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Underground Cinema 2010

Nov 30, ’10 1:53 PM

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After a fantastic year of cinema events, the Underground Cinema have left a memorable impression on Melbourne – since their first premiere preview screening of Bunny & The Bull with special guest Richard Fulcher in April, to a backstage pass to DIG and Kingswood rocking the Meat Market in June, through to a WW2 Good German tribute to film noir in August. Plus, The Wackness in March and The Crow for Halloween.

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Images from Underground Cinema’s Speakeasy Prohibition Party
Photos by Dan Murphy

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Craft Hatch Market 11.12.2010

Nov 26, ’10 4:10 PM

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Saturday 11 December
11am-4pm. City Library (253 Flinders Lane, Level 1 gallery)

Image: Cat Rabbit, Christmas Card, $5 at December Craft Hatch.

The Craft Hatch market is the perfect place to pick up a unique Christmas card, gift or stocking filler, like one of these screen printed Christmas cards by local label CatRabbit.

A market veteran with a practice encompassing soft toys and jewellery, CatRabbit has developed a dedicated following over the last five years. Every

Christmas the label produces a limited edition set of cards printed with the Japanese Gocco Screen Printing machine.

The Happy Christmas Bear card sells for $5 and is printed on recycled paper using the Gocco screen printing inks. The cards are sold in a limited edition of 100, so you can rest assured they are as rare as that special someone in your life.

The Craft Hatch market is a one stop shop for locally designed homewares, jewellery, clothing and accessories. Every market presents a newly curated selection of the best emerging craft and design.

Also exhibiting at Craft Hatch in December are: Ellka Design, Erica Bramham, FUNKYWOMBAT textiles & The Curious Girl, Genna Campton, Goldenink, Gwendoline Page, Handmade Life, Jaylene Falkner, Rose Megirian, Rebecca Martin & Aldis Kossdottir and Urthly Organics.

Craft Hatch markets are presented by Craft Victoria in collaboration with the City Library on the second Saturday of every month, 11am-4pm. Please note there will be no Craft Hatch market in January.

See more at Craft Victoria

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Melbourne Design Market 05.12.2010

Nov 26, ’10 4:08 PM

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Images R-L: Karim Rashid designs at the RG Madden stand, Modula fir treet at the Büro North stand, Glow in the dark Zip Zips at the Zip Zips stand.

Melbourne’s original pop up design market continues to be the place for style hunters to gather, be inspired and shop.

Since 2005 the Melbourne Design Market has been popping up twice a year for ONE DAY ONLY and transforming Fed Square’s underground car park into designland.

On Sunday December 5, 2010 there’ll again be a diverse collection of over 50 exhibitors from small design brands just launching to well-known and much-loved brands all showcasing their latest and greatest. Plus the cool sounds of DJ Madee River, fine fair-trade barista coffee from Bean Ground and Drunk and fantastic paella from the Beer de Luxe on-site kitchen all add to the party atmosphere.

So come along, experience Melbourne’s best design market and you can even knock over your Christmas gift buying in just one day.

MELBOURNE DESIGN MARKET 10am-5pm, Sunday December 5 at Federation Square undercover car park.

Enter via Russell Street extension or Riverside Walk.
Disabled parking and facilities nearby.
Entry is free.

More info here

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No Vacancy: BIRDS ON OAK

Nov 22, ’10 11:46 AM

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Scottie Neoh is an artist working out of a self-sustainable mud brick hideaway in Tallarook, Victoria. He has used his many years of working as a graffiti artist together with his love of nature and geometry to distill a style that is very much his own.

Bonsai’s work knows no bounds – mural painting, signage, interior design, fashion design, illustration, product design, you name it – he has applied his craft to it and made it his own.

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ROBIN, 940 x 940 x 70 mm, Acrylic on reclaimed Tasmanian oak box framed panels

Bonsai is part of the Wooden Foundations collective, a group of artists who share a similar ideology and a broad aesthetic style that is abundant with the wonder of nature, and is also the designer and producer of Tailfeather, a hand made leather and textile goods company.

No Vacancy Project Space
Fedeeration Square, The Atrium
Melbourne.

