Mckenzie, Virginia Overell, Nicki Wynnychuk
 Kain Picken
 Lou Hubbard
 Alicia Frankovich
Lisa Radford and Sam George
 Alicia Frankovich
 Sydney (Esther Edquist)
 Sydney (Esther Edquist)
 S. T. Lore
 S. T. Lore
 Lisa Radford and Sam George
 Patrick Lundberg
 Patrick Lundberg
 Patrick Lundberg
 Patrick Lundberg
 Patrick Lundberg
 Patrick Lundberg
 Renee Jaeger, Gian Manik
  Renee Jaeger
 Lisa Radford and Sam George







 Matthew Benjamin
 Matthew Benjamin
 Lisa Radford and Sam George
Lisa Radford and Sam George
Joshua Petherick                                                                                                                                


Masato Takasaka Third/ Fourth VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery 2013

 Virginia Overell
 Virginia Overell
 Virginia Overell
 Virginia Overell
Lisa Radford and Sam George
 Dan Arps
  Dan Arps
  Dan Arps
  Dan Arps
 Masato Takasaka
 Masato Takasaka
 Counterfiet_ness First (VDO)
 Counterfiet_ness First (VDO)
 Counterfiet_ness First (VDO)
 Counterfiet_ness First (VDO)
  Dan Arps
  Dan Arps
 Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
 Fiona Connor
 Fiona Connor 
 Fiona Connor

 Hao Guo
 Hao Guo

 Sean Peoples
 Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
 Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
 Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
Nick Selenitsch
Nick Selenitsch
Nick Selenitsch
 Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
 Nick Selenitsh
 Greatest Hits
 Lisa Radford and Sam George
 Joshua Petherick
 Matthew Benjamin
 Adelle Mills
 Kain Picken
 Lou Hubbard
 Lou Hubbard
 Elizabeth Newman
 Trevelyan Clay
 Sean Peoples
George Egerton Warburton
Alicia Frankovich

 Virginia Overell
 Virginia Overell



 James Deutsher





 Gian Manik
 Renee Jaeger
 Sean Bailey
 Ben Tankard
 Tahi Moore
 Sean Peoples

 Nicholas Mangan
 Nicholas Mangan
 Patrick Lundberg

ffiXXed, Lou Hubbard, James Deutsher
Lou Hubbard, ffiXXed
 Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Sean Bailey
 Madeline Kidd
Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Sean Bailey, Tahi Moore, Sean Peoples, Kenneth Biennale
 Renee Jaeger, Gian Manik
 Patrick Lundberg, Renee Jaeger
Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes and Chris O'Brien, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), and Jon Campbell, Virginia Overell, etc...
 Matt Hinkley
Tahi Moore, Sean Peoples, Jon Campbell. And in the black space, Masato Takasaka, Dan Arps, Endless Lonely Planet
Install shot
Install shot
Joshua Petherick, Alex Vivian, Sean Peoples, ffiXXed
Alex Vivian, Sean Peoples, ffiXXed
Joshua Petherick, Alex Vivian, Sean Peoples, ffiXXed
ffiXXed
 Kate Newby
Kate Newby
Kate Newby
Nicki Wynnychuk
Taree McKenzie, Virginia Overell, Nicki Wynnychuk
 Taree McKenzie
Taree McKenzie
 Marco Fusinato
 Marco Fusinato
Kate Smith, Kain Picken, Adelle Mills, Matthew Benjamin
 Kain Picken
 Matthew Benjamin
Kate Smith, Adelle Mills
 Kate Smith
 Kate Meakin
 Nicholas Mangan
 Carrie McGrath
 James Deutsher
 Trevelyan Clay
 Trevelyan Clay
 Trevelyan Clay
 Legendary Hearts
Matthew Benjamin, Greatest Hits
James Deutsher, Kate Meakin, Nickolas Mangan
Ardi Gunawan
Ardi Gunawan
Ardi Gunawan
Matthew Hopkins, Ardi Gunawan
Matthew Hopkins
Ardi Gunawan
George Egerton Warburton, Sean Peoples
Install shot
Sean Peoples
Virginia Overell
Nick Selenitsch, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan (better photos coming)
Sean Peoples, George Egerton Warburton
Install shot, green elastic work Alicia Frankovich (better photos coming)
Joshua Petherick
Dan Arps
Ben Tankard
Sean Bailey

install shot (better coming)
Hao Guo
Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
Hao Guo
Install shot

 Alex Vivian
 Alex Vivian
 Alex Vivian
 Alex Vivian
 ffiXXed
 Matthew Hopkins

 Ardi Gunawan
 Ardi Gunawan
 Taree McKenzie
 Helen Johnson
 Helen Johnson
 Nicholas Selenitsch, Double Fly
 Justin K Fuller
 Double Fly
 Justin K Fuller


Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes and Chris O'Brien, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd , Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k. Coordinated by Christopher L G Hill



In continuing projects we find new dimensions, decisions are informed and we move on.



Continuing on from three Melbourne biennials all of which have ignored the fundamental underpinning of a biennial (that it happens every two years) and two of which have also ignored links to institutions and place, the Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial aims to engage all past Melbourne Biennials and other projects generated either side of them.

The Second/First artist facilitated Biennial focused on an artist-curated model outside of the institution and state, compensating somewhat for Melbourne’s lack of a second biennial, and for the lack of affordable rental space in Melbourne to start dialogues. The Second/Third Biennial stood as a bookend to a two-year artist facilitated project (Y3K) engaged with a local and international conversation, and refined focuses. This upcoming biennial will engage a more amorphous construction: tying up loose ends, re investigating and continuing various overlaps, collaborations, conversations and relationships.



Third/Fourth: Public Event;


Monday 10 June, 12-1pm: Performances/Readings by Sydney (Esther Edquist from Super Star) and S.T. Lore.


*Thanks Sean Peoples for the first bunch of photos