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CairnsVille - Sat 17th July
CairnsVille reflects on the 'deep north', in an absurd celebration of everything that is brash, crass and homely about living up North.
As the closing party for the festival, a bunch of renowned F'NQ artists respond to their suburban upbringings and inner bogan. There's no reef and rainforest here.
Welcome to CairnsVille
- 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.
RMB City - Cao Fei - Tues 13th July - Sat 7th Aug
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.
She has built 'RMB City' on the Second Life Creative Commons island of Kula. Candy-striped smoke stacks suggest continuous industrial production; missiles make unremitting pre-emptive strikes; ships move goods swiftly in and out of port; a giant shopping cart, filled with skyscrapers and religious monuments floats in the harbour; and Tiananmen Square has been converted into a swimming pool. Named after Chinese money, 'RMB City' is a perverse view of Beijing – a collusion of communism, socialism and capitalism.
Like Beijing itself, it is constantly under construction. In her second work, the documentary 'I.Mirror', Cao Fei provides an introduction to the beauty and excess of Second Life, as well as a depicting romance.
- Tues 13th July - Sat 7th Aug
- KickArts Contemporary Arts, Gallery Two
- 96 Abbott St Cairns
- Tues - Sat 10.00am-5.00pm
2Whyte - Fri 16th & Sat 17th July
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.
They share last names and long diverse careers in dance, and 2Whyte brings them together to examine and document, through dance, sound, and image, their synergies and passion.
- 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
This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Submerge#d - Sat 10th July
Arahmaiani (Indonesia), 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.
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.
The Submerge#d program also includes Sydney group post presenting new work in progress, the ReelDance Australian and New Zealand Awards, and innovative artists Zane Saunders and Sam Tupou bringing contemporary indigenous and pacific island perspectives to the fore.
- 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.
This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Kids OE10 - Sat 10th - Thu 22nd July
Young Artists associated with Crate59 Gallery & On Edge.
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.
This project is about recognising young people as artists in their own right, and the important role they have as creators and consumers of contemporary art. For the participant artists, it's about exploring art, media and performance, meeting new people, having fun and sharing ideas.
- 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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