Watch This Space in the newspaper
Applications for our Exhibition and Residency Proposals for 2017 close 31st October. Get your ideas in quick!
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Watch This Space in the newspaper
Applications for our Exhibition and Residency Proposals for 2017 close 31st October. Get your ideas in quick!
Current exhibiting artist, Kristian Laemmle-Ruff, has been featured in the local paper by renowned arts writer, Kieran Finnane. Follow the link below to read about his exhibition Mind the Gap and Finnane’s insightful musings…
By KIERAN FINNANE
Alice Springs is often seen as a town beset by racial division and conflict, but its creative culture can tell a different story. Looking back over three decades I find an already rich history of intersection and collaboration, in work by visual artists, writers and thinkers, designers and producers. This history shows the potential of re-imagining the future in this community.
This is an edited version of a talk that I gave recently at Watch This Space, the artist-run initiative founded in Alice Springs in 1993. I was speaking as the recipient of last year’s LOFTY Award, named in honour of the late Pamela Lofts, a founding member of the Space, its first coordinator, and an important desert artist. I was honoured to have the LOFTY acknowledge my contribution to the arts in Alice Springs through my writing. From the start I thought that the scope of whatever I did on this occasion should take a long view, a perspective gained through the two and a half decades that I’ve spent in Alice Springs. From there it didn’t take me long to arrive at wanting to address ‘this space between us’ – ‘us’ being as broad as the people of Central Australia, with the ‘space between’ implying the dichotomies of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal life and cultural production.
I have called the talk ‘The fertile space between us’, but how is the space ‘fertile’? you may ask. What’s the evidence? Most days a visitor arriving in Alice Springs might look around and think that it’s an almost vacant space or at best put it under the heading ‘can do better‘. Generally I would agree, and a good part of my meaning, in choosing the word ‘fertile’, is in its idea of latency – there is important work, and a great deal of it, to be done here. But the ground, ‘this space between us’ so rich in potential, has already yielded some fine fruit.
You can read the full article here [at Alice Springs News]
A visually and emotionally stunning performance of dance showcasing the transformative power of one woman’s love of textiles and fashion, and how her great-granddaughter brings her love back to life. A marriage of love and textile that becomes beautiful art.Cleopatra’s Dress is performed tonight from 7pm at Watch this SPACE.
Sia Cox, whose great-grandmother inspired the dresses and dance, will talk about the inspiration for the work, and showcase the screen prints and circle skirts used in the production on Saturday 6 September at 10am.
More information: wts.org.au/events/cleopatras-dress
The deadline for entries to the 21st Birthday Members Show, SQUARED, has been extended to 11 July.
Artworks due by 22 July for 1 August exhibition opening.
Go to the original CALL OUT entry on the News page for details and entry forms.
Donate now or before June 29 to make Free BBQ Cash Giveaway (FBCG) happen.
FBCG is a mini-arts festival and project to inspire Alice Springsians into art and action. Initiated by Alex Hullah and Josh Davis, the dynamic duo of Elephant Island. They are fundraising through Pozible, a dollar-for-dollar venture run by Creative Partnerships Australia. Overall, they need $10,000 for 9 separate yet inextricably linked projects.
$8480 has been raised so far. But they still need $2045 and only 5 days to do it in.
So support grass-roots artists in action and donate now! For arts sake!
It’s a double or nothing bet. If a funding campaign doesn’t reach the target it gets nothing.
http://www.pozible.com/project/181968 RAISED $1405 NEED $595
http://www.pozible.com/project/182252 RAISED $620 NEED $380
http://www.pozible.com/project/182201 RAISED $475 NEED $525
http://www.pozible.com/project/182238 RAISED $510 NEED $490
http://www.pozible.com/project/182287 RAISED $945 NEED $55
http://www.pozible.com/project/182320 RAISED $1285 TARGET MET
http://www.pozible.com/project/182421 RAISED $1025 TARGET MET
http://www.pozible.com/project/182327 RAISED $1050 TARGET MET
http://www.pozible.com/project/182237 RAISED $1165 TARGET MET