A Gallery walk through an exhibition of images from photo artists that unlock the subtle mysteries of urban places. Arts Friday’s Angela Stretch [13.42 minutes]
Urban Enigmas is a group exhibition of eight artists at the recently renovated gaffa Gallery. The curator and participating artist Lynn Smith, prefers not to be categorised as a street photographer, “We are artists. We use the real world as raw material (like a potter uses clay) to fashion objects called photographs.”
Take a walk with Lynn Smith, as he describes the exhibited works in Urban Enigmas at gaffa. Hear also from exhibiting artist Shawn Sijnstra. The exhibition culminates a book, which can be purchased at gaffa.
Exhibition: – 29 March 2024 gaffa Gallery: 281 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2009 Tues-Fri: 10am – 6pm, Sat 11am-5pm, Sun and Public Holidays closed https://www.gaffa.com.au/event/urban-enigmas-
The United Nations International Women’s Day 2024 theme is invest in women: accelerate progress. We hear from a range of artists on there shared thoughts in acknowledgement of theis special women on-air at Eastside. The Biennale of Sydney’s 50th anniversary year features 87 artists and collectives from 47 countries. The Artistic Directors Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero’s 24th reiteration, Ten Thousand Suns, proposes celebration as both a method and a source of joy inspired by the legacies of collective resistance and coming together to thrive in the face of injustice. Following the media preview, you will hear from six exhibiting women artists exibiting across four venues: Pacific Sisters (AGNSW), Sana Shahmuradova Tanska (Artspace), Citra Sasmita and Mangala Bai Maravi (Chak Chak Museum), and Hayv Kahranman (MCA). Contemporary Australian women poetry medley presentation by Poetry Sydney airs and the full collection can be listened to on the podcast: ORATURE.wav~
THANK YOU TO THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY COMMENTS FROM: Claudia Chan Shaw / Rosemary Gattuso / Wendy Sharpe / Susan Hawthorne / Anne Casey / Angie Contini – The Salons / Kimberley Hodgson
Australian women poets on International Women’s Day by Teena McCarthy – Mary / Sarah Temporal – We gave birth to my daughter / Alicia Sometimes – Hope / Belinda Aucott – Shelter Woman / Willoh – White Lin
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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Silhouette by Molly Lewis (National Release) Release: On The Lips
INTERVIEW: Pacific Sisters by EXHIBITION: Biennale of Sydney: AGNSW (Local Release)Release: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/pacific-sisters/
Paloma Negra by Amy Gadiaga (International Release) Release: All Black Everything
INTERVIEW: Sana Shahmuradova Tanska by EXHIBITION: Biennale of Sydney – Artspace (Local Release) https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/sana-shahmuradova-tanska/
INTERVIEW: Citra Sasmita by EXHIBITION: Biennale of Sydney (Local Release) Release: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/citra-sasmita/
INTERVIEW: Mangala Bai Maravi by EXHIBITION: Biennale of Sydney: Chak Chak Museum (Local Release) Release: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/mangala-bai-maravi/
Voice by Flora Carbo (National Release) Release: Voice
INTERVIEW: Hayv Kahraman by EXHIBITION: Biennale of Sydney: MCA (Local Release) Release: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/hayv-kahraman/
Moving Forward by Byrony Jarman-Pinto (International Release) Release: Below Dawn
Australian women poets on International Women’s Day by Teena McCarthy – Mary / Sarah Temporal – We gave birth to my daughter / Alicia Sometimes – Hope / Belinda Aucott – Shelter Woman / Willoh – White Lin Release: Full details visit: https://eastsidefm.org/series/orature-wav/
THANK YOU TO THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY COMMENTS! by Claudia Chan Shaw / Rosemary Gattuso / Wendy Sharpe / Susan Hawthorne / Anne Casey / Angie Contini – The Salons / Kimberley Hodgson
Vessels of Love is an annual poetry program presented by Poetry Sydney that seeks to explore ideas and forms of love over Valentine’s Day week. The first edition was part of the City of Sydney’s series of activations to attract people back to the Central Business District following the pandemic in 2021. This year The Salons: Love in transmission is the fourth project that allows us an entry point into poetry of impermanence and fragility of taut lines and tensile forces. The Salons directors, Angie, Joan and Penny provide insight and we present the participating poets for Love in transmission on the airwaves in two parts: Albert Lin, Ali Whitelock, Gillian Swain, Luke Patterson, Magdalena Ball, Paris Rosemont and Richard James Allen.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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FEATURE STORY: Love in transmission on the airwaves by CURATORS: The Salons – Angie, Joan and Penny | https://www.thesalons.org/
Poetry Sydney presents Vessels of Love 2024 (VOL) partnered with The Salons: Love in transmission |https://love-in-transmission.poetrysydney.org/