Exhibition Running: 19th November – 1st December

Trading Hours:
Monday: Gallery Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00am – 5:00pm

More info at No Vacancy

See more Bonsai’s work here

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Ho Tzu Nyen: Earth, at ARTSPACE

Nov 22, ’10 11:32 AM

EXHIBITION: 20 January — 20 February 2011
Opening 6pm Wednesday 19 January
Oren Ambarchi Live Sound Score Performances 7.30pm Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 January

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Ho Tzu Nyen: Earth
Curator: Blair French

Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen creates works that are fields of concrete sensations. In association with Sydney Festival 2011, Artspace presents the first major exhibition of his work in Sydney, including two live sound score performances by Melbourne-based composer and musician Oren Ambarchi accompanying screenings of the title work.

The exhibition features three major video works—NEWTON (2009), ZARATHUSTRA: A FILM FOR EVERYONE AND NO-ONE (2009/2010) and the centrepiece 42 minute work EARTH (2009/2010), a ‘videographic’ remix in three long takes of 17th and 18th century Italian and French paintings in which the human body is penetrated, fragmented and re-arranged.

Ho Tzu Nyen creates audio-visual artworks that translate and compress biographies, philosophical ideas and scientific anecdotes into highly staged and choreographed ‘text-less’ images and sounds that seek to communicate at the level of the nervous system.

ARTSPACE is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

ARTSPACE is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

ARTSPACE is a member of CAOs (Contemporary Art Organisations Australia) and Res Artis (International Association of Residential Art Centres).

See more at ARTSPACE

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MONA FOMA 2011

Nov 17, ’10 11:02 AM

SEX. ART. ROCK & ROLL.
MOFO AND THE LAUNCH OF MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART
JANUARY 2011
HOBART, AUSTRALIA

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MONA FOMA (MOFO), is Hobart’s cutting edge Festival of Music and Art. Currently in it’s third year, the festival is once again presenting another ground-breaking and frontier-pushing program for 2011.
From January 14-20, curator Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes and now The Break fame will present an incredible array of massive and amazing music, dance, theatre, visual art, performance, new media – and some art. It’s a mix of first-time appearances, festival favourites and exclusive one-off performances and it’s mostly free.

The MONA FOMA 2011 Festival line up includes:

Philip Glass and Wendy Sutter [USA]
Grinderman [Australia/UK/USA]
Botborg [Australia/Germany]
Speak Percussion [Melbourne]
Chiharu Shiota [Japan/Berlin]
Brook Andrew [Sydney]
Amanda Palmer [USA]
Neil Gaiman, FourPlay Sting Quarter &Eddie Campbell [USA/Australia/UK]
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion [USA]
BalletLab [Melbourne]
Wire [UK]
Groupe F [France]
Roman Signer [Switzerland]
Gelitin [Austria]
Ana Prvacki [Serbia/Singapore]
Health [USA]
Monanism – the Exhibition

Phillip Glass Image Credit Raymond Meier
Philip Glass and Wendy Sutter [USA]

Philip Glass [legendary composer/pianist]. Considered one of the most influential composers of late 20th Century. Widely acknowledged as the composer who brought art music to the public. Wendy Sutter [cello virtuoso]. Internationally acclaimed soloist, muse and partner of Philip.

MOFO 2011: The duo will present an intimate evening of Glass compositions. Solo piano, a cello suite ‘Songs and Poems’ and duets each include discussions by the composer. A unique relationship: Glass and his muse Sutter.

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Grinderman [Australia/UK/USA]

Australian rock and roll royalty. Formed 2006 as a follow-on from post-punk group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Nick Cave [vocals. electric guitar. keyboards]. Warren Ellis [electric bouzouki. mandocastor. violin]. Martyn P. Casey [bass]. Jim Sclavunos [drums].

MOFO 2011: These stalwarts guarantee to make Prince’s Wharf 1 throb with noise and poetry.

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Amanda Palmer [USA]

Amanda Palmer: [composer/pianist/performer/ukulele basher]. Came to prominence with the American cabaret/rockband Dresden Dolls. Has moved on to a highly successful and diverse solo career ranging from music>film>theatre>dance. Her confrontational and unorthodox relationship with the audience breaks down the usual performer/crowd barriers and leads to all kinds of interactions.

MOFO 2011: Will appear solo and in collaboration with several other artists.

