This extraordinary collection informs and inspires. Spanning the history of cinema it demonstrates the remarkable power of film to engage, move, provoke and contend. It’s a vital reference tool and instructive resource – Bill Nichols. Disruptive Film Everyday Resistance to Power Vol 1, curated by Ernie Larsen and Sherry Millner has been released. A greatContinue reading “Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power Vol 1”
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Werner Herzog Doesn’t Dream
Werner Herzog doesn’t dream, a condition that might explain his daunting output of films. He postulates that the nighttime void is compensated by ideas for films that light up like imaginary projections he can capture into rapid-fire scripts and screenplays. His latest feature film, Queen of the Desert, was written in 5 days with noContinue reading “Werner Herzog Doesn’t Dream”
1001 Nights In Fairfield shortlisted for Blake Prize
1001 Nights in Fairfield has been shortlisted for the Blake Prize for Religious Art at Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2016. In the lead up to the prize the film has been in the media, below is an article in the Australian, December 9, 2015 and the Fairfield Advance, December 9. 1001 Nights in Fairfield, refugeeContinue reading “1001 Nights In Fairfield shortlisted for Blake Prize”
Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Peter Weibel has put together an impressive anthology of activist art for ZKM. The book is huge and full of great projects and artists. There is a little feature on Zanny Begg in the chapter on How to Do Activism. Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century Edited by Peter Weibel ZKM Press MITContinue reading “Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century”
Blowing Concrete Bubbles
RMIT Design Hub Forum: Melbourne In the early 1970s, the New South Wales Department of Public Works invited Italian architect Dante Bini to Sydney to demonstrate his innovative building techniques, which involoved using air as a primary building material. Prior to visiting Sydney, Bini had wowed radical architectural circles with his ‘architectural happenings’; live performative inflations of concrete bubbles. HisContinue reading “Blowing Concrete Bubbles”
Dante Bini Interviewed by Kids
Stills from How to Blow up a Bubble that Won’t Burst, single channel DVD, 2015, Zanny Begg In 1974 three Binishells were erected at Narrabeen North Public School. The concrete domes were designed by Dante Bini, an Italian architect, bought to Sydney by the NSW Department of Public Works. The Binishells popped up from theContinue reading “Dante Bini Interviewed by Kids”
3D drawing workshop at Little Baghdad
The Long Table Undrawing the Line presented a 3D drawing workshop as part of a three night series of dinners called The Long Table – an exchange between the Iraqi community in Fairfield and the broader arts community in Sydney. The event was organised by the Powerhouse Youth Theatre for the Little Baghdad project. EachContinue reading “3D drawing workshop at Little Baghdad”
Undrawing the Line Residency
Undrawing the Line have been invited to participate in a residency at Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) Fairfield to work on a new large scale drawing for the facard of the PYT building. The project was recently written up in the Fairfield Advance.
Undrawing the Line recieve Mayoral recognition
In the Shade of the Waq Waq Tree received a Mayoral Award on January 31 as part of the Paramor Prize, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney. The drawing is on display at Casula Powerhouse until the 15th of March.
Undrawing the Line shortlisted for Paramor Prize
In the Shade of the Waq Waq Tree has been nominated for the inaugural PARAMOR PRIZE: ART + INNOVATION 2015 at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The PARAMOR PRIZE: ART + INNOVATION encourages new ways of seeing, experiencing and interpreting the world around us. The prize was launched in memory of one of Australia’s most celebrated female modern artists, WendyContinue reading “Undrawing the Line shortlisted for Paramor Prize”