Just as you are by Church Chords (International Release) Release: Otherly Love EP
Love in transmission POETS: by Albert Lin | Ali Whitelock | Gillian Swain | Luke Patterson | Magdalena Ball | Paris Rosemont | Richard James Allen
Activation: tides of love by You’re invited! People from across the global poetry community are invited to write your poetry on love into the tide line of your local beach. https://www.thesalons.org/tides-of-love
TECTONICis an imposing black slab installation work that spans 30 square metres at Passage Gallery to awaken the Moon for Lunar New Year, in the heart of China Town. The artist Kien Situ is a multidisciplinary Asian-Australian who works across architecture, sculpture, film and installation. Passage is a non-commercial gallery dedicated to installation art presenting exhibitions that can be viewed 24/7 and without opening hours. We hear from Ashleigh Jones, who is one of the three curators of Passage. Fooled Enough With Numbers offers a glimpse into how artists integrate the digital in their process, navigating the transformative and material potential afforded by emerging technologies. Curated by Michelle Chanique, the three exhibiting artists Kenneth Lambert, Thomas Marcusson and Justin Harvey provide insight from the Stanley Street Gallery.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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Live recording excerpt: John Cage
Organ chord change after 2 years – Slow 639 year composition
Jazz Money launched her film WINHANGANHAat AGNSW in November last year. It’s a film born from a desire to make sense of the archival inheritances that shape our present realities. WINHANGANHA in Wiradjuri language translates as ‘Remember, know, think’. The film is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). It is an examination of how archives and the legacies of collection affect First Nations people and wider Australia, as told by Jazz Money as she explains. The Sydney Poetry Picnic is a celebration of poetry. Now in its eighth year, is an acknowledgement of the efforts undertaken throughout the year by the conveners of poetry in forging poetry communities and developing support of the art form in Sydney and New South Wales. We hear from a few of the representatives on their events, Albert Lin, Defne, Peter Roads and Gillian Swain. Opera Australia opens this summer with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Tenor, Michael Smallwood is in Sydney for his Australian debut with Opera Australia the first time he has sung in the Sydney Opera House.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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NEW WORLD nat birchall NEW WORLDInternational
Poeira Sam Gendel and Fabiano do Nascimento The RoomInternational
INTERVVIEW: Jazz MoneyFILM: WINHANGANHAhttps://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/winhanganha-new-work-award-winning-poet-and-artist-jazz-money How you make a basket, UQP 2021https://www.jazz.money/
Sweet Magnet Church Chordselvis, he was Schlager (LP)
INTERVIEW: Michael Smallwood, Tenor PRODUCTION: The Magic Flute 1 February – 16 March Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Best For You and Me Helado Negro PHASOR
Escape E. Lundquist Art Between Minds
What Did You Run For? Feat. Omar Cotonete, DaniloEPInternational
EVENT: Sydney Poetry Picnic 3-6pm Saturday 27 January 2024 Harmony Park, Surry Hills | FREE POETS / POETRY CONNVENORS Dfne – West Side Poetry Slam Albert Lin – Asphalt Words and Ocean Dreams Peter Roads – Loose Leaf Literature, Chippo Hotel, Chippendale Gilian Swain –
NEW WORLD nat birchall NEW WORLDInternational
Poeira Sam Gendel and Fabiano do Nascimento The RoomInternational
INTERVIEW: Jazz MoneyFILM: WINHANGANHAhttps://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/winhanganha-new-work-award-winning-poet-and-artist-jazz-money
How you make a basket, UQP 2021https://www.jazz.money/
Sweet Magnet Church Chordselvis, he was Schlager (LP)
INTERVIEW: Michael Smallwood, Tenor PRODUCTION: The Magic Flute 1 February – 16 March Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Best For You and Me Helado Negro PHASOR
Escape E. Lundquist Art Between Minds
What Did You Run For? Feat. Omar Cotonete, DaniloEPInternational
EVENT: Sydney Poetry Picnic 3-6pm Saturday 27 January 2024 Harmony Park, Surry Hills | FREE POETS / POETRY CONNVENORS Dfne – West Side Poetry Slam Albert Lin – Asphalt Words and Ocean Dreams Peter Roads – Loose Leaf Literature, Chippo Hotel, Chippendale Gilian Swain – CULTURE CLUB: Poets Society, The Family Hotel Maitland + Poetry at the Pub, Newcastle