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BalletLab [Melbourne]

Formed 1999. Confrontational dance troupe present a trilogy of MONA commissioned new work. Regular MOFO performers, their piece in the inaugural MOFO was SO intense it had to be moved indoors after witnesses to the sound check/rehearsal got anxious and started to cry. One of the most inventive choreographic visionary companies working in Australia. Strikingly contemporary in nature and physically idiosyncratic.

BalletLab’s work pushes performance boundaries and invents movement vocabularies that reference contemporary culture: a transforming often provocative and polarising experience for the audience, the art form and the performer.
Blending, juxtaposing and twisting classical, romantic, baroque and contemporary dance forms, the visual impact of the movement and the provocative conceptual based imagery and design play equal parts within BalletLab’s unique choreography.

Find out more about MONA FOMA

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Illustrators Australia Awards

Nov 15, ’10 10:21 AM

EXTENDED DEADLINE UNTIL 17TH NOVEMBER

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See more here

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Craft Victoria: Launch of COOKBOOK north/south

Nov 12, ’10 2:19 PM

29 November, 6-8pm
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

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Images (L-R): Printing of COOKBOOK north/south, photography: Dave Carswell

Chefs, artists and writers interpret their favourite Melbourne suburb in hand printed cookbook.

Craft Victoria is hosting the launch of not-for-profit COOKBOOK north/south. This unique, unbound publication has been letterpress printed by hand in a limited edition of 500. It features an inquisitive exploration of ten Melbourne suburbs via recipes, original artwork and short stories. Facilitated by the designers at Wolfgang, Shlomo & Max, this collaborative project is a platform for Melbourne’s chefs, artists and writers to personally and creatively interpret their city.

COOKBOOK north/south’s eclectic array of contributors give life to this humble publication. From Andrew McConnell’s tales of stealing fresh figs in the back alleys of Fitzroy, to Robert Castellani‘s description of his mother’s famed Ragu, their voices fill the pages with charm and localised eloquence. Contributors were asked to find inspiration in their suburb and creatively interpret their surroundings.

Whether internationally renowned or local gems, chefs were chosen via suburb research, word of mouth and SecondBite recommendations. The result is a colourful group of chefs whose delicious recipes sit alongside artwork and short stories by established and emerging local talent.

Each of COOKBOOK north/south’s ten suburb-inspired chapters feature a lino-cut artwork, short story and three recipes. A unique collection of letterpress forms, typography and colour create the visual identity for each suburb chapter. An unbound publication, COOKBOOK north/south comprises of hand printed individual cards, first offset and then letterpress printed at the Melbourne Museum of Printing.

COOKBOOK north/south retails for $100 with all proceeds going to SecondBite, a not for profit organisation committed to the redistribution of surplus food to those experiencing hardship within the community.

More at Craft Victoria here

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The Moiré Index

Nov 12, ’10 1:05 PM

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Carsten Nicolai, Gestalten © 2010

In Grid Index, Carsten Nicolai created a visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Now Moiré Index is dedicated to his exploration of the moiré effect—a phenomenon that can be created by the overlay of lines. Although such interference patterns are mostly considered to be unwanted side effects, they are actually extremely interesting from an aesthetic perspective.

Based upon years of research, Nicolai has analyzed and systematically unlocked fundamental structures of crucial importance to the visualization of data. As the first extensive visual compendium of these interference patterns, Moiré Index is the definitive reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers, mathematicians, or anyone else who wants to use its content as a basis for graphic designs. A CD accompanies the book and contains not only the featured moirés as digital files, but also individual elements that can be used to create an almost endless amount of new overlays. These files can be used effortlessly with virtually any platform, operating system, and graphics software and can be applied in every field of visual culture.

One of Germany’s most renowned contemporary artists, Nicolai has been working at the intersection of art and science since the early 1990s. With Moiré Index he has again produced not only a work of art, but also a practical tool for anyone working creatively.

