Re / Gendered
Platform Artists Group Inc.
Artists: Monika Tichacek (Sydney), Tejal Shah (India), Jake Wotherspoon (Melbourne), Drew Pettifer (Melbourne), Fran Barrett, Kate Blackmore & Anastasia Zaravinos (Sydney), Liam Benson (Sydney), 4evamore (Melbourne), Michelle Tran (Melbourne), Gerard O’Connor & Marc Wasiak (Melbourne).

Opening Monday 25th January 2010, 6 – 8pm

Image: Gerard O’Connor & Marc Wasiak

Presented by Midsumma 2010 & Platform
Curator: Laura Castagnini

Re/Gendered brings together a number of high profile international and Australian artists in a group exhibition that celebrates the notion of fluid or ‘unstable’ gender. These artists all aim to transgress and blur the boundaries of gender performance. Often using drag as a technique to destabilise identity, these diverse artists disrupt and subvert the traditional binary system of gender. In turns joyful, disturbing, and deliberately ambiguous, these artworks expose the theatricality involved in our everyday performance of gender roles.

This art exhibition runs until February 6, 2010.

Trish Morrissey
Centre for Contemporary Photography – Gallery 3

In the four works that comprise this exhibition Trish Morrissey employs self-portraiture, performance and wit as tools to investigate the boundaries of photographic meaning through still and moving images. The humour often evaporates, leaving a slow-burning psychologically tense afterglow. Weaving fact and fiction, she plunges into the heart of such issues as family experiences and national identities, Irish middle-class values, feminine and masculine roles, and relationships between strangers.

This photographic exhibition runs until March 14, 2010.

MIDSUMMA is upon us! The annual festival celebrating queer culture has just begun with loads of visual art to entertain and inspire. Pick up a copy of the Midsumma Visual Arts Catalogue or check out www.midsumma.org.au to see the list of exhibitions and events.

TRANSMASCULINITIES

Red Gallery
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North

Artists: Jacqui Brown, Claire Henry, Amos Mac, Jesslyn Moss, melly niotakis, Aiden Simon, Rohan Spong, Gabriel M Thomson, L. Weingarten
Curated by Jesslyn Moss

Image: L.Weingarten

Opening night January 22, 6 – 8pm
Wed – Sat, 11 – 5pm
Until 6 February

New modes of masculinity that reflect constantly shifting aspects of transgender butch, gender queer and transmasculine experience are explored by the eight artists in this show. The artists present subjects who are active and embodied, who evoke a wide range of potential interpretations and reflections on masculinity. Featuring artists from Australia, the UK and USA, who use photography, painting, drawing and video.

The Colour Factory is a proud sponsor of Transmasculinities.

FINDING SPACE

The Carlton Hotel Studios
Level 2, 193 Bourke St, Melbourne

Artists: Aspen, Jeremy Camilleri, Linsey Gosper, Nicholas Harmer, Clinton Hayden, Adrian John, Jason Lingard, ArthurMartha, Geoff Newman, Drew Pettifer, Salote Tawale, Michael Taylor, Marc Trabsky, Kristin Wursthorn, Paul Yore.

Curated by Jason Lingard

Image: Linsey Gosper

Opening January 19, 6 – 9pm
Wed-Sat 4 – 7pm
Until 6 February

Finding Space presents 14 artists working in photography, video and installation, crammed together in an old, abandoned hotel on Bourke Street. Exploring a symbiotic dialogue between the artists, their community and the constructed world they reside in, Finding Space touches upon the precarious intimacy between imagination and physical space.

Global Mind Project
Federation Square
Karen Casey in collaboration with:
Jill Orr
Stelarc
Domenico De Clario
Friday 15th January 2010

Launch 8pm, Performances 8.30pm – Midnight

Global Mind project is a unique creative venture combining new media art, neuroscience and computer technology. The project was conceived by Karen Casey and undertaken in partnership with software designer Harry Sokol. Together they have developed a means of generating real time video art from brainwaves.

The Melbourne launch of the Global Mind project represents the first stage of an online artistic forum that will creatively engage people through public interaction and collaboration.

Performances streamed online www.globalmindproject.com

Jenny Holzer
ACCA
Now until February 28, 2010

The first Australian survey of works by New York artist Jenny Holzer has opened at ACCA. Holzer first became well-known in the 1980s for her text based works and public art.

Late in 2009, the ‘A Camera on the Somme’ photographic
exhibition visited the Bendigo Art Gallery.

This extraordinary exhibition showcases images taken by two Australian soldiers, Jack and Bert Grinton, during the First World War between 1916 and 1919.

The exhibition reveals the development and artistry of amateur photography as the images, previously lost for 90 years and later found in a biscuit tin, capture people and places which were often overlooked by official war photographers.

This year the exhibition will tour other galleries across Queensland and Victoria, which are listed below:

Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
23 January – 21 March 2010

Mc Clelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, VIC
25 April – 27 June 2010

Shrine of Remembrance, VIC
October 2010 – February 2011