Lost in Palm Springs evolved as an exhibition in response to three artist research residencies undertaken by Dr Greer Honeywill in Palm Springs. The exhibition on at the Manly Art Galleryexplores the resurgence of mid-century modern architecture and design not only in Palm Springs and Joshua Tree in the US but also in Australian locations such as Mt Eliza, Canberra, Mermaid Beach and Sydney. Greer Honeywill provides us insight. In Our Time: Four decades of art from China and beyond has been assembled from Australian economist and diplomat Dr Geoff Raby’s art collection of artworks by more than 75 artsist working both in China and Australia over a 35 year period beginning in the mid-1980s. Bala Starr, Director of La Trobe Art Institute who are in partnership with The National Art School shares her thoughts on openeing night. Daniel Ionita, President Australian Romanian Academy, academic, poet and the curatorial advisor for The Universal within the Local, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet, a cultural performance event that celebrates the Romanian National poet, Mihai Eminescu. He talks us through this cross-cultural annual event.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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Learn to Swim Pt 1 by Joshua Idehen (International Release) Release: Stretch for the Stars
INTERVIEW: Bala Starr, Director of La Trobe Art Institute by EXHIBITION: In Our time – For Decades of Art from China and beyond – the Geoff Raby Collection (Local Release) Release: National Art School – 30 March
Staying With You by Cousin Kula (International Release) Release: Vitamin D
Flung by Intrinsic (International Release) Release: EP
INTERVIEW: Dr Greer Honeywill by EXHIBITION: Lost in Palm Springs (Local Release) Release: Manly Art Gallery & Museum – 25 February 2024 – https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/whats-on/lost-palm-springs Tracey Chattaway by Love is Here (National Release) Release: Night Sky
The Garden by Unknown Mortal Orchestra (International Release) Release: V
Furgonauta (EvaGeist Remix) by Rosa Brunello (International Release) Release: Single
INTERVIEW: Daniel Ionita, President, Australian Romanian Academy by EVENT: The Universal within the Local – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet (Local Release) Release: 1pm Saturday 20th January 2024 – Juanita Nielsen Community Centre
Summer sessions continue with good vibrations from the Sydney Festival’s program. Benjamin Skepper is a musician, composer, multidisciplinary artist and co-curator if the Temperament series, a week-long celebration and deconstruction of Bach. He presents a a site-specific live remix of his own composition, Praeludium y Fuga. Sue Healey’s work draws its inspiration from dance as a transformative and poetic language of movement. On View – ICONS is a cinematic tribute to six icons of Australian dance. It’s an immersive multi-screen video installation that combines dance and film. We hear an intimate account of the project.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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Foi Boto by Fabiano do Nascimento (int) Release: The Room
Stomping Gamay by Jahari Massamba Unit (int) Release: YHWH is LOVE
INTERVIEW: Benjamin Skepper – musician, composer, multi-disciplinary artist and curator by Sydney Festival: Praeludium y Fuga | 27-28 January 2024 (loc) Release: Sydney Festival: The Temperament – a week-long celebration and destruction of Bach
Benjamin Skepper by Music excerpts from the album: Contrapuntal xxx (nat) Release: Official artist website: https://benjaminskepper.com/
A Low Frequency Nightmare by Mike Reed (int) Release: The Separatist Party
Let Your Hair Down Ft Hutch The Great by Max Sinal (int) Release: SQR002
INTERVIEW: Sue Healey by EXHIBITION: On View – ICONS | Sydney Festival (loc) Release: 16 -19 January 2024 – Sydney Dance Company, Neilson Studio, Walsh Bay Precinct
Sue Healey Official website by https://www.suehealey.com/ (loc)
Samba Dee (instrumental) by Southern University Jazz Ensemble (int) Release: Goes To Africa With Love
The Sydney Festival opens in the first week of January and the music program was recently finalised. Rosa Cloye-Hayward, Sydney Festival Music Producer guides us through the program and we take sample tracks from the artists being featured. Opera Australia presents Verdi’s classic La Traviata to open its 2024 season at the Joan Sutherland Theatre and we spotlight Luke Gabbedy, who is cast in the role of Giorgio Germont. We provide a nod to the last days of 2023, with Justin Paton, curator of international art at AGNSW, and Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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The Horse has a Voice by Matthew Herbet (int) Release: The Horse Float (ft. Kadhja Bonet) by Harrison (int) Release: Brids, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees Young Man by Conic Rose (int) Release: Babyghists EP1 INTERVIEW: Rosa Cloye Hayward, Music Producer, Sydney Festival by Sydney Festival Music program (loc) Release: 5 – 28 January 2024 On Your Shoulders by LILJA (int) Release: Mirage Sangue Negro by Amaro Freitas (int) Release: Brazil Josh Meader Trio by Live performance (loc) Release: Sydney Festival Jee Jee by Happy Holidays (int) Release: Peter Cat Recording Co. INTERVIEW: Justin Paton, Curator of international art AGNSW by EXHIBITION: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Had the Night Invaded the Day? (loc) Release: – April 2024 La Jungla by Harold Lopez-Nussa (int) Release: Havana Culture Always by Jonah Yano (int) Release: Portrait of a dog INTERVIEW: Luke Gabbedy by Opera Australia: La Traviata (loc) Release: January 2 – March 14 2024 Booty Ft Yokelust by Sophie Forrest (loc) Release: Don’t Touch My Booty EP Kangaroo Ground by Tornado Wallace (int) Release: Berlin
