seven thousand oaks

24 May - 14 July
Opening Friday 24 May, 6pm-8pm.

Artecycle is our premier art award and exhibition, featuring works from 21 artists with a total non-acquisitive prize pool of $14,000. Works are in a range of media and response to the themes of environmentalism and sustainability.

TippingPoint Australia 2013 is small and significant cross disciplinary gathering of around 80 of Australia ’s artists, scientists, politicians, economists, activists, philosophers and others. For one day on May 29th we will explore how we can imagine and work towards a future that meets the challenge of adapting and mitigating the catastrophic effects of climate change.

We need to reduce emmissions, invest in renewables and clean energy and change our economic reliance on coal and oil – a paradigm shift. How can we contribute to moving this critical agenda forward by imagining futures, understanding and articulating the benefits of a sustainable global future and rehearsing the enormous cultural, political and social changes that must occur to prevent the unthinkable from happening?

WHEN: Wednesday 29th May 2013.
WHERE: Canberra Theatre Centre

Attendance at TippingPoint Australia 2013 is by invitation… If you would like to register your interest please send an email to Tipping Point with a short biography.

Catherine Clover and Clyde McGill

Investigating this bridged site using our transdisciplinary or multipurpose practice spanning the complexities of how and where we live, exploring the closeness of our existence in an often hostile environment, sorting through the material and the intangible detritus, the calls of the living, the rumble of those overhead, the flow through the rapids, the site absorbed us, became our geography, our reluctance to leave.

A between the seeing and the knowing, holding apart or joining together, the perceived obliterated by the overspray which forms the chronological palimpsest on the wall, the noise floats, suspends the structure, bridging the gap of gravity and sky, this site is carried back to the studio, an analysis of observations, of ambient performance, of sonics and belongings, of a convergence of two artists, place, intention and imagination.

Opening: Saturday 2 March 4 - 6pm
Exhibition runs 27 February – 16 March 2013
Trocadero Art Space Level 1
119 Hopkins Street
Footscray

In December 2012, eight diverse households throughout North Melbourne created new low carbon art works – song, dance or spoken word – created and presented in their homes through collaborations with some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. From development to presentation, Home Art asked artists and performers to create art work in an environmentally-friendly way, using only the resources and equipment already in their homes and travelling only by foot or bike in the lead-up to their presentations.

In keeping with the environmentally-friendly theme, audiences took a walking experience to witness the artworks, while guided by local North Melburnian identities to draw on urban myths and histories.

Eight short films will feature the Home Art performance works created by local Melbourne households in collaboration with artists: David Bridie, Alison Croggon, Michelle Dabrowski, Rose Turtle Ertler, Becky Hilton, Michael Gurr and Gideon Obarzanek.

Date: Friday 15 and Saturday 16 February 2013
Time: Nightly at 8.30pm
Venue: Big Screen at Federation Square

At the forefront of today's social issues are questions related to the human relationship to nature and the environment, the meaning of a sustainable future and the relationship of environmentalism to modernity and today's economic structures. While the sciences have, until recently, dominated the debate, the arts are making an increasingly important contribution.

Antennae is seeking submissions to an issue focused on Art, Environment, Sustainability. We are seeking contributions that go further than being a mere rehashing of the narrative of environmental activism (the human as destroyer of nature; the dangers of climate change; extinction of species; etc, etc.) to address more fundamental meanings, explore ambiguities and engage with the complex societal questions that arise from the environmental and sustainability debate - and the role of the arts in that debate. We encourage potential contributors to be bold and creative in generating and exploring perspectives that move beyond the apocalyptic and often "preachy" culture of modern environmentalism.

Submission Deadline: 1st of September 2013
For more submission details head to the Antennae website