©Marie Losier and Bernard Yenelouis 

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. Celebrated by critics and art historians as the progenitor of industrial music, he founded the legendary groups COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981) and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged avant garde performance art, provocative imagery with dark and often explorations of punk music.

©Helen Robert 

In 2000 Genesis re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology, beginning a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble Lady Jaye, his lover and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act of devotion. ‘He’ became a ‘she’ in a triumphant act of artistic expression. It is a project they called ‘Creating the Pandrogyne’; an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third. The ultimate union.

Filming with an experimental flair that plays to the performative nature of her subject, director Marie Losier has created an intimate, affecting portrait of a ground-breaking artist. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye documents a truly new brand of romantic consciousness, one that conveys beauty, dignity and devotion from an entirely new perspective.

Stuart Grant (Primitive Calculators) will hold an extended Q&A with Genesis P-Orridge following the screening. This will be her only appearance in Melbourne after performing with Psychic TV for The Adelaide Festival on Sat 3rd March.

More info at Speakeasy Cinema

Bottom – TIM SILVER
detail, Untitled (bust), 2011 
Pine Timbermate woodfiller 
Courtesy of the Artist and Breenspace, Sydney

Parallel Collisions
2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Curators Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor 

An experiential proposition inspired by art, cinema and literature, the 2012 Adelaide Biennial explores the ways in which ideas emerge, converge and re-form through time. From a floating island of 2000 cut-glass objects to an explosive light installation that clocks in real time human births, deaths and dying stars, this Biennial considers the temporality of the present as it parallels and collides with the past.

Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.

The accompanying publication is a 344 page offering where discursive, contradictory, creative and lateral ideas converge. Contributing authors include Christos Tsiolkas, Adrian Martin and Justin Clemens.

See more here

Top – ROSEMARY LAING
Groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001, detail  
C Type photography 
110 x 185 cm 
Courtesy of the Artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne   

Bottom – JOHN GLOVER
A View of the artist’s house and garden, in Mills Plains,
Van Diemen’s Land, 1835, detail  
oil on canvas 
76.4 x 114.4 cm 
Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1951 
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Top – SHAUN GLADWELL
Pataphysical Man, 2005, detail  
video still 
Performer: Daniel Esteve Pomares 
Videographer: Gotaro Uematsu 
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney  

Bottom – MARCO FUSINATO
Mass Black Implosion (Free music No 1, Percy Grainger), 2009, detail 
ink on archival facsimile of score 
23 x 32 cm 
Courtesy of the Artist and Private collection

See what ‘s on at the Adelaide Festival 2012

“Heaven and Hell. It was with those two words that curator Victoria Lynn and I began our discussions surrounding the 2012 Adelaide Festival visual arts program: the polarities of heaven and hell as the twin energies pulling at, and guiding, our imaginations. As Victoria puts it, it is in the “force field” between these poles that art exists. For me, art, often created in seclusion, is by nature experiential, indeed incomplete in itself until experienced; it requires the reaction of the observer for its latency to be activated, and then it in turn becomes informed by our thoughts, dreams, our personal histories to become part of its narrative arc. “Heaven” and “hell” might be the way we imagine our best and worst selves, the outer extremes of our potential for good and evil; they mark conceptually the boundaries of the possible.”
- Paul Grabowsky, Artistic Director, 2012 Adelaide Festival

See the Adelaide Festival – Visual Arts Program for full details.

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Design a cover for DG magazine with the theme:
Images of the Decade

The theme of the competition is ‘Images of the Decade’. The decade you choose can be in the past or the future, but not the present. The intention is to encourage entrants to look beyond their own experience, creating a snapshot of a past or future time.

Download the Call for Entries here
Download the InDesign/Photoshop templates here

The DG Student Design Competition is open to Tertiary and Secondary School students in Australia. Entries are judged in the following divisions: Tertiary Division, Secondary Division.

The prizes will be announced here and via newsletters. You can sign up for newsletters here for notification.

THE BRIEF
Design a cover for an imaginary issue of DG magazine with the theme: ‘Images of the Decade’. Trimmed page size: 297mm x 210mm, portrait (A4).

The imaginary issue will have a series of articles on images that are representative of a particular decade. That period may be in the past or future. Not the present.

The cover should therefore include one or more images that typify a particular period. The subject allows for a variety of editorial angles; historical or futuristic.

All entries must use the templates supplied by DGi Media (Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop). Which can be downloaded from here.

The graphics may be illustrative or photographic. In the case of photographs, some third party photographs may be used (as magazines and newspapers do), but in such cases it must be clearly marked on the entry form. If third party images are used, marks will be awarded for an individual’s creative and original use of such images.

It is important that the design is the entrant’s own work. Images may be sourced from third parties but they must not be used “as found”. Entrants should use photo-imaging techniques to create unique cover images.

The results will be published online here at the DG Design Network. www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/dgdn

Closing date for entries – 30 April 2012
Competition is open to Australian Tertiary and Secondary School students only
There is no entry fee for the competition 

Please see the Call for Entries for Terms & Conditions

See the 2011 DG Student Design Competition Gallery here

Contsructing the Impossible

Studio Tipi are two artists: Judi and Keith. They have a little kitten named Ringo and do some fantastic illustration work for: Monocle magazine; Canadian based paper goods brand Pigeon Post; New Zealand based online store General Cucumber; and Art Gallery of Alberta.

Well Stocked Library, Monocle 

DG – Your work has quite a strong style, how did you develop this?
STUDIO TIPI  – For us inspirations are like the unnameable meat parts and scraps that all go into the sausage machine, what you have in the end often is a surprisingly delightful product that has hints of the ingredients but never quite resembles the appearance of the things that went in.

