THIS TUESDAY 5th July: Panel Discussion - The trouble with remuneration: the tricky business of being an artist In conjunction with West Space’s exhibition, The Trouble with Remuneration, there will be a panel discussion to explore different ways artists are engaged with contemporary economic realities: as survival, as challenge, as resistance, as opportunity. Speakers: Janet Burchill, Masato Takasaka, Debris Facility and Beth Rose Caird. Chaired by: Jan Bryant. Date: Tuesday 5th July 2016 - 6pm Venue: West Space - Level 1, 225 Bourke St Melbourne RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/panel-discussion-the-trouble-with-remuneration-the-tricky-business-of-being-an-artist-tickets-26125648518 Janet Burchill is a Melbourne-based visual artist. Masato Takasaka is a Melbourne-based artist, known for both his performances as a lead guitarist in über-hip rock bands as well as his visual art practice. Takasaka thinks about his studio practice in musical terms, describing his aesthetic as an iPod Shuffle on endless repeat: playing the greatest…
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Lecture | Emily Pethick - The Artist As…Collaborator | West Space
West Space in association with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane and Curatorial Practice at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture) are pleased to present a special lecture by Emily Pethick. Pethick’s lecture is part of The Artist As… a year-long lecture series co-presented by the IMA and Curatorial Practice at MADA. Emily Pethick will speak about the artist as collaborator through examples from The Showroom, a non-profit independent contemporary art space in London. She will discuss some of the artists’ projects produced that have involved diverse forms of participation, as well as in relation to how the organisation works with artists through co-production. The series examines the ways artists move through the world, and how that movement might involve adopting other roles to pursue a project, a position, a politics, or a practice. For any given project the…
Exhibitions | Lucina Lane - Yona Lee - Economy - Sofi Basseghi | West Space
New exhibitions opening tonight (Thursday 17th) at West Space. Exhibition Dates 18th March - 16th April 2016. loosen the earth Lucina Lane Working within the expanded concept of painting and its material structure, Lucina Lane’s new body of work beckons the audience to experience the painting as an object, putting pressure on the frame of the work and its edges. Employing both slight and unruly painterly gestures upon unstretched canvas, Lane teases out how a painting can behave when it is no longer beholden to the pictorial frame. Artist bio here: http://westspace.org.au/event/loosen-the-earth/ Line on display | Yona Lee Using the architectural features of the Front Space gallery as a guide, Yona Lee’s new installation Line on display responds to the spatial dynamics of this particular gallery. Often seen as a transient space, Lee connects this experience with that of the psychological journey one takes when walking…
Exhibitions | Is/Is not - Glenn Barkley and Angela Brennan - Lauren Burrow - David Capra | West Space
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 11 February 6-8pm. Exhibitions continue until Saturday 12 March. FRONT SPACE & GALLERY 1 | Is/Is not Jack Brown, Christo Crocker, Janina Green, Annabelle Kingston, Sanja Pahoki, Aaron Rees, Kiron Robinson, Xanthe Waite, Lydia Wegner, Grace Wood, Justine Varga, curated by Kiron Robinson Once the photograph signified that something was somewhere, in front of a camera. It was held up as a proof. Proof that someone took the photograph and that something was photographed. In the post-indexical digital world this has changed to signify, at best, that within a photograph anything could be anywhere, everywhere and subsequently nowhere. The photograph can no longer yield any idea of truth beyond its own condition. So, if the photographic has now been freed from the condition of fidelity, what then is its condition? Read more BACK SPACE | Exhaustion Builds - Lauren Burrow the line…
Lecture | Philip Brophy Voiding Effects & Terrorised Language: Video and the Unreality of ISIS (Part 2) | West Space
Part 2 of Brophy’s Discipline lecture at the Wheeler Centre, ‘Terror Vision: Video and the Unreality of ISIS’ by Philip Brophy, will take place at West Space this Thursday 16 July, from 6–8pm. This is an opportunity to hear the rest of Philip’s lecture, and for discussion. The clutch of late 2013/early 2014 ISIS videos have been near-unanimously accepted as being real—mostly out of fear that they might be real. Yet the videos employ multi-camera set-ups, pixel-tracking, void-compositing, particle effects and diffusion plug-ins which are utilised in Hollywood, television advertising and video art production—all of whom ape cinematic effects for various purposes. The contemporary dilemma is not whether one believes the videos to be real or unreal, but how one distinguishes their divination from the consternation of Zero Dark Thirty, the hysterics of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, or the rhetoric…
West Space Annual Fundraiser 2015
West Space is proud to present our 2015 Annual Fundraiser. Originally called A4 Art, the West Space Annual Fundraiser is a curated exhibition that includes artworks by over 100 artists. Works for sale are of diverse size and medium, including sculpture, photography, drawing, painting and videos and prices range from as low as $40 through to $3,000. Artists generously choose to donate either 50% or 100% of the proceeds to West Space. The West Space Annual Fundraiser is a unique opportunity to collect an artwork from a wide selection of emerging and established Australian artists, while also supporting one of Australia’s oldest and most respected artist-led initiatives. This event is a crucial fundraising opportunity for us to raise essential funds to continue to keep West Space rent free for exhibiting artists. Opening night: Thursday 14 May 2015, 6-9pm. West Space Patrons…
News | West Space announces Patrice Sharkey as new director
West Space has announced their new director is Patrice Sharkey. From West Space The West Space Board, Program Committee and Staff would like to announce Patrice Sharkey as our new Director. We are thrilled with Patrice’s appointment and look forward to working with her through this next exciting stage in West Space’s history. Having completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) majoring in Art History at the University of Melbourne in 2010, Patrice has worked at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA since 2011. At MUMA she has co-curated keynote survey exhibitions that track watershed moments in art throughout the twentieth century (Art as Verb, 2014, and Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, 2015), and coordinated solo projects by the acclaimed international artists Fiona Connor and Turner-Prize winning Simon Starling. She is a current member of un Magazine’s Editorial Committee…
News | West Space farewells Danny Lacy and seeks a new Director
West Space has announced that the current Director of three years, Danny Lacy, is leaving to pursue independent curatorial projects and to undertake an Asialink residency in Singapore. They are searching for a new director, details below or on their website. From West Space: Danny has been an exemplary Director, leading and managing a complex and expanded artistic program. Patrick Pound, Chair of the West Space Board, says that “Danny has been a dynamic and deeply engaged leader of West Space. Art and artists were always at the core of his thinking and decision making. He has been a hugely dedicated and capable Director and we will all miss his calm and professional leadership.” Lacy leaves behind a vibrant and energised West Space. Key achievements include removing rental-fees paid by exhibiting artists, securing multi-year funding from Creative Victoria for the first time…
Film, Feminism and Fun at West Space!
Film, Feminism and Fun at West Space! September 5 – 15, West Space, Melbourne A Dinner Party: Setting the table – feminist art forum, events and art exhibition A Dinner Party: setting the table, is a collaborative project curated by Caroline Phillips and Victoria Duckett. It is a cross- media forum and series of events that brings a range of feminist artists, scholars, and social commentators together to explore feminist art today. The project is the first step towards the realization of a larger feminist exhibition The F Word which will tour Regional and metropolitan Victoria in 2014/15. Events programme Thursday, September 6, 6-8pm | Knitting Circle with Kate Just. Bring a piece your working on, or just bring some needles and wool and Kate will help you get started. Friday, September 7, 6-8pm | Film: Imaging Her World: Feminist Visions A…