ART#2 Long Weekend Program
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 Download your full colour ART#2 lift-out here
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SATURDAY 11 JUNE
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Temporary Installation: Located on the exterior of one of Horsham’s most controversial buildings, the Horsham Post Office, Helen Johnson’s Brutalist Reintegration Project explores Horsham’s civic history through a temporary mural of local symbols and signs.
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Venue Horsham Post Office, 29–31 Firebrace Street, Horsham
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Time 10am
Special Event: Artist Nathan Gray and the Natimuk Brass Band entertain Saturday morning shoppers and stop traffic with their ground breaking musical performance, Rural Infrasonics.
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Venue corner Firebrace Street & Roberts Avenue, Horsham
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Time 11am
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Roaming Give Away: ACCA and Horsham Regional Art Gallery staff roam wild and free along the bustling main street of Horsham, handing out Agatha Gothe-Snape’s Rules of Nature balloons to onlookers and all takers. A cluster of balloons will be launched from a secret location among the hustle and bustle of Saturday morning trading. Watch out! Look up!
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Venue Firebrace Street, Horsham
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Time 10am–noon
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Sporting Performance: Artist Nathan Gray and the Natimuk Brass Band will provide pre-game entertainment to the Horsham United vs Warrack Eagles football game. Come and see Rural Infrasonics, and hear a functioning sculpture transform the band’s familiar tones into an electronic extravaganza.
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Venue Horsham City Oval, Firebrace Street, Horsham
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Time 2pm (Game starts 2.20pm)
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Talk Event: ACCA curator Hannah Mathews and Horsham Gallery director Adam Harding will discuss the motivations and development of the ART#2 projects with participating artists Nathan Gray, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff & Andy Thomson, and Gabrielle de Vietri.
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Venue upstairs at the Horsham Demons Club Rooms, Horsham City Oval
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Time 3.30–4.30pm
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SUNDAY 12 JUNE
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Performance Event: Artist Nathan Gray and the Natimuk Brass Band will perform Rural Infrasonics at the Natimuk Farmers’ Market. The early bird gets the worm, or at least the citing of a musical octopus.
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Venue Natimuk Farmers Market, Main Street, Natimuk
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Time 10–11am
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EXTRA Special Sporting Event: Artists Laresa Kosloff & Andy Thomson, present The Green Text, an audio commentary that opens up the game of lawn bowls to interesting readings of psychology, philosophy and history. It’s lawn bowls, but not as you know it!
Come and loan an MP3 player, plug in and switch on to experience this audio performance, narrated by guest voices Julia Zemiro and Santo Cilauro, while watching a game of lawn bowls in the idyllic environs of the Natimuk Bowling Club.
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Venue Natimuk Bowling Club, 3 Sudholz Street, Natimuk
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Time 2-5pm, with sessions beginning on the half hour
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You can download The Green Text audio here:
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DOWNLOAD MP3
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Celebration Time: Joins us for ART#2’s closing drinks and the premiere of a new work created by Gabrielle de Vietri, which presents the hearts and minds of local youth in an entertaining and thought-provoking documentary. Video works from Nathan Gray and collaborators Laresa Kosloff & Andy Thomson will also be screened. Drinks and nibbles provided.
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Venue Natimuk Soldiers Memorial Hall, Main Street, Natimuk
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Time 5.15pm Gabrielle de Vietri; 5.45pm Laresa Kosloff & Andy Thomson, featuring the Natimuk Bowls Club; 6.30pm Nathan Gray, featuring the Natimuk Brass Band
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** In the event of bad weather, please contact the Horsham Regional Art Gallery (tel 5362 2888) for location updates.
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ONGOING
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Date 7 May – 3 July
Screening Event: Gabrielle de Vietri, Philosophy for Kids 2009-
Visit Natimuk’s Goat Gallery to view 3 chapters of Gabrielle de Vietri’s ongoing series, Philosophy for Kids. Made with a group of young children, this work documents the responses of kids to life’s biggest questions: What is beauty? How do we live together? What is out there?
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Venue Goat Gallery, 87A Main Street, Natimuk
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Time 1–4pm weekends, or by appointment through the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Tel 5362 2888
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Date 12 May – 30 June
In-Print Event: Agatha Gothe-Snape, Headliners (Weeks 1–8) 2011
Sydney-based artist Agatha Gothe-Snape has devised a series of eight full-page print projects that will appear in Horsham’s local newspaper, The Weekly Advertiser. Look out for her bold, colourful announcements, which can be collected and combined into an artwork.
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Appearing Thursday 12, 19 & 26 May, and 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 June
Date 11–12 June
Broadcast Event: Gabrielle de Vietri, Announcements/Commandments 2005
Tune into Horsham’s local radio station, MIXX FM (107.7) over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend to hear Gabrielle de Vietri’s soothing meditations on life and how to live it.
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We’d still like you to come to the gallery too!
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ART#2 continues in Hamilton & Warrnambool later in 2011
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This project has been supported by the Victorian Government
through Arts Victoria’s Major Touring Initiative
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PROJECT SUPPORTER: Geoff and Helen Handbury Foundation
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