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See more at Gestalten

By: Carsten Nicolai
Price: € 39,90 / $ 60,00 / £ 37,50
Format: 18.5 × 23 cm
Features: 312 pages, b/w, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM
ISBN: 978-3-89955-308-6

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Moses Tan

Nov 12, ’10 9:58 AM

Of a Time and Place in Australia and Japan

EXHIBITION DATES
2 December 2010–28 February 2011
Sofi’s Lounge, Level 1 Sofitel Melbourne On Collins
25 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

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Moses Tan is an educator, photographer, graphic artist and designer with a wealth of experience behind him. He divides his time between teaching and time spent in front of the computer, creating work for exhibition or for a growing clientele. Tan has had a twenty year association with Box Hill TAFE delivering short courses which include “Photoshop for Photographers” and “The Complete Digital SLR Camera Course.” An ardent traveller, Moses has had regular exhibitions of his travel photographs since the early eighties, much of which has also been published in travel journals. These include “An Italian Journey” and “Journey to Jerusalem.” Illustrator is the software that he uses to create complex but timeless images of urban landscapes of here and from abroad.

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“‘Of a Time and Place in Australia and Japan’ is a celebration of two great countries, two neighbours, two friends and trading partners, both located on the Pacific Rim. The first of these, I have called home since 1968 when I arrived here as a student. The second, I had the opportunity to visit for the first time in 2008 – hopefully it won’t be the last. However, I must point out that I have had a long-standing love affair with Japan and all things Japanese – my first three exhibitions were of haiku-inspired photographs”

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“Of a Time and Place” is, in a sense, a collection of “postcards” – albeit, large ones. Like most good postcards, they are a retroactive view of the present.  The camera is an instrument par excellence in the search for images pregnant with meaning, and of places that reek of the past. But as Susan Sontag so succinctly puts it, “a way of certifying experience – by converting it into an image, a souvenir – is also a way of refuting it.” In our image-choked world, where a touch of the finger suffices to confer immortality to an experience, I think it is important to slow down and to really see. And when one draws one can claim to really see. The real instrument of my choice is Adobe Illustrator, a vector-based computer program. “Of a Time and Place” pays homage to the great cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo and Kyoto, but it is no mere document of urban life, nor is it a record of famous sights. To borrow a phrase from Peter Quartermaine on Jeffrey Smart, I am interested in “the familiar world in which we have lived for so long, but whose beauty we could not or would not see.” This exhibition owes much to Hiroshige’s monumental “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” Eugene Atget’s old Paris and Berenice Abbott’s changing New York.  I hope that my images, like theirs, go beyond documentation, and become poetic utterances of places and time, all given permanence by drawing” – Moses Tan

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Craft Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria present Places and Pieces

Nov 10, ’10 2:04 PM

6 December 2010 – 9 January 2011, enCOUNTER 24/7 window
Launching Saturday 11 December, 2-4pm
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne

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Images (L-R): Meagan Parry, Bendigo Senior Secondary School (2010), Simone Hope, Bendigo Senior Secondary School (2010)

Young people work with Craft Victoria professional members to define their sense of place.

Places and Pieces is a joint Craft Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria initiative developed to engage a wide range of students and emerging community members in the craft of jewellery making. Participants included students from Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Castlemaine Secondary Collage and young members of the Karen Community, refugees from areas in and around Burma who have settled in Bendigo.

Led by Craft Victoria professional members Anna Davern, Tamara Marwood and Sarah Fowler, participants were encouraged to explore and develop their creative skills via the production of jewellery pieces constructed from nonprecious materials found within their own localities. The idea of ‘Place’ can be interpreted in many ways; as an abstract concept, a physical location, a point of view or a designated social level or situation. All interpretations are informed by the individual’s perception of their position in the world around them.

Artists and participants in Places and Pieces have been guided by this commonality, the resulting artworks providing invaluable insights into the similarities and differences between the groups. A selection of the artworks developed throughout the project will be exhibited in Craft Victoria’s window gallery enCOUNTER from December 6.

A Craft Victoria mentorship will be offered to one Places and Pieces participant to further develop their jewellery practice in 2011.

More at Craft Victoria

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20th Century Travel

Nov 8, ’10 11:08 AM

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A lush visual history of the Golden Age of travel

The metabolism of travel changed more in the last century than in the previous half-millennium, a stunning transformation triggered by American wanderlust. In less than 100 years, the U.S. mass-produced the automobile, invented airplanes, freeways, motels, even sent men to the Moon. Travel grew ever faster and easier. Above all, it was democratized — enabling millions to explore distant lands, or see their own more fully.

