Next Wave, 'Talon Salon'
Ever had your nails done? Check Talon Salon , one of Next Wave’s Kickstart projects. An intimate audio theatre work taking place at a Vietnamese-run... read more...
Next Wave, Creo Nova
Creo Nova is Benjamin Kolaitis and Alex Cuffe – the guys behind the Handmade Music Festival. They are now branching out into shamanism. Not in a... read more...
Next Wave, FLYWAY
After ‘induction’, which consists of being issued with ornithological-strength binoculars, immersive (and ear-warming) earphones for your MP3 player,... read more...
Next Wave, The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge
Depending on your quality as a person, you can walk away from Dan Koop’s The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge with anything from observation... read more...
Next Wave, Lucky PDF, Wake Up: The School of Global Art
Working with appropriation of other people’s work and ideas in the fields of art and popular culture, Lucky PDF make online television programs, internet... read more...
Next Wave, Physical Fractals
Physical Fractals is a performance piece by Abbott and Rebecca Jensen (both of VCA) that aims to overload the audience with sensory information. Consider... read more...
Next Wave, The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Abdul Abdullah, Nathan Beard and Casey Ayres are three Perth-based artists who didn’t used to have an embassy. No one has thought to erect a big fancy... read more...
Guerrilla Girls Public Lecture
Of all the feminist iconography to have emerged from 20th century, the sight of a nude with a gorilla’s head is one of the most furious and enduring. ... read more...
Self-Made at Melbourne Music Week
Here’s a mystery project. But it’s only a mystery because we don’t know what it is yet. Because you’re making it up. This year Melbourne... read more...
Jacqueline Bradley, 'The Outdoors Type'
‘The Outdoors Type‘ is Jacqueline Bradley‘s collection of costumes and props that aim to “bridge the gap between the artist and... read more...
'Classic Albums'
Each artist, under the curatorship of Ben Walsh, will be reinterpreting the artwork on their favourite records, proving that rock’s iconography endures... read more...
Bellowing Echoes
The Next Wave Festival prides itself on being ahead of the curve, and Bellowing Echoes is so far in front it’s arrived a month before the other... read more...
Take To Your Bed
Artists Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and Melenie Jame Walsh have set up a bedroom in a little courtyard of West Space gallery that opens onto Bourke Street.... read more...
Nat Nikitovic, 'As Is'
Tonight she’s launching her first ever photo book, As Is, as part of the Independent Photography Festival. It’s a collection of images taken... read more...
Catherine or Kate, 'Survey'
During their recent Skatfell residency in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, Catherine and Kate took a road trip and asked gas station attendants along the way... read more...
'NOTORIOUS: Duffy's Celebrity Portraits'
NOTORIOUS is a straight-ahead survey of the Brian Duffy’s ’60s and ’70s work. He burned most of his negatives in ’79, but what... read more...
Independent Photography Festival (I.P.F.)
The idea is simple: break all the best independent stuff that’s happening out of the screen and show it at galleries and parties. That way everyone... read more...
Eugenia Lim, ‘Stay Home Sakoku’
Eugenia Lim is fascinated by the occurrence in Japan of ‘hikikomori’, otherwise known as ‘shut-in syndrome’, in which people put themselves in... read more...
Wok The Rock, 'The Golden Memories'
The show aims to collect stories from Indonesians living in Melbourne about their homeland, utilising the internationally-recognised emotion trigger of... read more...
Neon Parc and Rainoff present '*95 (In Paris, the Outsiders are Officially In)'
In this exhibition, Rainoff invites three artists to make contact with the past via the repetition and reproduction of a specific moment in time –... read more...
William Kentridge, 'Five Themes'
Have you ever seen stop-motions on YouTube? Those animations that are basically a single screenshot of illustrations that morph from one thing into another?... read more...
Mick Turner, Cover Art & Morsels
Dirty Three have had the good sense to entrust cover art duty to their guitarist Mick Turner. No outsider could have possibly captured the feel of their... read more...
LMFF Cultural Program, week #1 highlights
Turn to the left, turn to the right, GUESS WHAT? We’re the exclusive media partner of the LMFF 2012 Cultural Program. Read on for a snapshot of our... read more...
The Sisters Hayes, 'Big Sky Country'
Melbourne art trio the Sisters Hayes recently retraced the journey of their American ancestors from east to west across the land of the free, ending up... read more...