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1 The Masons (Festival Club) 10 18 China Club Arts Hub Playhouse TINA INFO BOOTH WELCOME 4 102 King Street, Corner King & Thorn Top level, Market Square, Hunter 375 Hunter Street 2 Tent City Street Mall 19 Renew Church LOCATION: CIVIC PARK EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS 6 11 (OCTAPOD IF RAINING) Sportsground No 2 – opposite Market City Hall: Banquet room, Newcastle 3 Morgan Street SPECIAL EVENTS 14 Town on Parry Street room, Hunter room, Waratah room 20 Round Theatrette OPEN: THURSDAY - MONDAY 3 House of Crack (PAN Building) 290 King Street Uni House: Entry from Auckland 11AM - 5PM THURSDAY 18 5 Auckland St 12 TAFE Gallery & Worksheds Street 4 Cambridge Hotel 590-602 Hunter St, Newcastle West 21 Conservatorium Concert Hall and The place to go when you first arrive for FRIDAY 2423 Corner Hunter & Wood St 13 The Lock up Computer Labs programs, maps and info. And also the SATURDAY 36 5 Civic Park 90 Hunter St Corner Auckland and Gibson Streets place to regularly call into for updates, Corner King & Auckland St 14 The Loft 22 The Bowls Club – Lowlands changes, and general conversation about SUNDAY 5054 6 Octapod, including Podspace Gallery Level 1, 7a Wolfe St. (Newcastle Mall) Centenial Park, Dawson Street 3/231 King St. Upstairs (TPI House) 15 Totoro’s Tea House 23 The View Factory all things festival. Ask, we’ll help! MONDAY 6064 7 Staple Manor Hunter Street Mall Corner of Hunter and Telford Streets 401 Hunter St 16 Loop Space 24 Foreshore Park This Is Not Art acknowledges that we GUEST BIOGRAPHIES 6468 8 Ghetto Town Hunter Street Mall 25 Carriage Sheds are on the traditional country of the THANK YOU 8084 Top of King Street Car Park 17 Canoe Pool 26 Artshive Awabakal and Worimi peoples. We 9 Royal Exchange Round Pool next to Ocean Baths recognise and respect their cultural CREDITS 8185 31 Bolton St Corner of Hunter and Morgan Streets heritage, beliefs and continuing FESTIVAL SPONSORS 8286 relationship with the land. 2 3 WELCOME

THIS IS NOT ART 2009 This Is Not Art Festival Club: Masons OCTAPOD ELECTROFRINGE We are branching out and occupying We’ve been led to the horizon – socks and a whole lot more. We’re excited We have pushed it, pulled it, moulded new and amazing spaces and places this Octapod is a not-for-profit independent Electrofringe specialises in the wonder high and buckles blazing – in anticipation to share our 10th birthday with it, shaped it, kicked it, crafted it, gently year. We have unlocked the doors of a arts and media organisation located in that can be had with nothing more than of your arrival. And now that we see you you - it’s a party we’ve been planning coerced it, apathetically forced it, new and amazing festival club that has the heart of Newcastle. Part-time staff a soldering iron, several wires and some approaching, we’re not sure if we could for our whole life. Over five days of tiredly documented it, whispered to it, been standing as the Masonic Lodge since and lots of volunteers nurture local gaffer tape. After watching one too many ever have been fully prepared. You’re the intimate performances, panels, hands believed in it, sorted, styled and shaped 1940. Located at 102 King Street, it is a creative projects - including This is Not episodes of MacGyver, and spending far folk our Mum warned us about with the on workshops and heavy duty partying it, ferociously protected it and violently short stroll from Hunter Street Mall and Art, a media space, and a gallery – just too much time in our bedrooms with a ideas our Dad advised us against. Still, we’re looking forward to investigating, loved it. And finally, here we are. At the the China Club. The Festival Club: Masons waiting for you to get involved. We can Funway electronics kit, who knew what your words are shiny and your eyes are interrogating, getting all culture dawn of the 2009 festival launch. will be full of all the greatest gigs every also provide ideas and resources to help kind of audiovisual magic and miracles wide and we can hear you screaming conscious and having our minds blown, you get your project off the ground. were possible… So many people have dedicated countless night of the festival, plus some extra from this far away. But we’re gonna be right there beside you. There are lots of ways to get involved hours to this program. special events to boot. Open from 2pm We’ve spent the past year seeking out brave, raise our arms to the swell and with Octapod – whether as a member, Andrew Tuttle and Eliza Sarlos With over 278 events, 36 exhibitions, 9 every day, and stocking your favourite the latest and strangest in electronic eagerly await the wave. volunteer, student, or as a financial gigs and 432 artists, this is one of those organic ginger beer, if you’re at a loss arts and culture, and now our 2009 supporter. For more information, please Dib to the dob, reckless and crazy journeys that change for what to do, call in and we’ll show you program emerges with an array of CRITICAL ANIMALS contact Christina Robberds: the way you look at things forever. some fun! artists, performers and practitioners Amy Ingram, Daniel Evans, Sarah Howell [email protected] Critical Animals brings together artists from a wide spectrum of disciplines. and Ronnie Scott Hold tight to your pocket-watches and Or check the website: octapod.org that seek out postgraduate research, Wine Bar: The House of Crack With events ranging from DIY electronics parasols, and we’ll see you on the flip practice-led development and/or quasi- We are also putting a Wine Bar into workshops to impromptu performances side! SOUND SUMMIT intellectual conversation, to devour the the House of Crack in the PAN building, on the streets of Newcastle, this CRACK THEATRE FESTIVAL critical contexts for the experimental and the Crack Theatre Festival will be program should lure you in and swallow For the last 10 years Sound Summit Angelica Clunes and emerging arts and media practices residing in this venue from Thursday Yo TINA-folk, welcome to the you whole. We hope you’ll never want has been the spiritual homeland of Festival Coordinator in the This Is Not Art program. Over 60 through to Sunday. For all the greatest first ever Crack Theatre Festival! to leave. independent artists, labels and nerds performers, writers, researchers and live theatre acts, and a classy drink or creating and working around independent INDEPENDENT, EMERGING + Are you hyperventilating? Start Want to come over and play? visual artists have been selected to take three call in and see them – your always music. Annually the festival explores the hyperventilating! Potted history: in part in paper presentations, panels, EXPERIMENTAL ARTS FESTIVAL welcome! depths and reach of innovative sounds 2007, the NYWF hosted a performance Somaya Langley and Daniel Green experimental forums, performances and This Is Not Art is a supercharged and their makers, giving musicians, A word from our Bar Managers and stream called ‘Crack’ as part of the installations. convergence of writers, performers, Licensees: Please respect our temporary producers, promoters and fans the Writers Fest. At the end of 2008, NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS’ thinkers, independent musicians and liquor licensing and venue hire conditions opportunity to share ideas, learn new For many academics this is the beginning industry, creative researchers, electronic by leaving the club quietly and safely at the NYWF officially disowned their FESTIVAL tricks, collaborate and interact with each of their conference experience and artists, dilettantes and DIY culture other like nowhere else. Critical Animals provides a well the required times. Remember to look deformed offspring and Crack became Compass. Check. Woggle. Check. Spare makers in a showcase featuring over 400 supported environment for those after yourselves, look after your friends, the CRACK THEATRE FESTIVAL: YES! This change of pants. Check. Hola Friend and Traditionally an electronic music and hip local, national and international artists. stepping out on the research symposium and come and see us at the bar if you Wilkommen to the NYWF jamboree! hop festival, this year we’ve dropped is a moment of historical significance circuit. Critical Animals is also a breeding In partnership with Crack Theatre need anything at all! the genres and opened up the festival equivalent to the day that your great- The expedition here has been blessed ground for long term networks and Festival, Critical Animals, Electrofringe, Cheers! to include a wide range of innovative great-great grandmother sat down to with fine tidings. We’ve traversed smoky partnerships which are formed between National Young Writers Festival and and independent music from Australia billiard halls and tunnelled through artists, audience (many undergraduate Sound Summit we present Australia’s eat the last remaining Neanderthal. and beyond. In 2009 Sound Summit most exciting and emergent exhibitions, mountains of burnt butter gnocchi and students that go on to do postgraduate Be proud! Be excited! Come to the focuses on tying together the missing screenings, performances, panels, stopped to breathe – a couple of times study), festival coordinators and the This Crackhouse and feel feelings! pieces between outstanding creators workshops, talks, gigs, interventions, live – on Queensland verandas in the summer Is Not Art festival at large. and facilitators of music in independent art and special events. So get on your So much fucking love, sunshine. En route we even managed to communities, exploring the relationships Britt Guy and Aden Rolfe bike and come join us for the ride! pick up a pair of wandering minstrels’ David Finnigan and Gillian Schwab between music, creativity and commerce, loaded with Crack. 4 5 EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB DOES THIS ANIMATION LOOK VIXEN HARLOT WHORE & THE BLEEDING LOVE

THE CHINA CLUB IS ONE OF OUR NEW SPACES FOR 2009. BIG ON ME? VOODOO LOVE LETTER SCHEME Luke Thurgate will be in residence at Overwhelmed by the number of visual arts proposals received this year we decided Senseless animated violence of two An installation by three lady artists the Arts Hub producing a series of to respond by opening a brand new Arts Space! A disused ex-Chinese Restaurant sides fighting a never ending battle, addressing contemporary womanhood large scale charcoal drawings on the provided the perfect base. Our dedicated curator Fiona Lee gave the space a projected onto a mannequin’s stomach and communication. The process of gallery walls. Visitors are invited to makeover with the installation of some of the most amazing and inspiring art from to make us question why we are so installing disparate ideas as a site view the production of the drawings across Australia. So… in celebration of our 10th festival we proudly present you body conscious and how, just like specific conversation is explored, over the course of the festival. with the our visual arts Mecca meeting point for 2009: the China Club Arts Hub. We the mannequin and the animated unravelling gradually in a prescribed Artist: Luke Thurgate hope you enjoy it! characters, we are being made to space. The result demonstrates action Location: China Club Arts Hub perform. and reaction between practicing Live Drawing: Thursday 4pm – 5pm Access is via Hunter Street Mall (top floor, above Go-Lo and the Food Court) Artist: Ry Wilkin artists and audience, with a focus on Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm or via Thorn Street back lane: See Number 10 on the map (page 1) Location: China Club Arts Hub conversational text. Fiona Lee: This Is Not Art Curator 2009 Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm Artists: Selena de Carvalho, Jasmine CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB Salomon, Sarah Jones FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY: 10AM – 6PM Location: China Club Arts Hub OPENING: THURSDAY 4PM – 6PM Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm

LIFE IK HIER BEN – I AM HERE HIDE AND SEEKK ALARMING EVENT PORTAL LOO RISK COLLECTOR BOOTH A visual study of the characters Inspired by a memory this installation A presentation fromom MeMelbournelbourne arartiststists Using a mass of humble radio alarm a/genda stages interventions The Risk Depot is the first stage of and timeless trades that built the is a miniature replica of the artist’s who make collage expexploringloring ththee clocks, this is the ultimate wake-up and installations in public toilets, the Risk Collectors project by artistic multicultural landscape of Melbourne. childhood home. The work explores broader possibilitiesies anandd incincluding:luding: machine! Starting with one alarm developing creative and critical duo Patches. It’s a place for artists This series of photographs focuses on ideas of domestic space, as embodied video collage, soundnd cocollage,llage, anandd clock, and building into a frenzied discourses around these gender- and audience to take a moment to the few remaining and truly original by the house, and its relationship to an collage as site specificecific insinstallation,tallation, crescendo this exhibition is set to go segregated, non-negotiable, leave, divulge, reveal, drop, splurt or barber shops and tailors, which were idealised notion of home. Presented in which artworkss araree hahalflf hiddhiddenen or off at a single random point during the functionally intense public spaces. excrete an unrealised risk for Patches established in the 1950s and 60s as a here, in a disused office space, it “collaged” within an existinexistingg site. festival in an alarming explosion. Artists: a/genda is Cristyn Davies and to catalogue. Participants are able result of the migration of Europeans quietly echoes a similar era. Artists: Laura Castagnini,tagnini, Lisa Stewart,Stewart, Artist: Matt Rochford Elena Knox, with input from artists and to submit risks in the form of their to Australia. Artist: Angela Femia Carl Scrase, Safari Team, Alanna Location: China Club Arts Hub scholars. choosing – mixing and matching the Artist: Lauren Bamford Location: China Club Arts Hub Lorenzon, Simon Martinus, Rachel Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm Location: China Club Arts Hub medium to suit the risk: paper, pen, Location: China Club Arts Hub Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm Feery, Anna Buchanan, Aaron Cooper. Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm audio, video, textiles. So drop in and Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm Curator: Laura Castagnini. disclose. What have you got to gain? Location: China Club Arts Hub Artists: Patches (Anique Vered & Stella Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm McDonald) Location: China Club Arts Hub Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm

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UFO PANELS BURIED WITH MY RICHES, LET’S PAINT TV TYPING ‘GIRAFFE SEX’ INTO THIS IS NOT A ReTrospective JUDGE A ZINE BY ITS COVER A transparent UFO sculpture based BITCHES. 2008 In a major collaborative effort, a GOOGLE YIELDS UNGODLY An installation of collected They say don’t judge a zine by its on the socio-political aesthetics of Half museum sinister, half pop culture group of artists and musicians will RESULTS memorabilia and paperwork that cover, but that’s exactly what we do. telepathy, from Duchamp to Fluxus, as frenzy, this light installation features come together create an interactive Two unapologetic, polychromatic, showcases the behind-the-scenes An exhibition in the warm confines well as wider traumalogical, biological, the decorated dentures of 5 unknown multimedia and performance space copulating giraffes smeared with work that goes into creating the of Staple Manor celebrating zines social, spiritual and political issues. A and unnamed wearers. Jewels adorn largely inspired by John Kilduff’s art- plasticine stage a bizarre intrusion festival in a glorious reflection of and their elaborate cover art. Come, work-in-progress installation and part these orphaned prosthodontics, damaged infomercial “Let’s Paint TV.” into the physical realm. Sculpted from the past ten annual This Is Not Art contrast, compare, ogle, and sneak a of the artist’s ongoing Weatherman memento mori that the previous a single digital image procured from festivals. look at what’s on offer at this year’s UFOlogy project, this quasi- owners will never see or wear. Now Artists: John Kilduff, Tim Dwyer, Holly Google, the sculpture pays homage Sunday Fair. architectural construction is used to deceased, it’s what they can and can’t Flux, Kati Cubby, Toecutter and friends. to its online origins by the manual Artists: Emily Roberts & Michael re-vision the historical narrative of take with them. Location: China Club Arts Hub emulation, in plasticine, of the pixels Randall Artist: Susy Pow the Weatherman group of activists/ Days: Friday (No Kilduff) 12 – 1:30pm and digital artifacts that compose the Location: PODspace Gallery Location: Staple Manor terrorists. Artist: Miriam Chatt Saturday 12 – 1:30pm & 4 – 5pm low quality digital image. Opening: Friday 6-8pm Opening: Thursday 4:30 – 5:30pm Location: China Club Arts Hub Sunday 12pm – 1:30pm & 4pm – 5pm Artist: Belle Brooks Days: Friday - Sunday 12 – 5pm Days: Friday - Monday 10 – 6pm Artist: Jacquelene Drinkall Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm Artist Talk: Saturday 3pm – 4pm Location: Venue TBA Location: China Club Arts Hub Days:Thursday - Monday 12 – 4pm Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 6pm GUERRILLA GALLERY THE SYDNEY HYPERBOLIC KILL THESE TO GET HAMMERS THE ROPE DANCER RING I TEMP° SAUNA An acquisitive free-standing flat CROCHET CORAL REEF This hand cut plywood veneer art work ACCOMPANIES HERSELF WITH A minimalist, site-specific installation As a nomadic take on the Finnish pack cardboard gallery which includes The Sydney Reef is a massive is based on the 1980s Nintendo game HER SHADOWS, REVISITED. which subtly juxtaposes ideas around tradition and survival technique Temp° works from all the places it has visited. community collaboration made of ‘Kid Icarius’. 2008 place-making and consumerism. Using Sauna is a transportable steam bath Included in This Is Not Art for the hyperbolic forms in crochet to create Artist: Neal Smith Revisiting the festival, this chandelier reclaimed kiln bricks arranged in the bringing North European traditions first time in 2008, we have invited a coral reef. The Sydney Crochet Location: China Club Arts Hub of 604 HBs is an arresting sight for all timeless symbol of a circle, Ring I aims to unexpected places and contexts them back to see the new Melbournian Reef is an Australian Satellite of the Days: Friday - Sunday 10 - 6pm you stationery aficionados out there. A to invoke an ethereal appreciation of with the aim of facilitating creative additions to the gallery. The Guerrilla worldwide “HYPERBOLIC CROCHET carousel of pencils, sharp shadow and the fragility of our environment and exchange between people and cultures. Gallery takes contemporary art to the CORAL REEF” project created by nauseating movement. to define the surroundings in which it Heated with recycled wood found on or masses. Margaret and Christine Wertheim of is placed. In its position within the soil near location, it strives to respect the the Institute for Figuring in LA. The Artist: Miriam Chatt we can recognise the circle as an object environment and find new avenues of Facilitator: 10% Pending ARI Sydney Reef has been brought to you Location: Staple Manor of nature and a framework we use to sustainability. Location: China Club Arts Hub by ‘In Stitches’ art collective. Days: Thursday – Friday 11am – 6pm understand and describe our world. Artist: Mika Meskanen Days: Thursday: 4pm – 6pm Location: Civic Park Artists: In Stitches (Michaela Davies, Saturday 11am – 11.30pm Artist: Fiona Lee Location: Ghetto Town Charlotte Haywood and Claire Conroy) Location: Civic Park Artist Talk: Saturday 10am at the Monday 11am – 3pm – King Street Car Park Location: China Club Arts Hub Launch: Friday 2pm – 2:30pm Playhouse Days: Sunday 12 – 5pm Days: Friday - Sunday 10 - 6pm Days: Friday from 2.30pm Days: Friday - Sunday 3pm – 7pm Saturday - Monday 24 Hours Monday 10am – 2pm 8 9 EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

CUBE3 PRESENTS BENJAMIN DJ SMALLCOCK’S VINYL LIVING WITH THE SOUND OF OUTSIDE/INSIDE THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS PLANES FORSTER ARCADE MY MOTHER’S PAST An exhibition by a collaboration of An exhibition of historic and Initially created for the Laptopia CUBE3 is a joint initiative of the The Vinyl Arcade is a participatory ‘The Sound Diary’ installation is students from the University of contemporary videogames created by Sound Exhibition 2009 at Bat Yam Canberra Contemporary Art Space and play-set, playing off vinyl fetishism, an experience. Here it becomes a Newcastle and beyond. The artists artists that push the bounds of the Museum in Tel-Aviv. “I’ve spent many the ANU Students Association. The video arcade mystique and the sound sculpture of the seven days are seeking to test the parameters genre. Curated by: Neil Jenkins and hours recording and listening to flying portable art gallery aims to expose machismo of motor sports. An worth of sound snippets in a single of ‘Street Art’ as a transportable co-presented by dLux Media Arts airplanes from the ground. I like to young and emerging artists while immersive sound instrument putting continuous sound clip, interlaced with aesthetic, and question the gallery Featuring: Laurie Anderson (US) and follow the minimal variations in their infusing the public sphere with art. you in the driver’s seat of a tiny spoken words. Technology used in the institution as qualifier of fine art Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Tale of slow, continuous sounds and how they remote control car with styli attached installation may be ‘primitive’, but practices. Tales (Belgium), Jaron Lanier (US), reflect in architecture, illuminating Curated by Meg O’Connell, Jacqueline as it navigates its way through a sparks further social considerations of Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and sonically the topography of the place.” Chlanda and Sophie Lamond landscape of disused vinyl records. Co technological development, especially Curated by: Luke Johnston, Claire Karen Guthrie (UK), Anita Fontaine – Gilles Aubry. A selection of airplanes Artist: Benjamin Forster presented by Electrofringe and Renew in the existing telecare infrastructures Parker & Fiona Lee (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), sounds recorded from the ground of Location: Civic Park Newcastle. that enhance the relationship between Location: Watt Space Gallery: The Andy Deck (US) Berlin, Rome and Tel Aviv. Days: Thursday - Monday 11-4pm Artists: DJ Smallcock, Frederick elderly people and their informal carer. Media Space, Long Room & Hoist Location: Loop Space Artist: Gilles Aubry Rodrigues Artist: Hanif Baharin Closing: Friday: 6.30pm -8.30pm Opening: Friday 6pm – 8pm Location: John Paynter Gallery Location: 164 Hunter Street, Newcastle Location: City Hall Days: Thursday - Sunday: 12 – 6pm Curator Talk: Saturday 2pm – 3:30pm Opening: Friday 4pm – 6pm Days: Friday - Monday 3pm – 7pm Days: Sunday 10am – 5pm Days: Saturday - Monday: 12 – 5pm Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 5pm HYPERVISUALSEAFOODEXTENDER SPINAL HAIR THEN ETHER BASS MASSEUSE DORKS ALIVE – A SURVEY OF AIR VS RSI Two sound nerds present Spinal Hair. A responsive multi-channel sound and An exploration of our emotional and DORKBOT IN OZ From Sept 24 to Oct 12, the Artist as An exhibition that seeks to examine We will not sleep until we make the light environment about memory, the somatic perception of low frequencies This exhibition brings together an Family are making new work based major corporations’ uses of human ultimate sound art installation that loss of it, and the inconsistent ability (20-100Hz) this installation consists eclectic mix of artists, engineers, on waste from the streets of Newie. bodies as repetitive machines (in highlights the complex relationships to access it. Then Ether collects sonic of a chair fitted with several programmers, designers and scientists Reflecting on excess, energy descent sweatshops and factories) and the between sound, control and space. “memories” from its space, fracturing subwoofer speakers. When lying in the from the Australian chapters of and climate change, their practice prevalence of repetitive strain disorder their instance and identity, at times chair, you can feel the low frequency Dorkbot - “people who do strange involves scavenging discarded detritus in our culture. Featuring: Emma Ramsay, Emily calm and quiet and at other times sounds, and choose the program and things with electricity”. and creating a changing exhibition McDaniel swelling with sound, creating a mild strength of the bass massage. Low Featuring: Michael Norris, Brenda from the findings. Along the way they Artist: Holly Fluxx, Kati Cubby Location: TAFE Front Room Gallery cacophony within its walls. The viewer frequencies blur the frontier between Moon, Eleanor Gates-Stuart, Barry enact social warming and blog their Location: TAFE Front Room Gallery Opening: Friday 4pm – 6pm is not only the centre of the piece as sound and vibrations and can physically Moon, Clem Baker- Finch, Benjamin adventures. To join them, visit: Opening: Friday 4pm – 6pm Days: Friday - Sunday 11am – 6pm it runs, but slowly becomes a part of act on one’s body. Forster, Alexandra Gillespie, Michael www.theartistasfamily.blogspot.com Days: Friday – Sunday 11am – 6pm Monday 11am - 4pm the fabric of its existence in the space, Artist: Gilles Aubry Honey, Tracey Meziane Benson, Nathan Artist: Artist as Family Monday 11am – 4pm long after their body is absent. Location: John Paynter Gallery McGinness and Mitchell Whitelaw Location: The Lock-Up, John Paynter Artist: Katherine Bennett Opening: Friday 4pm – 6pm Location: John Paynter Gallery Gallery Location: TAFE Front Room Gallery Days: Friday - Sunday 11am – 6pm, Opening: Friday 4pm – 6pm Opening: Friday 4pm – 6pm Days: Friday - Sunday 11am – 6pm Monday 10am – 12 Midday Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 5pm Days: Friday - Sunday 10am – 5pm Monday 11am - 4pm Monday 10am – 12 Midday Monday 10am – 12 Midday 10 11 EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH MEAT – ART YOU CAN GET AS SEEN IN LINES & LIGHT Temporary installation and eventual YOUR TEETH INTO A collection of pairs. Pairs of portraits. video loop of the Motel Sisters The artists that make up local art One a photograph, the other an Performance piece to be staged in this collective MEAT are drawn together by illustration. The same subject in the mini-venue! the fact that individually, they don’t same scene, but when one is captured fit anywhere else, and neither does in light and one is captured in lines, Artists: The Motel Sisters their work. rarely will they capture the same Location: Playhouse Window Box thing. Performance Friday 12:30pm – 2pm Artist: Todd Fuller, Amy Hill, Ell Installation: 10am Saturday - 5pm O’Connor, Aksara Harriram, Mel Chalker Artists: Pete Foley & Todd Hunter Monday Location: Newcastle Art Space McGaw Days: Thursday – Sunday 12pm – 5pm Location: The Masons Days: Thursday - Monday 4 – 11.30pm

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TENT CITY BIKE LOVE CORRAL TWITTERMOTION CREATIVE HEALTH CHECK THE LATE NIGHT MYSTERY SOUNDPROOFING THE CITY Tired and need a disco nap? Cant find We love push bikes and will provide Twittermotion investigates the notion Feeling creatively blue, mentally MEAT Using a collage of current anywhere to lay your weary head? This the bike, accessories, activities and of poetics within the Graphic User remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? ! It begins at midnight (....well soundproofing materials and art- Is Not Art has set up Tent City that is fun for FREE! Bikes are the easy, cheap, Interface (GUI). Text messages from Book in to get a once over with one of 11:30pm....so we lied.) Where is it? based materials, public toilets, public a cheap and easy place to sleep during enviro friendly way to get around the micro-blogging service Twitter our very hot practitioners. Their topic What will you see? Leave your mobile transport and maybe even the library the festival. Staying at Tent City will town and connect with our community. serve as a source but where typical of the day is you, you, you. Check in so number at the TINA info booth before (“ssshhhh!”) will be “soundproofed” to cost you $10 per person per night, and All day: Bike fixing and traffic skills Twitter applications aim for a prosaic we can check you out. 4pm daily to receive the super-secret make a quiet space in public. you will need to BYO tent and sleeping workshops. Help fix / check your own presentation of the information whos, whats, wheres, whens, and things. Showers, veranda, cooking bike OR choose one to help fix and Twittermotion offers a highly stylised Featuring: hows of The Late Night Mystery Meat. Days and Location: facilities, power, and safe storage area keep. Buy or borrow bikes from the realisation whose primary aim is to Thurs: Bethany Jones **Meat may or may not be included. Friday 2pm – 3pm (Festival Club) provided. Newcastle Community Bike Library. affect rather than inform. Fri: Margo Lanagan Artist: Various Saturday 11am – 12 noon (Civic Park) Location: Sportsground No.2: Parry Bike Activism workshops on Bike User Sat: Kelly Chandler Days: Thurs– Sun 11:30pm- 12:30am Sunday 2pm – 3pm Street (See no.2 on map) Groups, Bike Co-op models, Critical Artist: Geoff Hinchcliffe Sun: Tony Woodward (Ghetto Town – Zine Fair) Mass & World Naked Bike Ride. Location: Festival Club Masons Days: Thurs – Sun 24 hours Location: China Club Arts Hub Artist Talk: Saturday 2pm – 3pm Days: Thursday - Sunday 2pm - Close Contact: [email protected] to Location: Civic Park Days: Thurs - Sun 1:00pm – 3:00pm (Round Theatrette) pre-book a space Days: Thursday - Monday 11am - 4pm

