What does it feel like to know you are dead? Richard James Allen reflects a lifelong engagement with Buddhist and Yogi Philosophies in Text Messages from the Universe. The Gala screening and book launch is an alluring, and unsettling images, music and words that is set to transport you through an afterlife encounter. Drawing inspiration from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, reimagined in a cinematic blend of text and dance action, it evokes a dislocated interval of consciousness, an intermediate state, between death and rebirth. A state known as the ‘Bardo’. Ultra-Sonic is an exhibition on at the Sydney College of the Arts, that is an unconventional musical and sonic lines through the flotsam and jetsam of the complications of installation art to create a new territory. Curators, Joyce Hinterding and David Haines drive us through the exhibition while stationary in their parked car with seatbelts on. Surry Hills @ Play Festival is on this month, aims to support the local economy, community development through the sense of play. Reactivate Consulting are the organisation behind the initiative and we find out more from Susie Rugg. The Pyrmont Art Prize and Festival story will run on Friday, 7 May 2023.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, the program participants acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal lands from which the program has been produced and broadcasts from at Eastside Radio.

Playlist

Mondoj :: The Art of Swapping Hearts Peach Blossom Warsaw, Poland
Walaw Zimpel :: Train Spotter Train Spotter Warsaw, Poland
Book and Screen launch: Text Messages to the Universe :: Interview: Richard James Allen 6.30pm Saturday 29 April 2023, The Ritz Cinemas, Randwick Bookings: https://www.fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/films/text-messages-from-the-universe#
Organic Pulse Ensemble :: For All The Other Places A Thousand Hands 2 Headed Deer, Spain
aus :: Make Me Me Everis Japan
Exhibition: Ultra Sonic – https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/schools/sydney-college-of-the-arts/galleries-and-exhibitions.html :: Interview: Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, Curators As artists they are represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney Sydney College of Arts Gallery – Saturday 22 April
Sirom :: Grazes, Wrinkles, Drifts into Sleep The Liquified Throne of Simplicity Slovenia
Sounds Familiar :: Aleqs Notal feat. Anu – Reminder of Tomorrow Familiar Sounds Volume 1 soundsfamiliar.it
Festival: Surry Hills @ Play :: Interview: Susie Rugg, Reactivation https://surryhillsatplay.com/ Month of April
Ella Thompson :: Cool Down My Heart EP Melbourne

Art Pharmacy is an art consultancy that implements creative visions and cultural projects in Australia, and are presenting a series of panel discussions. The third, Curate Your City stimulates conversation on the future of art projects in the public realm. Digital Strategist and Curator, Michelle Wang, provides insight. Just Not Australian presents work by Australian artists at the forefront of national debate and practice. This exhibition brings together 19 artists across generations and diverse cultural backgrounds to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood. The exhibition returns to Sydney after being on tour since 2020, on at the Museum of Sydney. Curator at Artspace, Talia Linz talks us through the premise and the impacts on Australian communities. Joan Cross works across a range of mediums, including drawing, painting, installations, sculpture, video, and virtual reality. Her work investigates the legacy of colonialism in Australia. I give you a mountain, is a video animation presented as part of Just Not Australian. Opening in May at the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf is NATIVE DEITIES, an exhibition that gives homage to Australia’s unique natural landscape. Bruce Slorach marks 40 years since graduating from the Victorian College of Arts and commencing a creative career that would evolve over decades. He offers us a preview of the exhibition.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, the program participants acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal lands from which the program has been produced and broadcasts from at Eastside Radio.

Playlist

MEMNON SA :: Enoculation Wand Offworld Radiation Therapy holymountainstudios.net
The Necks :: Bloom Three Australia
Just Not Australian :: Interview: Talia Linz, Curator, Artspace – 4 June 2023 | https://mhnsw.au https://www.artspace.org.au
Salami Rose Joe Louis :: Dimcola Reprise Akousnatikous California
The Lahaar :: Doin’ It The Lahaar Sound Way Records
https://joanross.com.au :: Interview: Joan Cross Exhibiting: Just Not Australian Museum of Sydney – 4 June
Juno :: Bliss Myriad Path Norway
Mama Terra :: Ruptura Ruptura Acid Jazz Records
Exhibition: NATIVE DEITIES :: Interview: Bruce Slorach Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf | 3 – 28 May Collaboration: utopiagoods.com
Hirjah :: Faith and Deeds Truly Free / Time Oakland
Panel discussion: Curate Your City :: Interview: Michelle Wang, Digital Strategist and curator, Art Pharmacy FREE 6pm Tuesday, 2 May 2023, Ace Hotel http:artpharmacy.com.au
Soul Supreme :: Dues and Don’ts Poetic Justice Amsterdam, Netherlands

The National 4: Australian Art Now is the fourth iteration of the biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Collectively it bring together 80 artists, engaging in 48 new artist projects across four major institutions, The AGNSW, MCA, Carriageworks and for the first time, the Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC). We hear from Melbourne based artist, David Sequeira, on his work Song for Gentleness, a presentation of over 300 songs in a grid along the gallery walls, AGNSW. South Australian artist, Gerry Wedd, talks us through his work, Where are we now? Consists of 600 plus hand-form tiles and vessels that champions the role of ceramics as a too for mass communication, AGNSW. Indonesian-born, Sydney-based artist, Jumaadi’s work, Joli Jolan comprises a series of white paper cutouts assembled on a black painted wall to create a monochromatic reverse-silhouette scene of numerous humanoid figures, CAC.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, the program participants acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal lands from which the program has been produced and broadcasts from at Eastside Radio.

Playlist

Peter Manheim :: Peace Groove In Time New York – Album released today, 7 April
John Haycock :: Dissolution Dorian Portrait john-haycock.com
Rahill :: Fables (feat. Beck) Flower at you Feet rahillsongs.com
Exhibition: The National 4 :: Interview: David Sequeria https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/david-sequeira/song-cycle/ https://www.the-national.com.au/
Sven Wunder :: Harmonica And… EP Sweden
Scrimshire :: Unity Gain Paroxysm scrimshire.com
A Certain Ratio :: Touch I’d Like to See You Again English post-punk band – Manchester, UK
The National 4 – https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/natasha-walsh/the-gaze/ :: Interview excerpt: Natasha Walsh – AGNSW https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/watch-listen-read/watch/natasha-walsh/ https://www.the-national.com.au/
Marijus Aleksa :: As They Are As They Are marijusaleksa.com
Organic Pulse Ensemble :: For All The Other Places A Thousand Hands 2 Headed Deer – Spain
The National 4 – https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/jumaadi/joli-jolan/ :: Interview: Jumaadi https://www.the-national.com.au/
Matthew Herbet :: The Horse England UK matthewherbet.com