Festival Program

Yakumo Honjin is a music and video installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harp, and is inspired by a 280 year old samurai hotel located on Lake Shinji. Yakumo Honjin explores the concept of 'oku' – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional architecture, garden design and music. Based in Melbourne, Aphids undertakes cross-artform projects usually involving contemporary music, international cross-cultural exchanges and collaborations.

• Fri 2nd July & Sat 3rd July - performances
• Tues 29th June – Sat 10th July - exhibition
• Fri 2nd - official opening from 6.00pm - short excerpts live.
• Sat 3rd - full performance 2.30, 3.15, 4.00pm
  
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• KickArts, Gallery 2, Centre of Contemporary Arts, 96 Abbott St
• Free

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On Edge blasts off through the sonic and visual stratosphere with an action packed opening traversing new music, text, improvisation, video and media.

With hand picked screenings of the best of the Other:Cairns online gallery, and performances by artists from all corners of the country, Mofo will explode in a sensory explosion of sound and image. Featuring Snawklor (Melb), Art Doom, DJ Glass Corpse (Dar), Cured Pink (Bris), and John von Sturmer (Syd).

• Sat 3rd July
• Mofo Gallery, 70 McLeod St
• Doors 6.00pm, Show from 7.00pm
• Tickets: $10 / 7 at the door

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Cairns, is much more than the green, clean, natural reef and rainforest experience. Its promotion as a glossy tourist town of stereo-typed images encourages a clinical, narrow vision of the city and region.

For those that love the North, it's uniqueness and style is rarely captured by the tourist brochures. Other:Cairns will illustrate the visual and cultural diversity of the area through an online gallery built by the public: local's and tourists alike. Produced by media artist File_Error. Submissions & Gallery: www.photobucket.com/othercairns

• Sat 22nd May - Sat 17th July
• Launch: Festival Opening, Sat 3rd July
• Mofo Gallery -70 McLeod St, Cairns
• Audio Tour MP3 Player - check web for pickup & details.

 

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Cairns artists Elizabeth Dunn and Jessie Hall present [please give: it a moment], an interactive installation of heart/brain advice and obstacles that straddles the gap between two places.

Facing the risks and the realities of their very recent move from up North to the throngs of Melbourne, Elizabeth and Jessie have created a symbolic trail for wandering and exploring in the combined gallery spaces of TCB art inc, in Melbourne, and Wallwork Studio's in Cairns.

• Sun 4th - Thurs 7th July
• Opening - Sun 4th July, 2.00pm
• Wallwork Studio's, 6 Hobbler St Westcourt
• From 2.00pm-6.00pm (Mon-Thu)

 

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The annual Liquid Architecture festival hosts a night of sound art/new music with International and National sound and performance artists. Liquid Architecture is now in its 11th year, with the festival taking place across Australia, and the Cairns concert features the duo Lionel Marchetti (France) & Yoko Higashi (Japan), and Joe Musgrove (Bris).

• Sun 4th July
• COCA Theatre, 96 Abbott Stt
• Doors 5.00pm, Show 6.00pm
• Tickets: $15 / 12
• Ticketlink: 1300 855 835 -
• www.ticketlink.com.au

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ReelDance supports innovative, international creative practice that works across disciplinary boundaries at the cutting edge of dance, film and new media art.

ReelDance produces a select program for Cairns audiences as part of the 6th ReelDance International Dance On Screen Festival.

• Fri 2nd - Sat 17th July - display
• Wed 7th, Sat 10th, Sun 11th - screenings
• Old Hrvatski Klub Artspace, 240 Scott St
• Tickets: $10 (double), Submerge#d $10
• Door Sales Only - MIC Free

 

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In the intersection where politicians, magicians, and techno-ravers meet, Shamelessly Glitzy Work looks at lies and illusion, manipulation and the sheer power that comes with working a crowd. It is spectacular, hilarious, and terrifying. post are a Sydney based multi art-form company, borrowing from theatre, dance, installation and performance art."Anti - glamour performance artists...Oh yeah!" SMH

• Thurs 8th & Fri 9th July
• COCA Theatre, 96 Abbott St, Cairns
• Doors 7.00pm, Show 8.00pm
• Tickets: $20 / 15
• Ticketlink: 1300 855 835 -
• www.ticketlink.com.au

 

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KidsOE10 is a new media and performance exhibition for young artists up to 13 years of age.

The project will involve hands on workshops leading to a 2-week exhibition at crate59 Gallery, with young artist participants associated with the artist run crate59 gallery and On Edge festivals.

• Sat 10th - Thu 22nd July
• Crate59 Gallery - 59 Sheridan St
• Opening Sat 10th 1.00pm.
• Mon - Thurs 7.00am-2.00pm
• Free

 

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Submerge#d presents a diverse and eclectic night of short media and performance works from local and guest practitioners.

Guest artist, Arahmaiani (Indonesia) is a key-figure in the current contemporary art scene in both Indonesia and South East Asia, and draws from community process and social/political issues in developing innovative performance art. Also featuring post (Syd), tako seijin (Sam Tupou), Zane Saunders, Unstrumenta Orchestra, Shannon O'Neill (syd), ReelDance – Australian & New Zealand Awards 2010, John Von Sturmer (Syd), Kris Keogh (Dar), Font featuring Tweak Bakini, Hanzard and lots more.

• Sat 10th July
• Old Hrvatski Klub Artspace, 240 Scott St
• Doors 6.00pm, Show 7.00pm
• Check web for full program/times.
• Tickets: $10/ 7 at the door.

 

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In collaboration with Vitamin Creative Space China and the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, KickArts presents two recent video works from contemporary video artist Cao Fei. Cao Fei's work responds to China's rapid urbanisation, its giddying pace of social change and economic development. Since 2007 Cao Fei has been working online in Second Life under the guise of her avatar China Tracy.

• Tues 13th July - Sat 7th Aug
• KickArts Contemporary Arts, Gallery Two
• 96 Abbott St Cairns
• Tues - Sat 10.00am-5.00pm

 

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2Whyte is a new creative development process that brings together two Far North Queensland dance artists from very different cultural backgrounds.

Raymond D. Blanco is an Indigenous dancer, choreographer and director, an acknowledged leader in the development of Indigenous dance and the performing arts, both in Australia and Internationally. Raphael Blanco is a 76 year-old Cuban dancer and teacher, and one of the first Cuban immigrants in Australia.

• Fri 16th & Sat 17th July
• Preview Thurs 15th July
• COCA Theatre, 96 Abbott St, Cairns
• Doors 6.00pm, Show 7.00pm
• Tickets: $20 / 15, preview: $15/10
• Ticketlink: 1300 855 835 -
• www.ticketlink.com.au

 

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The city of Cairns has developed very quickly. How sophisticated, grown up and International is Cairns really? Is Cairns really just a regional (ie: country) town, pimped-up for the tourists?

CairnsVille reflects on the 'deep north', in an absurd celebration of everything that is brash, crass and homely about living up North.

• Sat 17th July
• Old Hrvatski Klub Artspace, 240 Scott St
• Doors 7.00pm, Show from 8.00pm
• Check web for full program/times.
• Tickets: $7/5 at the door.

 

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