CONSUMER INDEX CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENT LOADING ZONE PERFORMANCE INTIMACY AMBULANCE * THE SPACE PROJECT - YOUR SUBURBAN GIANTS A wetware performance where An experiment in finding ways of Throughout the festival, the High Vis Interactive installation in the streets, PARTICIPATION IS CALLED Suburban Giants is a large-scale Kenyon acts as a “Neilsen Family” connecting with, and holding the Logistics Van will rush between loading Intimacy Ambulance is a space where This is about diving into the space that projection that turns buildings member, becoming a virus inside the engagement of, an audience that zones around Newcastle, delivering a intimate acts, moments and memories exists around and inside letters. The into blank canvases, offering the catalogue system, splintering market hasn’t decided to see a performance. diverse range of artists’ performances can be explored, displayed and created. typographical void that type is set into opportunity to digitally paint on data research of typical American and object-based interventions onto Come and have your heartbeat and suspended. An exploration into the Newcastle’s walls. consumerism. Usurping and circuit Featuring: Alison Currie the city footpaths. Keep your eyes recorded for the heartbeat montage, slippery relationship between writing bending the Neilsen homescan barcode Days and Location: open and your senses alert. No one or stop in to share an intimate and physical space. There will be Artists: Lachlan Tetlow-Stewart and scanner, and fusing it with a micro- Friday 2pm – 3pm (Civic Park) wants to be caught with their pants moment. But where? And when? Keep dancing and word writing and you are Jo Kerlogue video camera implanted inside the Saturday 12pm – 1pm (Civic Park) down in a loading zone, imagine the an eye peeled for the Ambulance as it most invited. www.the-space-project. Location: Outside the Festival Club mouth, he indexes local products and Sunday 12pm – 1pm fine! pops up in surprise locations around blogspot.com Days: Saturday 8:30pm – 10:30pm services. (Ghetto Town - Zine Fair) the festival, and take advantage Artist: Chay-Ya Clancy Sunday 8:30pm – 10:30pm Workshop: Friday 1pm – 2pm Featuring: Various because in their line of work, you never Locations: Various Artist Talk: Saturday 3pm – 4pm Featuring: S.W.A.M.P. (Matthew Kenyon (Civic Park) Location: A loading zone near you... know when they’ll be back. Days: Fri 9:30 – 11am (House of Crack) (Renew Newcastle Church) and Douglas Easterly) Artist Talk: Sunday 11am – 12pm Days: Thursday - Sunday 15/30 min Artist: 2203 Collective Sat 1 – 2:30pm (China Club Arts Hub) Days: Thursday -Sunday 3pm – 4pm (Renew Newcastle Church) Locations: Various Sun 9:30am – 11am (House of Crack) Days: Friday – Sunday Various times

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SUFFRAGETTE CITY MOLLY AND EVE FROSTING Suffragette City is a roaming arts While channelling their suffragette From Collingwood to West Wallsend, project that engages with the girl- sisters, Molly and Eve will leaflet the Hotham Street Ladies are going to group phenomenon in contemporary throughout the festival, distributing desiccate your coconut, ice your vovo arts culture. These groups go beyond feminist artworks and engaging the and cream your sponge. HSL frost the TINA audience in general consciousness the third-wave ‘girl power’ cliché by festival care of Suffragette City. raising. Artists and writers will create operating within a feminist context, unique and original works in the ‘flyer’ devoid of any pandering to an Artist: Hotham St Ladies (Lyndal format to be distributed by Molly and audience. Curated by Victoria Bennett, Eve. Molly and Eve appear as part of Walker) Clare Rae and Lyndal Walker. Suffragette City. Locations: Various Featuring: Hit and Miss (Narinda Featuring: Victoria Bennett, Clare Rae Days: Saturday – Sunday Various times Reeders and Tai Snaith), Hotham Street Locations: China Club Artshub and Ladies (Lyndal Walker), Molly and Eve Sunday Fair (Victoria Bennett and Clare Rae) Days: Saturday 12pm-12.30pm Location: Various venues Saturday 2pm – 2.30pm Days: Saturday, Sunday, various times Sunday 11am-11.30am Sunday 1.30pm – 2pm

HIT AND MISS THE URBAN BEAUTICIAN Hit and Miss have been working A newly conceived public space together for 6 years practising the intervention where a special Newcastle art of painful stillness, amongst other location gets a facelift. things. Look out for them popping up at TINA venues on the Sunday. Hit and Artist: Elke Reinhuber Miss appear as part of Suffragette City. Location: Top of Civic Park (Corner of Laman and Darby Streets) Featuring: Narinda Reeders, Tai Snaith Day: Sunday 12noon – 1:30pm Location: Various venues Days: Sunday, various times

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10:30 – 11:30AM / PRESENTATION 11:00AM – 5:00PM / WORKSHOP 11AM – 1PM / PRESENTATION 1:00PM - 2:30PM / PANEL 1:00PM – 2:30PM / PANEL 1:30PM – 2:30PM / PANEL PLAYHOUSE CONSERVATORIUM COMPUTER LAB STAPLE MANOR ROYAL EXCHANGE STAPLE MANOR CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB ELECTRO-ONLINE CURATOR TALK CREATING AGENCY THROUGH SOUNDBEAM DISSOLVES WELL IT’S TECHNICALLY NOT WHEN INSTITUTIONS MEET BOOKFAIL Samuel Bruce discusses the 2009 TELEPRESENCE BARRIERS: SESSIONS FOR ABOUT YOU ZINES We’ve all seen it. The grossest book Electro-Online program, a web-based An opportunity to learn and explore DIVERSE GROUPS Writers discuss their thinly-veiled Zine-making’s creative and personal in the world. How did the people with gallery of works selected via an the possibilities of creating interactive Experience the set up used by tra works which were actually based on rewards mean the art-form is training and dollars think you were international open call. installations and new media la la blip, the northern NSW artist real people. We explore what happened increasingly attractive to educational going to buy that? A panel of judges Featuring: Samuel Bruce environments using DIY electronics, collective, using Ableton live to create when the subject discovered they were and cultural organisations. Panellists judges the worst covers they’ve ever open source software and ubiquitous music with people of all abilities. being written about, and whether who straddle both worlds discuss their seen, and gives us tips (with moving technology. Create artworks in a day Featuring: Jacqui O’Reilly, their friendship lasted the fallout. successes and failures in trying to parts!) on how to avoid their hate. by combining digital photography, Randolf Reimann As a writer, how do you navigate this reconcile their joy of zine-making with Featuring: Pat Grant, David Edgley, rapid prototyping, digital fabrication, ethically fraught, emotionally risky an organisation’s needs. Christopher Currie, Leigh Milward, programming and physical computing. facto-fictional terrain? Featuring: Brian Joyce, Eloise Peace, Madeleine Hinchy Featuring: S.W.A.M.P. (Matthew Facilitator: Caro Cooper Featuring: Tony Woodward, Fiona Whitton Kenyon and Douglas Easterly) Benjamin Law, Sally Breen, Krissy Kneen, Michaela McGuire

11:30 – 12:30PM / SCREENING 12:NOON - 1:30PM / WORKSHOP 1:00PM – 2:30PM / PANEL 2PM – 2:30PM / PRESENTATION 2:30PM - 3:30PM / ROUNDTABLE 3PM – 4PM / INFORMATION SESSION PLAYHOUSE CHINA CLUB ART HUB PLAYHOUSE HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC STAPLE MANOR PLAYHOUSE CINEMOVES – FROM THE STICKER WORKSHOP I’M SO TOTALLY, DIGITALLY REARRANGE THEIR FACES: TOM PUBLISHING HOW-TO EXHIBITING MEDIA ART ARCHIVES Sharp-witted commentary with CLOSE TO YOU STOPPARD, BOB DYLAN AND Work it. Print it. Glue it. Proof it. Experimenta will provide an insight In the last decade some of the most nothing but a stack of magazines, Are status updates ruining our privacy, or HISTORY Send it. Get it. InDesign it. Get comfy into the organisation’s commissioning influential dance for screen work has scissors, binder medium and stickers! enriching us with a new social awareness While writing Rosencrantz and and bring some Qs for this catch-all process, and discuss opportunities for been created by New Zealand artists. DAg ARt are ready to divulge the and social capitalism? What are the new Guildenstrern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard publishing blowout. PUBLISHING is showing work with Experimenta, and ReelDance celebrates the unique secrets of their success. Have your politics of identity in this new social was listening to Highway 61 Revisited part of our new series of informal, practical considerations for artists talents of artists Douglas Wright, say on celebrity gossip, breast space? What are the consequences and Bringing It All Back Home. This abnormal, but very, very practical making work for exhibitions with large Shona McCullagh, Sue Healey, Julie augmentation, and current events, of everyone knowing your name, paper compares Bob Dylan’s surreal roundtable how-tos. public audiences. Anne-Long and Alyx Duncan through then stick your say on stuff. personality type, and what you had for intermingling of historical, fictional Featuring: Lisa Dempster, Lev Facilitator: Clare Needham this screening of their Award winning Featuring: Amanda Kenneth breakfast? This forum looks at both the and mythical characters and events Diatschenko, Dion Kagan, Ryan works. Facilitator: ReelDance Inc value and shortcomings of social media in his lyrics with Stoppard’s ‘history’ Paine...and everyone else (including technologies. Featuring: Narinda plays to assess the influence that Dylan you!) Reeders, Larissa Hjorth, Clem has had on the British playwright. Bastow, Pip Shea, Virginia Murdoch Featuring: David Clapham 2UNDTABLE 18 19 THURSDAY

3PM – 4PM / WORKSHOP 3PM – 6PM / PERFORMANCE 3.30PM – 4.30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 4:30PM – 5.30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 4:30PM – 6PM / SCREENING 4:30PM – 5:30PM / OPENING ROYAL EXCHANGE HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC STAPLE MANOR STAPLE MANOR PLAYHOUSE STAPLE MANOR SPEED-WRITING THE BOOTH 1 YYWMP MEET AND GREET NYWF WELCOME JAMBOREE! ARCHIVING AUSTRALIA’S JUDGE A ZINE BY ITS COVER Pretty much what it sounds like! You The Booth is a two-minute installation A time for all of you Younger Young NYWF artists lock and load: meet the EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC They say don’t judge a zine by its write a story in five minutes. Then performance for an audience of one Writers to meet your mentors. Meet, team, pick up some treats and ching- Australia’s experimental music history cover, but that’s exactly what we do. write a story in four. Then so on and inside a purpose-built ‘booth’. Come greet and begin the hottest festival ching with us as we officially throw is better documented anecdotally than An exhibition in the warm confines down into the decimals. Speed meets and visit during opening hours to journey of your life! Running back open the doors of Staple Manor 2009 it is physically. Whilst musicologists of Staple Manor celebrating zines endurance in this extreme workshop receive a personal performance in this to back with the NYWF Welcome and whip the veil off of the ‘Judge A write the story of Australia’s and their elaborate cover art. Come, taught by the masterful, but friendly unique inflatable performance space. Jamboree as one big melting pot of Zine By Its Cover’ exhibition. It’s GO- earliest experimental composers contrast, compare, ogle, and sneak a Chris Currie. Featuring: Cathy Petocz, Chris very important peeps! time. Be Prepared and look alive! and instrumentalists dating back to look at what’s on offer at this year’s Featuring: Christopher Currie Carmody Hosted by Co Director Amy Ingram Facilitator: NYWF 2009 Scouts the 30s, archivists face a range of Sunday Fair. Curated by: Susy Pow and YYWMP Coordinator Chris challenges in preserving the original Vernon. artefacts and audiovisual works for future generations to explore. Featuring: Carla Teixeira (National Film and Sound Archive)

4PM – 6PM / SPECIAL EVENT 4PM – 5PM / EXHIBITION 5PM – 5:30PM / PERFORMANCE 5PM – 6PM / PERFORMANCE 6PM – 7:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT

CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB HOUSE OF CRACK HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC NEWCASTLE BATHS (CANOE POOL) CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB & Curator: Fiona Lee BLEEDING LOVE SODOM AND GOMORRAH: THE THE SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE 1 BIOGRAPHICAL BATHING Featuring: , 10% Pending, Lauren GIRAFFE CARAFE GRANDE FOLK ROCK MUSICAL 1 Initially developed as part of Time Bamford, Angela Femia, Laura Luke Thurgate will be in residence at Two contrasting expressions of place OFFICIAL OPENING DOO WHOP Place Space 6 and developing towards Castagnini, Lisa Stewart, Carl the Arts Hub providing a series of large Come on a trip with Irreconcilable and memory guide this journey into the 2010 Next Wave Festival in This year marks the 10th annual This Scrase, Safari Team, Alanna scale charcoal drawings on the gallery Difference to the Old Testament! Meet the auto/biography of thought. At Melbourne, The Short Message Service Is Not Art festival, and to celebrate Lorenzon, Simon Martinus, Rachel walls. Visitors are invited to view the Abraham: father of a nation, founder this site-specific location one writer (TSMS) utilises the mobile phone and we have created a visual arts hub Feery, Anna Buchanan, Aaron production of the live drawing of these of faith, circumcised guy. Meet Lot: retraces her family genealogy through SMS to turn the audience / performer which will open with live drawing, and Cooper, Ry Wilkin, Selena de pieces. a little slow but his family is the salt poetry, while the other considers the dichotomy on its head by burning the a movable flatpack gallery. If you’re Carvalho, Jasmine Salomon, Sarah of the Earth. Meet God: a cranky old soundscape as a complete outsider. We script and handing the author’s pen interested in Visual Arts, the China Jones, Luke Thurgate, a/genda, bastard. Can these three friends look into the politics of habitation and to the audience. Featuring: Lachlan Club Arts Hub is the Mecca meeting Neal Smith, Patches, Dr.Jacquelene survive a trip into the twin cities of un/belonging, as well as the familiarity Tetlow-Stuart, Mish Gregor, Leah point for 2009. Come and help us cut Drinkall, Miriam Chatt, Matt sin? Finally, a work which can unite and unfamiliarity of the experience Shelton, Jackson Castiglione the ribbon in true TINA style. Rochford, Belle Brooks, John Kilduff Christians and homosexuals. of space as things we might all share, Featuring: David Clapham, Jon circumstances notwithstanding. Thomse Featuring: Penny Duff, Lou Smith

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7PM – 7:30PM / PERFORMANCE 8PM – MIDNIGHT / SPECIAL EVENT 9PM – 9:20PM / PERFORMANCE 9AM – 10AM / SPECIAL EVENT 10AM – 5PM / SPECIAL EVENT 10AM – 11.30AM / PANEL HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS HOUSE OF CRACK CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM CIVIC PARK CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM LAST MAN TO DIE THIS IS: THIS IS NOT ART 2009 THE HIDEOUS DEMISE OF CRITICAL ANIMALS WELCOME IT’S NOT ART, IT’S JUST ME NO FALSE IDOLS DOWN THE Tea. Biscuits. Speculation. Test Tubes. Join us as we officially open and DETECTIVE SLATE PT 1 The official opening of Critical Animals This installation explores how YOUTUBE Voodoo. Confrontation! Which will you celebrate our tenth This Is Not Art! Imagine a 1940s hardboiled detective 2009! Come and meet fellow Critical indigenous people are viewed through We all love pop culture! Shows like choose? Last Man to Die takes you on a Includes champers, cake, and the radio serial that travelled through Animals and make a home in our nest the artefacts they leave behind. Australian Idol and Big Brother have cross-art journey to the future, melding ribbon cutting on our amazing scoop time, but on the way got mixed up with for the next three days. Served with Reflecting a traditional Aboriginal managed to implant themselves within theatre, music and visual art in a quest venue. Come and celebrate in style and that nuclear waste that made the ninja tea, bickies and introductions, this shelter and housing pieces from the numerous facets of contemporary life to find new life - even if they have to party like it’s 1999… turtles causing it to grow legs, and event includes the opening of the Risk artist’s life, visitors are invited to across the globe. This panel questions cheat, steal, calculate, reanimate, and not Featuring: Ivy, Lanie Lane, Julez & an incredible amount of convoluted Depot, where you’re invited to leave, leave behind their own impressions. how and why popular culture inspires pull punches to get there. Last Man To Die Dragonfly, MMTNS, Sean Healy similes…The Hideous Demise of divulge, reveal, drop, splurt or excrete This event culminates with the artist and/or impacts on contemporary art questions what it means to stare oblivion & Dan Mackinlay, Cleptocleptics, Detective Jericho Slate is kind of like an unrealised risk for artistic duo retelling her life through dance, art practice. Does popular culture produce an in the face, and to steal oblivion’s last Special Guests and Surprises that. Featuring: Alli Sebastian Wolf Patches to catalogue. and storytelling. accurate representation of our cultural macaroon. But who will be the last one Featuring: Britt Guy, Aden Rolfe, life? Facilitator: Britt Guy Featuring: left alive? Featuring: Charles Martin Featuring: Walbira Murray Patches (Stella McDonald) Elena Knox, Jenna Corcoran, Hanna Cormick, Benjamin Forster Meredith Godley, Gerwyn Davies

9:30PM – 10:30PM / PERFORMANCE 9PM – 10PM / PERFORMANCE 11PM – 12:30AM / READING 10AM – 2PM / WORKSHOP 11AM – 12PM / PRESENTATION 11AM – 12.30PM / PRESENTATION HOUSE OF CRACK HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC ROYAL EXCHANGE CONSERVATORIUM COMPUTER LAB ROUND THEATRETTE CITY HALL HUNTER ROOM LITTLE GIRL LOST IN THE THE SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE DEAR ADAM SANDLER, REMIX FORMULAS - HOW TO BIOFI – INVERSE MAKING BETTER COMICS DEVIL’S BLACK BEARD Initially developed as part of Time WHERE’D THE FUNNY GO? REMIX A TRACK IN A DAY USING BIOTELEMETRY Our favourite comic artists show how With influences bounding blindfolded Place Space 6 and developing towards Writing letters is a great way to stalk ABLETON 7 S.W.A.M.P (Studies of Work making crappy comics can be the first from Gogol & Hoffman, Poe & Piazzolla, the 2010 Next Wave Festival in celebrities, apologise from a safe A workshop offering participants a Atmosphere And Mass Production) step on the path to making brilliant and Mojo Juju & Mikelangelo, Mr Fibby Melbourne, The Short Message Service distance, inform Santa what toys to choice of three songs in which they can create works examining various socio- comics. They’ll dig up embarrassing weaves a high speed moral-free (TSMS) utilises the mobile phone and bring or let people know what you remix either as a ‘band’ or solo artist. political phenomena. Coordinating data mistakes from the past, and you’ll find fairytale of grief, betrayal, loss, failure SMS to turn the audience / performer really think. Come read, rap, sing or Open to users of all skill levels. mining with physical computing to out what those mistakes taught them and disappointment in the uplifting dichotomy on its head by burning the mime those letters you never dared to Facilitators: Luke Burns and Russell form meta-narrative, to observe the about the craft. tale of the saddest, ugliest little girl in script and handing the author’s pen send. Or just listen to ours. No stamp Newtown effects of metahuman systems upon Featuring: Pat Grant, Christopher the entire world. Featuring: Hadley, to the audience. Featuring: Lachlan required. Featuring: Ira McGuire, the individual resulting in works as the Downes, Rebecca Clements Sam King, Emma Kelly, Grahame Tetlow-Stuart, Mish Gregor, Leah Alan Vaarwerk, Sam Madden, Chris Improvised Empathetic Device. Thompson Shelton, Jackson Castiglione Somerville, Samantha Mee, Laura Featuring: S.W.A.M.P (Matthew Middlebrook, Daniel Walker … and Kenyon and Douglas Easterly) everyone else (including you!)

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11AM – 12.30PM / WORKSHOP 11AM – 1PM / WORKSHOP 11AM – 12 NOON / WORKSHOP 11:30AM – 12:30PM / PRESENTATION 12 NOON – 2PM / PANEL 12:30 – 2PM / PERFORMANCE STAPLE MANOR CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC LEFT PLAYHOUSE TPI AUDITORIUM PLAYHOUSE WINDOW (HUNTER STREET) NANOWORKSHOPS: NON- DIY PINHOLE CAMERA HOW TO MASTER SPACE AND THE YEAR IN DORKBOT MUSIC AS EXPORT: WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH FICTION WORKSHOP TIME Dorkbot is a worldwide unorganisation INTERNATIONAL MARKETS The Motel Sisters appropriate Megan How do I write a review that people A matchbox, a coke can, a roll of film The Masters of Space and Time of regular meetings for “people doing Join us as we explore the concept, Gale’s David Jones window display will actually want to read? What and some gaffer tape. Make art out themselves demonstrate techniques strange things with electricity”. viability and potential of Australian stunt circa 2005. As Gale once bathed makes a good interview? How do I of everyday flotsam (and fulfil your for integrating multimedia projection Overlords from Canberra and Sydney music as export. Whether it’s through in overflowing excess, lathering soap present the facts without my audience MacGyver urges) at this Pinhole Camera in live performance: what it can do factions discuss highlights from the a record deal, a DIY tour or a bunch and painting her nails without a care preferring to sleep? All that AND a Workshop. Participants will make and how to do it. Featuring: Arran previous year. Featuring: Tracey of showcases, we look at how best to in the world, the Sisters delight in the chance to be published in Nanoworks, their own cameras, learn the requisite Mckenna, Dan Jobson Meziane Benson and Pia van Gelder approach international markets and Simple Life – resorting to depression- the dedicated TiNA zine. Featuring: technique, and put it all into practice in redefine the virtues of the working era tactics to maintain glamour Bhakthi Puvanenthiran a perambulation through the streets of holiday. Facilitator: Eliza Sarlos frugally in the face of the current post-industrial Newcastle. Make sure Featuring: Bernadette Ryan,blink, financial crisis. Featuring: Paris and you bring a roll of film! Glenn Dickie, Jarrod Zlatic, Tacky Motel Featuring: Miriam Chatt Laurence Pike, Lucy Phelan, Millie Millgate

11AM – 12 NOON / SCREENING 11:30 – 1:00PM / SPECIAL EVENT 11.30AM-1PM / PANEL 12:30PM – 1:30PM / PRESENTATION 12:30PM – 2PM / PANEL 12:30PM – 2PM / WORKSHOP TPI AUDITORIUM CIVIC PARK CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM ROUND THEATRETTE CITY HALL HUNTER ROOM STAPLE MANOR THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE THE WILD BRUNCH SOUNDING THE INFRA- THE CENTRAL BUREAU: A YOU ARE SO LACIST ZINE COUNSEL WATER Kick back with a crumpet as the ORDINARY NOVEL PRODUCTION OF We’ve seen a white man play a Chinese 48 hours to the Sunday Fair, and the How can the most isolated city in latest spoken-word artists deliver An exploration of the sounds of the REALITY dude who likes to dress up Aboriginal. Sticky zine counsellors are here for the world have exploded with so a scrumptious selection of spoken everyday, the organic and the human, Anthony Kelly will discuss his We’ve said “chink” on television, you. There will be hand-holding, many successful bands over the spreads to cater to any taste. Got a in various states of documentation, involvement with the underground and permanently changed the way tissues, band-aids, and coffee runs last few years? Across decades and little jam of your own? Well get on up mediation and reconstitution. Can a interventionist group, The Central we see Kazakhstan. Race was always as they offer their frank feedback. genres, Something in the Water spread that sugar round. program mimic human composition? How Bureau, and the strategies the group a touchstone for comedy, but does While you’re there, ask them about the asks the question: Is it isolation, the Facilitator: Rhys Rodgers. Featuring: do we document the acoustic world? utilises to break away from the everyone get the irony, or are you just Sticky Target 48: TINA 2009 marathon. environment, the community or is it Geoff Lemon, Simon Cox, Sommer Critical reflection by three artists on strictly defined parameters of cultural being lacist? Featuring: Eloise Peace, Candace something else responsible for the Tothill, Josephine Rowe, Corey their current sound practice and theory, contexts. Featuring: Anthony Kelly Facilitator: Benjamin Law Petrik, Melissa Reidy sparkling talent pool that comes out White, Anthony WP O’Sullivan, across artificial compositional programs, Featuring: Tom Cho, Bhakthi of WA? Mandy Beaumont, and everyone audio installation and documented Puvanenthiran, Bryan Whalen, Tom else(including you!) sound-walks. Facilitator: Aden Rolfe Doig Featuring: Jim Cuomo, Hanif Baharin, Penny Duff

