TINY STADIUMS FESTIVAL 2010
Throughout February 22 to March 7 2010 we invite you to experience stirring contemporary art by Australia’s finest emerging artists. These provocative and exciting projects consider art and its social relationship to public space, and are made specifically for you, the people of Erskineville and beyond.
Works span a range of mediums including video, performance, music, live art, participation, installation and duration and aim to lure the curious, and delight those who unintentionally stumble upon them throughout the village - in streets, shops, pubs and parks.Keep your eyes out for festival staff and helpers who are happy to point you in the direction of the next extraordinary experience.
Produced by PACT
Curated by Quarterbred
DOWNLOAD PROGRAM AT WWW.PACT.NET.AU
Works span a range of mediums including video, performance, music, live art, participation, installation and duration and aim to lure the curious, and delight those who unintentionally stumble upon them throughout the village - in streets, shops, pubs and parks.Keep your eyes out for festival staff and helpers who are happy to point you in the direction of the next extraordinary experience.
Produced by PACT
Curated by Quarterbred
DOWNLOAD PROGRAM AT WWW.PACT.NET.AU
THE FUTURE OF ART SYMPOSIUM
Will feature soapbox discussions from some of our favourite thinkers, artists, commentators, writers and performers, who will consider what they think will happen in art in 2020 and beyond. They will each be given twelve minutes. They will demand, defend, incite, perform and chat. We will listen, eat snacks and talk about their thoughts. Speakers will interrogate ideas such as sustainability, failure, new frontiers, public space, live performance and the audience ...all in one pleasant Sydney day.With speakers including
Barbara Campbell
Letitia Green
Agatha Gothe Snape
Applespiel
Keith Pettigrow
and more
12-4pm
Sat 27 February
Erskineville Town Hall
FREE
SMOOOVE GROVE
///\\\ (ACT) and JONNY TELAFONE(ACT)
and CHRIS PISS (SYD)
curated by Emma Ramsay
Maximum brand new sounds for you. Brought about from the A.C.T and Sydney. A trip through some superb slesky cork floor to tramped out guitar stoop hypnosis. Hedges. Manicured gardens. Sun shining in your face and escaping into the club to grind.
8pm
Wed 3 March
PACT
$12 door sales only
The Wasteland
Hoof and AntlerT. S. Eliot gave us the muscle and we put it in our muskets and will fire it upon thee.This event explores the five parts of the Wasteland as five music and live art scores. Each will be composed by a different ensemble, resituating storytelling, mythology, fragmented narrative and stylistic disorientation. Leave your cardigan & black-rimmed coke-bottle-bottomed specs on your bedside table with your copy of Gideon’s. This night will lead you into temptation, like a tele-evangelist into the school chapel.
8pm
Thur 4 March
PACT
$12 door sales only
HIPSTER DOOFUS
gooey on the inside’s... HIPSTER-DOOFUS PARTY
dress up as an idiot hipster. Live Do’s and Don’ts. Fake photographers
snapping u for fake blogs. Doogie Howser MD//Harmony Korine in the house!! Beavis + Butthead interpretive dance crew. Improptu lazers by a loser + lots and lots of Δ triangle Δ art. Wear some freaken colourful clothes and make-up and don’t forget yr fake glasses!! Come party or we’ll cut off yr trustfund. <3
LIVE PERFORMANCES BY KT SPIT
AND O.T.T. (NZ), AND TOECUTTER AND SVEN SIMULACRUM
PLUS INTERACTIVE NEW MEDIA WORKS
8pm
Fri 5 March
PACT
$12 door sales only
SEXY NEW URBAN DESIGN TEAM
Applespiel will be constructing a (more or less) to scale model of Erskineville Then, through surveying the public they will identify potential eyesores, note down wild architectural fantasies and give serious thought to the color pink. The publics concerns and desires will be instantly gratified by the altering of the scale model, creating a collaborative vision for the future of Erskineville. Ultimate Erskineville.
Sexy New Erskineville.
Visit Appelspiel in residence for the entire festival.
11-5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
Erskineville Town Hall
FREE
DVD LIBRARY
The library includes documentation of live performance, works made for screens, and experimental films. Watch the likes of Back to Back Theatre, Gob Squad, and Brown Council. Drop your own DVDs off to be part of this
growing collection.
12-4pm
Sat 27 February
Erskineville Town Hall
10am-5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
Erskineville Town Hall
FREE
growing collection.
