A CONSTRUCTED WORLD
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INCREASE YOUR UNCERTAINTY
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2 June - 26 July 2007
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A Constructed World work with audiences and other artists to create an untidy, rambunctious practice devoted to emotional response and political positioning. A Constructed World blur the boundaries between maker and receiver in inclusive, porous performance events.
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This major, monographic survey of one of Australia’s most enduring and experimental partnerships will see the spaces of ACCA become active with ad hocery and artistic spontaneity while creating an opportunity for reflection about A Constructed World’s evolving body of work.
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Sunday 3 June
3.00pm
PERFORMANCE:
The Melbourne Complaints Choir
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A choir of singers and non-singers will perform a song full of complaints in the first installment from the Melbourne chapter of the Helsinki Complaints Choir
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http://www.complaintschoir.org/
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Wednesday 6 June
4.30 – 7.00pm
CHANGE FORUM: Open Call Video Salon
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Artists are invited to show their video works at ACCA, and have it discussed by a panel including an artist, a critic and someone from another profession.
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Saturday 9 June
3.00 – 4.00pm
PERFORMANCE: Truck Dance
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A flat-bed truck will trawl Melbourne’s CBD laden with estactic dancers (referencing ACDC’s 1976 performance on a truck of ‘It’s a long way to the top’).
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Sunday 10 June
3.00 - 4.00pm
CHANGE FORUM: Collectivity
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Open invitation to discuss the idea of ‘Collectivity’, and whether there are any real benefits from working together.
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Wednesday 13 June
12.30 – 1.00pm
CHANGE FORUM: Publications Open Call
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A Constructed World invite artists and independent publishers to present their print projects to an audience.
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Sunday 17 June
3.00 – 4.00pm
CHANGE FORUM: We live in an environment of publishing without publishers.
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A Constructed World
invite the audience to discuss the self publishing industry, in particular art book publishing.
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Wednesday 20 June
12.30 – 1.30pm
CHANGE FORUM: The changing audience for contemporary art.
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Who is the audience for contemporary art?
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Sunday 24 June
3.00 – 4.00pm
CHANGE FORUM: Losers and Failure
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What is the-role-in-culture for those who don’t get selected, accepted, chosen, acknowledged?
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Wednesday 27 June
12.30 – 1.30pm
CHANGE FORUM: Politics and art in Australia
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Are these overlapping fields, or separate concerns. Who is interested?
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Saturday 30 June
3.00 – 4.00pm
PERFORMANCE: Explaining contemporary art to live eels
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