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1PM – 2PM / WORKSHOP 1PM – 3PM / WORKSHOP 1PM – 2PM / WORKSHOP 2PM – 4PM / PANEL 2PM -4PM / PANEL 2PM – 3PM / PANEL HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH CIVIC PARK TPI AUDITORIUM CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC LEFT MASK AND IMPULSE SKILLS MOUTH CAMP CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENT CREATIVE COMMUNITIES GIRLS GONE WILD BEYOND THE PHOTOCOPIER: WORKSHOP Think OTHER people read like crap? INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP Using nothing but their bare hands and The notions of boundaries, or lack COLLATERAL DESIGN FOR A physical intensive workshop Well, wait until they get a load of you. Alison Currie shows you the moves creative compulsions these folk build of, when it comes to sex and gender. THEATRE exploring impulse and instinct. Bring some work down to our intensive you need to know to take part in her communities bonded by like minds and Engaging with both artists and Theatre needs only a few things: Participants will learn basic and readings coaching/boot camp, where project: Call Me Your Experiment. loud dreams. From Perth, NT, to the academics we seek to understand performers, audience, and a stage. Oh, intermediate Mask techniques using our panel of experts runs your reading A mobile phone is required for Sunshine Coast, Newcastle and New the fine lines between stereotypes, and posters, fliers, programs, tickets, trance performance skills. right through the gauntlet. It’s like participation. Zealand, to obscure production and freedoms, passivity and defiance. merchandise and websites... This panel Featuring: Hanna Cormick Idol, except these people really want to Facilitator: Alison Currie Ladyfest, we explore how communities Facilitator: Britt Guy. Featuring: explores the role of collateral material help you. Like Scientologists! form around music, what sustains Krissy Kneen, Charlotte Farrell and in creating a successful work of Featuring: Sally Breen, Josephine them and why they exist. Emma Maye Gibson (WMMB), theatre. Featuring: Arran Mckenna, Rowe, Thomas Benjamin Guerney, Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle Lyndal Walker, Marianna Leishman Dan Jobson, Alli Sebastian Wolf and everyone else (including you!) Featuring: blink, Kris Keogh, Nadia Co-presented by Critical Animals and Mizner, Nick Senger, Will Stroud National Young Writers Festival

1:30PM – 3PM / PANEL 2PM-2.30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 2PM – 3:30PM / WORKSHOP 2:30PM – 3:30PM / INFORMATION 2.30PM -5-30PM / READING 2:30PM – 5:30PM / WORKSHOP ROYAL EXCHANGE CIVIC PARK STAPLE MANOR CITY HALL HUNTER ROOM CIVIC PARK CONSERVATORIUM COMPUTER LAB STOP! THAT’S TEXTUAL RING I PRINTING HOW-TO SCARCITY, ABUNDANCE AND STANZAS IN MEDITATION IN SPEECH – SOUND – MUSIC HARASSMENT! Launch of Ring I in Civic Park. A In an age of cheap, perfect digital INNOVATION: MAKING MONEY THE PARK This session looks at extracting Editors, Publishers, Curators, and minimalist, site-specific installation reproduction, when should you use IN THE MEDIA ARTS A public reading of Gertrude Stein’s information from everyday sounds Cool-Kids-In-The-Know talk out which subtly juxtaposes ideas around a commercial press? Explaining The art world as we know it is based Stanzas In Meditation in its entirety. (particularly human speech and animal their classic writing faux pas. Find place-making and consumerism. Using colour and quality in the worlds of on scarcity, but Media Arts don’t fit The public, continuous audition of the noises) and applies it to musical out how editors chop, why your work reclaimed kiln bricks arranged in the letterpress, risograph, offset, and within these rules. Business models work, an act of criticism emphasising contexts. Facilitator: Nathan Scott was dropped and the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ timeless symbol of a circle, Ring I aims digital, PRINTING is part of our new developing out of the digital media certain essential qualities – its music, of developing a relationship with the to invoke an ethereal appreciation of series of informal, abnormal, but very, industry and difficulties in realising its process, that it is a monument and peeps in charge. From pitching articles the fragility of our environment and very practical roundtable how-tos. innovation open up new ways for creates an environment. Audience to delivering on deadline: this one to define the surroundings in which Featuring: Leigh Milward, Tom artists to generate revenue, without to come and leave as they please, to is a must. Facilitator: Zoe Barron. it is placed. In its position within the Civil, The Rizzeria compromising creative vision. witness this work and participate Featuring: Patrick O’Neil, David soil we can recognise the circle as an Featuring: Gavin Artz (Australian as readers. Featuring: Penny Duff, Edgley, Dion Kagan, James Phelan, object of nature and a framework we Network for Art and Technology) Stu Hatton, Derek Motion, Ella Anna Krien, Cathy Vallance use to define and describe our world. O’Keefe, Michael Farrell Featuring: Fiona Lee

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3PM - 6PM / PERFORMANCE 3PM - 6PM / PERFORMANCE 3PM - 4:30PM / LAUNCH 3:30PM – 5PM / WORKSHOP 4PM – 5PM / SPECIAL EVENT 4PM – 6PM / OPENING HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC CITY HALL BALCONY STAPLE MANOR CIVIC PARK JOHN PAYNTER GALLERY FORTY FORTY HOME: LADIES THE BOOTH LAUNCH PAD: META DETECTIVE NANOWORKSHOPS: WRITING IT’S NOT ART, IT’S JUST ME – ELECTROFRINGE EXHIBITIONS CHOICE The Booth is a two-minute installation & CHANNEL Z THE SHORT STORY THE CULMINATION OPENING Melbourne’s forty forty home is one performance for an audience of one Climb aboard. Strap yourself in. We’re Let Nanoworks teach you narrative The last part of a day long installation Opening of: Dorks Alive!: presented of a growing number of all-female inside a purpose-built ‘booth’. Come hitting the button marked TAKEOFF device, endings, even inspiration: all piece. The installation explores how by Dorkbot Canberra, Planes by Gilles theatre companies in Australia. Is and visit during opening hours to and launching a brand spanking new the finest basics. This workshop offers indigenous people are viewed through Aubry and Bass Maseuse by Guillaume this an effective means to provide receive a personal performance in publication into orbit. Come skip on a range of writing exercises to aid you the artefacts they leave behind, Potard. See page 11 for more opportunities for women theatre- this unique inflatable performance stars and trip the light fantastic. in creating fiction for Nanoworks – the reflecting a traditional Aboriginal information artists, or is it merely perpetuating the space. Featuring: Cathy Petocz, Chris On the Launch Pad today: Lev TINA 09 mini-mag. Hosted by the shelter and housing pieces from the problem it addresses? They talk about Carmody Diatschenko’s psychedelic adventure editors of Voiceworks. artist’s life. This is the culmination, the motivations behind adopting this ‘Meta Detective’ and InZine’s blood- Featuring: Bel Monypenny, with the artist retelling her life model, the challenges they’ve faced thirsty ‘Channel Z’. Voiceworks magazine Editorial through dance, art and storytelling. and their future direction. Featuring: Facilitator: Susy Pow Featuring: Lev Committee, Twelve Words project Featuring: Walbira Murray Erin Kelly, Amy Turton, Ella Diatschenko, Fiona Whitton, Bel McDonald, Anna Barnes Moneypenny

3:30PM – 4:30PM / ARTIST 3:30PM - 5:30PM / PERFORMANCE 3:30PM – 5PM / PANEL 4PM-5:30PM / PANEL 4PM – 6PM / PANEL 4PM – 5PM / PANEL ROUND THEATRETTE ROYAL EXCHANGE CITY HALL HUNTER ROOM CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM TPI AUDITORIUM HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC OPPORTUNITIES WITH REAL- VALCAPELLA AND DWINN SWEET STAPLE HIGH: THE NEW RAMIFICATIONS: INTENTIONS LO-FI IN A DIGITAL AGE A HIGH SPEED HISTORY OF TIME VIDEO Do you think performance poetry is CLASS AND ACCIDENTS IN ART In the 21st century, almost every 21ST CENTURY THEATRE Snapshots of current hardware lazy and lame? Well, sometimes it is! Does Meanjin misunderstand you? Can art really change behaviour? musician has cheap and easy access As the first decade of the 21st century and software, screen snippets of But not tonight. Guzzle a cushion. Pull Overland drive right by? Voiceworks Does it really alter our mood? Are we to high quality digital recording draws to a close, we are well and truly exemplary real-time video projects, up a drink. Let Tom Guerney’s eighty- put its fingers down your throat and really that transparent? Let these software. Why then are a wave of in the thick of the new millennium. and plenty of discussion about minute, sci-fi audio drama carry you tinker? Wet Ink wait until your work is artists lead you down a well-trodden underground artists returning to lo-fi What has changed in the last ten the sprawling possibilities for smoothly into night. Lemony Snicket long dry? Come and meet the new class path of art and affect where mapping equipment (cassette four tracks and years, and where are we heading? using narrative, choreography and calls this one “an epic of heartbreak of literary magazines, as scrutinised and understanding the divisions and reel to reel tape machines) to record This panel looks at the artists and interaction with real-time video. and awesomeness”. Featuring: by a panel of booksellers, writers, collisions between art and the psyche their music? What are the political and performers who have led the way since Featuring: Jean Poole Thomas Benjamin Guerney sceptics, and the editors themselves. are up for analysis and dispute. aesthetic implications of this choice? 2000, and attempts to guess where Facilitator: Christopher Currie. Facilitator: Nic Vogelpoel Facilitator: Steph Hughes we might be headed in the next ninety Featuring: Kirk Marshall, Angela Featuring: Fiona Lee, Danielle Featuring:, Guy Blackman, Jarrod years. Featuring: Brenna Hobson, Meyer, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Bentley Zlatic, Matt Mondanile, Stefan Annette Madden David Edgley, Sean Wilson Neville

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4PM – 4:30PM / PERFORMANCE 4PM – 5:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 4PM – 6PM / WORKSHOP 5PM – 6PM / PRESENTATION 5PM – 7PM / WORKSHOP 5:30PM – 9:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT HOUSE OF CRACK PLAYHOUSE CHINA CLUB ART HUB ROUND THEATRETTE FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS ROYAL EXCHANGE HAPPY HOUR HANGOVER TEMPORAL VIVANTS MELLIFERA: A MIXED REALITY DRAWING JAM THIS IS NOT CHESS CLUB The overactive imagination of a bored Hangover tells the story about a Your naked body. Temporal Vivants is a PROJECT Disorientated? Somehow jet lagged? Don’t ascertain your cultural boozer causes trouble as he kills time teenager during the late Eighties in look at just that, your naked body, or Andrew Burrell and Trish Adams Overstimulated and light-headed? Grab watermark in an elegant and (and a few unneeded brain cells). Brazil, across 120 scenes, and remixed somebody else’s. Are we ok with that? present their mixed reality project – a ginger beer, unbuckle your seat belt, sophisticated setting; come down to A surreal and cartoonish blend of live as a cross between cinema and Tableau vivant artist Min Mae will take mellifera. A project composed of two pick up a pen and make some marks. where the gutter meets the couches, performance, live sound and video live performance. Featuring: Bruno volunteers, any and all, prepare them environments directly related through Featuring: Chay-Ya Clancy, killer moves and miscellaneous bass projection. Featuring: The Masters of Vianna and Rodrigo Marçal and compose them as allegories of user interaction through the bodily Christopher Downes, Rebecca vibrations. Checkmate to the sounds of Space and Time: Arran Mckenna & temporality. Flesh is fleeting. Audience augmentation provided by custom Clements, Pat Grant, Ben Hutchings, Mashy P, Svelt and James and the Dub- Dan Jobson will be provided with sketching built computer/human interfaces – a and everyone else (including you!) table. Visuals provided by Inter-racial materials. Featuring: Min Mae and virtual and self replicating eco-system Pawn. Featuring: Anna Boydell, Luke her selected Muses within the virtual realm of Second Life ISM, Anna (Austin) Quilty and a real world gallery environment. Featuring: Andrew Burrell

4PM – 6PM / OPENING 5PM – 5:45PM / PERFORMANCE 5PM – 6PM / PANEL 6PM – 6:40PM / PERFORMANCE 6PM – 7PM / SCREENING 6PM – 7:30PM / GIG TAFE FRONT ROOM GALLERY HOUSE OF CRACK HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC PLAYHOUSE RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH ASSEMBLAGE DON’T SLEEP POLITICAL VS PASTICHE REVELATION OR BUST / ELECTRO-PROJECTIONS 1 QUIET APPRECIATION The simultaneous unveiling Get your pyjamas on! Underground THEATRE DEBATE REMOVAL OF SPACE Video from Melbourne via Thailand, In the serene surrounds of the Renew of “Then Ether” by Katherine rappers Julez and Dragonfly take you Find your old school tie and get out A double-bill of two mosquito- Chicago via Baghdad and…Canada: Newcastle church Tiny Vipers (Sub Bennett, “Spinal Hair” by Emily on a somnambulistic sojourn through your debating cards. In the last decade, proboscis-sharp short plays. In Pontiac psychedelia, elephant guns and Pop, US) and Guy Blackman will McDaniels and Emma Ramsay and their warped minds and introduce you Australia has produced a generation Revelation or Bust babies are dropping a homage to structuralist film made deliver reimaginings of folk through “HYPERVISUALSEAFOODEXTENDER vs. to some of the freaks lurking beneath of theatre artists exemplifying the from the sky and bushfires are raging. with an archaic video game console. captivating performance. This will be RSI” by Holly Fluxx and Kati Cubby. the surface. Expect an unholy cocktail cut-and-paste pop-culture-mash-up Are you ready for the end of the We guarantee it will be as much fun both free and incredible. Featuring: Visit www.electrofringe.net for more of surrealist comedy, spoken word, stylistic of Pastiche Theatre. Do theatre world? In Removal of Space the line on as getting drunk in front of Youtube. Tiny Vipers, Guy Blackman details. freestyle rap theatre, and cutting edge artists have a responsibility to comment the floor represents the removal of Curated by Michael Prior and toilet humour constructively on their society? Two space. Mort is in one place, Hampton Matthew O’Shannessy Featuring: Julez and Dragonfly teams lock horns to decide once and another. A simple enough concept to Featuring: Damon Packard, The for all what the role of the theatre is in understand, yes? Featuring: David Gaylord Sisters, Ian McIntyre, Ryan 2009. The middle ground is for pussies! Clapham, Anna Barnes, Arran Trecartin and more Featuring: Erin Kelly, Thomas Mckenna, Dan Jobson Henning, Declan Greene, Anna Barnes, Max Barker 30 31 FRIDAY

6PM – 8PM / OPENING 6PM – 8PM / OPENING 6PM – 9PM / SPECIAL EVENT 7PM – 8PM / PERFORMANCE 7PM – 8PM / SCREENING 7PM – 8:30PM / PERFORMANCE LOOP SPACE PODSPACE GALLERY VIEW FACTORY HOUSE OF CRACK PLAYHOUSE CONSERVATORIUM CONCERT HALL THE GARDEN OF FORKING THIS IS NOT A ReTrospective THE BURNING BROW LUAU THE WITNESS IN THE WALL SOUND NOMADS ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING - PATHS OPENING In celebration of the 10th anniversary The perfect push into a wild Nova This new work by Sydney’s SOUND NOMADS is where entire KONTAKTE An exhibition drawing together notable of This Is Not Art, artists Emily night, THE BURNING BROW is a wicked, Deconverters immerses the audience squares, hotspots, fields, meadows, Ensemble Offspring joins forces with historic and contemporary examples Roberts and Michael Randall have tropical party from Brisbane’s BURN in a lush cinematic landscape ponds and patterns from day-to-day Pimmon in a unique event that brings combining contemporary theatre, of videogames created by artists that de-constructed and reassembled the collective and ex-Brisbanites The life are instrumentalised and played. together acoustic and electronic music. digital video and sound art. Exploring push the bounds of the genre, and paper work that has amalgamated Lifted Brow. We’ll give you art; we’ll Surrounding objects get networked; Includes a performance of Kontakte the consequences of a world under over the past decade. Artists: Michael give you leis; and we’ll probably set manholes become recording studios; break the orthodox rules. Curated supervision, suspicious and mundane from the godfather of electronic music by Neil Jenkins and co-presented your forehead on fire, as the name the movements of people, time bases; Randall and Emily Roberts events unfold before you. Within Karlheinz Stockhausen. by dLux Media Arts. Artists: Laurie Exhibition Times: Thursday – implies. lamp-posts or mailboxes take the Featuring: Ensemble Offspring - Anderson (US) and Hsin-Chien this live streaming world your own place of strings and keys. A screening Bernadette Balkus, Claire Edwardes, Huang (Taiwan), Tale of Tales Sunday 12am - 5pm reflection is captured on every corner. (Belgium), Jaron Lanier (US), Your footsteps are so easily discovered of documentation of previous works James Cuddeford, Jason Noble and Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope on this Google Earth, but who is and performances. Paul Gough (Pimmon) and Karen Guthrie (UK), Anita walking with you? Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Featuring: The DeConverters Pelletier (Canada), Andy Deck (US)

6.30PM – 6:50PM / PERFORMANCE 6.30-7.30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 6:30 – 8:30PM / CLOSING OPENING 7:30 – 8PM / PERFORMANCE 8PM – 9PM / PERFORMANCE 8PM – 12 MIDNIGHT / GIG HOUSE OF CRACK FESTIVAL CLUB LOUNGE MASONS WATT SPACE GALLERY FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC LEFT THE FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS THE HIDEOUS DEMISE OF LANDSCAPING AESTHETICS OUTSIDE / INSIDE CLOSING SHIRLEY THE SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE SCARY CANARY DETECTIVE SLATE PT 2 Artists in an experimental Outside / Inside is an exhibition by A schizophrenic vaudeville; a hip Initially developed as part of Time Bring your gas lamps for an explosive Imagine a 1940s hardboiled detective collaborative conversation, talking a collaboration of students from the hop through an abstracted world Place Space 6 and developing towards night of lady-laden tough and trashy radio serial that travelled through across the boundaries and textures University of Newcastle and beyond. of American icon, Shirley Temple in the 2010 Next Wave Festival in tunes. Put your feet in the air like you time, but on the way got mixed up with of art, performance, film, theory These artists are seeking to test violent collision with contemporary Melbourne, The Short Message Service just don’t care! Starring Newcastle’s that nuclear waste that made the ninja and the aesthetics of experience. the parameters of ‘Street Art’ as a nightclub culture. Sometimes the (TSMS) utilises the mobile phone and First Ladies of rock, Bitchcraft; the turtles causing it to grow legs, and Allowing artists to talk in the language transportable aesthetic, and question comic, at other times horrific, Shirley SMS to turn the audience / performer one and only Suzanne Grey and the an incredible amount of convoluted that they think in, their artform. the gallery institute as qualifier of fine explores sexual excess and the dichotomy on its head by burning the Katies with special guests Brashs; and similes…The Hideous Demise of Facilitator: Britt Guy art practice. grotesque. What Makes Men Blush script and handing the author’s pen the anarcho casio-pop and analogue Detective Jericho Slate is kind of like Featuring: Dion Kagan, Gerwyn Curated by: Luke Johnston, Fiona dance, contort, play and strip becoming to the audience. Featuring: Lachlan synthesizer –punk wonders The that. Featuring: Alli Sebastian Wolf Davies, James Arvanitakis, Hannah Lee and Claire Parker perverse caricatures of Shirley Temple, Tetlow-Stuart, Mish Gregor, Leah Kleber Claux Memorial Singers. Plus Kinlyside, Danielle Bentley, Derek Exhibition Times: 12 noon - 6pm shifting to embody other familiar Shelton, Jackson Castiglione the screening of Anna ‘Katie Cherry Motion, Hanif Baharin, Michael imaginings such as Fred Astaire and Bomb’ Helme’s sweatshop smashing Farrell Ginger Rodgers, a desperate housewife B(girl) grade short film “M.C.G.F.C”. and a tap-dancing war hero.

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8PM – 3AM / GIG 8:15PM – 9PM / PERFORMANCE 10PM – 10:30PM / PERFORMANCE CAMBRIDGE PLAYHOUSE HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC GIGS SHOWCASE (FRIDAY) ACT ONE: THE WOMEN OF LAST MAN TO DIE NB: Special LOCK OUT licensing DOOM Premier local and international acts conditions are currently in place across Tea. Biscuits. Speculation. Test Tubes. from Sound Summit and Electrofringe Newcastle CBD. These laws state that Act One is a showcase of four short Voodoo. Confrontation! Which will programs are showcased over two you must be inside a licensed venue plays by the participants of Tantrum you choose? Last Man to Die takes you nights. Tickets each night $12 +BF BEFORE 1am. Please ensure you arrive Theatre’s inaugural Emerging Writers on a cross-art journey to the future, presale by phone 1300 GET TIX / $15 at the Cambridge well before 1am or Program. Mentored by four of the melding theatre, music and visual art on the door / $20 two night festival you will be refused entry. Consider country’s finest playwrights, these in a quest to find new life - even if pass (presale only) travel time, and that there may be line young writers bring to you four bold they have to cheat, steal, calculate and www.moshtix.com Featuring: ups. The Cambridge also has a strict and gutsy plays. This show features reanimate to get there. Last Man To Ducktails (US), Pumice (NZ), ID policy, and your ID will be scanned The Women of Doom by Penelope Die questions what it means to stare Rosy Parlane (NZ), Qua, Stalker, before you enter premises. Please Kentish. oblivion in the face. But who will be Free Choice Duo, Aoi, Guarde remember to pack your photo ID if you the last one left alive? Compartmente, Jim Cuomo (US) are planning on attending these gigs. Featuring: Charles Martin, Hanna Cormick, Benjamin Forster

arts & entertainment news monthly 9:15 – 10PM / PERFORMANCE 9PM – 10PM / PERFORMANCE 9:30PM – 11PM / READING newcastle|hunter|coast REVERB’S XMAS PARTY PLAYHOUSE HOUSE OF CRACK RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH SATURDAY DECEMBER 12, 2009 CAMBRIDGE HOTEL arts & entertainment news monthly ACT ONE: GOING HOME LITTLE GIRL LOST IN THE BLESS ME READER, FOR I HAVE newcastle|hunter|coast Act One is a showcase of four short DEVIL’S BLACK BEARD SINNED

FREE #038 Sep ‘09 plays by the participants of Tantrum With influences bounding blindfolded Keep your flaws and fears shrink- RED RIDERS Theatre’s inaugural Emerging Writers from Gogol & Hoffman, to Poe & wrapped in a room behind an iron Program. Mentored by four of the Piazzolla, to Mojo Juju & Mikelangelo, door? Writers of confessional work FEAR OF country’s finest playwrights, these Mr Fibby weave a high speed moral free don’t. They write them down, read young writers bring to you four bold fairytale about grief, betrayal, loss, them out - share them in a shine of MONSTERS and gutsy plays. This show features failure, disappointment in the uplifting honesty. Tonight let’s cringe, and bask THE BASTILLES Going Home by Dean Blackford. tale of the saddest, ugliest little girl in in their insightful and embarrassing

the entire world. Featuring: Hadley, splendour! Or grab a mic and CONFESS AFTER THE FALL EXITING EXILE Sarah my child. GZA/GENIUS Sam King, Emma Kelly, Grahame Facilitator: Stop Drop WU-TANG TALK Blasko SINGING THE BLUES AWAY ALSO INSIDE: DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Thompson and Roll’s Sean Wilson. Featuring: + TEX PERKINS + THE PANICS + GIN WIGMORE Patrick Pittman, Simon Cox, Amber Fresh, Matthew Lowe, Tom Cho TIX $15 PRE/$20 DOOR

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9.30AM -11AM / PANEL 10AM – 1PM / WORKSHOP 10AM – 11AM / PRESENTATION 11AM – 12:30PM / PANEL 11AM – 12 NOON / WORKSHOP 11AM – 12:30PM / PANEL CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM CONSERVATORIUM COMPUTER LAB PLAYHOUSE CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC CITY HALL NEWCASTLE ROOM CONTEMPORARY POETICS OWNING AND OPERATING TEMP° SAUNA ROADKILL: COLLECTING AND SLAM SHOP! WITH TRAVERSE CRIMES AGAINST THE (LOOKING IN): THE PLACE OF YOUR VIRTUAL WORLD USING Mika Meskanen talks about his project STORING POETRY INDUSTRY THE EXPERIMENTAL OPENSIM Temp° Sauna, a nomadic take by A tour through the processes of actors + writers = !fun! ! chemical! We all love writing, right? So why Is experimental poetry now the This workshop will look at ways of the DIY generation on the millennia reviving, making new, and placing the !explosion! Clever writers and theatre do we treat it so bad? If you’ve ever norm in Australia and what does hosting your own virtual world using old Finnish tradition and survival discarded, in artistic and academic folk handpicked from the tasty abused an intern, stolen stationery, or experimental mean in 2009? openSim, as both a standalone (private technique. Featuring: Mika Meskanen practice. What do these forms say fondue pot that is This Is Not Art will passed your frenemy up for promotion, Who makes up the audience for or public virtual space) or attached to about artist as individual and/or be locked away in a small room and then come down and hear the pros experimental poetry? Does the a larger grid of spaces such as OSGrid. collective? Facilitator: Scott Brewer encouraged to play nicely to produce... explain how not to let it happen to you. diversity in Australian poetic practice OpenSim provides an alternative for Featuring: Ignorance Collective (Dr ENTERTAINING ART TO BE SHOWCASED Facilitator: Angela Meyer entail a progressive, permissive the creation of artistic projects that Anthony Eaton, Prof Jen Webb, AT THE PLAYGROUND! Featuring: Bel Monypenny, playing-field? Includes readings by are not limited by closed walls and Sarah St Vincent Welch, Paul Pre – register by emailing: Kirk Marshall, Alexandra Neil, the panellists. Facilitator: Aden proprietary formats. Collis, Dr Kavita Nandan, Assoc [email protected] Madeleine Hinchy Rolfe Featuring: Stu Hatton, Derek Featuring: Andrew Burrell Prof Stephen Barrass, Dr Jordan Featuing: Hadley, Julian Fleetwood Motion, Michael Farrell, Jill Jones Williams, Dr Paul Magee

10AM – 12PM / SCREENING 11AM – 12NOON / PRESENTATION 11AM – 1PM / SPECIAL EVENT 11AM – 12:30PM / PANEL 11AM – 12:30PM / ROUNDTABLE 11AM – 12 NOON / SCREENING TPI AUDITORIUM ROUND THEATRETTE MEET AT PODSPACE GALLERY CITY HALL WARATAH ROOM TOTORO’S TEA HOUSE ARTHIVE VBS.TV PRESENTS IAN TIME FOR CORPORATE RULE BIKE GANG ART LOVE WHITEFELLAS TELLING BLACK SPACE INVADERS: DIY AND THE HOUSE OF NATURAL FIBER SVENONIOUS’ SOFT FOCUS Includes live performance, the creation Jump on a bike (borrow one from the STORIES ARTIST-RUN FESTIVALS AND Founded ten years ago, the House In Soft Focus Nation of Ulysses/ Make of a collaborative work with you, bike library in Civic Park) and come Politics of race are tackled head-on SPACES of Natural Fiber is a new media Up front man Ian Svenonious speaks to distribution of exciting media: the keys join us for a tour of the massive visual in this take-no-prisoners panel that No budget is the way of the future. DIY laboratory in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. the most distinguished figures from to making money, losing weight and arts contingent of this year’s festival. unpacks what it means to write black spaces bring people together, creating Co-ordinating, curating and bringing the contemporary music scene. This winning everything. Destinations include: TAFE Frontroom stories as a non-Indigenous person. an explosion of ideas and action: real together a local and international is the kind of talk show you’ve only Featuring: Lucas Darklord Gallery, tour of installs, PODspace, Who makes the rules? Where is the social networking, people. Hear true community, they run the Yogyakarta dreamed of – join us as we replace Watt Space Gallery and a tour of line? Or does it really matter whether stories and get valuable advice on International Videowork Festival popcorn with pancakes, and have the NEW China Club Arts Hub full of you’re black or white? setting up spaces and running whole and Cellsbutton, the Yogyakarta a breakfast of (indie) champions. the most amazing art from around Facilitator: Anna Krien festivals with just enough money to International Media Arts Festival. A Includes free vegan breakfast. Australia. Featuring: Fiona Lee Featuring: Phillip Gwynne, James buy a shoestring. Featuring: Ianto selection of video works from recent Featuring: Ian Svenonious, Alan and Arvantakis, Britt Guy, Walbira Ware, Natalie Aylward, Maddy festivals. Richard Bishop, Calvin Johnson, Ian Murray, Emily McCullogh Childs. Phelan, Susy Pow, Danielle Bentley, Mackaye, Jennifer Herrema Guy Sterling and everyone else (including you!)