12-4pm
Sat 27 February
Erskineville Town Hall
10am-5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
Erskineville Town Hall
FREE
THE PERFECT ARTIST
Matt GingoldA video portrait project that is intended to be a national document of Australian artists, arts workers and administrators. The final installation will be presented at the National Portrait Gallery, consisting of over 100 individual portraits of creative people ‘performing themselves’. Matt will be shooting portraits during the Tiny Stadiums Festival from 23-28 Feb at PACT.
If you would like to participate please email: artist@perfectartist.net
The portrait takes about 60 minutes, and we guarantee to make you look fabulous!
www.perfectartist.net.
Supported by PACT through
The Space Program
LIVE BLOG
Arts writers will tag-team blog on the Tiny Stadiums Festival for 14 hours, with live documentation, reviews, and interviews with artists and the public. A live projection of the blog will be screened in the village with punters encouraged to sms comments and hot tips.
10am -5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
Erskineville Town Hall
FREE
10am -5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
Erskineville Town Hall
FREE
PARK FOR PLANET EARTH
Bababa International
On Planet Earth there are some parks. From the very beginning Earth bound parks have always been a receptacle into which the condensed vicissitudes of human society have been poured and put on display. In this way a park is a microcosm of social imagination. PARK FOR PLANET EARTH, a place where the future has already arrived, will be a park like no other.
10am- 10pm
Sat 6 March
10am-5pm
Sun 7 March
Village Green
FREE
1000 PROOFS
Tape Projects100 Proofs the Earth Is Not a Globe asks audiences to question why they believe the things they believe, and try to pin down the ever shifting, socially dependent line between knowledge and faith, fact and (science) fiction. Beamed onto screens in for the duration of the festival, will these videos cause punters to take pause and contemplate the vastness of the universe- or existential debate about who is going to get the publican to switch the rugby back on?
10am-10pm
Mon 22 February - Sun 7 March
Rose of Australia Pub
FREE
PHOTO OP
Melbourne-based artist Zoe Meagher poses for a glamour shot, over and over and over again, with Erskineville as the backdrop. Here, it’s the subject who is constant, eternally waiting for the fleeting photographer to appear and complete the image. The resulting photo commemorates a kitschErskineville icon as it shifts into
renovations. Visit Zoe in residence throughout the festival.
11-5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
Live outside Allans Cakes
FREE
BUN HEADS
An experiment that has preoccupations with hair and its daily management. Emma Michelis exhibits a variety of her work as a hairdresser in brilliant synthesis of form and content. Bunheads focuses on the technical side of the up-do, by styling regular peoples hair into various special kinds of curated buns. Hair, in all it’s brilliance, is taken out of it’s usual backstage habitat and re-contextualised in the front of house.Erskineville Rd
Sat 6th and Sun 7th 2-5pm
BTHT
BTHTTristan Meecham
Welcome to Back to Hair Technology: Walk a Mile in a Bald Mans Head. If you’re worried about going bald, the first thing to do is visit BTHT for a free, no-obligation hair check. A qualified consultant will analyse your scalp and hair loss to determine your current condition. Then we will decide which BTHT procedure is right for you. Hair loss affects more than 40% of men in their early twenties. Nothing can really be done.
Erskineville Rd
2-5pm Sat 6th & Sun 7th March
Dance of Death
Dance Of DeathJess Olivieri, Hayley Forward and the Parachutes For Ladies.
An investigation into the dehumanising effects of crowds and the way this changes individual behavior. Dance of Death places the audience within the work to decide whether formation dancing really is the greatest act of conformity.
BRING YOUR IPOD!
2-5pm 6th & 7th March
Erskineville Road
Nature League Inner West
A performance in a greenhouse inspired by tiny inner-city parks, pot-plant covered balconies and jungle themed lounge rooms. Tiger Two Times explore the relationship between nature and artifice, labour and leisure, indulgence and endurance. A performance in a greenhouse inspired by tiny inner-city parks, pot-plant covered balconies and jungle themed lounge rooms. Tiger Two Times explore the relationship between nature and artifice, labour and leisure, indulgence and endurance.
Design: Luke Tipene
12-5pm
Sat 6 - Sun 7 March
The Vacant Lot.
FREE
SOB STORIES
Sob Stories
Amy Spiers
When was the last time you cried in public?
Why did it happen? Couldn’t it wait for home?
Artist, Amy Spiers, will arrive in Erskineville bearing handkerchiefs scrawled with the stories of people who have teared up in public. You may take a hanky to keep handy for times of despair, in exchange for your own story of public sadness
Roving 2-5pm 6th & 7th March
Erskineville Village
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