The Thousands

In any culturally worthwhile metropolis, the seven day drinker commences an evening by consulting their network of art friends. Chasing inner city exhibition openings is a fulfilling and heady enterprise, and it is in this exhilarated spirit that the Damien Minton Annex Space is hosting a completely different art exhibition every night for twenty nights in October – tonight being the seventh. Each exhibition runs only from 6 – 8pm, and is dismantled the next morning.

This hyper regenerative art platform is brought to us by New York’s Jon Frum Art Foundation – started by expat Australian artists Tamara Mendels and Nicholas Pike – and Sydney curator Robert Lake. Designed to be “part performance, part artist-run, and part commercial” there’ll be both local (e.g. Alex Jackson Wyatt) and overseas artists (e.g. Elle Burchill), with newcomers alongside the established – see program here – and no exhibition runs twice. They’re live streamed to the web each night, but judging from the quality of previous footage – e.g. what looks to be the back of two canvases and a naked woman staring at a wall – you’d do best to make like the nightly free cheese and wine chaser and actually get out there.