OCTOBER QUARTERBRED

It's time for another exciting Quarterbred fortnight! This October we're pleased to present the following events and artists in residence...









EVENTS

17 OCT : BUNHEADS & MONTHLY FRIEND #3

BUNHEADS
3PM - 5PM

BunHeads is an experimental exhibition preoccupied with hair and its daily management.

From 3pm Saturday, October 17th, PACT will be operating as a weird kind of hairdressers, with resident Hairdresser Emma Michaelis doing what she does best, and putting several models hair up into a specially selected group of buns, as selected by the Quarterbred BunHeads curators Tim Maybury and Jade Markham.

with: SIRENS playing music all afternoon, live video projections of close up's of the hair being coiffed as it happens.

BunHeads is a companion event happening just before the performance afternoon, 'Monthly Friend' commences at 5pm.

Because everyone loves a bun.

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MONTHLY FRIEND #3 : DEAD OR ALIVE
5PM

Monthly Friend is a performance event curated by the Bake Sale for Art team.

The author is dead.
The aura is dead.
The critic is dead.
God is dead.
Theatre is dead.
Art is dead.

But hey, let’s not get overly maudlin. The theme for this Monthly Friend, ‘Dead or Alive’, questions our conception of how ideas, forms, texts and spaces may ‘live’ or ‘die’. Are these bold proclamations of death premature? (The author is still very much alive in mainstream theatre and literature, at least.) And what is the flipside of death? When the author dies the audience becomes alive, and that ain’t so bad is it? Monthly Friend October also celebrates the merging of live and not-live forms. Contemporary arts need not these distinctions! So ah, let’s all take a leaf out of George Romero’s book and let the dead live again. And let the living dead suck the brains out of the living, so that the living die and eventually become the living dead and go out looking for more living. Hope to see you there.

Love Bake Sale for Art.

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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Ashley Dyer

Boho Productions

Brown Council

Eddie Sharp

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Location: PACT
107 Railway pde
Erskineville

QUARTERBRED at TINA 09

Quarterbred at TINA 2009!

We are excited to announce that we will be chatting about Qbred and TINY STADIUMS at The Crack Festival as part of TINA 2009.

We will discuss what we are about and how to be a part of our hybrid arts festival. We will share our experiences of running an artist run initiative, putting on live art events and most of all want to hear from you about your experiences and practice.

Check the Crack Festival online~!
http://cracktheatrefestival.com

Download a TINA program at http://thisisnotart.org

See you all there in down town Newcastle! Thanks TINA and thank you to the Crack Festival for having us share what we are about.


WHEN: Saturday Oct 3
WHERE: House of Crack (5 Auckland St, in the Pan Building)
Use this map to find us! this is not art google map
TIME: 1pm -2pm...

Grouse.

NEW DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED!

Quarterbred warmly welcomes four new directors to the front line:

Tim Maybury is a musician, writer, curator, broadcaster and educator in art theory.

Sarah Rodigari is a live artist who creates performance, video and installation through public encounters and social exchange. She is also one half of Panther.

Matthew Kneale is a Melbourne-based project director focused on making live performance/installations in public spaces. He is also a set and costume designer who has worked nationally on opera, dance and theatre. www.matthew.collabo.net

Jade Markham is an artist-in-general who also works at the library, studies and performs collaboratively. She makes super 8 films and slides too.

The involvement of these new directors may see quarterbred activities extend to Victoria and Wollongong...

Ahoy.

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

In Early March 2010 Quarterbred will be curating
PACTS second Tiny Stadiums Festival
throughout Erskineville.

For the Tiny Stadiums Festival Quarterbred will
program projects that have innovative audience relationships their core.

The overall festival aims to include: a season of two performance/ live works
at PACT theatre, a video library, a rooftop cinema, artist talks, a launch
party and a weekend of site-specific live and visual artworks in Erskineville village.

Check out our website www.quarterbred.blogspot.com to get a sense of what the 2009 festival entailed. Interactive, site specific and cross-artform projects are particularly encouraged. All projects must take place in Erskineville.

You may like to respond to one of these spaces in your idea: PACT theatre, A primary school, A railway station, Erskineville town hall, A church. A vacant lot, An empty shopfront, A Laundromat, A pub, A bus stop, A café, A playground, A small park, A parking lot, A street tour of Erskineville, A post office.