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11AM – 2PM / SPECIAL EVENT 11 – 12:30PM / PRESENTATION 12PM – 1:30PM / SCREENING 12NOON – 4PM / WORKSHOP 12:30PM – 2PM / WORKSHOP 12:30PM – 2PM / PANEL CIVIC PARK PLAYHOUSE ARTHIVE TPI HOUSE STAPLE MANOR CITY HALL WARATAH ROOM MONUMENT TO THE COMMON PURSUING AN ANTI-CAREER GHETTO MOTO THIS IS NOT AN INTERNET CAFÉ NANOWORKSHOPS: WRITING WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG MAN ILIOS talks about his exploration of the Through the eyes of Tim Mwaura, a Having to stifle your creative urges POETRY Do you ever love as violently as Heroes in our own worlds, the Artist’s extremes of sound and image derived rapper from the Kamgemi ghetto in until your deskside? Stifle no further! Learn the nuts and bolts of writing when you’re 17? Do you still relish function is to mythologize the now phenomena. Featuring: ILIOS Nairobi, this documentary follows a Let those urges loose on our new poetry - including line, rhythm, the books of your youth, or are they and to present a total image of the journey of rediscovery of roots, culture Macbook Pros, just waiting for you sound, image and form. Then learn hidden shamefully in the back of the universe. Encompassing the whole of and politics of Tim’s people; his search to turn your new knowledge into how to use these elements in your bookshelf? The HOTTEST young fiction what we know and see in terms of for peace and understanding amidst totes pro skills. These hardware new or old poems. Hosted by the writers around share their own first the mystery of life, Monument to the war-torn Africa. havens are raring to go stocked with editors of Voiceworks. Featuring: Bel loves. You know what that means: Common Man seeks to commemorate Directed by Izzy Brown software ready to materialise your Monypenny, Voiceworks magazine nostalgia party! Wooooo! simple acts as larger truths are wildest dreams. Featuring: Heapsa Editorial Committee Facilitator: Bethany Jones explored. Artist: Bethany J Fellows computers + You Featuring: Philip Gwynne, Margo Lanagan, James Phelan, Christine Hinwood

12NOON – 1:30PM / ROUNDTABLE 12NOON – 2PM / PANEL 12NOON – 1PM / PERFORMANCE 12:30PM – 2PM / PANEL 12:30 – 1:30PM / PRESENTATION 1PM – 2PM / PRESENTATION CHINA CLUB ART HUB TPI AUDITORIUM CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB THE LOFT YOUTH VENUE ROUND THEATRETTE PLAYHOUSE ALMOST FAMOUS HOW-TO PASSION PROJECT: FUTURE ALARMING EVENT – INDENT FORUM ARTIST TALK: ROSY PARLANE DPAD AUSTRALIA Sidestep the agent, bypass the FOLKLORE AND NICHE OUTPUT PERFORMANCE Indent, the peak all-ages network in Rosy Parlane discusses his latest CD A showcase of the Australian manager, negotiate the restraining Explore the full potential of the Matt Rochford performs a special conjunction with The Loft, will host a “Jessamine” addressing selected Chipmusic scene featuring order, get the goods, get out. Learn active fan, looking at how cultural sleep-walking dance as part of workshop and forum for active young tracks and illuminating various sound performances by Dot.AY and 10k Free how to cut the red tape and secure consumers become creators and his installation “Alarming Event”. event coordinators, emerging artists processes used in their creation. Men & Their Families using Game Boys, a scoop with your favourite artist, re-craft perceptions, product and Featuring: Matt Rochford and musicians. A select panel of music Featuring: Rosy Parlane Nintendo DS, Guitar Hero Controller celebrity, idol – all while remaining potential in their worlds and beyond. industry professionals will share their and a DDR Dance Mat. cool and collected (and keeping that How are passion projects taking form experiences and open the floor to Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle Featuring: groupie doofus concealed). Featuring: in a world that favours the niche, and discussions on all things, all-ages. Dot.AY, Ten Thousand Free Men & Bryan Whalen, Julian Shaw, Lulu how are they creating folk art for the Featuring: Max Becker,Bernadette Their Families Browett future? Facilitator: Steph Hughes Ryan Glenn, Dickie, Marcus Wright, Featuring: blink, Guy Blackman, Nick Milligan Nadia Mizner, Shaun Prescott, Stu Buchanan

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1PM – 2PM / PANEL 1:30 – 3PM / PRESENTATION 1:30PM – 4PM / WORKSHOP 2PM – 3:30PM / WORKSHOP 2PM – 3:30PM / PANEL 2PM – 3PM / PRESENTATION HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM CONSERVATORIUM COMPUTER LAB STAPLE MANOR CITY HALL NEWCASTLE ROOM ROUND THEATRETTE QUARTERBRED SHOW AND TELL CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: MOBILE PROCESSING FOR ZINE LAYOUT HOW-TO ADAPTATION: A BETTER LAUREN BROWN Quarterbred are an artist run initiative MAGICIANS OF SOUND, FILM MOBILE PHONES Consulted Sticky’s zine counsellors? HABITAT Lauren Brown discusses her practice (ARI) and resident company of PACT AND THE LIVE EXPERIENCE Providing an introduction to visual, Now is when you bring in your material 1. The process whereby an organism and her project “Soundproofing the space in Erskineville, Sydney. They An opportunity for this year’s sound and interaction programming to get that pagination and general becomes better-suited to its habitat. City”. Her work is primarily concerned have joined this year’s CRACK festival exhibiting Critical Animals to explain for the mobile phone using Francis pimping happening. This may include a 2. The transfer of a written work to a with structure and its relationship to to profile their past program of events WHAT IT ALL MEANS?! Each artist will Li’s mobile processing language. Build field trip to the nearest Officeworks. feature film. Pretty straightforward, the public: the physical structure of and artist residencies. Come along get the opportunity to show their a simple application and develop an ZINE LAYOUT is part of our new series right? Well, not so much. Year after architecture and infrastructure; the to hear about the heartaches and work and receive critical feedback. understanding of basic programming of informal, abnormal, but very, very year we’ve tried to get this panel up metaphysical structure of rhythms, triumphs of putting on a site specific Along the way we will discuss issues concepts, suitable for non- practical workshop and roundtable and here it finally fuckin’ is. Adapt cycles and habits; or the antithesis of hybrid arts event: the TINY STADIUMS currently affecting emerging artists in programmers. You will need to bring how-tos. Featuring: Eloise Peace, away, dudes! these in destruction and entropy. festival…and learn how to be a part the Australian contemporary art world. a Bluetooth-equipped mobile phone. Melissa Reidy, Candace Petrik Facilitator: Bethany Jones Featuring: Lauren Brown of it in 2010. Featuring: Emma Facilitator: Britt Guy Featuring: Featuring: Christian Haines Featuring: Phillip Gwynne, Julian Ramsay, Mish Gregor Trudy Clutterbok, Hanif Baharin, Shaw, Marieke Hardy, Kirk Patches (Stella McDonald) Marshall

2PM – 3.30PM / ROUNDTABLE 2PM – 4PM / PANEL 2PM – 3PM / FORUM 2PM – 3PM / CURATOR TALK 2PM – 3PM / SCREENING 2PM – 3:30PM / PRESENTATION FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS TPI AUDITORIUM HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC LOOP SPACE ARTHIVE RENEW CHURCH STAYING ALIVE COMMERCIAL VIABILITY DOES DAVID WILLIAMSON GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS THE UGLY STICK MALL RATS UNITE: RENEW A discussion addressing various AND A COMMUNITY FOCUS: SPEAK FOR YOU? CURATOR TALK The Ugly Stick is a hard-hitting sketch NEWCASTLE WALKING TOUR strategies for surviving as a SUSTAINABILITY IN MUSIC Calling all theatre-makers! Come Curator Neil Jenkins presents a talk of comedy program made by a small but The Hunter St Mall ain’t what it used practicing artist in 2009 and beyond. We interrogate how to maintain your and share your experiences, your the work and themes of his exhibition, dedicated group of sharp, emerging to be … come see Newcastle’s creative Encompassing rights management, credibility and still earn a crust, how frustrations, your ambitions and your The Garden of Forking Paths. See page writers, performers and hot pants community making city revitalization alternative distribution models, to enjoy the benefits of sponsors, ideas with fellow artists from across 11 for information. dancers who worked their asses their business. Join us for a tour of international touring, community benefactors and sugar daddy’s the country. We look at the differences Featuring: Neil Jenkins off each week to bring this show’s the 24 spaces which are changing the projects and basically every strategy while remaining true to your core between theatre practice in different character-driven, left-of-centre feel of the city, all local and all unique: for paying the rent and making art focus. How not to jeopardise your regions: Sydney vs Melbourne, and humour to its dedicated, cult audience galleries, retail, offices and studios – while keeping it real. principles for the sake of existence. Regional vs Metropolitan... What are across Australia, on the community there’s even a Tea House. Facilitator: Daniel Green Featuring: Facilitator: Steph Hughes Featuring: the different challenges facing us, and television network, and abroad, via its With: Marcus Westbury, Marni DJ Ripley, Darren Ziesing, Keg de Alexandra Savvides, Evan Kaldor, what can we learn from each other? top-ranking videocast. Jackson Souza, Tom Hall, Tom David Lisa Lerkenfeldt, Nick Senger, Paul Featuring: David Clapham, Max Featuring: Daniel Juhasz, James Mason, Penelope Benton, Teresa Barker, David Finnegan Ruhfus, Nick Maxwell, Alfred Daniel Avila

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THE GREAT GATSBY BALL THIS IS: THIS IS NOT ART 2009 SATURDAY / / 8PM – 12 MIDNIGHT THURSDAY / / 8PM – 12 MIDNIGHT “People were not invited to Gatsby’s Join us as we officially open and house – they went there.” So rogue celebrate our tenth This Is Not Art! your knees and roll your stockings Includes champers, cake, and the down for a night of sequin-drenched ribbon cutting on our amazing scoop debauch. Find your flapper, pack your new venue. Come and celebrate like top-hat and NYWF will put the ‘ALL’ in NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA its 1999... FEATURING: Ivy, Lanie your BALL. Come party like its 1925! SUNDAY / / 7:30PM – 11PM (FROM 3PM Lane, Julez & Dragonfly, MTTNS, FEATURING: Kira Peru and the IN OTHER VENUES) Sean Healy and Dan Mackinlay, Very Geordie Malones, What Makes Cleptoclectics, Special Guests and Men Blush, The Civic Big Band NWA shrinks the notion of distance surprises! between genre, taste, Australia’s LOVE SONG DEDICATIONS – IT’S own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre THE END OF THE WORLD AS nor another, NWA represent a new WE KNOW IT breed that find refuge in the space between us. FEATURING: Go MONDAY Genre Everything, Polyfox and the This one goes out to all our amazing Union of the Most Ghosts, Brutal volunteers. Richard Mercer eat your Hate Mosh, Lucia Draft, Alps, kyÐ, SCARY CANARY heart out. Request your favourite Moonmilk, Castings, Blastcorp, song at the DJ booth and make your Gugg, Holy Balm, DJ Faux Pas, DJ FRIDAY / / 8PM – 12 MIDNIGHT dedication. To old friends or new loves, Stuart Buchanan Bring your gas lamps for an explosive the girl you met in the Arts Hub or that night of lady-laden tough and trashy boy you saw at the Sunday Fair, this tunes. Starring Newcastle’s first ladies one is for you... of rock Bitchcraft, the one and only Suzanne Grae and the Katies, and the anarchp casio-pop and analogue synthesizer-punk wonders The Kleber Claux Memorial Singers.

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THIS IS NOT ART FRIDAY SHOWCASE THIS IS NOT ART SATURDAY SHOWCASE

THE CAMBRIDGE / / 8PM – 3AM THE CAMBRIDGE / / 8PM – 3AM Angela Femia, IK HEIR BEN – I AM HERE, sculptural installation, 2009 FEATURING: Ducktails (US),Pumice (NZ) Rosy FEATURING: DJ Ripley (US), The Vivian Girls (US), Luke Thurgate Untitled 2006 charcoal Parlane (NZ), Qua, Stalker, Free Choice Duo, Aoi, ILIOS (GR), Bum Creek (Melb), Free Men & Their on linoleum Belle Brooks Guarde Compartmente, Jim Cuomo (US) Families, Choice Duo (Melb), Toecutter, Ten Thousand, Ivan Lisyak, Crab Smasher, 10k Freeman (Bris) Cost: Each night $12 pre / $15 on the door / $20 two night pass – presale only. Available from www.moshtix.com JOIN US FOR THE 2010 GRAND INTERPRETATION OF THIS IS NOT ART: AUS- LITTLE GIRL LOST IN THE DEVILS BLACK BEARD TRALIA’S LARGEST AND HOUSE OF CRACK // 9:30PM – 10:3PM THURSDAY MOST DIVERSE MEDIA IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, REQUIRE MORE With influences bounding blindfolded from Gogol & Hoffman, QUIET APPRECIATION INFORMATION, OR WANT TO SPEAK WITH SOMEONE Poe & Piazzolla, and Mojo Juju & Mikelangelo, Mr Fibby AND ARTS FESTIVAL. ABOUT THIS PROCESS, PLEASE EMAIL: ADMIN@ weaves a high speed moral-free fairy tale of grief, betrayal, RENEW CHURCH // 6PM – 7:30PM FRIDAY THISISNOTART.ORG loss, failure and disappointment in the uplifting tale of the In the serence surrounds of the Renew Newcastle church Call for proposals will run from 1st February – 31st Remember that there will also be various calls FEATURING: saddest ugliest little girl in the entire world. Tiny Vipers (Sub Pop US) and Guy Blackman will deliver March 2010. If you work, think, play or study in creative, for directors, board members, graphic designers Hadley, Sam King, Emma Kelly, Grahame Thompson reimagining’s of folk through captivating performance. intellectual or artistic practices then…We want you! and other key roles. If you would like to receive You will find application forms on our website from late info about these things go to www.thisisnotart. January and to apply you will need to download, fill out org and become a subscriber, or remember to and submit a form. keep your eye on our website.

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2PM – 3:30PM / PANEL 2:15PM – 3:45PM / PRESENTATION 2:30PM – 4PM / ROUNDTABLE 3PM -4.30PM / PANEL 3PM – 3:30PM / PERFORMANCE 3PM – 4PM / SCREENING CITY HALL NEWCASTLE ROOM CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB TOTORO’S TEA HOUSE CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM HOUSE OF CRACK ARTHIVE ARE POETS NICE? SYDNEY HYPERBOLIC CROCHET DISTRO HOW-TO ART AFTER THE FACT: THE SODOM AND GOMORRAH: THE OK VIDEO Was Shakespeare really in love, or was CORAL REEF TALK A roundtable for all of us who make PLACE OF CREATIVE PRACTICE FOLK ROCK MUSICAL Selections from the 2009 fourth Gwyneth Paltrow just... hot? When Claire & Charlotte from ‘In Stitches’ book-shaped objects to discuss the IN TRAUMA AND COPING Come on a trip with Irreconcilable international OK Video festival, themed that poet spilled beer on you at her talk about creating the Australian best way to get them into the hands Art can be good for coping. This panel Difference to the Old Testament! Meet Comedy, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. reading, was it really all just part Satellite of the worldwide “HYPERBOLIC of people; even new, exciting ones we is about just that. These artists and Abraham: father of a nation, founder CROCHET CORAL REEF” a project created of her art? Are poets nice people to haven’t met! Share your experiences thinkers have been indulging in, and of faith, circumcised guy. Meet Lot: by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of know? Of our all-poet panel, half say or ask questions of representatives making art to cope with trauma. Be a little slow but his family is the salt the Institute for Figuring in LA. They yes, half say no. Featuring: Anthony from Australian small press publishers, of the Earth. Meet God: a cranky old elaborate on the process leading up prepared to access the less talked WP O’Sullivan, Geoff Lemon, online distributors and zine shops. bastard. Can these three friends to the sculptural installation created about, often hidden, and always Josephine Rowe, Mandy Beaumont, by over 360 people. The project raises Featuring: Susy Pow, Eloise personal crevices of these artists survive a trip into the twin cities of Sommer Tothill, Matthew Lowe awareness of the plight of coral reefs, Peace, Tom Civil, Lou Smith, Lisa as they take you on tours only they sin? Finally, a work which can unite introduces hyperbolic space and links Dempster, Mutiny Zine know the route to. Facilitator: Nic Christians and homosexuals. communities. Featuring: Claire Vogelpoel Featuring: Lou Smith, Featuring: David Clapham, Jon Conroy and Charlotte Haywood Carly Norman, Rachel O’Reilly Thomsen

3:00PM – 3:30PM / PRESENTATION 3PM - 6PM / PERFORMANCE 3PM – 4PM / PRESENTATION 3PM – 4PM / WORKSHOP 3PM – 4PM / PRESENTATION 3:30PM – 4PM / PERFORMANCE PLAYHOUSE HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB CIVIC PARK RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH HOUSE OF CRACK HANGOVER THE BOOTH LET’S PAINT, TV: PLAYGROUND BRIEFING SUBURBAN GIANTS HAPPY HOUR Bruno Vianna discusses the process The Booth is a two-minute installation A PRESENTATION SESSION Suburban Giants is a large-scale The overactive imagination of a and tactile interface used to create performance for an audience of one John Kilduff and collaborators How does one prepare for impending projection that turns buildings bored boozer causes trouble as Ressaca’s work Hangover. inside a purpose-built ‘booth’. Come talk about the process of creating disaster? How does Chaos Theatre into blank canvases. In this talk its he kills time (and a few unneeded Featuring: Bruno Vianna and visit during opening hours to interactive multimedia performances operate? How can I make a difference? creators will discuss the work and braincells). A surreal and cartoonish receive a personal performance in such as Let’s Paint TV and similar All these and more to be found out at research involved in its development. blend of performance, live sound and this unique inflatable performance craziness. Featuring: John Kilduff, the Pre-Playground briefing. Learn the Featuring: Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, video projection. Featuring: David space. Featuring: Cathy Petocz, Chris Tim Dwyer, Holly Fluxx, Kati theory! See the Gameplan! Meet the Jo Kerlogue Clapham, Arran Mckenna, Dan Carmody Cubby, Toecutter and friends People! Time is now! Within twenty Jobson four hours you too can become a performer, stage manager or heart surgeon. ATTEND! Featuring: Hadley, Thomas Henning

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3:30PM – 4:30PM / PRESENTATION 3:30PM – 5PM / PANEL 3:30PM – 5PM / WORKSHOP 4PM – 6PM / PANEL 4:00PM – 5PM / PRESENTATION 4PM – 5PM / PANEL FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS CITY HALL WARATAH ROOM STAPLE MANOR TPI AUDITORIUM TENT CITY HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC BUM CREEK PRESENTS 7 WAYS GIVE ME CLEO OVER KEROUAC NANOWORKSHOPS: EXPRESS ARTIST RUN INITIATIVES INTENSITY IN TENT CITY INTERACTIVE THEATRE SHOW TO CRACK Jonathan Safran Whoer? Nabokov my EDITING AND DIY SPACES - FOCUS ON Pure Being demonstrate their AND TELL Bum Creek will take you through 7 where, now? Not everyone wants to Come and fight for your comma! In MARRICKVILLE performance technique by staging Interactive theatre has a reputation as ways to embrace the frivolous larrikin be an indie superstar. Clean up your this workshop, learn the basics of Nestled between the factories of a performance in This Is Not Art’s a cringe-inducing spectacle in which that lurks within. Come along dressed wank and ride the mainstream wave to your own language, plus proofreaders’ Marrickville, Sydney, you’ll find a range ‘Tent City’. An individual fort will be audience members are dragged up on to sweat. Featuring: Sam Karmel, this popular pleasurefest, where like- marks and how they operate. Help the of independently run warehouse spaces constructed for the performance with stage and humiliated. Is it possible Trevelyan Clay, Tarquin Manek minded people shamelessly announce: Voiceworks Editorial Committee and offering a vibrant alternative to the in-fort projection enhancements. to use the tools and technologies “I subscribe to WHO and listen to Farrago kids edit work for the TiNA 09 doldrums of Sydney’s ‘official’ creative Featuring: Pure Being of the 21st century to do it better? commercial FM, and fuck anyone mini-magazine, Nanoworks. pastimes. We discuss the challenges in ACT collective Boho Interactive who doesn’t!” Facilitator: Angela Featuring: Bel Monypenny, starting and sustaining an independent meet the Short Message Service in Meyer. Featuring: Marieke Hardy Voiceworks magazine Editorial warehouse space in Marrickville this workshop and conversation. Cathy Vallance, Elena Knox, Rachel Committee factory land. Facilitator: Eliza Sarlos, Featuring: David Finnigan, Jack Morgan, Lulu Browett, Madeleine Featuring: Dirty Shirlows, Louie’s, Lloyd, Mick Bailey, David Shaw, Hinchy Maggotville, Red Rattler Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart

3:30PM – 5PM / PRESENTATION 4PM – 4:45PM / PERFORMANCE 4PM - 5:30PM / PERFORMANCE 4PM – 5PM / PRESENTATION 4PM – 5PM / SCREENING 4PM – 5:30PM / WORKSHOP NEWCASTLE ART SPACE HOUSE OF CRACK ROYAL EXCHANGE PLAYHOUSE ARTHIVE CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB CREATIVE COMMUNITIES: MEAT DON’T SLEEP ACT ONE THE DUBTABLE: INTUITIVE SELECTIONS FROM SIGGRAPH HOW TO WRITE A COMIC (AND ARTISTS’ PRESENTATION Get your pyjamas on! Underground Act One is a showcase of four short TANGIBLE INTERFACES AND 2009 GET AN ARTIST TO ACTUALLY The artists that make up local art rappers Julez and Dragonfly take you plays by the participants of Tantrum REACTIVISION Three video documentation works DRAW IT) collective MEAT are drawn together by on a somnambulistic sojourn through Theatre’s inaugural Emerging Writers James Nichols showcases The Dubtable, as part of SIGGRAPH 2009, BioLogic: So, you want to make a comic but you the fact that individually, they don’t fit their warped minds and introduce you Program. Mentored by four of the a gesture-based musical instrument A Natural History of Digital Life. don’t know how to draw? Here we anywhere else, and neither does their to some of the freaks lurking beneath country’s finest playwrights, these using reactTIVision, and talks of his Algorithmic facial choreography is discuss the subtle art of convincing work. They will discuss, divulge and the surface. Expect an unholy cocktail young writers bring to you four bold efforts in making electronic music explored in Electric Eigen-Portraits someone to draw your story. How downright argue about art, their work, of surrealist comedy, spoken word, and gutsy plays. This show includes production more accessible. and Face Shift, while One documents to write it, how to pitch it, what to and existing in a world with a tenuous freestyle rap theatre, and cutting edge Bivouac by Brad McDonald and Three Featuring: James Nichols the microworld of a drop of ink in include, and what not to. Featuring: grip on reality, far away from the suits toilet humour. Days by Sarah Gaul. a Petri dish. Featuring: Arthur Pat Grant, Ben Hutchings, Daniel and ties of the everyday. Facilitator: Featuring: Julez and Dragonfly Elsenaar, Yoon Chung Han Lawson, David Blumenstein Aden Rolfe Featuring: Todd Fuller, Amy Hill, Ell O’Connor, Aksara Harriram, Mel Chalker

