Beyond a Thousand Words – Experimental Slide Night at Verge Gallery

21 May

WHAT: Beyond a Thousand Words – Experimental Slide Night at Verge Gallery
WHO: Victoria Baldwin, Lara Barker, Eleanor Barz, Dylan Batty, Annika Elise Blau, Andrew Christie, Chanel Delahunty, Alex Dorohokuplia, Bec Eames, Nicole Eggers, Nicholas John Fahy, Samuel H. Foxkraft, Brigitte Gerges, Michael Gordon, Isabella Grace, Kraig Grady, Sylvia Griffin, Reema Hamdan, Verena Heirich, Herbie, Jack Hume, Tim Hunt, Zsuzsanna Domenika Ihar, Freia Kirkaldy, Olivia Kwarda-Tuivaga, Amanda LeMay, Flora Mavrommati, Goldman Moas-Dorit, Jacqueline N Olivetti, Axel Powrie, Leann Richards, Charlotte Richardson, Arzu Robatmeily, Esther Rolfe, Peter Rolfe, Jack Reilly, Slinky & Snudis, Cecilia White and Arina Zinovyeva.
WHEN: Friday May 24, 7pm or 8pm (two performance time slots)
WHERE: Verge Gallery, City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, University of Sydney
CONTACT: Greg Shapley on 9563-6218 or vergegallery@usu.usyd.edu.au

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Join us on Friday May 24, at either 7 or 8pm for a multi-media experiment constructed especially for the Head On photography festival.

Beyond a Thousand Words – Experimental Slide Night at Verge Gallery

We all know the old saying: a picture is worth a thousand words. Verge Gallery’s slide night will take pictures (submitted by the University of Sydney’s student body), combine narration, music, performance art and some theatre, creating a truly memorable event.

In the mix will be Zsuzsanna Ihar (with Brigitte Gerges), who will be sleeping throughout the show but not because it’s boring! She is inviting the audience to join her in ‘slumber world’ and interact between the two realities of consciousness and unconsciousness (visually enhanced with an overlay of surreal imagery).

Axel Powrie and Jack Reilly will be dueling with sound, using their own personal musical styles – Jazz and Indie respectively, to play off one another in a challenging battle for musical supremacy.

Also on the night, theatre writers, Tim Hunt, Dylan Batty and Annika Elise Blau, are scripting an experimental narrative that explores concepts of light and dark – good against evil – white vs. wholemeal, from humorous and complex perspectives.

Cecilia White will be exploring the light shed by knowledge and cultural awareness in her work ‘The Lover Circles Her Own Heart’.

This evening is FREE and food/refreshments provided.

Image provided by Brigitte Gerges.

OASIS Sculpture Prize

3 May

USU Oasis Sculpture Prize

University of Sydney students and alumni who are Access members are invited to submit for the USU OASIS Sculpture Prize. The winning entry will be exhibited in front of Verge Gallery in the Jane Foss Russell Plaza from February 2014 to January 2015. Entry is free. Size, durability and OHS requirements apply – see bottom of page.

Verge Gallery fronts on to Jane Foss Russell Plaza. Currently barren and windswept, it is something of a concrete desert. The winning sculpture should be a sight for sore eyes – something that will disrupt this landscape, being playful, entertaining and thought provoking. To this end the inaugural theme for the prize is “OASIS”.

Entries can be submitted from May 6 to June 30 2013 online. From these entries finalists will be announced on August 1 and given $200 each to create a to-scale table top size model of their work. These must be submitted by October 1. The finalists will be on display concurrently with the Verge Festival with the winner announced at the Verge Awards night, October 10. The winner will be awarded $2,000 and have until February 28 2014 to create the work, which will be displayed for up to a year.

Please note that your work must be suitable for the long term, weather-proof, able to survive in a robust public environment, and accord to OH&S regulations. It must be delivered in pieces no larger than 1 cubic metre, be secured on a concrete base and be immovable. We reserve the right to refuse unsuitable or dangerous works. The Judges decision will be final. No correspondence will be entered into.

Translations: A Sydney–Sacramento Exchange

26 Apr

WHO: Vilma Bader, Pamela Brenner, Johannes Muljana, Jason Christopher, Verena Heirich, Allana McAfee, Jonathan McBurnie and Vienna del Rosario Parreno (Sydney). Aleksander Bohnak, Ilah Cookston, Roma Devanbu, Gioia Fonda, Ianna Frisby, Cherilyn Naughton and Katie Thomas (Sacramento).
WHEN: Opening Thursday May 9, 6pm May 10-31. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
WHERE: Verge Gallery, City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, University of Sydney
CONTACT: Greg Shapley on 9563-6218 or vergegallery@usu.usyd.edu.au

'Culturally Bound Syndromes' by Vilma Bader from instructions by Aleksander Bohnak.

‘Culturally Bound Syndromes’ by Vilma Bader from instructions by Aleksander Bohnak.

‘Translations’: A Sydney Sacramento Exchange is a combined project between Sydney’s Verge Gallery, and the similarly named Verge Art Center in Sacramento. The project explores how communication through the internet can be misinterpreted by an individual’s cultural and social background. Although sharing a name, these art spaces are separated by oceans and vast distances. Perhaps a metaphor for a gulf in understanding, these chasms, revealed as misunderstandings and misinterpretations, uncover the myth of the internet as a tool that eradicates distance and difference.

Seven artists in Sydney have been blindly paired with seven artists in Sacramento. These pairs have swapped instructions for an artwork which they create with minimal input from corresponding artists. Each of the artists have been challenged to realise artworks in ways that represent the original artists’ intentions, but this is an impossible ask. Artists will bring their own skills, cultures and life experiences to the work, creating a hybridised form.

For instance, Sacramento artist, Alek Bohnak, instructed Sydney artist, Vilma Bader, to “Gradually cover…your actual self…with something that restricts your ability to move and makes you feel restricted or bound and reflects a state of feeling restricted in your life”. Her response was Culturally Bound Syndromes; a performance-based work in which a ‘patient’ is wrapped up by a ‘doctor’ into a roll of over two hundred and fifty metres of psychological disorders. A fundamental recognition of marginalised and silenced people is that all acts of naming are also acts of imperialism (as recently as the 1970s, the American Psychiatric Association still classified homosexuality as a mental illness). Language is intimately tied up with issues of possession and power. In the context of this work, it is something oppressively inscribed on the subject, making ‘her’ intelligible and therefore an object of control.

In another example, Allana McAfee, has been instructed by her Sacramento counterpart, Ianna Frisby, to become a spy, using film, photography and audio to surveil the (Sydney) Verge Gallery, employing ‘moles’ (gallery volunteers) to extract information. To achieve this McAfee will use remote control toy vehicles armed with cameras and audio visual equipment, hi-tech computer surveillance software, and low-tech spy clichés (such as the window washer with the button hole camera and other classic ‘Get Smart’ devices).

‘Translations: A Sydney–Sacramento Exchange’ opens on Thursday May 9, 6pm and runs until May 31.

Shota Matsumura Trio and Beef Javelin

23 Apr
Verge Gallery in association with The Posse presents Shota Matsumura Trio and Beef Javelin.
Gig on May 3

Set 1 – Shota Matsumura Trio

This group will play a set of music exploring the lost and forgotten possibilities of creating new sounds and music. Both inspired by nothingness and chaos, this trio will set out to explore beyond what has already been mastered to try to reach the sonic ether of pure improvising. The trio will feature both the talented John Wilton on Drums/Percussion and also Daniel Kim on Guitar. (Hopefully this gig will make you remember that feeling you had once but could never explain)

Shota Matsumura – Trumpet
John Wilton – Drums/Percussion
Daniel Kim – Guitar

Set 2 – Beef Javelin

Beef Javelin is a trio of monster musicians from different backgrounds playing noise-country-art-rock-jazz inspired by the classic Australian trio of meat, sports and beer.

