RMIT Gallery Exhibition Program 2014 87 1 19 November 2013 — 23 February 2014 89 Music, Melbourne & Me: 40 Years of Mushroom and Melbourne’s Popular Music Culture This exhibition explores the relationships between a place, the music, those who make it and those who experience it, through the themes of memory, nostalgia and celebrity in popular music culture in Australia. Celebrating the last four decades of popular music represented through music, songs, posters, photographs, costumes, memorabilia and iconic rock venues, this journey into our communal musical past encapsulates the story behind the growth of the city’s music industry 10 11 23 May — 12 July and the success of Melbourne recording artists both nationally and internationally, Revelations: Sculpture from the RMIT University highlighting the trajectory of Mushroom Records, Australia’s biggest independent Art Collection record label. Curators Dr Kipps Horn and Suzanne Davies Public Program A selection of key works from the RMIT University Art Collection, including new Thursday 21 November: Mushroom, Music and Melbourne, Michael Gudinski and acquisitions on public view for the first time.Artists Bruce Armstrong, Peter Asel, Lee Simon. Tuesday 26 November: Where Were You? Music, Memory and Nostalgia, Robert Baines, Percival Ball, Geoffrey Bartlett, Peter Blizzard, Robert Bridgewater, Dr Kipps Horn and Ed Nimmervoll. Tuesday 3 December: Fame, Celebrity and Music, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Jock Clutterbuck, Augustine Dall’Ava, Bill Fontana, Rosalie Dr Kipps Horn and Ella Hooper. Thursday 12 December: Sticky Carpets: Celebrating Gascoigne, Don Gore, Victor Greenhalgh, Anton Hart, Sam Jinks, Vincas Jomantas, Melbourne’s Music venues on International Roadies Day, Dr Kipps Horn and Graham Inge King, Juz Kitson, Alexander Knox, Hilarie Mais, Baluka Maymuru, Galuma ‘Scrooge’ Madigan. Wednesday 12 February: From Hunters & Collectors to solo Maymuru, Clement Meadmore, Kevin Mortensen, Helen Mueller, Lenton Parr, performer, Mark Seymour. Thursday 13 February: Revisiting Melbourne Punk, Dr Simon Perry, Anthony Pryor, Reko Rennie, Lisa Roet, Bruce Slatter, Zoja Trofimiuk, Kipps Horn and Richard Lowenstein, with Dogs In Space film screening. Wednesday Jeffery Wilkinson, David Wilson, Dan Wollmering, Ah Xian, Liu Xiao Xian, Klaus 2 19 February: Glam Rock Music Fashion From Countdown to YouTube Videos, Dr Kipps Zimmer Curator Jon Buckingham Public Program Friday 23 May: Sculpture Then Horn and Associate Professor Robyn Healy. Thursday 20 February: Performance cults, & Now, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Don Gore, Lisa Roet, Dan Wollmering. Tuesday Dr Kipps Horn, Lynne-Maree Milburn and Richard Lowenstein, plus a screening of 27 May: Artist Talk, Simon Perry. Tuesday 3 June: Curator Tour, Jon Buckingham. Autoluminescent – Richard Lowenstein’s documentary on Roland S. Howard. Tuesday 10 June Artist Talk, Robert Bridgewater. Saturday 22 — Sunday 23 February Grooves On The Green for White Night Melbourne 1 — 30 August Closing event for Music, Melbourne & Me, Grooves on the Green explores the Ulm School Of Design leading edge of electronic dance music with MindBuffer (Josh Batty and Mitch From 1953 through 1968, under the auspices of founders and principal teachers Nordine), Philosophy of Sound (Martin Koszolko), Ed Montano, and unsoundbwoy Otl Aicher, Inge Aicher-Scholl and Max Bill, the Ulm School of Design in Germany (Garth Sheridan) – saturation sound in an intensive and immersive environment. was a leading international institution for teaching, research and development. Its methodology of systematic thinking and logically-articulated design, known as the Saturday 22 — Sunday 23 February ‘Ulm Model’, remains widely influential today. This exhibition showcases the Ulm Continuum by Ash Keating for White Night Melbourne School’s graphic work, industrial and architectural designs, porcelain, tableware, Ash Keating’s new video artwork Continuum explores the concept of time as an lamps, furniture and includes archival videos. Curated by The Hochschule für endless experience through the movement of a human figure in a rugged Australian Gestaltung Archive, a department of the Ulm Museum. An exhibition by the Institut landscape. Continuum screens on a continuous loop from 7pm to 7am, offering für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V. (ifa), Stuttgart, Germany: www.ifa.de Public audiences a meditative experience in a calm reflective space. Program Friday 1 August: Curator talk, Dr. Martin Mäntele, Director of the HfG- Monday 24 March 12 Archive. Tuesday 12 August: Impact of the Ulm School, Malte Wagenfeld. Bundoora Spine Art Unveiling 19 August 3 Lisa Roet’s 3 metre bronze Chimpanzee Finger and Robert Bridgewater’s 2.7 metre Ash Keating mural: RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square