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THE SPACE VISUAL ARTS
The Age
Wednesday July 15, 2009
FLASH ISSUE 2 ONE great thing about the internet is you don't have to pay extra to publish colour photos. This means the Centre for Contemporary Photography can publish a huge review journal quarterly.The second issue of FLASH, edited by Kyla McFarlane, has just been uploaded. It features an interview with current CCP exhibitor Arlo Mountford, an extended review of Rosemary Laing's landmark Tolarno show, a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes, and a tour of this year's Anne Landa Award exhibition, Double Take (video work by Phil Collins, pictured).www.ccp.org.au/flash/ VENICE AT ACCA YOU may have heard some Venice Biennale gossip already: people falling into the pool at the Danish and Nordic pavilions; a guy laughing when Michael Bouchet's floating house artwork sank in the canal. But you haven't heard anything until you've heard it from ACCA's artistic director Juliana Engberg. Tickets are on sale for ACCA's annual Venice Biennale recap, to be held at the Sofitel on July 23. Engberg promises a blowby- blow account of this year's highs and lows, followed by a conversation with Australia's pavilion artist Shaun Gladwell.They'll discuss his project Maddest Maximus while you eat canapes, sip wine and pretend you are going home in a gondola. Call 9697 9999 for ticket inquiries.LEN LYE THERE will be a queue outside ACMI tonight for the opening of Len Lye - a world premiere retrospective of work by the internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist. A collaboration with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, the exhibition includes never-before-seen early works and specially reconstructed kinetic sculptures. Lye was best known for his experimental techniques, especially the process of "direct filmmaking" - drawing, painting and stencilling straight onto celluloid.A KISS BEFORE DYING TCB Art Inc opens a new exhibition tonight by Catherine Connolly and Rebecca B. Adams - two artists whose work explores desire and death. In what seems to someone reading their statement like a timely tie-in with Twilight vampire fever, the works promise to "explore stereotypical romance narratives in an attempt to engage with ideas about the romanticisation and eroticisation of death and love within popular culture".As Kings ARI studio artists, Connolly and Adams began working together when they discovered an uncanny mirroring of ideas in the notes scrawled on one another's studio walls. It was meant to be. Opening drinks at 6pm.McSWEENEY'S SALE A POLITE, well-dressed scramble is happening online this week, because McSweeney's publishing house has announced a garage sale. Books from Dave Eggers' (pictured) backlist are going for as little as $US3 ($A3.80). There's plenty for art fans to get excited about, including Chris Ware's famous comics edition, featuring Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes and Adrian Tomine. Also on sale, the current McSweeney's Quarterly is an ode to dead genres.McSweeney's editor Eli Horowitz said: "The garage sale will keep going until the garage is empty."store.mcsweeneys.net -- PENNY MODRA
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