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At the start of the 20th century, only people with extensive disposable income and time to spare could enjoy leisure travel. By the century’s end, journeys took hours, not days, and mass travel — especially brief air flights — became the new normal. Along the way, ocean liners broke speed records, aerodynamic trains roared down the tracks, stylish boat-plane clippers evolved into jumbo jets. Whether aboard high-speed locomotives or ships, jets, or Greyhound buses — or when setting their own schedule on the open road — Americans demanded ever greater mobility and wider choice of destinations, thereby setting a new standard for travelers around the world.

A lush visual history of international wanderlust, this volume features 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection, that illustrate the evolution of leisure travel — from domestic to global, exclusive to popular, exotic to standardized — and its crucial role in American culture.

With an introduction, decade-by-decade analysis, and  an illustrated timeline, this book highlights the cultural and technological developments that transformed travel from a cushioned journey of the elite into a convenient leisure pastime for the general public. 20th Century Travel takes us on a grand tour of travel’s golden age.

See more at Taschen

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Underground Cinema – Halloween

Nov 8, ’10 9:52 AM

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2010, Australia, Halloween, Melbourne, UGC, Photography – Dan Murphy

“It can’t rain all the time…”

During a weekend where Melbourne experienced a significant amount of rain, it seemed somewhat appropriate to attend the spooky Underground Cinema event for Halloween. Especially as the mystery film was revealed to be the 90s goth/crime cult classic: The Crow.

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2010, Australia, Halloween, Melbourne, UGC, Photography – Dan Murphy

Approaching the secret location characters from the film came to life to interact with you. Whilst waiting in line, small excerpts from the film were re-enacted by the characters standing by: skatebaording past or clutching to a faux grave stone. With so much happening around you, it cannot be helped but to become swept up in the energy and excitement. The Underground Cinema creates an environment where guests are encouraged to be invloved in the scene they create: rather than just a viewer.

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2010, Australia, Halloween, Melbourne, UGC, Photography – Dan Murphy

Be quick to get tickets to the Underground Cinema’s final event for 2010 – tickets can be purchased here

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Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010 – Highlights

Nov 3, ’10 11:34 AM

This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival was overflowing with incredibly diverese performances, installations, exhibitions and events. We are looking forward to next year already.

Just a couple of our favourite acts were…

Tomorrow, In A Year

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Tomorrow, In a Year, Photography by Claudi Thyrrestrup

The beauty of Hotel Pro Forma’s striking visuals accompanied by Scandinavian electro-pop masters The Knife’s extravagent soundtrack provided a modern exploration of what opera can be pushed to be. The use of lasers, smoke machines and video all added to the exciting and unique atmosphere of which consumed the audience throughout the performance.
Directed by Ralf Richardt Strøbech and Kirsten Dehlholm, the performance creates an experience of Charles Darwin’s travels, inspired by his perception of nature and time. We are shown “our image of the world as a place of incredible variation, similarity and unity is re-discovered in this revolutionary electronic feast for the senses”.

John Cale – Noises in My Head

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To spend an evening with John Cale to hear him speak about his musical career in a youth orchestra in Wales; writing his first composition in primary school; developing a penchant for avantgarde at a London art college; being guided to New York by the hand of Aaron Copland and John Cage; honing in his signature drone palate at the feet of LaMonte Young and then begin his underground noise bending attack on rock and roll from The Velvet Underground to his current genre-bending music: we felt more than privileged. Of course, by the end we wished there was much more time sit and listen to the man who has created some of the most beautiful chaos in music.

Boredoms – BOARDRUM

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Boredoms (Japan), have become known for their “noice, chaos, tribal experimentation, remixing, trance-inducing feats of rythmic intensity, line-up changes, collaborations, and doing whatever they want regardless of trends and fashion”. Since 2007, Boredoms have performed their BOARDRUM set annualy. On the 7/7/2007 they had 77 drummers play together, on the 8/8/2008 it was 88 and last year on the 9/9/2009 it was 9. Boredoms featured 10 drummers for the 10/10/10 show, plus a guitarist and Bordeoms’ ringleader EYE playing two seven-necked guitar mutations.

More information on the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010 here

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