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4PM – 5:30PM / WORKSHOP 4PM - 6PM / LAUNCH 4.30PM - 6PM / PANEL 5PM – 7PM / SPECIAL EVENT 5PM - 11:30PM / WORKSHOP 5:30PM – 6PM / SCREENING CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS CITY HALL NEWCASTLE ROOM HOUSE OF CRACK STAPLE MANOR PLAYHOUSE THE KNITTING JOURNAL LAUNCH PAD: HOW TO MAKE FRAME UP: THE PLACE OF THE THE ALL-STAR LITERARY COLLATION STATION SPAM THE MUSICAL Come and read The Knitting Journal, TROUBLE AND INFLUENCE ARTS SMACKDOWN The blinds may be down, but you need Using the tools of web 2.0 and viral and take the opportunity to join PEOPLE Ethics, science and the academy: Get ready to rumble. Fiction and Non- only knock to be ushered into Staple marketing SPAM: The Musical combines seasoned knitters and beginners alike Climb aboard. Strap yourself in. We’re positioning the arts against/within Fiction go head-to-head in this all-out Manor in its finest hour(s). Staple the strength of social media with video in sharing stories, experiences and hitting the button marked TAKEOFF these frameworks. What can the arts literary smackdown where only one Manor opens til late to provide you art, attitude with anarchy, and casting secrets. Bring along your current and launching a brand spanking new know and what are they responsible genre can emerge triumphant! Watch with the space and tools you need to with exploitation. projects or pick up a set of needles publication into orbit. On the Launch for? Debates on the place of creative FACT cut FICTION down to size, and see do your zine in time for its triumphant Featuring: Boris Eldagson available at the session for an informal Pad today: Iain McIntyre’s mischief writing in the academy, art/science FICTION kick FACT in the balls! Minds debut at the Sunday Fair. Featuring: fun-filled hour of knitting. making work ‘How To Make Trouble And interactions, the unintelligible world, unite, fight, and win. Arrive early for Eloise Peace, Bel Monypenny, Featuring: Lada Dedic Influence People’ that turns a spotlight artistic reciprocity and artistic framing a ringside seat. Facilitator: Tom Doig Voiceworks magazine Editorial on some of the greatest pranks, hoaxes as violence. Facilitator: Scott Brewer Featuring: Anna Krien, Michaela Committee, The Rizzeria, Candace and blatant billboard modifications of Featuring: Nina Stuhldreher, James McGuire, Phillip Gwynne, Marieke Petrik , Susy Pow, Melissa Reidy and our time. Featuring Iain McIntyre, Willoughby, Keegan Eastcott, Hardy, Margo Lanagan, Gary everyone else (including you!) Lou Smith, Tom Civil Mathew Paul Blackman

5PM – 7PM / SPECIAL EVENT 5PM – 6PM / WORKSHOP 5PM – 6PM / PRESENTATION 5:30PM – 6:30PM / PRESENTATION 6PM- 7PM / WORKSHOP 6PM - 7:30PM / PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS HOUSE OF CRACK LEFT ROUND THEATRETTE CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM CHINA CLUB ART HUB ROYAL EXCHANGE CDR MR FIBBY AND THE ORCHESTRA JIM CUOMO ROBOT WONDERLAND TEMPORAL VIVANTS ACT ONE CDR invites producers, musicians and OF BLACK LIES In the 1980s Jim Cuomo composed Over the past four years, Wade Your naked body. Temporal Vivants is a Act One is a showcase of four short appreciators of futuristic sounds Mr Fibby demands for you to join The some of the era’s most memorable Marynowsky has been researching the look at just that, your naked body, or plays by the participants of Tantrum together to hear unreleased music on a Orchestra Of Black Lies where you shall sic for titles such as Sim City, art of robotics at Hexagram, Canada somebody else’s. Are we ok with that? Theatre’s inaugural Emerging Writers big sound system. All are welcome, and join in the telling the tale of men who Defender of the Crown and S.W.A.T. with Bill Vorn, ICC Sapporo, Japan Tableau vivant artist Min Mae will take Program. Mentored by four of the if you’re a maker of music we invite will not stay dead. After the workshop In this presentation, he will detail his and Sydney. This presentation will volunteers, any and all, prepare them country’s finest playwrights, these you to bring along a CDR and be part you will join them at The House of extensive history as a composer and demonstrate a working robot and and compose them as allegories of young writers bring to you four bold of it. This session will feature Qua in Crack on Sunday night for a delicious musician, as well as discussing his review the development of several temporality. Flesh is fleeting. Audience and gutsy plays. This show includes interview, talking about the process of meal – of brains! Featuring: Adam techniques and processes. robotic artworks. Aras Vaichas will also will be provided with sketching Bivouac by Brad McDonald and Three production. Featuring: Qua, Lorna Hadley, Sam King, Emma Kelly, Featuring: Jim Cuomo explain the core electronic components materials. Featuring: Min Mae and Days by Sarah Gaul . Clarkson, Martin Flex, Ollo, Sofie Grahame Thompson and their construction. her selected Muses Loizou Featuring: Wade Marynowsky, Aras Vaichas

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6PM – 6:40PM / PERFORMANCE 6PM – 7PM / SCREENING 6PM – 7:30PM / GIG 8PM – 3AM / GIG 8PM, 8:30PM, 9PM / PERFORMANCE

HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC PLAYHOUSE RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH CAMBRIDGE NB: Special LOCK OUT licensing laws are ROYAL EXCHANGE REVELATION OR BUST / ELECTRO-PROJECTIONS 2 QUIET APPRECIATION MARK 2 GIGS SHOWCASE (SATURDAY) currently in place throughout Newcastle FISTHEADS : SUBVERTING IT REMOVAL OF SPACE 2 A selection of thick, wet, hand-picked Settle in for the calm before the Premier local and international acts CBD. If you are not already inside the TO FUCK from Sound Summit and Electrofringe venue PRIOR to 1am you will be refused A double-bill of two mosquito- drone and tickle for your pleasure. storm, as Christian Haines pays A performance art installation utilizing programs showcased over two nights. entry. Consider travel time, and that Waves and particles of the highest homage to Alvin Lucier, David Tudor proboscis-sharp short plays. In Tickets each night $12 +BF presale / there may be line ups. the iconic cult film “Times Square” as Revelation or Bust babies are dropping order (and maybe a few stray bodies). and Steve Reich via mobile phone $15 on the door / $20 +BF two night its thematic and narrative framework. from the sky and bushfires are raging. Sit back, relax, and look directly into interface, and Pimmon presents lush festival pass (presale only) from www. Cambridge also has a strict ID policy, and The Fistheads question the social your ID will need to be scanned before Are you ready for the end of the the face of God. Curated by Michael electronics in a rare intimate setting. moshtix.com, The Cambridge Hotel and systemic policing of desire, you can enter the premises, so please world? In Removal of Space the line on Prior and Matthew O’Shannessy. Free admission – this one’s on us. and 1300 GET TIX Featuring: DJ gender roles, queer sexuality and the Ripley (US), The Vivian Girls (US), remember to pack your ID if you are the floor represents the removal of Featuring: Glen Stewart, Deborah Featuring: Christian Haines, pathologization of difference. In an ILIOS (GR), Bum Creek (Melb), planning on attending Cambridge gigs. space. Mort is in one place, Hampton Birch and more. Pimmon Free Men & Their Families,Choice anti-capitalist, anti-assimilationist another. A simple enough concept to Duo(Melb), Toecutter,Ten Remember Daylight Savings starts at punk revolution, they celebrate understand, yes? Featuring: David Thousand, Ivan Lisyak, Crab 2am – when it becomes 3am, which collective insanity, self-determined means this gig will be an hour shorter Clapham, Anna Barnes, Arran Smasher, 10k Freemen (Bris). identity and the HO-MO agenda. than the night before. Unless of course Mckenna, Dan Jobson Featuring: KK No Pants, Bugz you arrived an hour earlier...

7PM – 7:20PM / PERFORMANCE 7PM – 8PM / SCREENING 7.30PM – 8.30PM / PERFORMANCE 8PM – 12 MIDNIGHT / PERFORMANCE 8:15PM – 9PM / PERFORMANCE 9:15PM – 10PM / PERFORMANCE HOUSE OF CRACK PLAYHOUSE HOUSE OF CRACK FESTIVAL CLUB S MASON’S PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE THE HIDEOUS DEMISE OF TRANSMEDIALE. 09 – VIDEO THE WITNESS IN THE WALL THE GREAT GATSBY BALL ACT ONE: THE WOMEN OF ACT ONE: GOING HOME DETECTIVE SLATE WORKS New work by Sydney’s Deconverters “People were not invited to Gatsby’s DOOM Act One is a showcase of four short Imagine a 1940s hardboiled detective A selection of 8 outstanding video immerses the audience in a cinematic house - they went there.” So rogue Act One is a showcase of four short plays by the participants of Tantrum radio serial that travelled through works from the 2009 Berlin festival landscape combining contemporary your knees and roll your stockings plays by the participants of Tantrum Theatre’s inaugural Emerging Writers time, but on the way got mixed up with for art and digital culture. Works are theatre, digital video and sound art. down for a night of sequin-drenched Theatre’s inaugural Emerging Writers Program. Mentored by four of the that nuclear waste that made the ninja selected based on different means Exploring the consequences of a world debauch. Find your flapper, pack your Program. Mentored by four of the country’s finest playwrights, these turtles causing it to grow legs, and of production and consequently this under supervision, suspicious and top-hat and NYWF will put the ‘ALL’ in country’s finest playwrights, these young writers bring to you four bold an incredible amount of convoluted selection provides wide-ranging mundane events unfold before you. your ‘BALL’. Come party like it’s 1925! young writers bring to you four bold and gutsy plays. This show includes similes…The Hideous Demise of insight into current artistic video Within this live streaming world your Featuring: Kira Puru & the Very and gutsy plays. This show includes Going Home by Dean Blackford. Detective Jericho Slate is kind of like production in both form and content. own reflection is captured on every Geordie Malones, What Makes Men The Women of Doom by Penelope that. Featuring: Alli Sebastian Wolf Featuring: Hermann Asselberghs, corner. Your footsteps are so easily Blush, The Civic Big Band Kentish. Mark Boswell, Elke Groen, Joanna discovered on this Google Earth, but Hoffman, Surrekha Kumar, Etta who is walking with you? Säfve, Momoko Seto, Jorn Staeger Featuring: The Deconverters

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2AM / 9AM – 10AM / READING 10AM – 11AM / PRESENTATION 11AM – 12:30PM / PANEL 11:30 – 12:30PM / PRESENTATION 11:30 -12:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT CLOCKS AND WATCHES CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM PLAYHOUSE ROYAL EXCHANGE PLAYHOUSE GHETTO – TOWN: KING STREET CAR PARK DAYLIGHT SAVINGS STARTS BREAKFAST POETRY COLLAGE UNAIDED HUMAN FLIGHT : JOURNALISTIC ETHICS CENTRE OF LEFT FITNESS WORST This means that from the time you READING SCIENCE, SPECULATION AND Journalism and ethics. Can the two An insight into various studio Fitness Worst promises to be the hair wake up, if you haven’t been a smart A selection of Australia’s most CREATIVITY ever co-exist when a commercial or methodologies put into place to of the dog of physical exertion. A little little cookie and popped your watch interesting experimental poets read Ben Denham discusses how human institutional interest is involved? This create sound based compositions, and bit wrong, but you’ll feel all the better forward the night before then your their collaged and cut-up works. Come flight might be possible within the mega-panel chaired by the president sound / image based works for both for it! Encompassing everything from LATE! Remember to turn you’re watch and join us for coffee, a croissant and frame of positivistic science whilst of Sydney PEN examines the ethical exhibition and live performances. DDR Dance Mats to Gabberobix, you’d forward when you arise or risk missing some radical language play. considering the pragmatics of pursuing health of Australian journalism to find Revolving around organic processing better be ready! Featuring: Brutal out on the start of all your favourite Featuring: Michael Farrell, Chris a rigorous daily practice aimed at out if there is a truly free press out combined with unconventional ways Hate Mosh, Dot.AY, Gabberobix, events! Edwards, Jill Jones, Jal Nicholl getting off the ground. there somewhere. Facilitator: Bonny of processing and resynthesis of both Spatula City Featuring: Ben Denham Cassidy. Featuring: Zoe Barron, synths and field recordings, utilising Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Sean tools including Abelton Life and Gleeson, Dominic Knight, Mutiny Max4Live. Zine, Anna Krien Featuring: Tom Hall

10AM - 11.30AM / PANEL 10:30 - 11:30AM / PRESENTATION 11AM – 12PM / PRESENTATION 11AM -1PM / WORKSHOP 12NOON – 4PM / WORKSHOP 12NOON – 2PM / PANEL CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM ROUND THEATRETTE RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB TPI AUDITORIUM TPI AUDITORIUM CONTEMPORARY POETICS THE URBAN BEAUTICIAN CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENT - ARTISTIC RESILIENCE THIS IS NOT AN INTERNET CAFÉ MORALITY, MUSIC AND MONEY (LOOKING OUT): TRANSLATION, Artist talk and presentation of CONCLUSION INTENSIVE Having to stifle your creative urges The U.S. market has seen a 30% decline PRE-COLLAGE AND UNTAPPED Elke Reinhuber’s recent series Dancer Alison Currie talks about her Is your internal keyboard missing a until your deskside? Stifle no further! in less than ten years, and while INFLUENCES of performance-to-video and experiment in public performance few keys? Ctrl+alt+del and reboot Let those urges loose on our new ARIA claims otherwise, an industry Three glances at contemporary poetics photography ‘The Urban Beautician’, to unsuspecting audiences, where with highly-praised psychotherapist/ Macbook Pros, just waiting for you apocalypse is upon us. How long can and practice: pre-collage and cut-up where the urban environs and its dancers perform a choreographed solo artist Margi Brown Ash. An experiential to turn your new knowledge into the industry truthfully hold out against in Christopher Brennan and Mallarme; neglected ephemera are in focus. to a specially-composed ringtone. masterclass for emerging writers, totes pro skills. These hardware widespread personal piracy? As new translation as exemplary writing Featuring: Elke Reinhuber Featuring: Alison Currie Margi will help you uncover tools havens are raring to go stocked with generations of music consumers seem practice; and the untapped influence for artistic resilience, provide ways software ready to materialise your to place little value in recorded music, of JH Prynne and contemporary British of clearing the creative drains and wildest dreams. Featuring: Heapsa is it time to rethink the system? poetics. facilitate an examination of your Computers, You! Facilitator: Stuart Buchanan Facilitator: Aden Rolfe artistic practice. A creative health Featuring:, Larissa Mann / DJ Featuring: Michael Farrell, Joel check for advanced users. Please Ripley,Elliott Bledsoe, Frank Rodi, Scott, Matthew Hall register: [email protected] DJ Tim Shiel Featuring: Margi Brown Ash

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12NOON – 2PM / WORKSHOP 12 NOON – 1PM / PRESENTATION 12NOON – 5PM / SPECIAL EVENT 1PM – 2PM / PANEL 1PM – 2PM / PRESENTATION 1PM – 2PM / SPECIAL EVENT TAFE SHEDS ROUND THEATRETTE GHETTO-TOWN KING STREET CARPARK HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC PLAYHOUSE GHETTO – TOWN KING STREET CAR PARK FLEXIBLE SOUND-EMITTING CAN DIALECTICS BREAKDANCE? ZINE FAIR AND MAKERS THE REVIEW REVIEW GILLES AUBRY PLEASURE HUNT PLASTIC WORKSHOP Sensitive New Age Gang, we be a dance MARKET In which a crack team of theatre critics Berlin-based Swiss, sound artist Roving Enhance your sunny Sunday Utilising Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) performance collective / gang that Back by popular demand, and this time come face to face with their victims discusses his works that take the form zine fair-funday with a literary speaker film, a see-through flexible battles against sexism, homophobia, in our hot new venue! Includes Zine and and get 60 minutes to justify their of installations and live performances, TREASURE HUNT through Newcastle, plastic with piezoelectric properties, racism and crapitalism. Independent Publishers Fair, Artists existence once and for all. often utilising field recordings of courtesy of curatorial duo Nimble that emits sound when voltage is Featuring: Tuffy, Liz, Sven Markets, music, snack treats, coffee, Featuring: David Clapham, Yolande transit spaces. Featuring: Gilles Fox Trappings. Get a gang together, performances, readings, improvised applied. This workshop presents the Morris, Naomi Milthorpe, Simon Aubry register in the Car Park,drop a gold dance, the Guerrilla Gallery, a Treasure practicalities of using this material as Binns, Mark Rogers coin donation (like it’s hot), and hit the Hunt, and the greatest ocean vista a speaker and microphone as well as town. With benefits. views ever! Bring your parasol, spare

showcasing PVDF – based Wave Field change and swap wares.. Featuring: Nimble Fox Trappings, and everyone else (including you!) Synthesis (WFS) prototype rendering Featuring: The Understudy, Jack system aiming at producing virtual Colwell and the Owls, Intentions, A sound sources in space. Casual End Mile & Special Guests Featuring: Guillaume Potard and Busking Mayhem

12NOON – 5PM / SPECIAL EVENT 12:30PM – 2PM / PANEL 12:30PM – 2PM / PANEL 1:30PM – 2:30PM / PRESENTATION 2PM -3.30PM / PANEL 2PM -3.00PM / PRESENTATION GHETTO-TOWN KING STREET CARPARK ROYAL EXCHANGE RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH ROUND THEATRETTE CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM RENEW CHURCH GUERRILLA GALLERY LIFE IN A LONELY PLANET SO I MARRIED A STRUGGLING THIS IS NOT 35MM CONSTELLATIONS: WEATHER, MOBILE PHONE ART: The Guerrilla Gallery is an acquisitive Dim the lights and crack out the ARTIST Maija Howe, founder of Parlour Films UFOS, TELEPATHY AND THE RESTRICTION AS POSSIBILITY free-standing flatpack cardboard projector, these globe-trotting travel Going out with another creative person in Sydney will discuss the archive and COSMOS A discussion of the philosophy driving gallery, able to be installed in public writers have seen the highs and lows would be totally ideal, right? They its relation to a broader international A meteorological discussion like various works developed using mobile space to take contemporary art to the of what writing on the road has to forgive you when you wake them movement concerned with the no other, set on a cosmic voyage phones, their aesthetic goals and masses. Cardboard canvases stand offer. From spotless sun-dappled up at 4.30am after working late on preservation and visibility of amateur across the synoptic chart, from issues associated with developing the 1.6m tall and are 1.2m wide. The panoramas to dark corners that should yet another of your all-consuming film. Featuring: Maija Howe King Lear to the aesthetics of mobile phone platform. Particular Gallery spans over approximately remain unlit: take a trip around the projects. And they never get jealous telepathy. Investigating the universe emphasis is placed on sound works and 40m sq but is very flexible in its world in 90 minutes. or feel neglected, ever, EVER. ... Wait. of Carl Sagan (by a ventriloquised the idea of developing participatory arrangement possibilities. Facilitator: Felicity Castanga Let’s all double-check this. On a stage. presentation), the effects of weather spaces, collective contribution to Featuring: 10%Pending Featuring: Patrick O’Neil, Bryan Featuring: Marieke Hardy, on narrative structures, UFOlogy and artistic process and the ubiquitous Whalen, Emma Konnaris, Christelle Christopher Downes, Ira McGuire, the Weathermen. Facilitator: Scott technology of the mobile phone. Davis, Lisa Dempster Matthew Lowe Brewer Featuring: Dr Jacquelene Featuring: Christian Haines Drinkall, Jennifer Hamilton, Astrid Lorange

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2PM – 3PM / WORKSHOP 2PM – 3:30PM / PANEL 2PM – 4PM / PANEL 3:00PM – 4:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 3PM – 5:30PM / WORKSHOP 3PM – 4:40PM / PRESENTATION HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC TPI AUDITORIUM CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS TAFE WORKSHEDS RENEW CHURCH SILENT MOVIE PLAY THE DECLINE OF WESTERN BOYS ON BOYS ON GIRLS ON LAUNCH PAD : NEON PILGRIM KNOW YOUR GADGETS VACANT BUILDINGS = An exploration of the application CIVILISATION GIRLS ON DYKES ON HOMOS & APPLY WITHIN: STORIES OF Know Your Gadgets explores the TEMPORARY CHEAP ART SPACE: of film-editing techniques to live The music market is under threat and Queer literature, gay art, gender CAREER SABOTAGE endless possibilities of all that RENEW NEWCASTLE performance. This hands-on workshop against it the DIY movement presents a politics. Does anyone care anymore? Climb aboard. Strap yourself in. We’re blips and bobs, with interactive Last TINA this was just a crazy idea. takes a piece of live theatre and beacon of light for those with passion, Who are our Australian Queer arts hitting the button marked TAKEOFF demonstrations of innovative Twelve months down the track enables you to cut it up, reassemble it musical purpose and a pile of CDRs. Legends? Are we interested anymore and launching a brand spanking new approaches to producing, composing there are 37 creative projects in 25 and add special effects as if you were a In the age of myspace, facebook and in homo, dyke, trans gay art? We pit publication into orbit. On the Launch and performing electronic music. otherwise vacant properties. But its maverick film editor in the year 1919. twitter how are new networks and die hard queer literary and arts gurus Pad today: Lisa Dempster’s tale of Getting your nerd on has never looked more than just a bunch of artists and Featuring: David Finnigan, Max new worlds forming to take over against those who don’t give a damn. exotica, ‘Neon Pilgrim’ and Michaela and sounded so damn cool. empty shops, its a series of strategies, Barker, Hanna Cormick, Pete Butz the musical magnates of old? Is this Facilitator: Dion Kagan Featuring: McGuire’s hilariously controversial Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle legalities & activities that has made DIY or die, MK II? Facilitator: Eliza Ianto Ware, Maddy Phelan, Gerwyn ‘Apply Within: Stories Of Career Featuring: Alex Yabsley, Cornel once unavailable space available cheap. Sarlos Featuring: Anna John, Guy Davies, Hannah Kinlyside, Britt Sabotage’. Facilitator: Mandy Wilczek, Kris Keogh, Tim Shiel Featuring: Marcus Westbury, Marni Blackman, Kell Derrig Hall, Matt Guy. Co-presented by Critical Animals Beaumont Featuring: Lisa Dempster, Jackson, Roderick Smith Mondanile, Stuart Buchanan and the NYWF Michaela McGuire

2PM – 3:30PM / PANEL 3PM – 4PM / PANEL 3PM – 4PM / PRESENTATION 3PM – 11:30PM / GIG 3:30PM – 4:30PM / PRESENTATION 3.30PM -5PM / PANEL ROYAL EXCHANGE HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC ROUND THEATRETTE ARTHIVE 3 – 5.30PM, RENEW CHURCH TPI AUDITORIUM CITY HALL BANQUET ROOM ARE YOU SERIAL? I DIDN’T COME TO THE THEATRE NOCTURNAL INHABITANTS: A 5.30PM – 7:30PM, MASONS 7:30 – 11PM ANSWER! CONVERSATION VS. NEURONS, PLASTICS AND NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA From Twilight to True Blood, Lost to TO WATCH TV CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN PERMISSION IN JAMAICAN INTERVENING: ART IN THE In borrowing terminology, NWA Six Feet Under – what is it about the Video projection in theatre is the MYTHOLOGY MUSIC-MAKING COMMUNITY shrinks the notion of distance between serialised narrative that makes us hell- 21st century’s equivalent of the Joanna Ingram and Catherine Bourne genre, taste, Australia’s vastness The “answer song” is but one We’ve been talking about art in bent on the next fix? Self-confessed proscenium arch: it is bland, pointless from Oasis of Horror Productions, and the world. Neither popular nor example of a Jamaican musical communities, art as intervention, art HBO hoes unpack serial narrative’s (re) and everywhere. Every company uses Melbourne, will explore the process alternative, one genre nor another, practice emphasizing dynamic musical and wellbeing, and traditional CCD rise, share stories of addiction, and multimedia in their shows, but does of creating a short stop-motion NWA represents a new breed that find interaction over permission-based, schemes for long enough! Isn’t it time slam the sagas that ended with more anyone do it well? Theatre artists film, from concept development and refuge in the space between us, played fixed rules of ownership like copyright we stuck our grubby little hands into fizz than bang. XOXO. discuss finding a way out of the video modelling, to post production. out around Newcastle. Featuring: Go law. In Jamaica, music-lovers are in melting pots, cesspools and situational Facilitator: Sally Breen. projection ghetto. Featuring: Joanna Ingram, Genre Everything, Polyfox And The constant musical interaction, but comedies? Come and see how right we Union Of The Most Ghosts, Brutal Featuring: Brendan Lindsay, Rachel Featuring: David Clapham, Arran Catherine Bourne current copyright law limits, ignores were – wait – how right we are. Every Hate Mosh, Lucia Draft, Alps, kyü, Morgan, Kirsten Law, Courteney Mckenna, Dan Jobson, Benjamin or punishes this engine of creativity. community needs art. Let us convince Hocking Moonmilk, Castings, Blastcorp, Forster, Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart Jane Gugg, Holy Balm, DJ Faux Pas, DJ Featuring: Larissa Mann (DJ Ripley) you that it’s our job to intervene. Grimley Stuart Buchanan Facilitator: Nic Vogelpoel Featuring: James Arvanitakis, Rebecca Conroy

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3:30PM – 5:30PM / WORKSHOP 3.30 – 4.30PM / PANEL 4PM – 5PM / PRESENTATION 4:30PM – 5:30PM / ROUNDTABLE 4:30PM – 6PM / PANEL 5PM – 6PM / SPECIAL EVENT CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB VIEW FACTORY ROYAL EXCHANGE TOTORO’S TEA HOUSE VIEW FACTORY FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS THE THIS IS NOT POETRY UNI SCHMUNI KATHERINE BENNETT – THEN CURATORIAL HOW-TO FUNNY BUSINESS YOUTUBE BATTLES 2: ELECTRIC ORCHESTRA Where are my readers and where is ETHER Wranglers, hoarders, dropouts, show- People have told you time and again BOOGALOO (STARRING HULK Suzanne Grae and the Katies show my money? And why is my writing USA-based sound artist discusses offs, very talented circles of friends! you are the funniest fucker they HOGAN AS THE VILLAIN) you how to make music without the course so full of hacks? A two-pronged her installation, Then Ether v2.0 – a Wanna figure out how to get all gallery know. You’re always a hit at dinner Back again in 2009 with new rules, instruments. Bring poetry to recycle inquiry into what writing courses are responsive multi-channel sound on that shit? CURATORIAL is part of parties. But can you shift to page, new videos and the trophy of all into lyrics, and your lagerphone, like, and where to take your walk of and light environment – exploring our new series of informal, abnormal, stage, screen, or fringe circuit? The trophies, this web 2.0 extravaganza recorder, kazoo, keytar, or just your shame once they’ve loved and left you. concepts of sonic memories. but very, very practical roundtable number of stand-ups in Australia could promises to do nothing less than blow untrained musical genius. Workshop Featuring: Ryan Paine, Bhakthi Featuring: Katherine Bennett how-tos. Featuring: Nimble Fox populate Antarctica. Could you be your mind in the ultimate viral video concludes in a mostly musical Puvanenthiran, Zoe Barron, Kirk Trappings, Natalie Aylward, Ianto one of them? Facilitator: Courteney smackdown. Simply rock up on the performance as the This is Not Poetry Marshall, Sean Gleeson Ware, Maddy Phelan, Anthony WP Hocking. Featuring: Lawrence day and test your might to see whose Orchestra. Featuring: Suzanne Grae O’Sullivan, Lev Diatschenko, Emily Leung, Alexandria Neill, Dominic stream will reign supreme! and the Katies McCullogh Childs… and everyone Knight, Kirsten Law Facilitators: Daniel Green and Kate else (including you)! Byrne

