The Vasco Era Private Gig at Chalk Horse

LIVE PERFORMANCE AT CHALK HORSE

11TH OCTOBER, 2011

7 - 9PM

 S.A.M.E. & Tenzenmen present The Vasco Era to celebrate the culmination of Sino Australian Music Exchange in a private advanced launch for their forthcoming self titled album. Transforming the traditional gallery space into a live musical performance space, The Vasco Era rocked the socks off the typically industrial Lacey Street and its neighboring residents. 

Photography by Aimee El Sharpe

OFFSITE PROJECT: ADAM GECZY 'DIASPORA GATHERED' at FIRSTDRAFT DEPOT

ADAM GECZY

'DIASPORA GATHERED'

CHALK HORSE IN COLLABORATION WITH FIRSTDRAFT

7 OCTOBER - 5 NOVEMBER, 2011

Adam Geczy is both an artist and critic-historian. His art practice has been dominated by multimedia installation and video, but he also exhibits regularly in areas of drawing and photomedia. Salient issues have been how to represent political dissent in a non-literal way, and traditional issues of love, death, loss and the fundamental nature of human tactile experience. Recent works have also used beauty as a positive response to disaffection with social alienation. He also has an active ongoing collaborative practice with the performance artist Mike Parr, Australia’s National Treasure, the composer Peter Sculthorpe and the Berlin-based electronic sound composer and installation artist, Thomas Gerwin. 

'Diaspora Gathered' is a project with the Australian Armenian community, and was opened by the Hon. Ms. Gladys Berejiklian, Transport Minister for NSW. Berejiklian spoke very movingly and eloquently about the Armenian Holocaust and the subsequent diaspora. Certain members were moved to tears recalling the horrors of the event and were happy that an artist like Adam Geczy was addressing the terrible Armenian past, and bringing it to greater recognition. See images below, in reference to the opening night and Berejiklian's inaugurating speech. 

 

  

Greedy Hen 'Debut Album' Opening Night

Greedy Hen 'Debut Album'

29 SEPTEMBER - 8 OCTOBER, 2O11

CHALK HORSE

Greedy Hen’s first solo art exhibition sees the release of their fictitious Debut Album in 2O11. Titled ‘Debut Album’, this exhibition is a meditation on an ultimate SuperFiction1: ‘Greedy Hen as a band’. Utilising all of the usual visual cues, processes and linguistics that signify the release of an album (including gig posters and album launch advertising in the local music street press) Greedy Hen aim to translate this SuperFiction to an art gallery context. Exaggerating their own image in creating the illusion of ‘Greedy Hen as a band’ sets the direction of the exhibition, which centers on the mythical ‘debut album’. The exhibition will comprise of album artwork (translated to large scale prints) complete with song titles, a music film clip of their fictitious hit single release, artwork to narrate the lyrical content for each song. There will be no actual music or sound element in the show, leaving the void for the viewer to ‘fill it in’.

Greedy Hen is a multi-disciplinary studio functioning partly as an art collective and partly as a design studio, housing the collaborative works of Australian artists Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. They devise projects intent on creating imagery alluding to a playful black humour, unwritten fables, or subtle off-kilter sinister elements lurking amongst a kinder-esq beauty. Greedy Hen’s work falls between the boundaries of traditional fields. They utilise various mediums preferring to let their ideas manifest in whatever way seems to be most appropriate at the time. Acting as a social sieve presenting the quirky nuances hidden in the everyday.

As a design studio, their work has graced the covers of many band’s albums, tour posters, and film clips, including work for Cloud Control, Ariel Pink, Florence + The Machine, Animal Collective, Washington, Bill Callahan (Smog) and The Middle East. The Waifs, Washington and Josh Pyke.

Debut Album Back Cover, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 3O.5 x 3O.5 cm.

Debut Album, 2O11, Digital pigment prints on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 3O.5 x 3O.5 cm.

Everywhere, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O& 2 APs, 84 x 119 cm.

Gnarly Beard, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O& 2 APs, 15 x 21 cm.

Gravity, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 59.5 x 84 cm.

Is This a Library or a Bar, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 42 x 59.5 cm.

Log, 2011, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 42 x 59.5 cm.

Lonesome Country Song (Hotel Vacancy), 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 3O.5 x 3O.5 cm.

New Colours, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 59.5 x 84 cm.

The Final Visit, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 42 x 59.5 cm.

The Secret Level, 2O11, Digital pigment print on archival quality watercolour rag, Edition of 1O & 2 APs, 42 x 59.5 cm.