George Washingmachine is known as a jazz violinist, vocalist and visual artist. He gives us a spinning insiders viewpoint on his exhibition, Within at the Darlington Install Project (DIP). Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia is an intoxicating journey through Australia’s relationship with alcohol. It features short expositions and deep dives into incidents, eras, groups and individuals. The collection provides an alternative history of Australian society and culture from the bottom up. Alex Ettling, Co-editor, talks us through its contents and serves a curation of Australian music from both editors; Iain McIntyre. The Christmas Gift Salon opens at the Liverpool Street Gallery and we hear from the Director, Kate Alstergren, Gallerist James Erksine, and other artists.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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Desert Loop Bumbling by Dimitri Grimm Release: For Beauty’s Source Free Trial by Gerald Bailey Release: Migration Climate Maroochy Barambah – No More Boomarang by A poem written by Oodegeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Interview: George Washingmachine by Exhibition: Within – 070124 Release: Darlington Install Project [DIP] Love to Have a Beer with Duncan by Slim Dusty Float by HARRISON Release: Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees NY Disco by Bright & Findlay Release: Everything is Slow Interview: Alex Ettling, Co-editor by Book: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia Release: Interventions.org.au Release: Australian Voices: A Collection of Poetry and Pictures Van Diemen’s Land by Robin Jeffrey Drinking Magaritas At The Mall by Purple Mountains I Took The L by John Roseboro Release: Johnny Step by Step by Eddie Chacon Release: Sundown EXHIBITION: The Christmas Gift Salon – 27 January 2024 by COMMENTARY FROM: Kate Alsetergren, Director; James Erskine, Gallerist and artists Peter Sharpe and Ian Grant Liverpool Street Gallery Just A Little lovin’ by Mocky Release: LA Morning by Joshua Crumbly Release: EP Drunken Noodles by Visions Recordings Release: London
Conversations and Connections Documentary Festival brings together doco-makers and industry professionals, academics and the public to explore the power of today’s creative documentary forms at the State Library NSW. Hear an insightful overview from Dr Karen Pearlman writes, directs and edits screen productions and is to Deputy-director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre. AGNSW presents Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? Justin Paton, the curator of international art at the Art Gallery of NSW talks us through what we can experience. ArtScreen is a program supporting artists with disability or who are d/Deaf to develop their creativity and careers through producing new video artworks which are screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in celebration of International Day of People with Disability, which is on Sunday, December 3rd. Guy Morgan were selected for the 2023 ArtScreen program. His video, ‘Written with a finger on a steamed-up window’ has its premiere and we receive a preview.
Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW.
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I Just Want To Wake Up With You by Helado Negro (int) Release: PHASOR INTERVIEW: Dr Karen Pearlman, Deputy Director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University by Conversations and Connections Documentary Festival (loc) Release: – 1 December 2023 – State Library of NSW Ain’t No Place by United Freedom Collective (int) Release: Vast Oceans, Empty Skies INTERVIEW: Justin Paton, Curator of International art at the AGNSW by EXHIBITION: Louise Bourgeois – Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? (loc) Release: AGNSW – 28 April 2024 Bring The Storm by Bronwyn Eather (loc) Release: Brave Old World Summer Rain by New Visionaries (int) Release: Roadmaps 3301 by Cykada (int) Release: Metamorphosis INTERVIEW: Guy Morgan, artist by ArtScreen Premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art – https://access2arts.org.au/event/artscreen-2023/ (loc) Release: Video: Written with a finger on a steamed-up window Liminal Space by Ego Ella May (int) Release: FIELDNOTES PT III Hawk Island by Mr Beatnick (int) Release: Single Feedback of Silence (ft. Benjamin Herman) by THYSENTERPRISE (int) Release: ESSENTIAL
Edited story excerpts: Justin Paton: Music by Brian Eno, Webb, Nerve Net (1992). All rights reserved. Guy Morgan: Written with a finger on a steamed-up window. All rights reserved.
National Art School GRAD SHOW 2023
National Arts School Graduation Exhibition for 1-10 December 2023, presents 140 students and we hear from six of them on the preview night. For more information on the GRAD SHOW, visit: nas.edu.au/the-grad-show-2023/