4PM – 5PM / SCREENING 4PM – 4:30PM / WORKSHOP 4:30PM – 5:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 5:30-7PM / SPECIAL EVENT 6 - 11PM / SPECIAL EVENT 6PM – 7:30PM / PERFORMANCE PLAYHOUSE HOUSE OF CRACK ATTIC ROUND THEATRETTE FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS HOUSE OF CRACK CARRIAGE SHEDS – FORESHORE PARK PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA – SENSITIVE NEW AGE GANG WRIRON CHEF DIVERSITY DINNERS PLAYGROUND (WHARF ROAD) ZOMBIE RIGHTS MARCH CYBER ARTS 2008 DANCE BATTLE WORKSHOP Because Newcastle University has Celebrate the end of another Critical WARNING: On Sunday night the Running since 1987, the Prix Ars Sensitive New Age Gang (SNAG) a rotating stage, and because that Animals! An opportunity to revel in House of Crack will be transformed Are you feeling unappreciated? Electronica has focused on the are a prophetic dance sermon rotating stage demanded it, WRIRON our intellectual glory, enjoy a meal and into a Chaos Party of monstrously Unloved? Unequal? UNDEAD? Then creative work at the interface of art, against competitive dance capital CHEF pits food writer against food engage with an artwork as it happens. proportioned proportions! The join us on our 3rd annual March for technology and society. A screening and oppressive binary social writer in a stainless, steely war of As we wrap up another festival, we audience can become performer, and Undead Rights. This year we are bigger, of computer animation, film and VFX representations. SNAG is an open wills. They can mouth off on the page, unite to enjoy the ritualistic aspects performer audience. Playground is a better and deader than ever. Bring award winning works in the 2008 Prix dance collective and this workshop but can you eat it off the stage? of sharing a meal. Bring a plate and multi-faceted maniac carnival so come your friends, bring your nan; whatever Arts Electronica. is welcome to anyone who wants to Watch, squirm, swallow the results. take part in an ephemeral performance down and join the battle against sanity. you do, don’t bring the coast guard. reclaim their body and take dance out Featuring: Bryan Whalen, Lisa installation which will in turn create DO SO OF YOUR OWN FREE WILL. Featuring: The Brains Crust of privatised spaces and back to the Dempster, Benjamin Law, Rosie a reflective audio work. Booze, food Featuring: Thomas Henning, and everyone else (including you!) streets. We are about a culture of Pham and art, what more could one want? Hadley, every other unbalanced freak dance. All styles welcome. Featuring: Emma Konnaris, Britt in this town... Featuring: The Sensitive New Age Guy, Aden Rolfe Gang

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6.30 – 8.30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 7:30PM – 9:30PM / SCREENING 7PM – 9:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT VIEW FACTORY CHINA CLUB ARTS HUB PLAYHOUSE SPELLING BEE SCREEN SCREAM ELECTRO-PERFORMANCE Forget Spell Check. Put your money Zombies are awesome. Movies are EVENING where your keyboard is. We test just awesome. How amazing would it be if Field recordings and home-built who has the smarts to hold their own we could combine the two... oh wait, instruments. Somewhere amidst in an arena of nouns, verbs, adjectives, WE HAVE! View the finalists of our the noise of whooshing planes and adverbs, and--trust us--way beyond. under-25s zombie movie comp. With percussive drive of workshop- Will you go the distance, poindexter? an array of dead celebrity judges, constructed beauties, you will find Featuring: Carly Norman, Lawrence this year is shaping up quite nastily! these three sound artists. This close Leung, Guest Adjudicator and Featuring: The Brains Crust listening event includes the AutoHoare everyone else (including you!) ensemble, Aubry’s menacing transit atmospheres and Hall’s worship of field recordings for audiovisual hypnotisation. Featuring: Gilles Aubry, Tom Hall, Matthew Hoare

8:30 – 10:30PM / SPECIAL EVENT 9PM - 10PM / ROUNDTABLE 10PM - 11:30PM / READING OUTSIDE THE FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS CIVIC PARK ROYAL EXCHANGE SUBURBAN GIANTS STUDENT MEDIA SÉANCE UN-EROTIC EROTICA, PUT YOUR HANDS ALL OVER MY XXX ZLY9HKPV Suburban Giants is a large-scale The nails are well and truly in this projection that turns buildings coffin. Hell, the worms have probably Loosen your collar and slip into into blank canvases, offering the set in. Come light a candle and contact something uncomfortable as writers -4 opportunity to digitally paint on the dearly departed with some old steam up the stage with some of the Newcastle’s walls. Featuring: Lachlan friends. Lament: Mourn: Resuscitate: most foul, disgusting, graphic and Tetlow-Stewart and Jo Kerlogue Student Media, This Was Your Life. BYO hideously unsexy writing they’re ever HSSZOHKLZVMNYL` candle. Featuring: You, your faith (1) read; and (2) written themselves. Oh, and your candle Facilitator: Rebecca Meston. Featuring: Mandy Beaumont, Krissy ^^^ZLYJVT Kneen, Patrick O’Neil, Simon Cox, Rhys Rodgers, Britt Guy... and everyone else (including you!)

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11AM – 12PM / INFO SESSION 11:00AM - 1:00PM / WORKSHOP 11AM – 12 NOON / PRESENTATION 12:30PM – 2PM / PANEL 1PM – 2PM / SCREENING 2PM – 3PM / ROUNDTABLE PLAYHOUSE STAPLE MANOR JOHN PAYNTER GALLERY RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH PLAYHOUSE STAPLE MANOR RIPPED AND RIPPED OFF – THE CREATING A COMIC LIKENESS AIR WRITING THE BIG ONE JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL EXIT INTERVIEW BUSINESS OF ELECTRONIC ART Develop your own comic likeness, and The Artist as Family discuss their So you’ve dabbled in mini- – ART AND ENTERTAINMENT Pick over the bones, give us a piece This session will address the business then use it in a comic strip. Join Chris Lock-Up residency based on toxic masterpieces and now everyone’s DIVISIONS of your mind, tell us how it should be essentials of working as a new media Downes, a comic diarist with a serious waste and alternative closed-cycle wanting you to beef up, go BIG. Screen-based works from the 2008 done. And while you’re at it, farewell artist and will cover topics such as daily habit, and create comic retellings systems. They will speak about their How do you begin piecing together Japan Media Arts Festival, Art and outgoing festival co-directors Amy intellectual property basics and how of your festival experiences. art in relation to permaculture and research? How does a novel happen? Entertainment Divisions. Featuring: Ingram and Dan Evans. Hosted by to negotiate your artist contracts. Featuring: Christopher Downes introduce their Shed of Interrelation, Writers discuss how they bridged Yukihiro Taguchi, Shigeta Yusuke, continuing festival Co-Director Sarah Featuring: Miranda Lee an artist-in-residence-cum- the gap between ‘Uh-oh’ and ‘Opus’. Masashi Yokota, and more Howell and Associate Director Ronnie WWOOFer shack under construction in Facilitator: Caro Cooper Scott. Featuring: Potential new co- Central Victoria. They will discuss their Featuring: Michaela McGuire, directors??? (applications due 23rd own community, including involvement Christopher Currie, Patrick Cullen, October), NYWF board members, with the Hepburn Relocalisation Thomas Benjamin Guerney, and everyone else (including you!) Network. Featuring: Meg Ulman, Christelle Davis, Iain McIntyre, Patrick Jones, Zephyr Ogden Jones Christine Hinwood

11AM – 12:30PM / PANEL 12NOON – 2PM / PANEL 12 NOON – 1PM / SCREENING 2PM – 3:30PM / PANEL 2PM – 4PM / SCREENING 3PM – 6PM / SPECIAL EVENT RENEW NEWCASTLE CHURCH RTPI AUDITORIUM PLAYHOUSE TPI AUDITORIUM PLAYHOUSE LOWLAND BOWLING CLUB MOVING UNITS OH GOD, WHAT NOW? JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL - MUSIC INDUSTRY 101 SCINEMA MONDAY COME DOWN Pushers of good writing everywhere! A frank and revelatory insight into ANIMATION 1 How do you get a song on radio? Story Selections from CSIRO’s 2009 Scinema By Monday, believe us, your brain is Forget SHOULD we sell - ask only HOW. managing multi-tasking and tracking Screen-based works from the 2008 in street press? Record deal? Funding? festival, celebrating the International jello. It’s time to take a load off in your Take some marketing tips and tales the emotional recovery tsunami that Japan Media Arts Festival, Animation Join us as we demystify the crap and Year of Astronomy and the Darwin local bowls club! Comfy shoes, laid- from people who have the smarts inevitably comes post project, and Division, including “La Maison En Petits hold your hand in this brave new world anniversary, with a program of shorts back readings, acoustic tunes, and, and the souls. By the time they’re planning for the unknown. Cubes (The House of Small Cubes)”, the of a music industry choose your own exploring the stars and the continuing yup, lawn bowls. When the most you through with you, you’ll be able to Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle, 2008 Academy Award Winner for Best adventure. evolution of the sciences. have to move is from chair to cheap sell the whole thing right back to ‘em. Featuring:, Dan Lewis, Emma Animated Short Film. Facilitator: Eliza Sarlos drinks, this could be mistaken for Facilitator: Angela Meyer Ramsay, James Cecil, Lawrence Featuring: Kunio Kato, Chie Arai, (MusicNSW/ FBi) Featuring: Chris heaven. Featuring: Josephine Rowe, Featuring: Dominic Knight, James Leung, Marni Jackson Taku Kimura, Koji Yamamura, and Moller (APRA), Dan Zilber (FBi), Kira Peru and the Very Geordie Phelan, Lev Diatschenko,, Geoff more Dom Alessio (Triple J), Glenn Malones, Lada Dedic, Suzanne Grey Lemon, Krissy Kneen, Ryan Paine Dickie (EMI), Kirsty Brown (THE and the Katies BRAG), Nadia Onus (AMRAP), Nick O’Byrne (AIR), Peter Keogh (Australia Council For The Arts)

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3:30 – 4PM / SPECIAL EVENT 4PM – 5:30PM / PITCH 4:30PM – 6PM / READING TPI AUDITORIUM LOWLANDS BOWLING CLUB LOWLANDS BOWLING CLUB MUSIC INDUSTRY SPEED STEP UP TO THE PITCH THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY DATING Have an idea that’s sizzling through APPRECIATION SOCIETY Remember careers fair at uni? This’ll your back pocket? Got a manuscript INAUGURAL SOIREE be kind of like one of ‘em, but more that packs-a-punch? Are you the A toast to the grandmaster of the a guiding light for the rest of the Next Big Thing? No, seriously, are you? typewriter! In our final theme-based time you spend between managers, We’re not just talking about getting reading, you’re invited to sip, swill out of labels, and into music. Join published this year, we’re plugging you and serve up a tale of boozy debauch our industry pros for one on one talk into a publisher. Text’s Caro Cooper will - perhaps direct from this weekend? time to augment your Music Industry on the green at Monday’s Comedown Writing under (Hemingway’s?) 101 knowledge. Featuring: Australia and she wants to hear about you and influence: let’s hear a ditty about Council for the Arts, AIR, AMRAP, your work. Don’t miss this cracker alcohol and you. Facilitator: The APRA, EMI, FBi Radio, The Brag, opportunity to step up to the pitch. NYWF Scouts Featuring: Daniel Triple J Featuring: Caro Cooper Walker, Lev Diatschenko, Samantha Mee, Felicity Castanga, Kirsten Law

4:30PM – 6PM / PRESENTATION 6:30 - 8PM / SPECIAL EVENT 8PM – HOME TIME / SPECIAL EVENT TPI HOUSE FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS FESTIVAL CLUB MASONS ANOTHER DOOR OPENS: THIS IS NOT ART: PAST, LOVE SONG DEDICATIONS – ARTS OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PRESENT AND FUTURE ITS’ THE END OF THE WORLD HUNTER THINKING AS WE KNOW IT A professional development session Join us for a last round as the sun This one goes out to all our amazing for emerging artists, students and sets over Newcastle. Say goodbye, and volunteers. Richard Mercer eat your those interested in working in the farewell for another year and leave us heart out. Request your favourite arts. Includes a series presentation with a piece of your mind! At the close song at the DJ booth and make your from a panel of local arts workers of our 10th Festival we warmly invite dedication. To old friends or new loves, and artists. Find out about: exhibition you, our audience and participants the girl you met in the Arts Hub or that opportunities in the Hunter, local arts for a brainstorm of TINA. What we do boy you saw at the Sunday Fair, this projects, and how you can promote well, what we do perfectly, and what one is for you.... your art. Facilitator: Sally Patfield. we could do better! Featuring: PastPast & Featuring: Damien Castaldi, Gillean Present Directors and Contributors:utors: Shaw, Geraldine Bobsien. BYO thoughts for the future…

