Events at Caulfield - full listing

The Fun of Art:
Brook Andrew is a conceptually driven artist who challenges cultural and historical perception, using installation, text and image to comment on local and global issues regarding race, consumerism and history. Apart from drawing inspiration from public media and archival collections, Brook travels nationally and internationally to work with local communities and museum collections. His work creates debate and new thought surrounding contemporary philosophies regarding memory, its conceptual and visual potency and linking local with international histories. Brook's art challenges the limitations imposed by power structures, historical amnesia, stereotyping and complicity. Brook's Jumping Castle War Memorial was featured in the 2010 Biennale of Sydney. He also recently made a large-scale commission, 'The Cell', for the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney. This work is touring Australia and New Zealand including the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart at the MONA & FOMA Festival of Music and Art. A new Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, commission, Ancestral Worship is currently on display as part of 21st Century: Art in the First Decade until 26 April 2011. His survey exhibition, Eye to Eye, was curated by Monash University Museum of Art in 2007 and continued to tour nationally and internationally throughout South East Asia. Brook Andrew is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and is a lecturer in the Faculty of Art & Design.

Evaporated Music: Revoicing & Gendered Vocalization - Philip Brophy works across art, film and music. Following a series of experimental mixed-media works exhibited in art and non-art contexts over many years, Brophy has consolidated his interests to produce a range of audiovisual works focusing on his key interests in pop, sex and music. His recent works have been exhibited in numerous international and national museums, contemporary art galleries and public spaces. This includes '10 Flaming Youths' at Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and '10 Transforming Youths' at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the Coreana Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; and 'Fluorescent' commissioned for the Contemporary Art Projects at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, also included in the 2006 Singapore Biennale and at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Brophy has scored and sound-designed most of his films and videos, and designed the sound for the feature 'MALLLBOY as well as numerous shorts. As a writer and speaker on film, he specializes in three distinct areas: horror, sex & exploitation; film sound & music; and Japanese animation. He is widely published in all three areas internationally, writing for The Wire, London, and Film Comment, New York, and has curated numerous programs for the Melbourne International Film Festival. His most recent curatorial project is the major anime retrospective 'Focus on Tezuka' for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, which toured nationally. Philip will present and discuss work from the 'Evaporated Music' series.

SLAVE PIANOS /PUNKASILA/ PIPELINE TO OBLIVION

A presentation by MUMA Director Max Delany and exhibition curator with artist Danius Kesminas and collaborators, concurrent with the MUMA exhibition, 'Slave Pianos | Punkasila | Pipeline To Oblivion: 3 Projects By Danius Kesminas and Collaborators'.

This project continues MUMA's ongoing series of survey and focus exhibitions dedicated to the work of significant artists at mid-career. 'Pipeline to Oblivion' involves a mechanised pipe organ reminiscent of the Lithuanian folk instrument, skuduciai, monumentalised in the Soviet manner, to explore the deep cultural networks, dismantling economic borders, and political implications of South-Eastern Europe in the post-communist era.

The MUMA exhibition runs from 4 May - 16 July 2011. Working collaboratively, across diverse disciplines - art, music, performance, video, publishing, agit-prop activism and opera - Australian artist Danius Kesminas is the brainchild behind some of the most ambitious and dynamic contemporary art projects developed in the past decade.

Slave Pianos is a provocative and highly inventive collective of artists, composers and musicians devoted to the exhibition, collection, analysis, performance and re-composition of sound work by visual artists.

PUNKASILA are a rock band and de-facto art collective whose work blends traditional Indonesian crafts, homemade military outfits, machine gun guitars, pop murals and political banners, and 'postdisaster' rock with lyrics that give voice to the cacophony of conflicting political, military, religious, cultural and bureaucratic organisations constituting the Indonesian body politic.

Challenging intervention: Engagement and The Avoca Project - Lyndal Jones is an artist who focuses on context, place and empowerment through very long-term projects involving performance and video installation. She has received a 'Keating' Fellowship (1993-1996), represented Australia at the 2001 Venice Biennale and had a survey exhibition throughout the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne in 2008. Her works have been shown in major exhibitions across Australia, Europe, Asia and the United States. 'The Avoca Project: Art, Place and Climate Change', her current long-term research project (2005-2015), addresses climate change action at the international level from the perspective of a small Australian country town. Jones completed her PhD at RMIT University in 2005 on 'Artwork as Proposition: Archive as Web Publication', using her series 'From the Darwin Translations' as a basis for the archive. She has a professorship in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University where she teaches research strategies to post-graduate students.

"The Sex of Architecture": Women and the Architectural Profession

Karen Burns teaches in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, having previously taught at RMIT and Melbourne University.

In 2010, togetherwith colleagues from the universities of Queensland, Sydney, Melbourne and QUT, she was awarded an ARC Linkage Grant to research "Equity and diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership."

She has published numerous essays on gender, architectural history and architectural theory and her current research projects include a history of feminist architectural theory, activism and design since the mid 1970s.

Paradoxes, perversities, corporate sponsorship and historical baggage: painting in a contemporary context - Helen Johnson's art practice orbits around the possibilities of painting as a tool for critical reflection and for the making of meaning generally.

Her practice also involves writing and curating. She is currently working towards a PhD in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University. In 2011 she will undertake studio residencies at Artspace in Sydney and the Australia Council studio in London.

Recent projects include 'Universal Remote' at Y3K Gallery, Melbourne, 'An Effort of Memory' at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, and is curating the forthcoming exhibition 'Love in the Mourning' at Death be Kind in Brunswick.

Johnson has held exhibitions in Norway, Italy, Germany, Malaysia and Australia, and has work in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Art in Australia, Artbank and the City of Yarra.