Horse Bazaar Newsletter June 2006

Digital Fringe www.digitalfringe.com.au
We’ve started the callout for entries for the exciting new Digital Fringe festival - a festival of digital art to be screened around Melbourne in conjunction with the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Open up your hard drives, find those unfinished pieces and get to work. Digital Fringe is a great opportunity to get your work out there. See www.digitalfringe.com.au for more information.

This Sunday don’t miss the Melbourne Fringe meet and greet at Horse Bazaar from 2pm. See below for more information.
Horse Bazaar Prize 2006
With so much going on we’ve decided to push the annual $5000 Horse Bazaar Prize for Digital Art back to November allowing all artists plenty of time to create works for the 6 projector panoramic projection system and infamous RPU (Rear Projection Urinal). Stay tuned to our website for more prize information and guidelines on the preparation of media of panoramic works for exhibition at Horse Bazaar.


Image from 'Graffiti Panoramas' - a new work by Joseph Barrows currently screening at Horse Bazaar

TONIGHT!!! (Thursday 01 June)

The Good, The Bad & The Balkan is a monthly night of music from all around the Balkans -  traditional & bang up to date very, very neat balkan club sounds playing the best music from the area (Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, Romania, Slovenia).
Liberally drink vodka, dance on tables and try to play the accordian all at the same time to the sounds of Rambo Amadeus, Goran Bregovic, Boban Markovic, Ahilea, Gogol Bordello, Mahala Rai Banda, Balkan Beatbox, Shukar Collective, Balkan Hotstep, Fanfare Ciocarla, Kocani Orkestra, Shantel and more.. Bring your chickens, tubas, accordians & dancin' legs down to hear selectors DJ delay and Systa BB spin the best of the balkan.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - YOU SHOW ME YOURS…
YOU SHOW ME YOURS, a video art project jointly initiated by the RMIT University School of Art and Abina Manning from Chicago-based Video Data Bank, is currently seeking submissions for a juried screening to take place on 27 July 2006 at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000.
YOU SHOW ME YOURS is a survey of contemporary single channel video being made by Australian based artists. The final program will be selected on the basis of the originality and vision of the works. Submissions are welcome from established and emerging artists and students alike. Works should be under fifteen minutes in length and have been completed in the last two years.
What to do:
Submit your work in a .mov file on DVD. Please note, submissions cannot be returned. Please include the title of the work, the duration, a short description and a biography of the artist. DVDs should have your name, email address, and phone number, title of the piece and year it was made.
Send DVDs and details to:
Keely Macarow
RMIT University
School of Art
Building 9, Level 2, Room 46
124 Latrobe Street
Melbourne 3000
Deadline: Monday 19th June 2006
For more information on the Video Data Bank, go to http://www.vdb.org
For more information on this project or to assist Abina Manning, email amanning@artic.edu or keely.macarow@rmit.edu.au

 

 

Monday 5th June from 6pm - Mobile Monday Melbourne (Kerryn Flavell)

This month Kerryn presents guest speaker Mark White, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Locatrix Communications. Mark reasons that mobile workforces can operate more efficiently and safely with unobtrusive location and context-awareness tools, and founded Locatrix Communications in 2003 to explore this opportunity.

Mobile Monday is a great opportunity to meet other people who are developing, producing, programming, designing or financing content for the mobile phone space. Already there have been valuable connections made between people who are attending this free monthly event. Meet at 6pm for drinks, guest speaker at 7pm.

Forward the Bass - Every Monday

The Horse Bazaar now has a luvverly new subwoofer, a Lorantz 18” to spur on DJ Delay and friends to pushing out some fat sounds. These speakers come from our Dandenong, Michael of Lorantz Audio crafts all his own components, from the CNC lathing the body of the speaker to making his own paper for the drivers, a true craftsman and his speakers sound great.

Continuing with the winter schedule (Early start and finish, now 9PM-11PM/later every Monday), all tings dubwise bein' played - roots, elektrodub etc with a heavy bias towards the roots. Tunes will be dubbed up, down, left and right...yes, real dubwise performance

 

 

 

Fridays in June - GIDDY UP! (Hosted by the mistress of Motown - Blackbird)

Back in the saddle by popular demand GIDDY UP! disc jockeys spur on the
weekend. Smoking selections of Funk, Soul, Motown, Hip Hop, Breaks and Dub
stirred up in a melting pot of musical mayhem. Intoxicating rhythms promise
genuine aural pleasure!  Adding an international flavour to hail the return of GIDDY UP! World funk rhythms from Ortiz rendezvous with Blackbird singing in the dead of night.

Blackbird's Junes guests include ORTIZ, DUST, DT, RICHARD CAMPBELL, and DECLAN KELLY.
     

Sunday 4 June - Dogs Day Afternoon
The beginning of a monthly night

Low Transit Industries and Horse Bazaar, in conjunction with the Melbourne Fringe festival present Dogs Day Afternoon.  Musicians Floyd Thursby and Dane Tucquet team up with visual Artists Matt Jordan and Joseph Barrows.