Your idea need not be themed around these spaces but be flexible to fit within these public spheres. Please note not all of these spaces are confirmed as available at this stage.

In your application please include:

- Your contact details and paragraph bio
- A description of your idea
- The audience experience your project
- Basic technical requirements.

You will be asked to present a development or talk about you idea in late October 2009.

Artists will receive:
- An artist fee
- Inclusion in a large marketing campaign for the festival
- A project manager
- Access to a production manager and pact resources.

APPLICATIONS DUE AUGUST 15th and must not exceed two pages. Please send via email quarterbred@gmail.com

DVD LIBRARY NOW OPEN

QUARTERBREDS DVD LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN

Quarterbred has been collecting documentation of some of the worlds most exciting artists and companies. To view dvds, you can book in at PACT on weekdays by calling 95502744.

Come check out works by Urban Theatre Projects, Back to Back Theatre, Version 1.0, The Gob Squad, Panther, Brown Council and many more. Unfortunately, we can't loan DVDS out.

QBRED NAMED ONE OF SYDNEY'S TOP 100 CREATIVE CATALYSTS!

As part of the creative Sydney festival, Quarterbred has been named a creative catalyst, which is

'honouring and exposing 100 inspirational and innovative Sydneysiders who have made a unique contribution to the city’s creative culture.

http://creativesydney.com.au/sydneys-creative-catalysts/

... thanks!

See you at that festival...

or this festival...

http://gloomfestival.blogspot.com/

QUARTERBRED SEEKS NEW CO-DIRECTOR

Quarterbred is looking for a new director!

Quarterbred is a Sydney -based a three year old artist run initiative. Quarterbred supports artistic development and innovative projects though programming and co-ordinating events and residencies. We aim to encourage risk taking, diversity, collaboration, cross –pollination and innovation across artforms. Quarterbred is a resident of PACT space and also curates the annual Tiny Stadiums festival. Artists and curators from around Australia are eligible to apply to be part of our yearly program. Past programs have included experimental sound events, a contemporary arts symposium, performance nights, site-specific installations and a variety of local and interstate residencies.

Quarterbred is part of the PACT program each year. It also functions as an independent body, free to develop events and programs in other venues.

The role of director is voluntary. If funding permits, curators fees are included for specific projects.

The new member will join the existing seven directors in curating, producing and administrating each Quarterbred program. It is both a creative role and a co-ordinators role. The diversity of tasks ranges from writing grant applications to opening beers to selecting applications to designing promotional material, to supporting artists.

Quarterbred aims to build community,creativity and exchange in Sydney and beyond. All tasks are spread evenly between directors, in both the lead up to the program and during the events.

Quarterbred directors are given priority in the program for curation of events. Quarterbred directors are also able to apply as artists to the program.

Quarterbred directors should :

* Be able to program and support diverse projects from a wide range of artforms.

* Carry out expected duties and be open to training to gain skills for these duties.

* Support the collective in its goals.

The new Quarterbred director must commit to:

* Attending a minimums of twelve meetings a year

* To support a minimum of four weeks of Quarterbred programming each year

* A minimum of 12 months in the position.

How to apply:

Send a email to quarterbred@gmail.com with:

* Your name and contact details

* Brief artistic/curatorial/general info bio

* Why you want to become a Quarterbred director

* What skills/experience you can bring to the Quarterbred collective



Applications should not exceed 2 pages. Applications close June 25th

Position will begin July 2009.

APRIL QUARTERBRED

APRIL 2009 and its time for another Quarterbred fortnight!
This month we are very excited to present the following artists/projects:

EVENT:

The Splinter Orchestra
Thursday the 16th of April.
7:30pm
$10 / $8
PACT Theatre


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The Splinter Orchestra are one of the few large-scale improvisational ensembles working in Australia, or anywhere else for that matter.
Formed in 2003, the group has comprised of up to 50 members. Made up of individuals from the improvised music scene, electronic musicians, sound artists and those who are involved in environmental sound and field recording, the Splinter Orchestra create a stark minimalism despite their large number – without any leaders or conductors.
The group aims for graceful tension, restraint and simplicity. They are intent on becoming one instrument…
Past and present members of the orchestra: Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Peter Farrar, Karen Booth, Lloyd Honeybrook, Ian Pieterse, Matt Ottignon, Inge Olmheim, Shannon ONeill, Luke Callaghan, Emily Morandini, Ben Byrne, Alex Davies, Daniel Whiting, Joe Derrick, Simon Ferenci, Clayton Thomas, Mike Majkowski, Abel Cross, Milica Stefanovic, Michael Sheridan, Matt Earle, Adam Sussmann, Paul Taylor, Martin Ng, Peter Blamey, Robbie Avenaim, Alex Masso, Jon Rose, Hollis Taylor, Chris Abrahams, Monica Brooks, Amanda Stewart, Clare Cooper, Ben Gerard, Chris Burke, Gail Priest, Reuben Derrick, Rod Cooper, April Fonti, Sam Dobson, Gerard Crewdson, Cass McGlynn, Sam Pettigrew, Alex Spence, Laura Altman, and more.

“The Splinter Orchestra’s music is like quicksand: it can suck you in, just as each of the 27 musicians relinquished his or her sense of self within this monumental improvising ensemble. Listening to it is like looking down on a jungle from above, with infinite layers of foilage making for an image without surface. Behind every sound lurks another sound, and then another. The result is eerie and weirdly beautiful; more diaphanous then dense, which is a tribute to both the subtlety of the interaction and the sophistication of the recording. Remarkable.”
John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald Jan 12 2008.

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE:

GEORGIE MEAGHER AND JADE MARKHAM

"Our focus is on developing elements of performance within an installation comprising of: photographic slides, inter-changing projections of text, and a mat made with LED's embedded into layers of latex. Sourcing the text from a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, the working title is 'While Our Husbands Were at Church'."

ADRIANNE SEMMENS, HENRIETTA BAIRD AND ROSALEE PEARSON:
Creative Development choreographing a dance movement piece/vocabulary based on native flora.
We will explore plant/seed cycles, germination, environmental influences, survival mechanisms, layering and identity.The movement created is to be further explored by visual layering.

MATTHEW ROCHFORD:
Using the humble radio alarm clock I create the ultimate wake-up machine! I have spent the last couple of years sourcing discarded and unwanted clock radios and currently have a collection of 47. I will create a time-phase system, which sees the clock radios go off one-by-one at a set time which results in a gradual cacophony of radio, buzzer and beeping sounds. The clock radios create a sort of 'domino' effect as they change time one after the other and the idea is that the installation could be viewed throughout the day with a performance each night at say, 8:03 when they are set to go off. This performance incorporates the lights and sounds of the alarm clock with a sleeping-waking dance performed by the artist. An additional element is that the event can be recorded and played the next night so that the cacophony will multiply each night.
This work will be performed with The Splinter Orchestra.


KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR OTHER RESIDENCY SHOWINGS.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, THOUGHTS, OR IDEAS FOR THE NEXT QUARTERBRED, SHOOT US AN EMAIL AT
quarterbred@gmail.com

WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT-OUT TO ALL OF THE AWESOME STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES WHO MADE OUR TINY STADIUMS FESTIVAL AN AWESOME RAD FORTNIGHT OF AWESOMENESS. YOU DUDES ARE WAY COOL.

FESTIVAL UPDATES

The Tiny Stadiums Festival launch
at the Pink Cake Shop was a blast.

Smello-vision double bill is now sold out for the whole season. Call 9550 2744 to put your name on the waiting list.

The symposium was a huge success with over 25 speakers and several flavors of scones.

With thanks to Silos Estate.

Smello- Vision Double Bill: Holiday + Asisthesis

Two shows for $15/$18!
24 February – 7 March. Wed - Sat
Both shows twice a night 7pm and 8.30pm.
BOOK NOW LIMITED TO 12 AUDIENCE MEMBERS ONLY> PH 95502744





Holiday
spat+loogie

Fresh from a sell out season at The Victorian Arts centre, Holiday is a half-hour tour of superficial stopovers, using sensory video and intimate performance to explore tacky tourism. Expect video goggles, airline meals, strange smells, fake tans and tropicana nightmares, all from the comfort of your aeroplane seat. A wry critique of package tourism.