Our ideas are often inspired by folk and naive arts, things from time passed, nature and animals.

DG – From your collection of work, it appears you’re mostly involved in producing work for Editorial, and Holiday Cards. What is your favourite area to create designs/illustrations for?
STUDIO TIPI  – Anything that allows fun and engaging ideas really, though there are projects that we would love to get our hands on like books and packagings and such… Most important is, we hope to bring happiness through our work.

DG –  What is coming up for 2012?
STUDIO TIPI  – At the moment we are having loads of fun working on children’s materials for the good folks at Anorak (the happy mag for kids!), as well as more stationery and paper products for Lagom Design in UK.

“Flying Machine” For New Zealand based online store General Cucumber’s 2009 Christmas campaign

Carousel, Monocle

See more of their work here

YES!
An exhibition of new works and installations by Maya Hayuk (Brooklyn, NY) and Kyle Ranson (San Fran, CA)
at No Vacancy, Melbourne
as part of the Sugar Mountain Festival

See more of Maya Hayuk‘s work here, and Kyle Ranson‘s here

No Vacancy
34 – 40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne, 3000
Opening Night: Friday 20th January: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Exhibition Running: 21st January – 29th January 2011

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

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Strictly limited season – Only in cinemas Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February
For participating cinemas and tickets visit LeonardoLiveHD.com

Experience the U.K. National Gallery’s sold-out, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’ captured live in high definition only at your local cinema in limited screenings on Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February, 2012.

In a first for movie audiences, the big-screen presentation of ‘Leonardo Live’ gives art lovers the world over the opportunity to share in the excitement of viewing the unprecedented and historic exhibition, in the comfort of their local cinema. The exhibition brings together the largest ever number of da Vinci’s paintings, including a new, never-before-seen Leonardo painting.  

‘Leonardo Live’ is presented by art historian Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrup, who will explore the exhibition and feature detailed examinations of the paintings and interviews with special guests and experts.

See the paintings revealed in astonishing detail through close-up footage on the big screen.

More info at Sharmill Films and here

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Studio Ghibli presents
ARIETTY
A film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Based on Mary Norton’s ‘The Borrowers’

Discover a secret world within our own

This is a story of a family of little people. Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two old ladies, who are absolutely unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants. Arrietty and her family live by borrowing. Everything they have, they borrow or make from the things they have borrowed. Essentials like gas, water and food. Tables, chairs, cooking utensils. And treats – a sugar cube here, a scrap of material there. But only a little each time, so the ladies do not notice. A 12-year-old boy, Sho, moves into the mansion while he waits for urgent medical treatment in the city. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you.” Once seen, little people always have to move on. But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and Sho discovers her. The two begin to confide in each other and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom…

In cinemas 12 January 2012
See the trailer here

More info at Madman

To celebrate her involvement in the Sydney Festival, via Festival First Night and ‘Insomnia’ live at the Sydney Opera House, Megan Washington’s long time artistic collaborator Benjamin Portas will exhibit his artwork in Sydney for the first time. The exhibit will open on Thursday 19th January, for one exclusive week, at MART Gallery in Surry Hills.

Portas has worked closely with Washington on the artistic direction for her two major releases, the Platinum-selling ‘I Believe You Liar’ and it’s companion piece ‘Insomnia’ as well as the many EP’s, tour posters, digital and graphic elements that have provided the visual backdrop to Washington’s much-loved music and video performances.

The exhibit will feature Portas’ artwork from all of Washington’s various releases, alongside rare international prints and the recent ‘Insomnia’ work which has been influential in inspiring the set-design for the upcoming Sydney Opera House show.

For more info head to www.martgallery.com.au

Lee Bul – From Me, Belongs To Only You
4 February – 27 May, 2012
Mori Art Museum 53F Ropponngi Hills Mori Tower

Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia. Her oeuvre is dominated by sculptures that demonstrate a mastery of materials and techniques, including her celebrated Cyborgs and Anagrams series, hybrid machine-and-organic forms referencing critical theory as well as dystopian cinematic worlds; karaoke “pods” that evoke space capsules for eternal sleep; and glittering, spectral gures and cityscapes that seem to be falling into ruin. For over twenty years, it could be said that Lee, whose practice has spanned her home country’s transition from military dictatorship to democracy, has been on a quest for an elusive something . the ultimate physical form perhaps, or the ideal society. While showcasing her major works in the four sections “Ephemeral Presence,” “Beyond Human,” “Utopia and Dreamscape” and “From Me, Belongs to You Only,” in the “Studio” section this exhibition will present the drawings and models that also form the font of her ideas. The subtitle “From Me, Belongs to You Only” is also a message from Lee: her attempt to find the “something” for which she is constantly searching in a personal relationship with each individual viewer. Come and experience that message for yourself in the spaces at “Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only.”
- Mori Art Museum

Lee Bul
Cravings
1989
Outdoor performance, Jangheung, Korea
Courtesy: Studio Lee Bul

Lee Bul
After Bruno Taut (Beware the sweetness of things) 
2007
Crystal, glass and acrylic beads on stainless steel armature, aluminum and copper mesh, PVC, steel and aluminum chains
258 x 200 x 250 cm
Installation view: “On Every New Shadow” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Collection: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris
Courtesy: the artist and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Photo: Patrick Gries

See more at Mori Art Museum

Organiser: Mori Art Museum
In Association with: OBAYASHI CORPORATION; TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION; Soo Seok Trading Co.,LTD.; Ilshin Foundation; SANKEN SETSUBI KOGYO CO.,LTD.; SHINRYO CORPORATION
Special Support: RYOKO CO., LTD.
Cooperation:  Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE