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VICENTE BUTRON – Opens October 4
ART, PLACE AND DISLOCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
More information on the upcoming Creative Time Summit and for any students or avid readers on information regarding art, place and dislocation in the 21st century, check out an extensive reading list on their website. xx
CREATIVE SUMMIT SCHEDULE
We are looking forward to hosting the Creative Summit this October. It’s exciting to see RAYGUN, Toowoomba, Australia added to the list of different cities and countries who will be streaming live. The Creative Summit web site is being constantly updated now with details of schedules, presentations and speakers. If you happen to be in Toowoomba town on October 25th and 26th, we will be streaming the event live from New York on both nights. Stay tuned for more info and in the mean time check out their site. http://creativetime.org/summit/sites/
About The Creative Time Summit
In a moment when social movements are erupting around the world, artists are raising their voices to speak truth to power. At Creative Time, we believe that artists are change agents—that they have the ability to affect society for the better.
Every year at the Creative Time Summit, the most innovative artists, activists, critics, writers, and curators come together in New York to engage with one another and a global audience about how they are attempting to change our world in unprecedented ways. Participants range from art world luminaries and rural community organizers to international activists—from Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn and hip-hop DJs-turned-prison reform advocates in Appalachia to the notorious custodians of women’s reproductive rights, Women on Waves.
Called “visionary” by The New York Times, the Creative Time Summit is the only conference of its kind, devoted to exploring the intersection of art-making and social justice. It is a forum for the expanding global network of people who believe in the power of artists to make real social change. Since its inception in 2009, the Summit has engaged 4,000 live audience members and a remote Livestream audience of over 30,000.
SHARING LOVING GIVING in COPENHAGEN Continues
Another coffee drinker in Copenhagen, sharing the RAYGUN love. Thanks Kristoffer – enjoy xx
‘No Visible Means of Support’
If the Minimalist art object had shed the painterly problem of illusionism by recasting itself as simply form and material, it was inevitably reframed by the architectural container in which it was placed. [125]
No Visible Means of Support by Andrew Blauvelt is another favourite text from PAINTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Blauvelt discusses the relationship between painting and architecture, both historically and in a contemporary context.
If the picture frame had once acted as the traditional self-imposed limit for painting, the frame for new works has shifted to the spatial givens of a particular site. In this way the gallery space functions as both frame and support for the work of institutional critique. [125]
From Hayley and Carla
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
Next week Sydney will be hosting a world class Art Fair showcasing emerging and established artists from 80 Australian and international galleries. Hosted at Carriageworks the event takes place over 3 days and promises to be well worth the visit. Check it out http://sydneycontemporary.com.au/about-sydneycontemporary
PAINTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Hayley and Carla leave on their journey this morning back to Sydney town. We will be sorry to see them go as the ‘Festival of Carla and Hayley comes to a close. They have agreed to contribute to this online Laboratory and we are so excited that we can share an insight to their practices and thinking, enriching our platform.
Here’s their first post….
Carla and I have been really enjoying the PAINTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD catalogue from the Walker Art Center. The catalogue has thirty great artists and 16 texts exploring the conceptual and technical issues imbedded in contemporary painting. We have had a lot of great conversations around these essays during the making of this work—and it has continued with Ali and Tarn up here at RAYGUN, giving us some good ideas for where to go next. Douglas Fogle’s essay The Trouble with Painting frames the questions of the exhibition.
But is the question of painting’s vitality really the one we should be asking? Perhaps it’s rather a question of the ontology of painting, the very nature of its being. If we move the discussion of painting out of the realm of its death and rebirth, maybe the questions we should be asking are these: Is painting a mode of thought? Is there a philosophy of painting that extends beyond the confines of the medium? Where does the edge of the canvas end and the edge of the world begin? [15]
OPENING NIGHT WITH HAYLEY MEGAN FRENCH AND CARLA LIESCH
Last night was super fantastic amazing so much fun!! The girls from Sydney had a great turnout and the exhibition was more than well received. We loved seeing the Wall Paintings journey through 12 beautiful photographs and 2 videos of the epic one day journey to various sites across Sydney (see previous post). The girls seem to be loving their time here in Toowoomba and had great fun meeting all of our local visitors at the show. The festival of Hayley and Carla is continuing into today, and we will be sad to farewell them on to their next stage of the journey around Queensland and New South Wales. We love you girls. xx
Wall Painting: The Exhibitions – Opens Tomorrow night! VERY EXCITING
Correspondence between the artists 1 September 2011
(Of course we didn’t quite meet our timeline after accidentally driving over the Harbour Bridge)
Hi hun, so I can’t get on the computer to email in the library so facebook is all I have. I thought we could say something like:
Hi All,
Hayley and I were hoping you would be able to give us a hand documenting our work WALL PAINTING WITH WHITE PAINTING on Wednesday the 8th of September.
We have the following roles to fill:
Photographer
Filmer
Truck driver
Car driver / Scout
Roadie x3
We are hoping with your help to pull off the following:
9.45am Leave SCA and head to the MCA (we will pick up the truck and pack it before then).
10.15am Arrive MCA. Unload. Photo in front of the MCA construction fence and facing the other way with the harbour.
11.15am Pack truck and depart for AGNSW.
11.40am Arrive. Unpack. Photo out front, along wall (if still in place) in domain and botanical gardens.
12.30pm Pack up and depart for Artspace.
12.45pm Lunch at Michael Goldbergs work at Artspace.
1.15pm Unpack truck, photo at Artspace and Harry’s cafe, possibly also one crossing the road.
2.15pm Pack up.
2.30pm Depart.
2.45pm Arrive Sarah Cottier/Roslyn Oxsley or the like depending on time.
4pm All packed up and headed back to SCA.
Maria Popova – Brain Pickings
I have just read a wonderful article about blogger Maria Popova, who has established ‘Brain Pickings’, an online platform to hold golden moments of inspiration that she has drawn from books. Popova believes in a self governed education, and her writings are described to be, as though she is standing beside a bookshelf and describing with great enthusiasm what exactly it is that she loves about a specific book and how it has changed her world. Popova therefore creates moments, entryways in to understand incredible literature and ideas. Brain Pickings is full of pieces spanning art, design, science, technology, philosophy, history, politics, psychology, sociology, ecology, anthropology, and more. I love it, go there now and be amazed xx http://www.brainpickings.org
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