So begins a regular showcasing of collaborations between of muso’s and visual artists.  Come and be part of an emerging a community of like minded individuals and explore ideas in the audio & visual realms, or just hang out and enjoy a chilled bevvy

Fringe Festival artists gathering from 2, performances from 4pm.

www.lowtransitindustries.com

 

 

 

Thursday 8 June

Blow-Up Boutique

On the 2nd Thursday of every month Miss Peel, Il Cattivo and Johnny Topper (3RRR) spin delicious, seductive sounds to accompany your glass of wine, martini or beer. Music ranges from vintage electronica and easy tempo through to mellow breaks, sultry soul and ambient nu-lounge.

This month Blow-Up welcomes special guest DJ Cass Carnaby (aka Martin McIntosh) from Outre Gallery - Melbourne's finest pop-art gallery. Cass, who has spun many a record at the Tote's Cobra Bar, will be dropping in to wow Bazaar punters with spicy exotica, now sound and jet-set lounge tunes.

 

Sunday 11 June - Queens Birthday Eve

Mo Patrol: Mouches of the Milky Way

Presented by Research & Development.  Richard and Declan bring the heavyweight dancing vibes to bear on the back of the Horse. Respected individually for their eclectic and surprising dancefloor selections, R&D are best known for their Moon Patrol shindigs. This Queens Birthday throwdown will be the first installment of their bi-monthly residency at the Horse Bazaar so come
and shake it like you mean it as they try to cram it all in to the cosy
confines.

 

 

 

Monday 12 June

Queens Birthday Kids afternoon.

Parents come and hang at the lovely horse while your kids go off to the Purple stripes.  The Purple Stripes are a new local duo that take an indie romp through all the important stuff in a kids world. With guitar and drums, accordian and glockenspiel, the Purple Stripes put on an all-live show that is a quality alternative in the land of kids music.  Great for little 'uns aged up to 6, and parents who know a good song when they hear it.  Looking for something to do with the kids on the long weekend? 
Catch The Purple Stripes and friends on Monday 12th June for an afternoon of rockin' tunes and fun times, all starting at 2.30pm.  


 

Sunday 18 June - Crack Sabbath (3rd Sunday of every month)
Ladies and Gentlemen, fasten your chastity belts. In the words of one butter substitute: ‘I can’t believe it’s not butter.’ Nor can I. Nor should you. This aint butter, honey. This is serious, mum. This is crack.

The crack is the premonition of an opening – something we slide into, either madness or moistness. Crack can be many things – cracked pepper, cracked copy, cracked cups and crack ups.

And Sabbath? “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’” So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.”

In the next installment, YOU the audience will have YOUR chance to give praise to the LORD with YOUR choice of music.

On the 18th of June, everybody is invited to bring a piece of recorded music on compact disc, and nominate a favourite song from it. DJ iCHEW will then compile the recordings, and (with the aid of complex algorithms) spit them out in random order. A recording of this computer-mixed mix, created by YOU and DJ’d by iCHEW, will subsequently be available for download...

Not only that, but Crack Sabbath residents Nativespeaker, Ez-Al, Dj-LaLa (and special guests) will be paying ‘homage’ – it could be to a word, it could be a style, it could be a musician  - whatever the flavour, expect lots of it...

Red Bull Music Academy

Melbourne is lucky enough to host the 2006 academy, apply or keep your ears open for the great gigs that will wash over our city.

Seditious Intent short films online.

On May 10th Horse Bazaar hosted a screening of the online Seditious Intent film festival.

Seditious Intent is an online collection of seventeen short films - some sad, some funny, some gentle, some illuminating - from the slick to the raw and edgy, ranging from fiction, faction, animation, claymation, subverts to adverts - they make up the exciting web-based SEDITIOUS INTENT short film
collection site. Online now at http://spinach7.com/si/

This collection is hosted by the excellent new cyber institution Engage Media.
EngageMedia is a website and a network for distributing social justice and environmental video from South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way
communication model of the mainstream media. www.engagemedia.org/about-us

Experimenta New Visions Commissions 2006 - Call for applications

For the 2007 exhibition Experimenta Play, Experimenta is commissioning new interactive works that allow the audience to play, and be played upon.

Up to $6,000 per project is available for emerging and mid-career Australian
artists to create new interactive media art works for an exhibition of Australian and international media artworks to be launched in Melbourne in September 2007.

Extending 'play' beyond the realm of games, Experimenta is looking to commission works that have humorous and unexpected outcomes, involve an element of chance, toy with preconceptions and assumptions, provide a journey or an opportunity for discovery. Within this playfulness lies
the potential for deviousness, trickery, teasing, surprise, humour, inversion/subversion and delight. What are the possibilities for playful new media artworks? How can we play with technology to create new experiences?

Sources of inspiration might come from traditional narratives, labyrinths,
puzzles, everyday environments, re-imagined objects or activities, re-purposed toys. The commissions are for interactive media artworks that can be: audio/visual, installations that play with scale and perspective, immersive environments or small, intimate and object based.

Please visit www.experimenta.org to download the Guidelines and Application Form. Contact Emma McRae, Experimenta's Curatorial and Project Coordinator to discuss your projects. emma@experimenta.org

There is no cost to apply and applicants need not be members of Experimenta Media Arts. The closing date for applications is Friday 21 July 2006

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