bronze sculpture I’ll be Your Sunshine (Invisible) energize and focus the experience Unveiling of Ash Keating’s large scale mural that enlivens the temporary urban of a new walkway at RMIT’s Bundoora campus. Pieces from the RMIT Sound Art landscaping project at the corner of Stewart and A’Beckett Streets. Juxtapositioning Collection – the first collection of this kind in Australia – can be heard along the a verdant urban forest landscape and a searing red desert, the mural provides a path, with hidden speakers playing multi-channel spatial sound and radiophonic backdrop for three different recreational activity zones on RMIT’s city campus. works from international and local artists. Project by RMIT Gallery in consultation with TCL Architects and RMIT Property Services. Artists Steve Stelios Adam, 15 September — 8 November Richard Barrett and Daryl Buckley, Robert Bridgewater, Philip Brophy, Christophe Garnkiny: Constellations of Meaning Charles, Katrin Isabel Ernst, Bill Fontana, Susan Frykberg, Christine Groult, Sonia Works by Gija artists which explore aspects of the rich and significant Garnkiny Leber and David Chesworth, Nick Murray and Carl Anderson, Susan Philipsz, Ngarranggarni (Moon Dreaming story) from Yarin Country in Darrajayin, Western Douglas Quin, Lisa Roet, Stephan Schütze, Daniel Teruggi, Horacio Vaggione, Chris Australia. The learning, telling and retelling of these stories are powerful represent- Watson and Christian Zanési. ations and preservations of a vast practical, intellectual and cultural legacy. Curatorium Adam Boyd, Anna Crane and Alana Hunt Public Program Thursday Tuesday May 13 18 September: Exhibition Talk, Adam Boyd and Anna Crane with Gija artists. Belgian Treasures from the Argos Collection Belgian video art is known internationally for its radical eclecticism and multiple 15 September — 8 November crossovers with other disciplines. This screening of short experimental films from Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo influential Belgium artists representative of the Argos Centre’s collection serves as a Located at Balgo, Western Australia, Warlayirti Artists is one of the most successful 4 prelude to the 6th Biennial of Media Art. Curators Ive Stevenheydens and Jonathan art centres in remote Australia. It began in 1981 with paintings by senior men Parsons Public Program Tuesday 13 May: The Argos Legacy, Ive Stevenheydens. of church banners for Father Peile’s jubilee. This exhibition brings together the banners with more recent work and includes key paintings from the watershed MAIN IMAGE__ MUSIC, MELBOURNE & ME: 40 YEARS OF MUSHROOM AND MELBOURNE’S 1986 exhibition Art from the Great Sandy Desert at the Art Gallery of WA. Public POPULAR MUSIC CULTURE RMIT Gallery installation view: The Music Space with Morphos. Photo: 13 Mark Ashkanasy, 2014. 1 __ MUSIC, MELBOURNE & ME The Living End, Corner Hotel, 2012. Photo: Mary Program Wednesday 8 October: Curator Talk, Dr Jacqueline Healy. Boukouvalas. 2 __ RMIT Gallery installation view: Celebrity Me Zone. Photo Mark Ashkanasy, 2014. __ 3 GROOVES ON THE GREEN MindBuffer in action at White Night Melbourne. Photo: Evelyn Tsitas, 2014. 16 September __ 4 MUSIC, MELBOURNE & ME Kylie Minogue Two Hearts video clip, 2007. Photo courtesy of Darenote 2014 Ursula Hoff Annual Lecture P/L 5 __ BUNDOORA SPINE WALKWAY Robert Bridgewater I’ll Be Your Sunshine (Invisible), 2009. Photo: Margund Sallowsky. 6 __ Lisa Roet Chimpanzee Finger, 2013. Photo: Margund Sallowsky. 7__ BELGIAN Coinciding with Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo, RMIT Gallery is proud to host the 2014 TREASURES The Corridor, Sarah Vanagt, 2010, film still. Ursula Hoff Annual Lecture, Aboriginal Art Centres: The good, the bad and the ugly. Speakers include Dr Jacqueline Healy, Professor Ian McLean and Sister Alice Dempsey. 6 28 November 2014 — 21 February 2015 The 6th International Biennial of Media Arts Presented by Experimenta, The 6th International Biennial of Media Arts features work by Australian and international artists including: Yunkurra Billy Atkins, Sohan Ariel Hayes, Cake Industries (Jesse Stevens and Dean Peterson). Curator Jonathan Parsons Public Program 29–30 November: Media Arts community exploration. 8__ REVELATIONS: SCULPTURE FROM THE RMIT ART COLLECTION Sam Jinks, Unsettled Dogs, 2012, moulded silicone, pigment, resin and hair. Photo Mark Ashkanasy. 9 __ Reko Rennie, I wear my own crown, 2013. Neon. Courtesy of Karen Woodbury Gallery. 10 __ ULM SCHOOL OF DESIGN Walter 11 Zeischegg with Peter Hofmeister, Thomas Mentzel, Werner Zemp, Street Lighting, 1965–66. Photo Ernst Fesseler. 11 __ Michael Conrad, Pio Manzù, Fritz B. Bu sch, Car body-work (Autonova fam), 1965. Photo Braun Engels Gestaltung. © Ulm Museum/HfG Archive. 12 __ GARNKINY: CONSTELLATIONS OF MEANING Garnkirny du wardel du lalanggarrany du darndal (The Moon