Michael Gordon – Tenor Sax
Aaron Flower – Guitar
Miles Thomas – Drums

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtU_JH7UI4
www.facebook.com/liketheposse

Free food/refreshments

Working Title: a collaborative exhibition between Eora College and Sydney College of the Arts students

11 Apr

WHAT: Working Title: a collaborative exhibition between Eora College and Sydney College of the Arts students
WHO: Teresa Gay Christine Blakeney, Timothy Williams, Cecil Bowden, Ernest Smith, Judy Beddoni, Aaron Vincent, Sharon Smith, Fiona Dorrell, Flora Mavrommati, Bridget O’Brien, Meghan Rheynolds, Nick Maurer, Stella Logan, Lorna Munro
Didgeridoo performance on opening night by Walangari Karntawarra
WHEN: Opening Thursday April 18, 6pm. April 19- May 3. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
WHERE: Verge Gallery, City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, University of Sydney
CONTACT: Greg Shapley on 9563-6218 or g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au

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Working Title is a collaborative exhibition developed through partnerships between students from Eora College and Sydney College of the Arts. The artists present us with a shared expression of what is our varied and ever-changing contemporary Australian cultural identity. Participants have employed a variety of media including painting, sculpture and video.

Opening night is Thursday 18 April and the exhibition will run until 3 May.

On Opening Night Walangari Karntawarra will perform a Welcome to Country ceremony and play the Didgeridoo.

Image: Untitled, by Stella Logan, acrylic on canvas.

CALLOUT: “Beyond a Thousand Words: Slide night at Verge Gallery”

10 Apr

Do you love Photography & Performance? THIS is the exhibition for you. This is a call out to artists who indulge in photography – sound/music – film –script writing – and acting. We want you all!

Australia’s largest photo festival and the world’s second largest festival, The Head On Festival is here again and The Verge gallery will be presenting a multimedia extravaganza to celebrate.

“Beyond a Thousand Words” will be for one night only on Friday May 24.

There are two ways to get involved:

  • If you are a photographer, simply email us ONE photo on ‘LIGHT’. It can be anything at all as long as it fits with the theme of ‘LIGHT’ (so all of the images fit together, please make them hi-res, and landscape format). These will be projected one after the other on the night.
  • The other way to be involved is to write, make music or act. We need people who can stitch these images sent in by photographers together into a CAPTIVATING, ELECTRIFYING, ENERGETIC and EXPLODING EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE. If you want to be involved we’d love to hear from you!

Photographer’s – simply send your image to vergegallery@usu.usyd.edu.au by May 4.

Others (writers, musicians, actors) – please email vergegallery@usu.usyd.edu.au and tell us what you do. We’re also going to have a meeting on Wednesday April 17, 3pm (please indicate in your email if you can make it!).

Callout – SCASS Indigenous Week Festival Show

25 Mar

USU’s 2013 Indigenous Week Festival

CALL OUT ARTISTS:

You are invited to contribute to a SCASS (Sydney College of the Arts Student Society) exhibition at Verge Gallery, coinciding with the USU’s 2013 Indigenous Week Festival.

Participants from Eora College and SCA will work collaboratively to theme and title the exhibition, from the conceptual starting point of issues in contemporary Indigenous art. Participants are then invited to respond to the theme in any chosen medium. Works will be exhibited at Verge Gallery from April 18 to May 3.

Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are encouraged to participate. We look forward to expressions of interest!

For more information about the festival checkout:

http://www.facebook.com/UsuIndigenousFestival

For more information about the exhibition, or to express interest, please contact f.dorrell@gmail.com

Or speak to Meghan Rheynolds at Sydney College of the Arts at SCASS meetings on Wednesday’s in the SCASS office (just near Jewelry and Object design)

Applications close: Wednesday 27th March

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