“A slick and entertaining romp…seamlessly achieved”
Real Time magazine

Holiday: creators spat+loogie (Kat Barron + Lara Thoms), performer collaborators Naomi Derrick, Teik Kim Pok. Sound design/technician Fred Rodrigues.


Asisthesis
James Brown

Asisthesis is a project exploring the ways in which music and sound can be represented and experienced by the body. Through the senses ofsight, smell and touch, the aim of Aisthesis is to create music that forges neurological links and create a multi- sensory experience of music.

Haze and smoke machines filled with self-produced fragrances are expelled into the audience and psychedelic animation is projected onto many walls, wrapped in a soundscape that drifts and snaps dramatically about.

At Pact 107 Railway Pde Erskineville
STRICTLY LIMITED AUDIENCE. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Ph 9550 2744

Erskineville Village weekend

Saturday March 7th and Sunday the 8th 2-5pm
FREE EVENT

Experience giant kaleidoscopic dynamite, karaoke massage, video hero's, delicate displays and interactive word games as artists take over shop fronts, pub televisions parklands and the local town hall.

Pick up a MAP and program at the Erskineville Green, Erskineville Road.
Check out these tiny spectacles at your own pace, no bookings required.

Scroll down for more info.

TO DUST


Rosita Holmes


To dust explores the temporality of architectural space and time: past, present and future. Using 300 kg’s of sifted icing sugar and the subtlety of breath the artist creates an environment that negotiates the liminal space between what is present and absent.

Photo: Rowan Conway

The Deli, Erskineville Rd March 7-8 2-5pm

The Word Game Project

The Word Game project
Kenzie Larsen

The Word Game project is a large scale ongoing video project in which the content of the work is completely user generated. Participants are invited to be filmed asking questions and giving answers. The result is an ongoing word game that produces sequence of random Q and A that are absurd, hilarious, political and eerily profound. Word Game project asks the Erkineville community to communicate in a completely disconnected manner.



Erskineville Town Hal, 107 Erskineville Rd 1–8 March
Times: Various.

Video Hero

Video Hero
Curated by Di Smith

Video Hero hijacks the television screens at the Rose of Australia in Erskineville and replaces the games of football and daytime television with the work of seven Sydney based video artists. This project responds to the proliferation of screens in the public domain and in places of leisure and recreation, such as the local pub or club. The artists selected respond directly to this environment in which sporting stars and celebrities compete for the attention of the punters. They reinvent and reinterpret the representation of the ‘hero,’ tuning the audience into alternative channels that reveal a flexing bicep clad in gold leaf, or an amateur hammer thrower swinging aimlessly in the park.

Artists: Liam Benson, Kate Blackmore, Sach Catts, Rachel Fuller,
Dominic Kirkwood, Kenzie Larsen, Rachel Scott. DVD authoring: Kate Blackmore.

Where: The Rose of Australia Pub
23 February – 8 MarchThis project was originally commissioned by firstdraft Gallery for Downtown as part of BY GEORGE! ART AND ABOUT 2008 Festival.

Betrayal

Hiromi Tango

A delicate multi-layered installation, part shrine, part shop display, part task- based performance. Betrayal is a tender exploration of a fierce theme. Visit the ongoing week long installation in a one of Eskineville’s most notorious empty shop fronts: Allan’s Cakes.

With collaborating artists: Miss Helen ( Miss Helen’s Le PETITE Bakery)...and to be continued Special thanksto:Helen Miller and Ruriko Miller (mask, cusions, costume disigners), Robynne, and baby Kimiyo ... and to be continued.
Where: The old Allan’s Cakes, Corner of Prospect St and Erskinieville Rd.
1–8 March

Ostentatious Aerobics

Hair of The Dog
The infamous, ostentatious Hair of the Dog (Medium Rare) workout hits the streets for you to join in forty minutes of high impact, sweaty, fantabulous, open –air fun.






80s Aerobics SAT 11AM Come! Come! The fleshy, the timid, the absurd, the sad and lonely, the courageous. A time NOT to take yourself seriously! BYO outfit to shock us… and you.
THEN.... NOON: HOOLA HOOPA




Pony Club Gymkhana SUN 11AM This is exercise class with a distinctly horsey feel.......stretching, aerobic moves, circuit training...and there will be ribbons and prizes for all you show ponies! Be your mane tossing best as you work up a sweat. THEN NOON: EUROVISION BALLET


Where: Erskineville Green, Erskineville Rd
March 7-8 11am

Not Just A Face In the Crowd

Not Just A Face In the Crowd
(The Erskinville Positioning System)
Deadpan (Willoh.S Weiland+ Martyn Coutts)
An analogue GPS system that connects people using mobile telephone and balloon technology to create an Erskinville-specific cartography of strangers and conversation. Soon whole of Erskineville will be bobbing with tracking balloons trying to find each other.