66 67 Angelica Clunes likes opening the doors Anthony WP O’Sullivan is a Melbourne- Bel Monypenny is the current editor GUEST BIOGRAPHIES of old buildings, classy architecture, based poet, musician, performer and MC of Voiceworks magazine, a national cheesy pop songs, top hats, red gloves, extraordinaire. He hosts the long- quarterly magazine that features new renegade queens, ridiculous fashion, running weekly poetry gig ‘The Spinning writing by young Australian writers. tulle, fake flowers and china teacups. Room’. She is very proud to have been the Belle Brooks is a sculptor, aquascapist Festival Coordinator for This Is Not Art Aoi Tracing an arc of dusty chopped and rapper from Mudgee who makes 10% Pending is a not for profit group of She is interested the way human beings Amber Fresh writes poetry on a 2009. samples into a texta mess of headnod work that makes you go wait, what?! artists providing a platform to facilitate attempt to catalogue and comprehend typewriter and makes music in a band drum patterns, Aoi has been producing has been the recipient of a the expression of art and provide the natural world called Rabbit Island. Recurrent themes Anita Fontaine From Australia, primitive abstract instrumentals since Ben Denham alternative modes for making, exhibiting include boys, the Bible and Bukowski. currently living and working in late 2007. number of grants from state and federal Alexandra Gillespie is a hybrid media and interacting with art. Amsterdam, Anita Fontaine’s fantastical arts funding bodies. His work has been artist who has worked in a range of AMRAP is a community radio initiative technology interventions and new APRA Collects and distributes licence shown in Australia and internationally. 10K Freemen Game Boys are a lifestyle contexts including public works, gallery that works with musicians and media explorations radically repurpose fees for the public performance and choice of artist Tom Gilmore. Low-bit, exhibitions, museum exhibitions, community broadcasters to get great Ben Hutchings has been self publishing contemporary technology to surprising communication of its members’ musical high-aesthetic music and photography performances and festivals. Australian music national airplay, faster. underground comix for 15 years. He now new ends. works. is his passion. resides in Melbourne, making a living as Alexandra Neill’s writing credits include Amy Ingram is a Theatrical Hybrid. She is an artist, an electrical a comic artist and illlustrator. Anna Barnes Aras Vaichas 2203 Collective is a group of artists – The Sideshow, Good News Week and The performs, produces, directs and happens engineer and a active participant in resides in Canberra Matthew Rochford, Alexis Armytage, Melbourne International Comedy Festival to be one of the NYWF Co Directors. Last Anna (Austin) Quilty is short, dark hair, Dorkbot Sydney. Benjamin Forster Jacqueline Olivetti, David Urquhart – Great Debate. She is afraid of escalators. year at TINA she wore a wedding dress dark reading glasses, likely to be holding ACT. He has a Bachelor of Visual Arts based around the inner-west of Sydney, for 5 days straight. Amy is not married. a drink and ready to skirt around the Artist as Family Meg Ulman, Zephyr with First Class Honours from the Alexandra Savvides has been writing initially springing from the Don’t Look small talk with you. Ogden Jones and Patrick Jones Australian National University, and about music for longer than she’d like Gallery in Dulwich Hill. Andrew Burrell is a Sydney based artist constitute the Artist as Family. is currently a resident at Canberra to admit She is a co-editor of Cyclic and writer. Nonnatus Korhonen is his Anna Boydell When she grows up she www.theartistasfamily.blogspot.com Contemporary Art Space. Defrost magazine and presents on avatar. they are exploring notions of self wants to be an artist. A Sydney’s FBi Radio. and narrative and the implications of Astrid Lorange was co-director of Benjamin Law Since 2005, Ben has virtual worlds and artificial life systems Anna Buchanan is a sculptor at heart. Critical Animals in 2008. She is writing been a senior contributor to frankie Aaron Cooper uses sculpture and also writes and performs Alfred Daniel upon an individual’s sense of identity. She is also a member of the Kollage Kids a PhD on the poetics of Gertrude Stein, magazine, and his features, reviews, installation to subvert predetermined on The Ugly Stick. He studied Visual Collective and was recently involved in and working on a new media poetry essays, stories, profiles and interviews notions of familiar objects, and is Arts and now works as a visual Andrew Tuttle organises events, creates the production of a short animated film. collaboration, ‘Geometries of Attention,’ have also been published in The Monthly, currently studying Fine Art at the VCA. merchandiser as well as fronting his own sounds, writes words, and reads about to be exhibited in early 2010. Qweekend, and The Big Issue. band, The Attachments. micronations on the internet. This is Anna John Sydney based musician Aden Rolfe is a Melbourne-based writer, Andrew’s first year co-directing Sound (Holy Balm, Knitted Abyss), artist and Astrid Woods-Joyce is a sculpture/ Benji Forster curator and radiomaker whose work is an independent dance Alison Currie Summit. broadcaster (The Modern Dance, 2SER). installation artist/student. Her practice traverses poetry, collage and cultural artist interested in creating work for Also the “CEO” of blog-based DIY record focuses on the mundane daily chores Bernadette Balkus (Ensemble Offspring) studies. He is interested in crows, alternate spaces, and unsuspecting Andy Deckis a media artist specialising distro Cloth Ear Music. affecting the human condition, sourcing is one of Australia’s most versatile memory and poetics audiences. Her major project 42a will in Internet art. His work addresses the materials from skips, tip shops and pianists. Embracing a wide-ranging tour nationally in 2010. politics and aesthetics of collaboration, Anna Krien writes journalism when she repertoire, she performs with many of AIR is a non profit, non government other degenerate avenues. interactivity, software and independent likes the facts, fiction when she doesn’t, Australia’s leading classical musicians association dedicated to supporting Alli Sebastian Wolf media. and poetry when she’s undecided. Australia Council for the Arts is the and ensembles. the growth of Australia’s independent Australian Government’s arts funding Alps, also known as Alps of New South recording sector representing record Angela Femia is a Sydney based artist Annette Madden and advisory body. Bernadette Ryan has managed bands Wales and Alps of New South Whales, labels and independent artists. who completed her MVA in sculpture for the past 15 years and currently plays songs on dated keyboards, tapes, Anthony Arblaster at Sydney College of the Arts in 2007 works with Dan Kelly, Jessica Says, Alan Vaarwerk Alan Vaarwerk wrote his pedals and junk. with University of Sydney postgraduate Anthony Kelly has been working as an Luluc, Ground Components and Charlie first story, aged eight, about a ring that B award. artist for the past fifteen years. He Parr (US). turned people into animals. He has been Amanda Kenneth is one third of the Barry Moon is a composer, sound/ has been involved with interventionist video artist, and performer. He is trying to better it ever since. Newcastle collective DAg ARt. DAg ARt is Angela Meyer has published fiction, Bethany J Fellows is a Melbourne Assistant Professor in the New College a highly organised team who have been nonfiction, reviews and interviews. group, the Central Bureau, for the based artist currently doing mostly of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Alanna Lorenzon likes to think about terrorising media for years. She blogs about books at http://blogs. last nine, and is currently one of its performance stuff. She’s quite handy Arizona State University. whales, rocks, outer space the ocean. crikey.com.au/literaryminded. directors. with a drill these days. 68 69 Bethany Jones is a entertainment communication of science. She is a PhD Carl Scrase is a Melbourne based Chris Moller is APRA’s NSW Senior Clare Needham is part of the curatorial a frenzied hodgepodge of weirdo lawyer in Melbourne. She is also actively Candidate at CPAS, ANU. philosopher and artist; he is represented Writer Services Representative. He has team at Experimenta, working on psychedelic noise rock and experimental involved in theatre and film as a writer by John Buckley Gallery. www. also been an active APRA member for 13 the production and coordination of pop delicious. (alter ego Klume Hiede) and producer. Brendan Lindsay johnbuckley.com.au years, writing, touring, recording, and exhibitions. Her background is in is a Brisbane based writer, editing intern is a writer, dramaturg and releasing records. education and the visual arts and Cristyn Davies for Griffith REVIEW and general popular researcher completing her doctorate Bhakthi Puvanenthiran is editing Farrago Carla Teixeira is currently working at the she holds a masters degree in Arts culture freak. in the Department of English at the this year. The loves of her life include, National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), Chris Somerville is a writer who lives Management. but are not limited to: talkback, gossip she collects, preserves and curates in Queensland. His work has appeared University of Sydney Brenna Hobson blogs, teapots and Paul Keating. sound culture, with a focus on building in Voiceworks Magazine, Re-Placement, Clare Rae photographs herself in strange Brian Joyce is an actor, theatre director, the NFSA’s contemporary holdings in the Lifted Brow and the Avid Reader positions in the name of art. She’s Bitchcraft are a 4-piece band from writer, production manager, arts radio, independent music, experimental Magazine. recently been dragging out an honours D Newcastle, NSW. They are Newcastle’s admistrator, tutor, and the Director of music and sonic art. degree in Fine Art at RMIT. Dan Lewis is a Brisbane-based second loudest all-girl band. All girls, Christelle Davis is a writer, PHD student the Hunter Writers’ Centre. artsworker, promoter & publicist. all bitch, all dysfunctional, but heaps Caro Cooper is an editor at Text and teacher who lives in Sydney, Clem Baker-Finch is a lecturer and Working for Q Music as Special Projects of fun—come hear them mumble and Publishing, a Melbourne-based Melbourne and Bali. researcher in the Department of Britt Guy thinks all the time. She often Officer, he also curates events through rumble. thinks about aesthetics, community independent publishing house. She Computer Science at The Australian Christian Haines is a sound artist his business, Making Hey. development and arts and educational works across fiction and non-fiction National University. He has a BSc in Pure Blastcorp is a devoted Monome user, working in the areas of nodal technology, outreach. She has used her thoughts titles, both local and international. Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Dan Mackinlay After too many hours harpist, music event orgainiser type chaos and procedural generation through to work on programming/producing Science. in front of the screen, you start to guy and computer nerd based in sunny Castings are a sextet of improvisers. Our custom applications and processes for festivals, and currently she works in see code seeping out of the cracks. Darwin, NT. Likes savoury shapes. And music doesn’t have title, it’s six people computer and mobile devices. Clem Bastow is a freelance writer and Logan as the Youth Outreach Librarian. That happened to Dan; if he can make cereal. in a room attempting to communicate music critic who has been editing and it happen to you at least he’ll have Bruno Vianna is a filmmaker and with each other - and hopefully others Christine Hinwood was born in England writing for well known blogs since company. Blink has toured seventy bands programmer, born in Rio. He directed too....an ode to mistakes that often and grew up in Australia. Christine 2002. She also presents a weekly show, around NZ, has tour managed bands in studied Professional Writing and Editing four short and 2 feature fiction movies, turn good. Transference on Melbourne’s RRR. Dan Zilber As Music Director at FBi 94.5 seventeen countries around the world at RMIT in Melbourne. Bloodflower is her and several interactive art projects. Dan listens to all the music, books music and runs NZ’s famous DIY music festival Catherine Bourne comes from material first novel. Cleptoclectics samples things, plays interviews, organises CD compilations “Camp A Low Hum” which this year Brutal Hate Mosh uses simplistic and based sculpture background. She has various instruments, and granulates: to and FBi’s live gigs and fundraisers. featured 30 Australian bands. repetitive musical patterns; beats; exhibited nationally and internationally Christopher Currie is a 27 year-old create dense, idiosyncratic music. He experimental means of producing sound; writer from Brisbane. Between March and is currently undertaking doesn’t mind when people think he’s Daniel Brine multi-tracking; and multiple harmonies. Bob Scott is an experienced and versatile postgraduate studies at the Victorian 2008 and March 2009, he wrote a short a band. sound designer, recording and mix story every day at www.furioushorses. Daniel Evans is a listener, libertine, Bryan Whalen is an American College of Arts. engineer. He will be sound engineering com. Corey White is a writer who hasn’t been award-winning playwright and pop permanently travelling through the Ensemble Offspring concert. Cathy Petocz published and who has won no awards aficionado. He is a senior contributor Australia. He funds his travels by Christopher Downes is a cartoonist living whatsoever. But he writes and you will to frankie magazine and works at Dr Bonny Cassidy is President of penning short stories and finagling Cathy Vallance is a writer and secretary in Hobart. For the past year, he’s been listen to him. Queensland’s home for independent Sydney PEN, and is a poet, lecturer and interviews with various domestic and of BURN Writers Collective. She also chronicling his daily life in comic form artists: Metro Arts. researcher for The Red Room Company. international musicians. works as an editor for Steve Parish on http://sirwdchosen.blogspot.com. Cornel Wilczek, aka Qua, runs Electric Publishing, Brisbane. Dreams Studio in Melbourne where Daniel Green co-directed this year’s Boris Eldagsen is a Berlin-based artist BUGZ is an active queer monster Chuck Martin interested in subversion and he works as a record producer and Electrofringe festival. He is also who studied philosophy in Cologne and Chay-Ya Clancy is interested in celebrations of outsider culture and free soundtrack artist. He is also very geeky an artist, performer, curator and Mainz (Germany), and Fine Arts in Mainz, typography, physicality, discrepancies Claire Edwardes (Ensemble Offspring) is thought. and has a MA in Sound Art. experienced retail slave. He says hi. Prague (Czech Republic) and Hyderabad between geographic locations, a leading interpreter of contemporary classical music. She has premiered (India). He works as an arts lecturer at dislocation, fullness and wholity. Courtney Hocking is a Melbourne Daniel Juhasz is The Ugly Stick’s other countless works and appeared as the Centre for Ideas / Victorian College comedian & writer. She has written Co-producer/writer/performer/ C Chris Carmody a soloist with many national and of the Arts, Melbourne. for Crikey, Good News Week & the director/editor/designer. He has also Candace Petrik is known for her international orchestras. Chris Edwards is the Sydney-based Melbourne International Comedy studied some Creative Arts and works Brenda Moon has a background in perzine/literary hi-bred zine called author of 2 chapbooks of poetry, Festival. She likes Bruce Springsteen. as a freelance media producer, creative science and information technology. ‘giantess’. She volunteers at Sticky Claire Parker is currently enrolled in PHD utensils in a landscape and Nicked, and at Newcastle University. Her hobbies writer and musician. She is interested in exploring the and was the 2008 NYWF Zine Fair Crab Smasher are a NSW based group of of A Fluke: A Mistranslation of Stéphane include being nude & making curtains. use of interactive multimedia in the coordinator. Mallarmé’s “Un Coup de dés”. improvisational sound sharks crafting 70 71 Daniel Lawson is a Newcastle born writer Dominic Knight is one of the founders performance. Her writing is published in Evan Kaldor is the General Manager of Frank Rodi is Online & Mobile Licensing Glenn Dickie Born Melbourne. Now best known for his work with artist of The Chaser comedy group, and wrote Australia, USA, UK and New Zealand. FBi Radio, which operates the largest Manager with APRA|AMCOS. His role Sydney. A&R Manager EMI records. 9 Ryan Wilton in the comic series Azerath for ABC-TV’s The Chaser’s War on community radio license in Australia. is to identify new technologies and years @ EMI. 12 years @ 3 Triple R organises, broadcasts, (originally published by Phosphorescent Everything. His first novel, Disco Boy, Eliza Sarlos investigate their possible impact on the Radio. Co Founder of The Aussie BBQ 8 writes, studies and, mostly, multi-tasks. Comics). was published by Random House in May. Emily McDaniel is an aboriginal music industry and music copyright . years. She’s also Creative Director at MusicNSW artist, educator and curator from the Daniel Walker writes micro-fiction, DJ Ripley As DJ Ripley, Larisa Mann and directs Sound Summit for the 2nd Wiradjuri nation. Her work traverses Fraser Corfield Guarde Compartmente is a two part short stories and the occasional novella. has been tearing up dancefloors, time in 2009. live performance, new media, film and combination between Jon Hunter and His ambition is to tell some of the tales warehouses, and art spaces for 12 sound. Free Choice Duo Analog electronic Monica Brooks. Much of the performance Analysis of the our time will be remembered by. years, unseating musical and social Elke Reinhuber music made by Jarrod Zlatic (Fabulous is based on improvisation, using phenomena in everyday life: the work preconceptions, and building audiences Emma Ramsay works across many Diamonds) & Jessica McElhinney. keyboard, guitar, electronics and radio of Elke Reinhuber could be summarised Danielle Bentley is a cellist, writer, into ass-shaking monuments. platforms of art including sound, Long songs for good times. Melodic & signal. researcher and festival curator with under this maxim. In order to achieve video and installation. She is a Mechanical. Rhythmic & repetitive. an excessive interest in experimental Dom Alessio co-hosts triple j’s Home & this, she works with photography, video founding director of Sydney based ARI Gugg A collaboration between Alex cross-genre and multi-artform Hosed, is an occasional music journalist, and interactive installations as well as Quarterbred, that promotes cross- Vivian (Always) and Christopher L G Hill collaborative performance. and floats like a floatbot. prints and performances. disciplinary practice and developmental G (Moffarfarrah), Gugg is Bosten Celtics support for emerging artists. Gabberobix Do you want to be a winner leprachaun lemmings trudge through big David Blumenstein makes cartoons for DJ Smallcock is a turntablist like no Ella O’Keefe has made radio for 2SER or a weiner? Don’t choose! Gabberobix beats, all part of a f’n GUGG Life! fun and profit. His fiancee runs this other, with the vinyl ralley he combines and The Night Air on ABC Radio National Erin Kelly changes lives through the power of Writers’ Festival, so he can be on any vinyl fetishism with competitive sports and is completing honours in writing Guillaume Potard is a sound researcher techno and fierce sportsmoves. Witness panel he wants. Any. Bloody. Panel. and cultural studies with a thesis on the and multimedia artist trying to use both the fitness. Dot.AY aka Alex Yabsley is a musician poetry of Barbara Guest F hemispheres of the brain to engineer David Edgley never sleeps. Instead and researcher who focuses on low- Faux Pas In a technicolor collision of Gavin Artz began his career as a and create sound. he runs Australia’s grimiest hip hop tech electronic music creation and Elliott Bledsoe is the Project Manager melody and rhythm, Melbourne’s Tim musician and composer and has publication, Peak Street Magazine, with performance and is working to solidify of Creative Commons Australia, the Guy Blackman is a musician, music Shiel crafts a kind of psychedelic dance experience in business management an iron fist well into the twilight hours. the Australian Chipmusic scene. organisation that administers the journalist, and since 1992 the head music that blindly follows its own ranging from multi-national companies, Australian CC licences and supports of one of Australia’s longest-running warped internal logic. to not-for-profit community Derek Motion is a fictional being whose Douglas Easterly (S.W.A.M.P.) was born Australian licence users. independent record labels, Chapter patience has outgrown the limitations and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, United organisations. FBi 94.5FM is an independent, Music. of the short bio. Nevertheless, he is a States. His work stems from interests Eloise Peace is one of the driving forces community-based radio station, Geoff Lemon is co-editor of harvest poet, a PhD student, and Director of the and research regarding genetics, behind Sticky in Melbourne. Guy Sterling 7U? Cut n paste covering music, art and culture. FBi magazine and convenes Melbourne’s Booranga Writers’ Centre. information theory, cybernetics, appropriation and Austrayan represents recording artists plays 50% Australian music, with half of Wordplay readings. He’s a slam winner, www.typingspace.wordpress.com evolution, procedural art, emergence EMI Music dickheadery. www.667u.com spanning all musical genres and owns that from Sydney. widely-published poet and music journo. theory and popular culture. Dave Clapham one of the finest catalogues of recorded try www.wordplay.org.au Felicity Castagna’s work appeared on Dragonfly and Julez music with over three million individual ABC Radio National and won a Josephine Gerwyn Davies Currently studying H David Shaw tracks. Ducktails is the brainchild of Matt Ulrick Literature Prize. In 2009, she Photography at QCA. Working Hadley Declan Greene Mondanile. It’s a tropical pop collage Emily Robets was raised by drawing deer undergoes fellowships at Olvar Wood somewhere between art and fashion Hanif Baharin is doing a PhD in mega jam. before going to Newcastle Art School. and Varuna. with medium format film and focusing Dion Kagan Academic researcher of no Interaction Design at The University great distinction moonlighting as arts- Now Emily often finds herself exhibiting upon iconic physical form and its Fiona Lee is a visual artist currently of Queensland. He is exploring the scene whore seeks role in independent, installations in Newcastle sometimes inevitable decomposition. studying Honours in Fine Art at affective aspects of sound in interactive community-based publishing E with Michael Randall Newcastle University. Confessed lover Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist & technology. organisation as post-millennial Eleanor Gates-Stuart is a new media freelance editor critic. Emma Konnaris is a young artist of bricks. musician living in Berlin since 2002. artist with a special interest in Hanna Cormick operating out of a too-small studio. He uses field recordings, computer Dirty Shirlows Home to a shifting interdisciplinary practice across arts, Fiona Whitton is an artist and arts When she’s not creating art, she’s programming, surround sound, hacked Hannah Kinlyside Currently crawling collective of artists, musicians and technology, science and media. She is a worker currently working at The Loft subtly force-feeding friends and family electronics and improvisation to create social misfits, Shirlows has become a her way through a uni course, Hannah PhD Candidate at CPAS, ANU. youth centre in Newcastle. live performances, sound installations, community space for allsorts- housing members. Kinlyside is a bit of a smartarse. She radio pieces and CD works. events, gigs n soirees with thanks from Elena Knox works across theatre, forty forty home doesn’t make art, she just fucks around neighbours and friends. video, fine art, sound, text, theory and enough to get by. 72 73 High Vis Logistics Ira McGuire is in her final year of a chamber musician throughout Europe, Jenna Corcoran is an emerging for harvest magazine. Find her books, Mook and the Slow Guide, she once Bachelor of Communications Degree. She Asia and Australia. James is a composer Melbourne artist, has exhibited solo and spoken word recordings and writing at edited Voiceworks and helped curate Holly Fluxx is a multi-artist, interested is currently slaving away on her first and founding-member of the Grainger in groups shows locally, is currently a www.cherryfoxmantle.com and submissions for Herding Kites. in cultural production, market trends manuscript. Quartet. Visual Art PhD Candidate and Sessional www.wordplay.com.au. edits Lot’s Wife in 2009. and onlineness. Fluxx makes Fluxx Lecturer at Victoria University. Keshia Jacotine Capacitor zines, sings techno stabs, Ivan Lisyak is an Electronic artist/ James Phelan 29, Melbourne novelist Jules Fleetwood In high school she was voted “Most writes for Super Super magazine, makes Musician from Sydney. Ivan is involved in of five books with five more appearing Jennifer Hamilton Now: PhD. School: Likely to Become Opposition Leader” Director of IF Award rainbow art objects and fashions. many projects including being a member 2010–2011. Written for newspapers, CoFA and UNSW. Work: lecturer and Julian Shaw and once insulted the Lord Mayor of winning-documentary feature ‘Darling! of indie soul group the paper scissors magazines, short-story anthologies etc. tutor at UNSW. Like: bike riding and Sheffield. The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story,’ author Holy Balm are a three piece psychedelic and New Wave sludge core duo Machine Holds MA. reading. of ‘Modern Odysseus’ and AFI Award dance jam. Death. Kira Puru & the Very Geordie Malones James Ruhfus is The Ugly Stick’s Jill Jones’ most recent books are: winning film journalist. Kira Puru is a wine-swilling soul diva Hsin-Chien Huang is a surrealist and Co-producer, as well as it’s writer/ Broken/Open; Fold Unfold, poems inspired by the jazz greats of yesteryear, are street artists that are coder in the field of new media art. His performer/director/editor/designer. written in response to paintings; and a Jumbo & Zap you’ll find her in the corner, amongst a J approaching graffiti from another angle. work has been presented at galleries, He has studied some Creative Arts and ‘tiny’ handwritten book, Speak Which. billow of cigar smoke, in the finest of Jack Lloyd new media arts festivals and museums some Professional Writing and works They want to breathe life into the street furs. worldwide. Jim Cuomo Composer, saxophonist, with colourful characters. Dr Jacquelene Drinkall is an artist, as a freelance media producer, creative cineaste. 8-Bit, chamber music, video Kirk Marshall is the Brisbane-born, theorist and holds a PhD in Art History writer and documentary filmmaker. games, film scores, jazz pieces. Lives in Melbourne-based editor of Red and Theory. Her ongoing Weatherman I James Willoughby is a 21 year old Paris - plays jazz, classical, pop. Leaves, Australia’s only English- UFOlogy project has previously shown K Iain McIntyre has written a number honours student in Creative Writing. language/Japanese bi-lingual literary at Firstdraft, Sydney, and Kings ARI, Jo Kerlogue and alter-ego Nonchalant Kate Byrne is a sometimes curator, ideas of books and articles about music and His undergraduate degree was focused journal: http://www.myspace.com/ Melbourne. Sally illustrations, combine analogue girl and self-confessed art enabler radical history as well as made a little on Philosophy, in which he had modest redleaveskoyo. and digital manipulation for the culture of both. Jacqueline Chlanda has worked with success. Katherine Bennett’s work explores savvy consumer. Kirsten Law is a writer, editor and Warlukulangu and Watch This Space and social relationships engendered when Dr Ianto Ware is the director for the Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, performer fascinated by psychology and is involved in Canberra Contemporary Joanna Ingram has been involved in time is blurred, frozen, collapsed and South Australian Institute for the composer, visual artist, and author, metaphysics. She regularly associates Art Space curating public art projects various film and television projects, expanded. She uses light and sound photocopied Arts and the Format highly regarded for his pioneering work with reputable and disreputable CUBE3. in both a production management and interchangeably in her installation Festival. HE completed a PhD on zines in virtual reality technology. characters and enjoys both pursuits creative development capacity. environments, which span disparate and participatory culture in 2008. Jacqui O’Reilly is the Communications immensely. Jarrod Zlatic Member of Fabulous spaces and times. Coordinator at Accessible Arts, NSW. Joel Scott completed Honours in Writing Ignorance Collective is a group of Diamonds & Free Choice Duo. Toured Kirsty Brown wears many hats, she is and Cultural Studies at UTS in 2007, Kati Cubby is Kati Cubby researchers, academics, students and Jal Nicholl bouncing into the room. both the United States & Europe and the Managing Editor of Sydney street which now seems like a long time ago. practitioners who take as their starting ‘Heavens, what do I see! Julia! Julia! Look had releases on prestigious US label Keegan Eastcott is a PhD candidate press The Brag, a senior writer for He is a prospective PhD candidate in point the belief that the function of up, my life, look up!’ Siltbreeze. at the University of Queensland. His trade-mag The Music Network and translation studies. art is to make people aware of their research is an exploration of hope and Editor in Chief of her very own large- James Arvanitakis is an activist- Jasmine Salomon is a human who lives ignorance. John Kilduff is the host of, and genius impossible ideals in human thought and format magazine DEMO. academic whose research areas include art, predominAntly in the suburb of behind, the art damaged Los Angeles action. ILIOS has been exploring the extremes hope, trust, citizenship and applying north Fitzroy. Whilst also studying KK No Pants is a queer performance art public access program “Let’s Paint TV.” of sound and image derived phenomena sociological theory to everyday contexts midwifery and writing about art. www. Keg de Souza is a Sydney-based artist weirdo, punk musician, sound engineer & since the early 90’s. Through constant midwifesforpresident.blogspot.com Jon Hunter is a guitarist & sound with a background in architecture and a community worker dedicated to social change in his sound palette he pushes James Cecil Super Melody is the nom- composer from Sydney. He performs squatting- which has led to her interest justice. They love subversive deviancy & the space and body resistances to a hard de-plume of James Cecil, formerly of Jason Noble (Ensemble Offspring) has and records with The Holy Soul, Creeks, in the politics of space. revolutionary perverts. test pursuing a state of alert for the Architecture In Helsinki, and currently performed clarinet as a soloist and Delerium Tremons, Hose Beast & Solo. human senses. part of electronica act Qua. James has chamber musician with many specialist Kell Derrig-Hall co runs the Tuff Puffin Kris Keogh is a Skinny white boy from He started Magnetic Recording Council spent the last year in the studio, writing new music ensembles and lectures at record label and is involved in the Arnhem Land, NT. Obsessive harpist ‘In Stitches’ are three visual artists (a label & studio) and co-hosts Song X and producing the debut Super Melody the Sydney Conservatorium. following musical projects; Moonmilk, and Monome devotee. Plays you sweet, who create and present artworks that on 2SER. deal with environment, science and album, entitled “Destination Unknown. Tired Hands and The Singing Skies. glitched goodness while sitting on the Jean Poole loves real-time audiovisual community. They are Michaela Davies, floor. Needs his glasses. performance, has performed hundreds Jon Thomsen Kelly Chandler chairs the NYWF Charlotte Haywood and Claire Conroy. James Cuddleford (Ensemble Offspring) has performed violin as a soloist and of gigs, and also maintains skynoise.net. Josephine Rowe is poetry co-editor board. Published recently in the Death 74 75 Krissy Kneen is the author of “Swallow and hangs out with her best friend Lisa Lerkenfeldt As Editor of Luke ISM Dares to ask the big question Mandy Beaumont is a poet and artist. Martin Flex is simply a music-obsessed the Sound” (Eatbooks 1997) and Hannah. She isn’t a crazy cat lady… yet. independent publication TwoThousand. in life... Are dolphins just gay sharks? She has won numerous awards for her Mancunian who now lives in Sydney. He’s “Affection; a Memoir of Sex, Love, and com.au, Lisa is tasked with balancing Is the hokey-pokie really what it’s all work, been published widely,exhibited an on-air volunteer at FBi and jumped at and her red projects focus Intimacy” (Text Publishing 2009). Lauren Brown creative content against commercial about? He also enjoys monkeys. internationally, had poetry books the chance to be part of the CDR crew on structure and the public: architecture reality. Each week she releases a published and managed some of the and infrastructure; rhythms, cycles kyü are a new experimental pop duo snapshot of Sydney’s subculture into Luke Johnston is currently completing countries top... Mathew Paul is a postgraduate from Sydney comprising Alyx Dennison and habits; or the antithesis of these - thousands of local inboxes. Her rule of a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University philosopher based at the University of and Freya Berkhout, describing their destruction and entropy. thumb? Audience before advertisers, of Newcastle. He is treasurer of Watt Marcus Westbury is the founder of Queensland. He is currently researching sound as “a tea party with Beethoven, every time. Space Gallery. Renew Newcastle, the original TINA the presence and role of Plato in the is a drummer and Bowie, Björk and a Banshee”. Laurence Pike structure, and a bunch of other stuff. He work of Jacques Derrida. producer whose work is acclaimed is a Melbourne based artist Lisa Stewart Luke Thurgate is an artist based in also makes TV shows, directs festivals internationally with the band Pivot who works with photography, video, Newcastle. His recent work is about sex, and writes a column for The Age. Matt Mondanile as Ducktails, constructs (Warp, UK). Laurence has performed in film, sound and installation, currently L violence and intimacy. http://www.marcuswestbury.net tropical mixed tapes using collage as 30 countries internationally, as well as developing a project for Next Wave the songcraft of neo-psychedelic music. Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart is currently has written and created appearing on over 25 releases to date. Festival 2010. Lulu Browett Marcus Wright Newcastle born Marcus Matt also makes music as the Parasails, engaged in an exhaustive battle between content from New York to Tahiti for Wright plays in bands and works in and with Real Estate and Predator conventional performance and the Known primarily for Lorna Clarkson is a Sydney DJ, presenter Laurie Anderson outlets diverse as SMH, Cosmopolitan, music. He is the partner in Big Apachee Vision. wonders of the digital world. her multimedia presentations, Laurie on Sydney’s FBi Radio and the originator Cleo, Dolly, Frankie, MTV, and Big Brother. Bookings, Regin Records and Bigtix. Anderson has cast herself in roles as of CDR Australia. Matt Rochford is an installation and Lada Dedic is currently undertaking a is an artist and varied as visual artist, composer, poet, Lyndal Walker Margi Brown Ash’s professional life performance artist, interested in gender residency at the Parramatta Artists Lou Smith is co-founder of Breakdown sometimes curator who talks too much photographer, filmmaker, electronics Press, makes zines, writes poetry, and includes being an Actor /Director / and science fiction and having worked Studios while also working in the in class. With The Hotham Street Ladies whiz, vocalist and instrumentalist. plays keys in Suzanne Grae and the Devisor/ Educator/ Psychotherapist. with PACT Theatre, 2203 Collective and Australian Office of His Holiness the she bombs the streets of Melbourne Katies. Margi facilitates workshops for artists Don’t Look Gallery. Dalai Lama. tells stories and jokes. Lawrence Leung with confectionery aimed at developing resilience and He’s written pranks for “The Chaser’s denies things. Dislikes Matthew Hall has recently moved from Larisa Mann Legal ethnographer and DJ, Lucas Darklord sustainability. War On Everything” and created a stupidity. Based in the Blue Mountains. Canada to Australia. He is working on recently returned from 6 months DJing 6-part ABC comedy series “Lawrence Rich. CEO. Makes music. Intercepts M Margo Lanagan is the author of three a thesis on J.H. Prynne. His poetry and and researching music-making and Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure”. transmissions to obliterate into collections of short stories and a novel, prose appear regularly in international copyright in Kingston, Jamaica. Maddy Phelan Zine Master and organiser improved music. Listening is important. of events. Fond of Museums. Frequently Tender Morsels. All are dark and weird. literary journals. Leigh Milward is a class-struggle Lauren Bamford is a Melbourne seen in animal hats. NYWF Zine She lives in Sydney. anarchist (and graphic designer) who Louie’s is an independent performance Matthew Hoare studied composition based photographer who works in a Coordinator alumni. Co-organiser of grapples with the violence inherent in space never intended to emulate the Marianna Leishman aka Zahra Stardust) at the Sydney Conservatorium, he documentary context with particular Wollongong City Gallery Zine Fair. capitalism and severe Nintendo thumb. licensed venue environment. …cheap… is a pole dancing instructor, trapeze now works in Sydney as a DJ while interest in still lives and spontaneous party…open……party…accessible…safe… Madeleine Hinchy is a Sydney-based artist, feminist activist, writer and completing his PhD on Automated Music moments. Lev Diatschenko Author of independent fun…party …beer…sex…drugs & RAWK!!! freelance arts and design writer, editor lawyer, and is writing her thesis on at the SCA. novel ‘The Man Who Never Sleeps,’ Larissa Hjorth is researcher and artist and worker who has had her work political activism, gender subversion and Levin is back with his next attempt at Lovelorn Living Party Matthew Kenyon (S.W.A.M.P.) was lecturing in the Games and Digital Art published in Belle, Monument, Mindfood, feminism in erotic performanc. www. blasting minds open. His next offering is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United Programs. Since 2000, Hjorth has been Lucy Phelan makes music with Naked On Lowdown and Yen magazines. zahra.org.au illustrated. States and has a M.F.A in painting from researching and publishing on gendered The Vague and Knitted Abyss. She has booked a few US tours of cities with the Maggotville Running as a venue and a Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, radio Virginia Commonwealth University. He customizing of mobile communication, Lindsay Webb is a media jockey, best vegan restaurants, op shops and home for around 8 years, the people host, columnist, bon vivant and award- is interested in the convergence of art, gaming and virtual communities. designer, architect and the hot engine of record stores. that live at Maggotville maintain a winning blogger. Reading a book in a emerging technologies and popular the band Actual Russian Brides. Laura Castagnini is a Melbourne based sustainable rehearsal and underground restaurant is probably her favourite culture. Luke Burns has been producing artist and curator, currently Curator- Lisa Dempster is the editor of The show space for the D.I.Y. community. thing in the world. electronic music and “”psychedelic”” Matthew Lowe A recipient of an Express In- Residence for Platform Artist Melbourne Veg Food Guide, author of down tempo beats since 2002. With Maija Howe collects, screens, shoots Mark Rogers Media Mentorship Award, Matthew’s Group Inc. and writing a thesis about Veg*n Shopper (2007) and Neon Pilgrim 15 years of musical performance and researches narrow gauge films. She works have appeared in Griffith REVIEW, contemporary feminist art (Oct 2009), and publisher at Vignette Marni Jackson is General Manager and experience Luke now records his own is currently writing her PhD on mid- Through the Clock’s Workings and in Press. Board Secretary of Renew Newcastle, Laura Middlebrook attends university, music and tutors in the art of computer century home movies. titles by Cleis Press. maker of soup, stitcher of things. writes, acts, teaches, looks after cats music creation. Sometimes all at once. 76 77 Max Barker interest in the interstices of of design, Miranda Lee is an intellectual property Neal Smith creates sculptures and wall Nina Stuhldreher is a German-born art and visualisation. lawyer with a background in media N works that investigate the notion of artist, writer, curator and performer Max Becker is the Indent Partnership and technology. Miranda spent five Nadia Mizner has worked in independent fashion and obsolescence in popular currently pursuing PhD-prep studies at Grants Manager. He started at MusicNSW Michael Norris At Electrofringe 2002 years in the television industry in music as a tour promoter, tour manager culture, taking influence from a wide the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. after completing Journalism at uni and and 2007, Michael Norris presented both production and legal roles at the and festival organiser. Nadia has toured variety of pop sources. loves to write about music and listen to workshops on the home-made BBC and Sesame Workshop. Later, she the US extensively and also works in drum n bass. Occasionally at the same sound sources he invents and uses in Nick Maxwell writes and performs on acted as a lobbyist in the area of band management. O time. experimental electronic music. The Ugly Stick. He has studied Creative copyright and open access for the ollo have done loads of stuff but are Nadia Onus After managing bands Arts and Screenwriting and has made MEAT is a Hunter-based emerging artist Michael Nyman is one of Britain’s most Australian Digital Alliance. Currently not very comfortable blowing their own etc Nadia’s taken up the role of films, performed stand-up and now collective devoted to ignoring, breaking innovative and celebrated composers, Miranda is Legal Counsel at NewSouth trumpets. They would far rather blow Communications Coordinator at Amrap writes for the TV program Rove. and disregarding normal constructs and Michael Nyman. More than a composer, Innovations Pty Ltd which brings yours. where she handles the promotion of confines. They are Todd Fuller, Amy Hill, he’s also a performer, conductor, emerging technologies, spanning laser Nick McCorriston Australian music to community radio. Ell O’Connor, Aksara Harriram and Mel bandleader, pianist, author, musicologist, range finders to new generation solar photographer and film-maker. cells, to market. Nick Milligan Currently the Editor of the Chalker. Nakkiah Lui P music and culture publication, Reverb Paris & tacky Motel are two sisters who Michael Randall is currently completing a Miriam Chatt has just returned from Meg O’Connell signs the cheques, makes Naomi Dart is a local musician and music Magazine, Nick Milligan has been an hail from sunny Naomicampbelltown. Bachelor in Fine Art at the University of studying at Universität der Künste the calls and gets scratch together so teacher, and strongly believes that entertainment journalist for seven years They are self-proclaimed, self-made Newcastle and co-founded the artist run Berlin, currently studies sculpture at that hippies can take the stage. What a music and art are a cultural necessity in Superstar Art Anti-socialites. initiative, Podspace Gallery. SCA, makes and designs objects and Nick O’Byrne brings to the AIR years of grease monkey. Newcastle. experience on the ground a musician, Michaela McGuire is a columnist for the shapes and spaces, and hopes, in the Pat Grant makes comics. His work has Meg Ulman is a writer, blogger and music educator, blogger and band Sunday Age. Her book, Apply Within: near future, to own a dog. Narinda Reeders is a media artist and popped up in an assortment of fine teacher who is currently undertaking web developer with a interest in the manager. Nick is also a co-ordinator of publications like Australia’s Surfing Life, Stories of Career Sabotage, was just Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer a book project on the issues of the blurry boundary between public and John Butler’s Arts Grants Scheme ‘The Tracks, Beat, 3D World, Meanjin, Herding published by MUP. and artist with interests in new media modern day stepmother. She is one third private. JB Seed.’ Kites and Voiceworks. of the Artist as Family. Mick Bailey art and culture, especially generative systems and data aesthetics. Natalie Aylward Zine- Maker, cake- Nick Senger is believed to be a musician Patches are a newly formed artistic Mika Meskanen is a Berlin-based mixed Meg Williams is the communications baker, curator, event coordinator. by his parents (!) He would like to take duo - Stella McDonald and Anique media artist and designer who currently Monika Brooks manager for MusicNSW, when she’s not Qualified picnic technician and small this opportunity to thank them for the Vered - delving into multi-disciplinary explores perpetual design, imagined is a Sydney based musician/improviser communicating she’s trying to finish a creature enthusiast. Definitely famous. money that they have spent on him to creativity. They are: lasses, interested, communities and biometric travel (piano, piano accordion), collaborating degree Co-organiser of Wollongong City Gallery keep him alive. Maybe that houseboat new, curious, multi-taskers, committed, documents. in projects such as Creeks, The Splinter Zine Fair. was a better investment? gobsmacked, dreaming Melissa Reidy is a zine maker and owns Orchestra, and occasional solo laptop Mike Pelletier is a freelance designer/ a long-armed stapler to prove it. She performances. She is involved with Nathan McGinness is currently working Nicolas Vogelpoel makes art. He is tired programmer based in Amsterdam. Patrick Cullen’s book What Came volunteers at the Sticky and bakes community-based music events such as as a designer in web, interactives, of art that fixes things and people. He His artistic practice involves Between was published in August 2009 cookies. theNOWnow series/festival. wants to know how to make art that is everything from drawing to videogame print and animation at Canberra studio by Scribe, he is also completing his PhD Icelab and teaching at the University of cathartic at The Newcastle University. Meredith Godley is a performance artist modifications and exhibits and consults Moonmilk create fragile and physical internationally. Canberra. who is currently studying a Doctorate sound worlds. The duo combine Nimble Fox Trappings is the name given Patrick Jones is a writer, artist and of Creative Art at Curtin University. to curatorial duo, Ashleigh Culpitt and Millie Millgate is responsible for elements of pop music and spontaneous Nathan Scott is a lecturer at the permaculturalist who makes books, She has exhibited her work locally and overseeing all international activity as composition with a healthy dose of University of Newcastle Conservatorium. Hannah Perkins, who experiment with films, music, gardens and graphic essays nationally. executed under the Sounds Australia technology talking to itself. His interests lie in the creative uses exhibition and artistic adult treasure based on ecology and the arts. He is one banner, the new national platform for of software to compose, arrange and hunts! third of the Artist as Family. Michael Farrell is a PhD student at Mr Fibby contemporary music export market perform music. Melbourne University. He has published Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie produce Patrick O’Neil Raconteur, philanderer, development. Mutiny Zine is a free monthly anarchist 3 books of poetry: ode ode (Salt), BREAK Neil Jenkins is a Sydney based artist, ambitious, innovative and challenging hedonist, romantic and traveller. news zine produced & distributed by a ME OUCH – a cartoon book (3 Deep), and Min Mae loves you when you’re naked, computer programmer and curator projects spanning film, the web, Patrick O’Neil escaped the grind of collective. You can see most issues at: a raiders guide (Giramondo). wants to show the world, she thinks it’s whose practice engages with electronic installation, live events and broadcast tabloid journalism for the excess and http://www.jura.org.au/mutiny so real, knows they’ll all fall in love with media, the Internet and networked media. Michael Honey is an interactive designer desperation of the lonely road and wrote you too. communication. with a professional as well as personal a book.

