VCA PAINTING END OF YEAR PARTY in the PARK
It is the end of the year, and some people are saying goodbye.
So it is the time to celebrate our time at the VCA.
It will be at 5pm on Friday the 26th Oct.
After school finishes for the day we all head over the road.
In the gardens across from school, near the rotunda.
like last year.
The party will include;
BBQ
Sweet things
Speeches by teachers,
Speeches for teachers,
Kenny
Gifts for the Teachers
Soccer
Sports
Relaxing environment
Trees
(text taken from FB, see Daniel Belfield for more details)
5PM Friday, October 26, 2012, Royal Botanical Gardens (more details coming)
Raafat Ishak, Nomination for the presidency of the New Egypt
At this pivotal moment within the recent history of the Middle East, as groups and individuals seek to propose alternative models of governance, Ishak's latest project involves the establishment of a manifesto for a new political party to contend the Egyptian elections. Written in cursive Arabic text, the ‘party's' manifesto sits below an imagined logo, a Scarab beetle, painted in Ishak's customary style, where distinctive lines enclose curved, square or rectangular shapes that have been slowly built up in pastel shades on unprimed MDF.
Placing emphasis on the need for better food distribution and land cultivation, the proposed manifesto revisits a highly radical and contentious position within the framework of Egyptian nationhood: the re-flooding of the Nile River. Here Ishak calls for positive action and renewal, thereby reflecting his practice at large, which continually expresses the world as another place or suggests an imagined future.
The physical configuration of Nomination for the presidency of the New Egypt recalls a paper scroll resting on a black cube. Notably, the presence of the black cube has carried great significance throughout Ishak's oeuvre, with incarnations of Malevich's Black Square 1915 appearing in Ishak's practice as early as 1987. His resonance with this symbol is not simply due to its significance in modern art and architecture; it is also equally a reflection on his heritage and the sacred site of Islamic pilgrimage, the black stone cube of the Kaaba in Mecca: ‘While this motif resonates with externally generated meanings - an amalgam of archeological layers and intersecting histories - it also suggests the limits of abstraction and the meanderings of the contemporary artist'.i In this way, the black cube is positioned as both structurally and culturally representative of the circulatory nature of the personal and political.
12 October 2012 - 10 November 2012
Sutton Gallery
Kate Just features in Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists at Heide
Kate Just is one of ten Australian artists exhibiting in Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists at Heide Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition features works by artists who have been inspired by Bourgeois, revealing the depth of her influence locally. The exhibition includes works by contemporary Australian artists that share Bourgeois’ compelling combination of abstraction and figuration, her psycho-sexual themes and surrealist sensibility. The exhibition also includes a number of works by Bourgeois from Australian collections. The exhibition runs 13 October 2012 – 14 April 2013.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Daine Singer
a bit of cross promotion
Children of Grainger, a performance
by the Bent Leather Band
An
artists’ talk will precede the concert at 2.00pm with the concert
beginning at 3.30pm. Please see below and attached for performance
details and
booking information.
Sunday 14 October 2012
2:00pm – Artists’ talk
3:30pm – Concert
At the Grainger Museum
Gate 13, Royal Parade
University of Melbourne
Cost:
Adults $15, Concession $10
How to book:
Contact Yana Poulos by email at
yana.poulos@unimelb.edu.au or telephone her on 8344 3964 to reserve a seat.
Payment is required on the day at the door.
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