Where: Erskineville Town Hall, 107 Erskineville Rd
7-8 March 2-5pm

Rest Area

Sarah-Jane Norman

Now that I’ve found you, this is all I want from you. I’ve come a long way, baby, for this one thing. I want you, I want you to come in, I want you to lie down, I want you to hold me, just for a minute, just for you and just for me, just long enough to feel your breath on the back of my neck. The stars are out and the keys are in the ignition.

Rest Area is a performance installation, an experiment in intimacy, an invocation of a familiar desire, a repetition of a familiar gesture. It is an invitation (should you choose to accept it), a tribute to the solitary female figure in the landscape, and to the melancholy eroticism of loneliness.

Where: Vacant lot, Erskineville Rd
March 7–8 2pm-5pm

Dynamite

Dynamite
Jordana Maisie

When you look into this symbol of destruction and pain – an explosive device/bomb - you are greeted by a beautiful, fluid, interactive kaleidoscopic image which shifts and changes with your movement. This work comments on our capacity to choose and consequently see the good (or bad) in our environment, ourselves and our situation.

Where: Erskineville Park, Erskieville Rd
7–8 March 2-5pm

Karaoke Massage

Teik Kim Pok

Combining the powers of Lullaby and Touch, the pairing up of recognisable pop standards and a light choreographed massage, this work promises to be an intercultural experience like no other.

Where: Outside Erskineville Town Hall
104 Erskineville Rd
March 7–8 2pm - 5pm

HighVisDandies

HighVisDandies
Daniel Koerner, Matthew Kneale, Jess Daly

High Vis Dandies is an occupational health and safety work-wear label that will save your life without sacrificing aesthetic appeal. This team will allow the Tiny Stadiums festival to be absurdly controlled in the safest and most beautiful manner.

Where: Roving at most festival events, Erskineville Village

Quarterbred Symposium

SAT 28 February 10am-4pm
Erskineville Town Hall, 107 Erskineville Rd

A one day symposium of new ideas, bringing together some of the most exciting artists and artsworkers in Sydney.

THE ART OF CURATING + PRODUCING – A.R.I.s and the decisions that they make. How open is their programming?

Speakers from: Chalk Horse Gallery, Lock Smith Gallery, firstdraft Gallery, BlackandBlue Quarterbred, NUCA

FOCUS ON INTER-ARTS MAKERS - How do we conceptualise our audience? Artists who focus on interactivity, participation and hybridity.

Jordana Maisie, Mark Boliton, Willoh.SWeiland (MELB), Teik Kim Pok

AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS ASIA With a particular focus on Asialink Contemporay approaches to cross- cultural excursions.

Beck Conroy, soda_jerk, Keg DeSouza, Karen Therese, Deborah Pollard

THEATRE NOW
What drives the most exciting theatre makers in Sydney?
How are they influenced by other forms?

David Williams (Version 1.0), Halcyon Macleod + Clare Britton (My Darling Patricia), Roslyn Oades, Liza-Mare Syron, John Bayliss

Snacks Provided.
Entry Free.

DVD LIBRARY

As part of the Tiny Stadiums festival Quarterbred will launch its inaugural video library. This library will present the work of young and emerging performers and visual artists who have been associated with Quarterbred over the years, as well as seminal work by more established local and international artists. Through this expanding library, Quarterbred hopes to provide public access to an invaluable research archive of works of Australian and international importance. Check out documentation from companies including Version 1.0, The gob squad, PVI Collective and many, many more.

Where and When: Erskineville Town Hall. During Symposium and Village weekender, and more times to be confirmed.

Entry Free

TINY STADIUMS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED

FEB 24th – MAR 8th 2009
MORE INFO COMING SOON...

Hiromi Tango
80's Aerobics
Spat+Loogie
Kenzie Larsen
Jordana Maisie