78 79 Patrick Pittman keeps a lair in Pumice Its always a struggle. The KinokoFry is my regular webcomic Ry Wilkin is a freelance artist who Sarah Jones is a multidisciplinary artist, Small Room Writers Collective darkest Perth, from which he runs instruments are wearing out, the guitar www.kinokofry.com uses a range of mediums – including writer and curator currently based in Small Room is Griffith University’s Cottonmouth, writes, builds websites, gets harder and harder to tune, the tape free hand sketch, paint, digital media Tasmania, www.sozzav.blogspot.com writers collective, consisting of fiction Rebecca Conroy is an interdisciplinary talks on the radio and starts fights. loops get sicker and the batteries get and flash animation. He is a big fan of writers, script writers and performance performance maker, writer/researcher Scott Brewer is a PhD candidate in patrickpittman.com flatter, but Pumice perseveres. animation and is always trying to find readers who actively shove creativity and curator, working across the areas contemporary Australian literature diffreent ways to screen it. into the Gold Coast. Paul Mason is the director of Music with Pure Being perform sonic absolutions of community culture development, at the University of Newcastle. the Music Board of the Australia Council, in sheet-forts constructed to reflect devised performance and practice-based Ryan Paine Last year Ryan Paine was Occasionally, he teaches there too, Sofie Loizou Sydney based music the Australian Government’s arts the performance environment. They research. the editor of Voiceworks. This year he is but for the most part he loiters round producer, studio owner and DJ, Sofie funding and advisory body. the photocopier. He has recently been are interested in genuine expression, Red Rattler In response to systematic nothing, but he’s working on stuff. Ask also dabbles in mixed media artworks psychic balance, mystery and infinite him about it. published in JASAL. and hand made instruments. She blogs, Penelope Benton is a photographic shut downs of many artist run spaces, artist, curator and arts administrator, love. five Sydney women have hocked Sean Gleeson edits Lot’s Wife in 2009. podcasts, promotes local events and active in Newcastle’s artist community themselves into debt buying an He freelances for various publications co-runs CDR. industrial warehouse. The Red Rattler S and publishes a zine on internet before moving and becoming active in Somaya Langley has a background in various aspects of Sydneys community Q Theatre is now Sydney’s first legally Safari Team (Lillian O’Neil, Blaine culture called LOLOCAUST, to universal sound/media arts and digital libraries/ in 1998. Qua is Cornel Wilczek from Melbourne. licensed non-profit venue. Cooper and Jon Oldmeadow) is an artist condemnation. archiving. Her professional and artistic Live he is joined by the fabulous James collaborative working across disciplines Rhys Rodgers is a surrealistic novelist Sean Wilson is a writer and one half interests lie somewhere in the realm of Penny Duff is a writer and sound artist Cecil. With four albums and seven since 2005 exhibiting in Melbourne, and tea enthusiast. He has won many a of the two-piece editing team at sociopolitics, technology, information, from New York, exploring ways that years of touring, Qua is a well-oiled, Sydney, Italy and Canada. sound can be used to create new forms spoken-word slam and has been invited Melbourne journal stop drop and roll. communities and empowerment. abstracted, electronic machine. of communal life. to poetrify audiences across Australia. Sally Breen is a Brisbane based writer Selena de Carvalho is a Tasmanian based Sommer Tothill A writer, marketer, and Quarterbred and editor. She lectures in writing and Pete Foley is a motion designer and Rodrigo Marçal publishing at Griffith University and artist. She moved to Tasmania in 2002 artsy-fartsy type, Sommer writes about illustrator based in Brisbane. He strives studied film in Rio de Janeiro and is a heads up the BURN Writers Collective. and has (not in) bred with an apiarist the kinds of things that mean she will to create pretty things from his (overly self-taught musician. ARPX, his studio, allergic to bees. never be allowed to write children’s opinionated) visual point of view. R created the soundtrack for more than 30 Samuel Bruce is an artist living in http://selenadecarvalho.blogspot.com/ books. Rachel Feery is a Melbourne based artist Brazilian theater plays and movies. Western Sydney whose practice Pete Butz working in new media and installation, encompasses generative audiovisual Sensitive New Age Gang (SNAG) is Sophie Lamond never gets enough currently developing a project for Next Ronnie Scott’s writing has appeared abstraction, electronics, a catalogue a prophetic dance sermon against sleep: She runs Satellite Projects, edits Phillip Gwynne is versatile writer who in HEAT, Torpedo, Wet Ink, Best of of garage sale signs, and endurance competitive dance capital and oppressive BLOCK journal, curated the QC09 art has written for both children (Deadly Wave Festival 2010. Voiceworks, MBV, and others. He is the karaoke. binary social representations. exhibition and is a sometimes curator ,Unna) and adults (The Build Up), the big Rachel Morgan is a word geek, sometime founding editor of The Lifted Brow. and everywoman for CUBE3. Shaun Prescott For as long as he can screen (Australian Rules) and TV (Dusty). circus freak and a wannabe super-hero. Sam Karmel is sippin on the meantime Rosie Pham edits Lot’s Wife in 2009. holding an un-opened can of exotic remember, Shaun Prescott has written Spatula City is the spiritual home of the Pia van Gelder is a Sydney-based She is also a writer. She is a wannabe tree huggin’ hippy fruits. about music. He is currently a deputy Spatula. electronic audio/video artist & musician, Rachel O’Reilly is a writer, editor and who enjoys bonding with people over editor at Cyclic Defrost and also writes instrument builder, teacher, designer Stalker Darren Ziesing, originally from curator, currently researching an MA food, whilst ironically also taking Sam Madden hails from the poetic wilds for Mess+Noise. and Overlord for Dorkbot-Syd.” Canberra, produces electronic music and on Aernout Mik, trauma politics and part in ranting about our obsessively of Bundaberg Queensland. He somehow consumptive culture. managed to survive heading south to Simon Binns ambient sound sculptures under the Pimmon During the past decade, Pimmon contemporary installation art, and enrol in a creative writing degree at project titles of Stalker and Liife. (Paul Gough) has forged an international working as a curatorial consultant to Simon Cox helps run and organise Rosy Parlane is a musician from New Griffith University Brisbane. reputation for creating dense, MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific. Zealand who began playing music Perth’s monthly spoken word event, Stefan Neville Born in 1974, Raised challenging and engaging electronic www. thementalization.wordpress.com with the avant-garde rock trio Thela, Samantha Mee lives in a little house with “Cottonmouth” and writes short in NZ’s far north. Plays & records music. Pimmon returns to Newcastle following on to work with abstract her blue heeler Harley and her CDs. Sam stories and poems for publication and music solo as Pumice, but also drums/ Randolf Reimann (aka dolfazoid) is a to deliver “a performance like a slow- electronic based music. frequently starts writing new stories, performance. In 2008 he self-published participates in many other loose outfits. motion whitewater torrent. In space.” sound artist, musician, founder and occasionally she finishes them. a chapbook of poetry,... Draws Pictures and comics. artistic director of artist collective tra Russell Newton has successfully Pip Shea is a media artist and designer. la la blip. released his music under the name Sarah Howell sometime comic and zine Simon Martinus is a Melbourne artist, Steph Hughes Co-host of triple j’s Her work focuses on the free sharing SENSUM and TANTRUMZ across more maker, most-time cultural producer. freelance designer and illustrator. He Australian music show ‘Home & Hosed’, and remixing of content and how these Rebecca Clements I’m a 26 year old than 20 albums. His live show has been a 2009/10 NYWF director. is currently nearing completion of Steph also manages to put on shows, processes enable autonomous voices. cartoonist/illustrator, and soon-to- staple amongst the Sydney dance scene www.sarahhowellprojects.com a Bachelor of Visual Art at Monash play music, help run all ages gig spaces be famous children’s book author. since 1999. University and multi task like wild. 80 81 Stu Hatton is a Melbourne-based poet, Tarquin Manek fact grappling found The Rizzeria stencil press is collectively Tom Cho is a former NYWF coordinator Trudy Clutterbok is an ex-artist and What Makes Men Blush (Emma blogger and freelancer who teaches some more 2019 pepper, building a owned and operated by a bunch of self and the author of Look Who’s Morphing, current psychotherapist informed by Maye Gibson and Charlotte Farrell) creative writing at Deakin University. He blasted cathedral, great blues ribs. Bu publishers and print makers in Sydney. a fiction collection recently published by and involved with Freudian/Lacanian is a performance collective that has has a book-in-progress entitled How to Cree all ye ya dastard dope sea. Check em’ out on www.rizzeria.com Giramondo. Visit him - www.tomcho.com psychoanalysis. She’s interested in hijacked Burlesque as a form to exercise be hungry. bears, imaginary geography, rurality and boundaries, expectations, stereotypes www.wordyness.blogspot.com Teresa Avila is an engineer and Project The Short Message Service Tom Civil is an activist graphic designer madness. and injustice Manager in heavy construction. She and diy artists, who is addicted to print. Part 1960s girl-group, Stuart Buchanan is Executive Producer is a part time film maker and has The Vivian Girls He is co-founder of Breakdown Press Tuffy Wilbira Gumillaroi woman, combines of Creative Sydney and recently contributed creatively to collectives fuzzy garage rock and post-punk with traditional & contemporary practices, launched newweirdaustralia.com - a over the years like Sheila Autonomista, blasts of shoegaze + skuzzy DIY charm Tom David is one of the developers Twelve Words project is an online 12 crafting spaces & experiences, to create label, free compilation series and Gurlesque, Scooter and Slit. She project straight outta Brooklyn. of Polybonk.com, a next-generation word story competition for 15-25 year an interface between her and her non music store specialising in experimental olds. radio show on Sydney’s FBi, exposing managed the construction works and Thomas Benjamin Guerney writes and Aboriginal people. electronic music. experimental Australian music. development approvals for the Red performs nonsense poetry and epic Will Stroud is the owner of Kleenbeats, Rattler. narrative verse, plays bass in Brisbane has just completed an MA in Susy Pow has fingers in many pies. A Tom Doig V a successful Music licensing and band The Estates, and repairs violins Creative Writing and comedy theory. writer, interpreter, tea drinker, organiser The Abyss are Sydney dubstep producers Victoria Bennett is a Melbourne-based Production Company based on the for work. Buy him a drink and he’ll tell you a joke, & online zine distro owner, Susy is driven Boot & Sook. No similes, allegories or artist and curator. She fights crimes Sunshine Coast. then deconstruct it for three hours. by all things creative. waffling flowery statements are needed Thomas Henning against fashion by day, and battles post- to describe the sound: Badass teched is a media artist based in feminism at night Suzanne Grae and the Katies Tim Dwyer is a video artist and musician Tom Hall out take your pants off dancefloor punk Brisbane, Australia. With a strong Y Inspired by their namesakes, the that just wants to see the people move Virginia Murdoch is a web and print filth, plain and simple! focus on elements of the ‘everyday’ Yolande Norris shoulder padded stye icons of eighties on up. designer and co-director of Inventive Hall’s practice involves considered Australia, SGK are a 6 piece nearly-all- The Brag is Sydney’s coolest street press Labs, a Melbourne web development Tim Shiel As electronic artist Faux Pas, explorations into place, space and time. gal shitcore sleaze rock band based in with over 32,000 copies distributed Tim both makes the music and manages house. She has been blogging about Z Melbourne. weekly, the Brag is a direct window into design and the internets since 2005 at it. An intuitive and irreverent thinker, Tom Taylor is a multi-award-winning Zephyr Ogden Jones is a 7 year old boy the youth and entertainment industries. playwright who has found his way into alertbutnotalarmed.com Sven Simulacrum is a Genre Bender/ Tim is also a blogger, and a radio DJ with who enjoys new adventures, and is one Melbourne’s 3RRR FM. writing TV, film, radio, magazines and, Slasher Selecta/Cultural Cannibalist. The Brains Crust is comprised of three Voiceworks magazine Editorial of 17 students at his school in Central his favourite medium, comics. young local raconteurs who spend their Tiny Vipers (Sub Pop) is Seattle’s Committee Andre Dao, Ainslee Meredith, Victoria. He is one third of the Artist Sydney PEN is an affiliate centre of days eating brains and line-dancing. Jesy Fortino, whose deep voice is Chloe Wilson, Dara Conduit, Adolfo as Family. International PEN, an association Tony Woodward is a sculptor and senior accompanied by sparse yet deft acoustic arts educator with the Tasmanian Aranjuez, Jodie Kinnersley, Johannes of writers devoted to freedom of The Civic Big Band Zoe Barron is writer, editor and guitar, with haunting melodies that lend Jakob, Mishka Nansi, Kat Muscat, Rafael expression in Australia and in the world Department of Education. He’s a big fan student. She spends most of her time from the avant-garde and the natural SW, Rosanna Stevens, Zoe Barron. The DeConverters of zines, comics and maps. either hunched over a keyboard or at large. world. The Kleber Claux Memorial Singers Tracey Meziane Benson Canberra based the handlebars of her bicycle and will Coming at ya straight out of Coburg Todd Fuller is drawing, he doesn’t drink cross media artist and researcher who W probably have quite bad posture by the T or smoke; he draws. His drawings come time she grows up.. playing anarcho casio-pop and analogue explores tourism, borders and identity Wade Marynowsky is a media artist Tai Snaith is an artist, curator and alive; they walk, breathe, and when synthesizer-punk to set the masses’ as themes within her creative practice. working across immersive / interactive recently a producer at Next Wave. She music plays his drawings even dance. hearts afire! Featuring the talents of installation, audio - visual performance, has just returned from an Australia Tragic Troubadours Naomi Evans (The Disappointments, Todd Hunter McGaw a Brisbane based and robotics. Council residency in Tokyo. www. Tarantula), Iain McIntyre (Ninetynine, photographer who is known for actively Traverse Poetry taisnaith.com The Hatchets) and Liz Turner (The exploring new and fresh concepts and Walbira Murray- Gumillaroi woman, Assassination Collective, The Hatchets) ideas in photography Trevelyan Clay is Grant Grant. Grant combines traditional & contemporary Tale of Tales is a games development the trio transform anarcho-punk Grant has had numerous grants and is an practices, crafting spaces & experiences, studio, founded by artists Auriea Harvey Toecutter The sun is going down on classics and create original bursts of amazing grant writer. to create an interface between her and and Michaël Samyn in Belgium in 2002, electronic music. As we enter into a bombast and diatribe. her non Aboriginal people. to create elegant and emotionally rich new dark age where marksmanship Triple J is Australia’s national youth interactive entertainment. The Masters of Space and Time and butchery are set to eclipse deft broadcasting network. sampling and piss-take production, Toecutter turns a leaf by burning a book.

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THIS IS NOT ART Space and dLux Media Arts, and the SOUND SUMMIT THIS IS NOT ART ELECTROFRINGEOFRINGE Electrofringe Funding Bodies Electrofringe Board members and Australia Council for the Arts, artsNSW The amazing gang of 09, I think we Sound Summit thanks all our artists, funding bodies. Special thanks to our Electrofringe Partners really rocked it! Thanks to all the staff, speakers, sponsors and supporters, Millie Festival Coordinator / Ringleader Directors friends, families and partners for their Angelica Clunes Somaya Langley and Daniel Green RealTime, Performance Space, the artists and the many many volunteers Millgate, TINAorg, MusicNSW, Seb, Kenny boundless assistance especially to Kate and all directors past, Peta, Meg, Smith, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, for working so tirelessly, and to all the Byrne, Christian Malejka and Melody Ellis. Assistant 2 Coodinator Electro-Projections Curators ROOM40, dLux Media Arts, Experimenta, the Dolce, Serial Space, BB, Jinx, New Weird Kate Hardman Michael Prior and Matthew O’Shannessy founders, directors, volunteers and Finally thank you; for coming and giving Australian Network for Art and Technology, Australia, Renew Newcastle, the Tuttle the National Film and Sound Archive, peeps who came before us for keeping us a reason to endure the craziness. family, 35 Wedd St, QPAC Programming, Curator Electro-Être Curator the dream alive for the past ten years. Fiona Lee Cat Jones Arthive, Loop Space, The Lock-Up Cultural the E team, Catherine and Alex White. Centre, Hunter TAFE, Newcastle TAFE, Thanks to: Christina, Doug, Rei, Justine & NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS’ Graphic Design Electro-Online Curator Australian Music Centre, Dorkbot Canberra, the Pod Board, Paul & Rachel @ Racket CRITICAL ANIMALS Paul Mosig & Rachel Peachey Samuel Bruce Accessible Arts, Reeldance, Ensemble FESTIVAL www.racket.net.au for such a fab design, Drew, Lou and Media Sponsor Offspring, Japan Media Arts Festival, Critical Animals would like to thank our Marti @ NCC, Professor Barney Glover, Would like to thank the following: all Media Coordinator icon.pr Transmediale.09, SIGGRAPH, OK Video, the program coordinators Nic Vogelpoel, Professor Kevin McConkey, Gillian Shaw our fantastic artists; all our fabuloso Sarah Walkom House of Natural Fiber Artist and Accommodation Liaison Officer and Keryn Stewart @ The University Astrid Lorange, Scott Brewer and volunteers; all of our TiNA brethren (with Astrid Joyce. We would also like to Production Manager Kate Byrne of Newcastle, Zoe @ CAL, Brendan and an extra big shout-out to sassmeister thank Newcastle University, Queensland Rob Cartwright NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS’ Justine @ Tantrum, Mark and co @ GPT, Ange Clunes); Brooke Newall (Younger Production Manager University of Technology and the Photographer James McPherson FESTIVAL The Loft, The Zombies, Paul @ Livesites, Young Writers Mentorship Coordinator), Copyright Agency Ltd. A big thank you Max Milne Marcus & Marni @ Renew, Jess @ TAFE, Cassie Burge (Production), Elly Michelle to all TiNA staff and volunteers, the Audiovisual Technicians Directors Amy Ingram, Daniel Evans, Sarah Howell Emily & Michael for the reTro, all our Clough (Marketing), Rahima Hayes amazing directors that make up TiNA Sunday Fair Coordinator Arran Harding, Emily Morandini, Christian Anna Scobie Malejka, Sam Slattery venue supporters, and our amazing (Artist Logistics), Susy Pow (Zine Fair); Org, and finally, all of our 2009 Critical Associate Director audience who always make it so much our beautiful mutant arm (David and Animals Artists, it is an honour to be Tent City Coordinator Exhibitions Co-ordinator Ronnie Scott fun! Gills here’s to you and a long life on working with all of you. Aunty Jenny Scheffer Melinda Rackham Festival Coordinator Ange thanks: Sele, Dingo, Lulu, Fotis, FD, CRACK); Benjamin Law; Bethany Jones; Volunteers Manager Gigs Co-ordinator Sarah Gory HMC, Bugz, Amy, Jdog, SJ, Mumsy, the Sally Brien; Kelly-Lee Hickey; Tom Doig; CRACK THEATRE FESTIVAL Grace Armand Scott Morrison Chair of the NYWF board ladies who liberated in Alice, Fiona and Caro Cooper; Anna Krien; Dane Frost; Crack Theatre Festival exists because Web Mistress Volunteers Co-ordinator Kelly Chandler Eli, Kate & Fiona for SO MANY pod hours, Arts NSW; Australia Council for the of the kindness and goodwill of the Kathy Helme Raymond Wholohan all my families, and specially Hels and our Arts Literature Board; Copyright Agency rest of This Is Not Art: thanks to all the Website Management and Infrastructure Photographer SOUND SUMMIT Limited; Express Media; Hunter Writers’ members of TINA Org, and in particular funny silly dogs. Small Studios Torunn Higgins Festival Directors Centre; Melbourne Fringe Festival; Next our older sister festival the NYWF. Andrew Tuttle, Eliza Sarlos Thanks to Canberra Youth Theatre, Bar Managers Book Keeper ELECTROFRINGE Wave; Ipera Communications; Octapod Judy Thomas-Meulman, Jane Goldman Cat Jones staff: Sarah Walkom, Fiona Lee, Christina the Street Theatre and ArtsACT for Gigs Co-ordinator A massive thank you to our artists, Robberds; Megan Patty; the 2008 NYWF support. To our unbelievable support Graphic Design Tom Smith Isis & Pluto performers and presenters for their (Nic Low, Brea Acton, Ella Holcombe) for crew: Anthony Arblaster, David Clapham, CRITICAL ANIMALS Festival Co-ordinator Hadley, Thomas Henning, Nickamc, Pete energy, effort and passion; our laying the groundwork for an EPIC 2009; Co-directors Web Developer Meg Williams volunteers and workers who make this Butz, Hanna Cormick, Max Barker, the Brittany Guy, Aden Rolfe Toby Vervaart Pat Grant for his magnificent artwork; Bohemes, for their willingness to both Design amazing event happen; our beautiful Nicki Greenberg for use of an image from kill and die for the festival. And to our Web Hosting Kate Jinx TINA family including SS, NYWF, CA and Program Coordinators Sarah Bock her graphic novel adaption of The Great artists: all our artists: they’re not getting Nic Vogelpoel, Astrid Lorange, Scott Web Crack; our presenting partners who Gatsby published by Allen and Unwin paid, they’re not getting housed, they’re Brewer, Astrid Joyce Grants Writers Ben Byrne help us fill in all those gaps, especially www.allenandunwin.com, The Loft Youth not getting supported in any real way, Melody Ellis, Nina Stromqvist Management & Administration Genevieve and Bethany at icon.pr, they’re just MAKING IT HAPPEN and we Centre and you - for reading this far and MusicNSW Lawrence English, Richard Vella, Simone Electrofringe Board being the ‘part’ in our ‘partae’. are grateful. Cat Jones, Alex White, Miranda Lee at Arthive, everyone at Performance

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