Forepaw

Free 6-9pm

Sustenance is a one-night only exhibition by Oliver van der Lugt. This is what he has to say about it: "Some people would call it art, i prefer to call it a constellation. It encompasses sound, projection, light works, an interactive installation, drawings, objects, photographs and soup. This is a measure of time (travel) (has gently amassed over the course of just under a year of living in melbourne), drawn from/ with what is at hand. Sometimes intuitive/ obtuse/ oblique investigations of environment, syntax, colour, light, texture, rhythm, listening, mapping, narrative, decay. Come along to construct and collapse, bathe in space, play, talk, eat soup, lay on the floor. (and say hello before i leave for japan and europa!)"

Take note of that mention of soup: if you are hungry for eye/ear/stomach food on Sunday evening you know where the action is.

Labels: installation

Rosalind Hall and Marco Cher-Gibard
Pig and Machine
Glee Cartel
Either/Or
Solid State and Sympathia

7pm sharp, Friday May 9, Entry by donation

A night of diverse and intense audio/visual stimulation, featuring acts from as far afield as Japan, New Zealand and East Brunswick! Noise is a point of departure and a point of return.

Solid State and Sympathia are spatial and dissonant, an interrogation of resonance in its many permutations. It is a dialogue between digital and analogue, involving ferrous metals and field recordings, among other things.

Either/Or is a keen eyed and eared scavenger in a world of discardation. This performance will include mutated magnetics, found and recorded loops, and dumpstered mp3 players, deftly DIY'ed together.

Glee Cartel is half human, half insect king of the earth, weaving dense textiles of sound from disarming, disparate threads. Looping, ebbing flowing, frothing, carpet to line your inner ear.

Rosalind Hall and Marco Cher-Gibard furnish the listener and viewer with an engaging, articulate, and technically impressive audio/visual experience. Live-fed cross examinations of the saxophone are cut up, processed, manipulated and re-projected in real time. This is a communication through air, tone, wire, lenses and light, and establishes a compelling dynamic between the real, the captured, the hyper-real. Simply must be seen!

Pig and Machine have freshly relocated to Melbourne from a vivid Osaka noise scene, and their performances are searing hot costumed energetic. Hovering between noise punkk, breakcore and day glo gospel, they are very, very difficult to stand still to!!!!

There will also be vegan treats! Come along and be merry!

Labels: gigs

White Woods features members from such past and present bands as Midnight Caller, K Mason, Love The Bomb, Ragged Anns, Kind Winds, The Astens and a bunch of others. They had a "pre Debut Gig gig" at Afterdark last week, and now this is their "Debut gig" proper. Wha? They pull out some noice indie jangle.

Ably supported by the bash + holler of Go Genre Everything, and the pop genius of Mr Dan Cross (star sign Cancer, Leo Rising).

Friday 2 May. Doors open at 8pm. Won't cost much.

Tape Projects Presents
Marcia Jane

Marcia is a video artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her current video work involves images of her personal spaces and environments: streets and spaces encountered every day. Intensive editing abstracts these images away from their origins and combines them in new graphic and rhythmic relationships. Recent projects include live performance at The NOW Now Festival 2008; and the collaborative show Cluster at VCA gallery.

A selection of light refreshments will be provided.

Artist Talk
7pm Wednesday
30th April

Labels: tape projects