Forepaw

Superceded
Installation and performance by Brendan J Black
Opening 6pm Saturday June 30
Performance 6pm Sunday July 1

"Continuing and elaborating on the themes of 2004's 'These machines are not for sale' exhibition, 'Superceded' is Brendan J Black's latest experiment in constructing an abstract sound lab involving tape loops, contact microphones, homemade 'instruments' and found objects. How these elements interact will be defined by time and space restrictions. Culminating in an improvised performance utilizing the aforementioned odds and ends on Sunday night, 'Superceded' will be open from 6pm on the evenings of Sat June 30th and Sun July 1st."

Forepaw is very pleased to be hosting this new piece of work by Brendan, who may be familiar to many of you as the guitarist in the excellent, injury-prone local rock/noise outfit The Stabs. Come down on Saturday evening to check out the show and have a drink, then come back on Sunday for the performance, which will feature Mr Black and a whole swag of talented collaborators.

Also, please note that 'Superceded' will be up for this weekend only. Don't miss out!

Labels: events, gigs, installation

If you're not here at our market right now you should head on down. If you can't make it today then make sure you turn up at Forepaw on Monday at 7pm, when Ernie Althoff will be showing slides and talking about what he's been up to for the last few decades:

"Ernie Althoff was recently amused when his earliest experimental music performances at the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre were documented in WIRE magazine - 28 years later. Since these beginnings, he has created a large and diverse body of work. He continues to be charmed by sound worlds generated by his and other people's aleatoric systems, be they score-based repertoire, improvisations, works for the recording and broadcast media, or kinetic sound installations. He views his ever-popular and still increasing collection of machines and implements as merely a means with which to access sonic potential and possibilities (In a 1994 article, San Jose sound-poet Larry Wendt compared them to surveying instruments used for mapping out a musical territory.) In March 2007, he participated in an international instrument builders' event hosted by the Auckland Festival. There, he again stated his position of composer/artist first, and technician/craftsman an obvious second. In retribution, one of his machines tumbled from the top of a speaker stack during a performance. All the standard hallmarks of success: international recognition, residencies, journal articles, government funding, twelve minutes of programming on public broadcast television, are featured in his career."

And don't forget, Trails, our monthly drawing thing, is on Tuesday night, from about 6:30 or so.

Labels: events, tape projects, trails

Just a quick note to remind you all that our third market occurs this Saturday afternoon. Come along, it'll be fantastic. There'll be some music too. More on that later.

Come along to a free showing of a performance installation that's in its second stage of development. 'Interminable Sets (Pins II)' by Ann Fuata will be showing at 6pm Friday June 22. There's a number of other things going on up n down the street on this night for Nothern Exposure (ie: loads of exhibition openings), but none of them will be as good as this.

Here is a synopsis from Ann:

My 'tamed' hair has been a by-product of a post-colonial lifestyle whereby I have used bobby pins for most of my upbringing. Through each phase of development in childhood, adolescence and now adulthood another bobby pin is either added, discarded or recycled surreptitiously thus creating another setting, such as a scene change of a movie.

The experiences created can be seen as the ephemeral trail of the aftermath of change and, inadvertently the beginnings of restoration.

This thursday:

Magnetics

Francis Plagne

Downtown

ii

8pm, $5, All Ages.

Labels: gigs

Fescennine drone, blues, improvisation and noise will be ushered in by boos and hisses when Drunk Hands, Hey Lady 2 Leopards, Brendan J. Black (Brendan Stabs solo) and All Made Of Rubies (Adelaide) play at Forepaw, Friday 15 June.

Doors 8:30pm.

Gold Coin Donation.

Labels: gigs

Forepaw is proud to be hosting a couple of extraordinary Camp Betty events this week, as well as a gig by our old frendz Bang! Bang! Aids!

Look:

* Thursday June 7, 7.30: Our Love is the Size Of

Hot az shit party/show/filmscreening/art opening! Inspired by the culture and nurturing of the riot grrl movement - making us happy, healthy, and righteous! With art by Emily Hasselhoof and performances by Bamboo Gutz, Louise, Holly Fluxxx, and Cola. We'll be screening the movie We Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrl and some shorts by Corey Crush Core Dream Lover. DJ Fluxxx will be spinning the hits and you'll be eating fairy floss and life will be better than you can imagine!

Entrance is trade and share: mix tapes/zines/patches/cupcakes/sex toys/art/amazingness. Dressing to theme is highly suggested.

* Friday 8 June 7:00: Camp Betty Cinema

Queer film is not just about re-interpreting straight storylines to accommodate 'gay' characters - it's an excuse to play with more than gender and sexuality... super 8, chroma key, sci-fi storylines about aliens and androgynous bisexual nymphomaniac fashion models and remaking Soviet propaganda into a transgender revolution are all examples in our film programme of how queer film can play with you, and cinema too.

Come for queer shorts, a performance by Gaylourdes invoking the film theory spectre of vagina dentata in song and dance, 2 minutes of infamy for queer film makers and a screening of the cult 80s sci-fi movie Liquid Sky.

MAGGOTS AND MEN (Trailer)
by Oakie Treadwell (5 minutes)
In the style of a Soviet Propaganda film Maggots and Men recounts the tragic events of the Kronstadt Uprising (Russia, 1921). This history is combined with fictionalized inter-personal relationships between the sailors.

PHINEAS SLIPPED
by Oakie Treadwell (15 minutes)
A boy’s school class and their teacher discuss romance in literature. Each boy has his own interpretation on this. The film is one of the first genderqueer version of schoolboy fantasies, played by genny boys, trans boys and butches.

A GIRL NAMED KAI
by Kai Ling Xue (8 minutes)
An autobiographical vignette in three chapters about Kai Ling’s relationships, self discoveries, passions, secrets and dreams. Using digitally-edited Super 8 and 16mm, this experimental short is a journey from the highs of love to the lows of loss, delicately threaded together with original music.

SUPERHERO
by Salote Tawale (4 minutes)
A satirical take on the superhero genre. Multiplicities of identity are explored – you can be the hero and the victim in the same moment, play more than one gender/archetype in a story.

INTERMISSION w/ two minutes of filmic infamy and performance by Gaylourdes

LIQUID SKY
by Slava Tsukerman (1 hour 52 minutes)
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. This is a mostly fun movie but does contain scenes that may disturb some viewers.

* Saturday 9 June 7:00, All Ages:

Bang! Bang! Aids!
Eucalypt
Former Republic